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Peter Conrad (academic)

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from 1970 to 1973 before taking up his current post at Christ Church. There he taught English from 1973, and has been a visiting professor at
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of the twentieth century, two autobiographical works and a novel. He has written books of criticism on
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and has been a prolific writer of features and reviews for many magazines and newspapers including
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found it "so slipshod, with such fundamental and pointedly homophobic misunderstandings of
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Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century
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How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere
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Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
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in 1968, Conrad went to Oxford University, UK, on a
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The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 280:Television: The Medium and its Manners 495:Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World 438:Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins 425:Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life 336:, London: Chatto & Windus, 1988, 719:Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford 185: 673:Australian Broadcasting Corporation 13: 349:, New York: Poseidon Press, 1990, 321:, New York: Poseidon Press, 1987, 14: 750: 639: 256:, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978, 724:Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford 241:Romantic Opera and Literary Form 189: 181: 612: 609:, vol. 2, no. 14, 17 July 1980 590: 573: 561: 542: 528: 482:Mythomania: Tales of Our Times 362:, Simon & Schuster, 1992, 1: 739:University of Tasmania alumni 709:Alumni of New College, Oxford 646:Faber & Faber's biography 521: 510:, Thames & Hudson, 2021, 484:, Thames & Hudson, 2016, 471:, Thames & Hudson, 2014, 454:. Thames & Hudson. 2014. 440:, Thames & Hudson, 2007, 414:, Thames & Hudson, 2003, 375:, Thames & Hudson, 1999, 308:, London: J. M. Dent, 1985, 224:The Victorian Treasure-House 49:. After graduating from the 7: 659:Modern Times, Modern Places 586:, vol. 94, p. 408 36:Royal Society of Literature 10: 755: 714:Australian Rhodes Scholars 558:from Christ Church, Oxford 427:, Faber and Faber, 2004, 401:, Faber and Faber, 2002, 226:. London: Collins. 1973. 45:, Tasmania, and attended 34:. He is a fellow of the 621:"The View From Abroad" 606:London Review of Books 497:, Head of Zeus, 2018, 163:London Review of Books 156:of Conrad's 1980 book 51:University of Tasmania 568:Christ Church website 394:: 11–37. 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English literature
Christ Church
University of Oxford
Royal Society of Literature
Hobart
Hobart High School
University of Tasmania
Rhodes Scholarship
New College
fellow
All Souls College
Princeton University
Williams College
criticism
cultural history
Orson Welles
Alfred Hitchcock
The New York Times
The New Yorker
The Observer
New Statesman
The Monthly
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
New Statesman
Richard Poirier
London Review of Books
Oscar Wilde
Rupert Brooke
W. H. Auden

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