Emeritus Professor Tim Unwin

E-mail: T.A.Unwin@bristol.ac.uk

Skype: tim.unwin 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/tunwin

Blog: http://tim-unwin.blogspot.com/

UOB Research Publications

Tim Unwin is Emeritus Professor of French, and is General Editor of French Studies. He was founder President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and is a former President and Vice-President of the Association of University Professors and Heads of French (AUPHF). 

In addition to his role with  French Studies, he is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of French Studies, and the editorial committee of Essays in French Literature and Culture. He is also co-moderator of Francofil, the world’s largest French studies e-mail forum.

His main research interest is in  the nineteenth-century novel, with particular emphasis on travel and technology, and an additional interest in French accounts of Australia in the nineteenth century. He has written books on Flaubert, Verne, Constant, and reflexivity in the nineteenth century, and he has edited two volumes in the 'Cambridge Companion' series.

Selected publications

(For full list of publications since 2001 see UOB Research Publications)

• Anne Green,  Mary Orr and Timothy Unwin (eds),  ‘Flaubert: Shifting Perspectives’, Special Issue of Dix-Neuf, 15:1 (2011)
• Jules Verne, Une ville flottante, édition présentée, annotée et établie par Timothy Unwin (Liverpool: Liverpool Online Series, 2011)
• Susan Harrow and Timothy Unwin (eds), Joie de vivre in French Literature and Culture: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009)
• Harkness, Nigel, Lisa,Downing, Sonya Stephens, Tim Unwin (eds.), Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007)
• (Guest editor), ‘Jules Verne in the Twenty-First Century’, special issue of Australian Journal of French Studies, 42:3 (2005)
• Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005)
• The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)
• Harkness, Nigel, Paul Rowe, Timothy Unwin and Jennifer Yee (eds), Visions/Revisions. Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003)
• ‘Les Mémoires d’un fou et la question du style’, Bulletin des Amis de Flaubert et de Maupassant, 10 (2002), 9-18, and online in the Revue Flaubert, 2 (2002)
• Parallel translation and critical edition of Gustave Flaubert, Mémoires d'un fou/Memoirs of a Madman (Liverpool: Liverpool Online Series, 2001)
• (Guest editor) 'Ecrire l'exil: rupture et continuité/Writing Exile: Separation and Continuity', 
  Mots Pluriels, 17 (2001)
• Textes réfléchissants: réalisme et réflexivité au dix-neuvième siècle (Bern: Peter Lang, 2000)
• The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: 1800 to the Present (Cambridge: CUP, 1997)
• (Ed.) Louis Bouilhet, Le Cœur à droite  (University of Exeter: ‘Textes Littéraires’, LXXXV, 1993
• Verne: ‘Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours’ (University of Glasgow: ‘Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature’, 23, 1992)
• Art et infini: l’œuvre de jeunesse de Gustave Flaubert (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991)
• Constant:  ‘Adolphe’ (London: Grant and Cutler, 1986)
• Flaubert et Baudelaire: affinités spirituelles et esthétiques (Paris: Nizet, 1982)
• (Ed.) Gustave Flaubert, Trois Contes de jeunesse (University of Exeter: ‘Textes Littéraires’, XLI, 1981)

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