Michael Leslie teaches courses in the English Department and he is also Dean of Rhodes College′s British Studies At Oxford summer school. His teaching and research interests are mainly based in the early modern period, and tend to combine literature with the visual arts, the history of designed landscapes, and the history of science. Among his current projects, he is working as part of an international team to edit the works of Richard Brome (c.1590-1652), a previously unedited 17th-century dramatist and poet.
Professor Leslie′s Vita (PDF)
1981 Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 1981
1976 B.A., Hons. (1st Class), University of Leicester
- English 215 - FOCUS ON LITERATURE
- English 230 - SHAKESPEARE′S MAJOR PLAYS
- English 260 - SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I
- English 260 - SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I
- English 320 - MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
- English 322 - RENAISSANCE POETRY & PROSE
- English 332 - ADV STUDY:SHAKESPEARE&GENDER
- English 336 - LITERTRE & LANDSCAPE,1500-1800
- English 350 - ROMANTIC POETRY AND PROSE
- English 380 - TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDY
- English 385 - TOPICS:PARODY & SATIRE
- Political Science 847 - MORAL SENSE & SENSIBILITY
CD-Rom
edited, with other members of the Hartlib Papers Project team, The Hartlib Papers:A Complete Text and Image Database of the Papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600-1662)
(Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1995; 2nd edition, 2002).
Books
Spenser′s "Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves": Martial and Chivalric Symbolism in a"The Faerie Queene" (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1984).
edited (with Timothy Raylor), Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992). Paperback edition, 1994
edited (with Mark Greengrass and Timothy Raylor), Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994; reissue, 2002).
Edited and Selected Collection in microform (with John Dixon Hunt): Shakespeare and the Visual Arts, Unit 17 of Shakespeariana edited by Philip Brockbank et al (University Microfilms International: Japan, 1989, rest of world, 1990).
Contributions to Books
"Biographical and Bibliographical Appendix", part 3 of Renaissance and Reformation, vol. 3 of The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain ed. Boris Ford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), Revised, paperback 2nd edition published as Sixteenth-Century Britain: The Cambridge Cultural History ed. Boris Ford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
"′Gardens of Eloquence′: Rhetoric, Landscape, and Literature in the English Renaissance" in Towards a Definition of Topos: Approaches to Analogical Reasoning, edited by Lynette Hunter (London: Macmillan, 1991).
Series of articles in The Spenser Encyclopedia, edited by A C Hamilton et al (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1990):
"The Spiritual Husbandry of John Beale" in Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land (1992).
"Electronic Editions and the Hierarchy of Texts" in The Politics of the Electronic Text ed. Warren Chernaik, Caroline Davies, and Marilyn Deegan (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1993).
"Early Renaissance Gardens in Italy", The Dictionary of Art ed. Jane Taylor (London: Macmillan, 1996).
"′Bringing Ingenuity into Fashion′: The ′Elysium Britannicum′ and the Reformation of Husbandry", in John Evelyn′s "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening edited by Therese O′Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998).
"Something Nasty in the Wilderness: Entertaining Queen Elizabeth on her Progresses" in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 10, edited by John Pitcher (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson U.P., 1998).
"History and Historiography in the English Landscape Garden" in Perspectives on Garden History edited by Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1999).
Special Issues of Journals: Editor, "Ut pictura poesis", Word & Image: An International Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 1 (1985)
Editor, "Renaissance Art and Literature", Word & Image: An International Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 3 (1987)
Joint editor, with John Dixon Hunt, "Garden and Architectural Dreamscapes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", Word & Image: An International Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 14 (1998)
Articles
"Drummond′s Copy of The Faerie Queene", Times Literary Supplement (1981) (with Alastair Fowler)."The Dialogue between Bodies and Souls: Painting and Poetry in the English Renaissance", Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 1 (1985)
"The Hartlib Papers Project: Text Retrieval with Large Datasets", Literary and Linguistic Computing 5 (1990)
"Spenser, Sidney, and the Renaissance Garden", English Literary Renaissance 22 (1992)
"Edmund Spenser: Art and The Faerie Queene", Proceedings of the British Academy 76 (1991)
"Multimedia for Library Staff Training: A Preliminary Report of Research", Interactive Multimedia 2.2 (1992) (with Peter Stubley and Darren Umney).
"An English Landscape Garden before the ′English Landscape Garden′?" Journal of Garden History 13 (1993)
"The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Elizabethan Landscape Entertainments", Word & Image: An International Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 14 (1998)
Reviews
The Library, Art Book Review, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies, Spenser Newsletter, Journal of Garden History, Word & Image, European Romantic Review, Times Higher Education Supplement, Studies in Philology, and The Seventeenth Century. On garden and landscape design history, literature, art history, interart relations, and computing applications in the Humanities.