Nicholas McDowell Awarded a 2007 Philip Leverhulme Prize

Nicholas McDowell, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, has been awarded a 2007 Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust.

The Philip Leverhulme Prizes, worth £70,000 over two years, are awarded to ‘outstanding scholars (normally under the age of 36) who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise.'

Nicholas McDowell's research is in the field of early modern literature and culture, in particular the relations between literature, politics and religion during the conflicts of the English Civil Wars. He has published a well-received book on radical writing and ideas in the mid-seventeenth century, The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660 (OUP, 2003). His forthcoming monograph, Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit (OUP, 2008), explores friendships between ‘Cavalier' and ‘Roundhead' poets. He is the co-editor of a collection of new essays by thirty-five leading scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Milton (OUP, 2008). While he holds the prize in 2008-10 he will be editing John Milton's Eikonoklastes (1649), a prose defence of the execution of Charles I, for the new Oxford Complete Works of John Milton, and beginning a book about early modern theories of the mortality of the soul.

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