MA, PhD
Emeritus Professor
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- Email Address
- d.w.hughes@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Derek Hughes (MA, PhD) has written extensively on seventeenth and early eighteenth century English literature, with special interests in drama, women's writing, and representations of America. He also works on the relationship between literature and music, and on comparative literature, particularly on the relationship between English, classical, and German texts. His monographs include English Drama,1660-1700 (1996), The Theatre of Aphra Behn (2001), and Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera (2007), which studies the literary treatment of human sacrifice from Homer to the present day. He has edited Women Dramatists of the Eighteenth Century (2001) and Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century (2007). Culture and Sacrifice contains a chapter on Wagner, on whom he has continued to work for the past twenty years, analysing the many errors and anachronisms which contribute to Wagner's current evil reputation. He has published many articles in The Wagner Journal and, most recently, is the author of Wagner: the Invention of a Monster (2026).
- Research
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Research Overview
Greek and Latin Literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, Comparative Literature, opera (especially Wagner).
- Publications
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Human Sacrifice and the Literary Imagination
Sacrifice and Modern Thought. Meszaros, J., Zachhuber, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 231-247, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
Blackness in Gobineau and Behn: Oroonoko and Racial Pseudo-Science
Women's Writing, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 204-221Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Public Drama
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. Knoppers, L. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 260-271, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHuman Sacrifice on the Restoration Stage: The Case of Venice Preserv'd
Philological Quarterly, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 365-384Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 352 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksVersions of Blackness: Key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 381 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksAphra Behn and the Uses of History
Restoration Literature and Culture: The Female Wits: Women and Gender, pp. 181-193, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters"Thinking Ignobly of the Soul": Dryden鈥檚 Heroic Plays
Literature, Readers and Dialogue: Essays by and in Reply to Douglas Jefferson. University College, Dublin Press, pp. 75-87, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAphra Behn's Oroonoko and New World Ethnography
A Companion to The Literatures of Colonial America. Castillo, S., Schweitzer, I. T. (eds.). Blackwell, pp. 259-274, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersOroonoko: the Editor and the Marketplace
Aphra Behn (1640-1689): le mod猫le europ茅enChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters