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Charlotte Roberts completed her B.A. in English at Cambridge University in 2006. She began her graduate study as a Henry Fellow at Harvard University before returning to Cambridge as a Benefactors鈥� Scholar at St John鈥檚 College. Her Ph.D, which examined the accommodation of character in the historical and autobiographical writings of Edward Gibbon, was awarded in 2012.
Between 2011 and 2013, Dr Roberts held a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge, and she joined 香港六合彩 as a lecturer in 2013.
Research Interests
Charlotte Roberts鈥� research focuses on eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history. Her first monograph, Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History, explores the relationship between narrative structure, literary detail, and authorial persona in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Gibbon鈥檚 Memoirs. She is particularly interested in attitudes towards and perceptions of the past, and her recent research explores historical thinking in a variety of genres: including formal historiography, scientific and travel writing, letters and memoirs.
She is currently working on an examination of the eighteenth-century as an 鈥渁ge of prose鈥�, which examines attitudes towards prose writing found in a wide range of eighteenth-century authors, including Addison, Swift, Richardson, Montagu and Johnson.
Books
Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History (Oxford University Press,听2014).
Articles and Chapters in Books
The Memoirs and the Character of the Historian鈥�, in The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon, ed. by Karen O鈥橞rien and Brian Young (Cambridge University Press,听2018).
鈥楲iving with the Ancient Romans: Past and Present in Eighteenth-Century Encounters with Herculaneum and Pompeii鈥�, Huntington Library Quarterly, 78:1 (2015), 61-85.
鈥楾racing a Meridian Through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson鈥檚 History of America鈥�, in Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830: Visions of History, ed. by Ben Dew and Fiona Price (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 109-126.听
鈥楨dward Gibbon鈥�, in Atheism and Deism Revalued: Heterodox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800, ed. by Wayne Hudson, Diego Lucci and Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Ashgate,听2014).
鈥楾he Marmoreal Edward Gibbon: The Autobiographies and the Ruins of Rome鈥�, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34:3 (2011), pp. 357-378.