Join us as Prof Kathryn Gray discusses Edward Kimber, the novel and natural knowledge in the 18th century.
Edward Kimber (1719–69) was an English novelist, poet, journalist and compiler of reference works. Spending the years 1742-44 in North America, Kimber drew on his travels from New York to south to Florida in his writing, including a series of Itinerant Observations in America in The London Magazine, of which he later became editor.
Kimber's travels inspired him to write about his encounters with colonists, indigenous people and nature.
Kathryn Gray, from the School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Plymouth, has research specialisms in early American literary studies, and the literatures of colonial New England especially.
Her work responds to questions of literary form, transatlantic print culture, and the politics of the cultural change and transformation in the colonial and indigenous landscapes of North America. More recently, she has developed research and teaching interests in early American environmental literatures and natural history.
