Dr Matthew Mauger
Matthew Mauger, BA (Warwick), MA (Queensland), PhD (London), researches extensively in the literature of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries; in particular, he focuses on how Enlightenment legal debate forms an important context for artistic production in the period. He completed a PhD entitled 'Prophetic
Legislation: William Blake and the Visionary Poetry of the Law' in 2005, and has published an article about legal architecture in Blake's 1790s epic The Four Zoas. He has recently completed an article examining harassment of dissenters in the City of London in the mid-eighteenth century, and continues to work on the writing of legal theorists including William Blackstone, Joseph Priestley, and Jeremy Bentham.