Gerold Sedlmayr is Professor of British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University. He is author of the monographs Brendan Kennelly's Literary Works: The Developing Art of an Irish Writer, 1959-2000 (2005) and The Discourse of Madness in Britain, 1790-1815: Medicine, Politics, Literature (2011), as well as co-editor, with Nicole Waller, of Politics in Fantasy Media: Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Film, Television and Games (2014). With respect to Irish studies, and apart from his interest in Brendan Kennelly, he has published articles on Irish women poets, Paul Durcan and, more recently, on Edmund Burke.
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