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Geoffrey Wall

Biography

 

Geoffrey Wall is a literary biographer and one of the editors of The Cambridge Quarterly. His biography of Gustave Flaubert, published by Faber in 2001, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It has subsequently been published in American, Spanish and French editions.

His translations of Flaubert, published by Penguin, include Madame Bovary (1992), Selected Letters (1995), The Dictionary of Received Ideas (1997), Sentimental Education (2004) and Three Tales (2005). He has edited a wide-ranging collection of Sartre's non-fiction, entitled Modern Times (Penguin 2001). His translation of Pierre Macherey's Theory of Literary Production was reissued as a Routledge Classic in 2006.

In 2013 he published The Enlightened Physician: Achille-Cléophas Flaubert 1784-1846.  You can read a chapter at www.dropbox.com/s/xef6dis0zyxt8er/05%20Parisians.docx.

Geoffrey Wall's current project, commissioned by Oxford University Press, is  a biography of George Sand, the major woman writer of French Romanticism.

Geoffrey Wall also has a strong interest in oral history. He is working on a book that brings together a dozen life-history interviews with activists. The working title is Voices Off.

"This is a book about commitment, democracy and direct action.  It explores the world of serious progressive politics. It asks a dozen activists some searching questions about what they do.

What drew you into this? What keeps you at it? How far would you go? And what sort of world do you want?

Listen in to a series of life-history interviews with Quakers, anarchists, pacifists, Trotskyists, feminists, peace activists, and union officials."

Contact details

Professor Geoffrey Wall
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York
Heslington
York
Y010 5DD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323334