John Barrell

John Charles Barrell FBA FEA (born February 1943) is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies.

[citation needed] He took his first degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and his PhD at the University of Essex.

He has held a British Academy readership and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

[citation needed] Barrell's main research is within the field of literature, history and art in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain.

[citation needed] Described by Colin McCabe as "the finest literary critic of our generation",[2] Barrell has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Chicago (2008) and by the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (2010).

John Barrell on Cader Idris, Wales. Photograph by Harriet Guest.
John Barrell on Cader Idris , Wales.
Cover of the paperback edition of The dark side of the landscape featuring Door of a Village Inn (cropped) by George Morland .