Paul Stock

Experience Keywords

Enlightenment; Romanticism; cultural history; eighteenth century; idea of Europe; intellectual history; literature and history; nineteenth century; space; spatial and geographical thought

Research Summary

Paul Stock specialises in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history. His current research focuses on the history of the idea of Europe, and on the history of spatial thought, particularly in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.

His other interests include the Enlightenment; Romanticism; travel and travel writing; the history of ‘racial’ thought; the history of cartography; and the ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities.

Research Countries

Britain; Europe