Mc INERNEY Timothy (MCF)

Tim Mc Inerney has been a senior lecturer of British and Irish cultural history at Université Paris 8 since 2015. His research examines the links between racialist ideology and the tradition of hereditary nobility in the eighteenth century, looking at the fields of natural history, literature, and political philosophy.

For a complete list of Tim Mc Inerney’s publications, visit https://univ-paris8.academia.edu/TimMcInerney

Most recent publications

2023 : [Article] "Ancient Privilege : the History of Hereditary Power in Maurice Shelton’s True Rise of Nobility (1718)", Laboratorio dell’ISPF 20.3 2023.

2023 : [Monograph] Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

2017 : [Chapter] "Ham’s Curse and Genealogical Race in the Early Modern World". Catégoriser l’autre. Éd. Michel Prum. Paris : Harmattan, 2017.

2017 : [Article] "Travel Writing and Ideas of Race in Highland Scotland : James MacPherson’s Ossian poems (1760-5) and Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)". Etudes anglaises 70.2, 2017, 222-237.

2015 : [Article] "La grande chaine des êtres et la pensée racialisée dans la Grande-Bretagne du XVIIIe siècle". Textes et Contextes 9, 2015.

2015 : [Article] "The Better Sort : Nobility and Human Variety in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain". Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38.1, 2015. 47-63.

2013 : [Article] "Race and Nobility in the Works of Johann Reinhold and Georg Forster". Études anglaises 66. 2013. 250-266.

2013 : [Article] "Ascendancy and the 1798 Rebellion in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and Ennui". Revue de la société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 70. 2013. 285-308.