Emeritus Professor Thomas Cain
Emeritus Professor
- Email: tom.cain@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7769
Roles and Responsibilities
Professor of Early Modern Literature
Member of Senate; Chairman, Hatton Gallery Committee; Honorary Degrees Committee; Student Personal and Academic Records; Royal Shakespeare Company Liaison; Library Liaison
Qualifications
MA (Cambridge) PhD (Cambridge)
Research Interests
English Literature and History, 1590-1670, especially Donne, Jonson, Herrick, and Fane; editing; manuscript, bibliographical and other documentary studies.
- Cain T. John Donne and the ideology of colonization. English Literary Renaissance 2001,31 3 440-476.
- Cain Tom. THE POETRY OF MILDMAY FANE, SECOND EARL OF WESTMORLAND : from the Fulbeck, Harvard and Westmorland Manuscripts. In: Tom Cain ed. Manchester University Press 2001. Manchester University Press, 465.
- Cain Tom. "A Sad Intestine Warr": Mildmay Fane and the Poetry of Civil Strife. The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination (University of Missouri Press). Editors: C. J. Summers and T.-L. Pebworth, 27-51 1999.
- Cain Tom. Herrick's "Christmas Carol": A New Poem, and Its Implications for Patronage. English Literary Renaissance, 29 131-153 1999.
- Cain Tom. 'Comparisons and wounding flouts’: Love’s Labours Lost and the tradition of personal satire. Shakespearean Continuities (above), pp. 193-205 1997.
- Cain Tom. Donne and the Prince D'Amour. John Donne Journal: Studies in the age of Donne, 14 83-111 1997.
- Cain Tom. Ben Jonson, "Poetaster". 1995.
- Cain TGS. Into another mould. Change and Continuity in English Culture 1625-1700 edited with Ken Robinson (London and New York, Routledge, 1992) 1992.
- Cain TGS. A Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limning by Nicholas Hilliard. edited with R.K.R. Thornton (MidNAG & Carcanet New Press, Ashington and Manchester, 1981; 2nd paperback ed. 1992) 1991.
- Cain TGS. 'Times trans-shifting': Herrick in Meditation. in "Trust to Good Verses": Herrick Tercentenary Essays ed. Roger B. Rollin and J. Max Patrick (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978) pp.103-23 1978.
- Cain TGS. Tolstoy. London, Paul Elek, 1976 1976.