1.0Department of English Language and Literature/englishcuthemeedtr5/english/author/cuthemeedtr5/Paul Keen - Department of English Language and Literaturerich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="La1LCTXc4t"><a href="/english/people/keen-paul/">Paul Keen</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="/english/people/keen-paul/embed/#?secret=La1LCTXc4t" width="600" height="338" title="“Paul Keen” — Department of English Language and Literature" data-secret="La1LCTXc4t" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
/*! This file is auto-generated */
!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document);
//# sourceURL=/english/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js
/* ]]> */
</script>
/english/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/Paul-Keen.jpg200200Research Interests Current Research My current project, The Joke of Literature: A History of the Essay in English, tracks the history of that most elusive of genres, “the essay,” over the three centuries since its meteoric rise in popularity after the appearance of The Spectator in 1711. G. K. Chesterton’s description of the essay as […]