Robert Lowry Patten Award

The Robert Lowry Patten Award, established in 2012, is given to the best recent study in British literary scholarship of the Restoration, Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century.

The Patten award was created to honor the distinguished scholarly career of Bob Patten, who for more than forty years was a professor of English at Rice University, and who for nearly thirty of those years was either editor or publisher and executive editor of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.

The award, made possible largely through gifts from Professor Patten's colleagues and friends, is managed by SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. Those seeking more information about the award process, or information on how to donate to the award fund, should contact SEL at 713-348-4697 or sel@rice.edu.

All review copies received by our office are automatically placed in the running for the Dietz or Patten awards. There is no special application or submission process, other than to see that the journal has received your book or books to process for our omnibus reviews.

2025 Award Recipient:

Kevis Goodman

University of California, Berkeley

for her contribution to British literary studies of the Restoration, Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century

Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics

Yale University Press

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Previous Award Recipients:

2019: Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia
Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
University of Chicago Press

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2018: Yopie Prins, University of Michigan
Ladies' Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy
Princeton University Press

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2017: Lucinda Cole, University of Illinois
Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740
University of Michigan Press

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2016: Michel W. Pharand, Ellen L. Hawman, Mary S. Millar, Sandra den Otter, and M. G. Wiebe
Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1868, Volume 10
University of Toronto Press

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2015: Peter de Bolla, King's College, Cambridge University
The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights
Fordham University Press

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2014: Leah Price, Harvard University
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian London
Princeton University Press

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2013: Thomas Lockwood, University of Washington
Henry Fielding Plays, Vol. 3: 1734–1742
Oxford University Press

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2012: Simon Goldhill, King's College, Cambridge University
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
Princeton University Press