William C. Sharpe

Biography Sharpe received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and M.A. from the University of Oxford. He has written about subjects such as shadows or nighttime environments of cities as depicted in literature and arts as well as a cultural history on walking.

Sharpe received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993.

Works Author Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990) New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Art, Literature, and Photography (Princeton University Press, 2008) Grasping Shadows: The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film (Oxford University Press, 2017) The Art of Walking: A History in 100 Images (Yale University Press, 2023) Editor

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, General Editor David Damrosch, "The Victorian Age", ed. William C. Sharpe and Heather Henderson (Longman, 1999)