Background
He is originally from Australia, the son of H. D."Arcy Wood and a grandson of A. Harold Wood.
Professor of English author of The Shock
He is originally from Australia, the son of H. D."Arcy Wood and a grandson of A. Harold Wood.
He studied at Monash University, Melbourne and Columbia University under a Fulbright scholarship and has published extensively on nineteenth-century art and literature.
He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860 (Palgrave, 2001), Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840: Virtue and Virtuosity (Cambridge Uttar Pradesh, 2010), an historical novel, Hosack"s Folly (Other Press, 2005), and Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014).