William Keach William Keach is Professor of English at Brown University. His 1984 book Shelley’s Style has just been reissued by Routledge. He is currently working on a book provisionally titled “The Ruins of Empire and Romantic Cultural Property.” Contributions Praxis Essay: Shelley and the Hermeneutics of Abbreviation Praxis Essay: The Ruins of Empire and the Contradictions of Restoration: Barbauld, Byron, Hemans Web Presence Faculty Profile