Nineteenth-Century

  Studies

  Hub               [Archived Page: Academic Year, 2011-12]

This page is devoted to the English Faculty's research community in Nineteenth-Century Studies. Its purpose is to promote connections between researchers in the area, and to offer an integrated picture of relevant events occurring across the University. Listing suggestions may be sent to the Hub Co-ordinator (Dr Marcus Waithe: mjw66@cam.ac.uk).

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EVENTS:

• Public Lectures
• Conferences and Symposia in Cambridge
• Faculty Seminars
• Graduate Reading Groups
• Seminars in Other Faculties

• Faculty Members Working in the Period (Serving and Emeritus)
• Visiting Scholars: Current and Recent
• PhD Students

• Collaborative Research Projects and Digital Resources
• Recent Publications by Faculty Members
• Books by Faculty Members in Date Order (Serving and Emeritus)

 

                                                                      

 

 

EVENTS

Public Lectures

Omar Khayyám and FitzGerald's Rubáiyát after 2009 (Ancient India & Iran Trust, Cambridge; 14 October 2011)

Dr Sarah Meer, 'Alexander Crummell, the Abolitionist' (Faculty of English; 20 October 2011) (link includes visual presentation)

 

Conferences and Symposia in Cambridge

Victorians Reinventing the Renaissance - A Symposium (Anglia Ruskin University, 26 November 2011)

Butler Day (St John's College / Cambridge Science Festival, 17 March 2012)

Darwin and Human Nature (CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 19-20 April 2012)

New Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Nineteenth Century (Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, 11 May 2012)

Imagined Civities: Cities and Alternatives in the Nineteenth Century (English Faculty, 8 June 2012)

Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century (CRASSH; Cripps Court, Magdalene College, 6 October 2012)

 

Faculty Seminars

• Nineteenth Century Graduate Seminar (Convenors: Prof. H Glen and Dr M Waithe)
• Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Seminar (Convenors: Dr M Gorji and Dr R Boyson)
• Literary Theory Graduate Seminar (Convenors: Prof P L De Bolla and Others)
• Drama Seminar (Convenor: Dr J K Chothia, Dr A Roskison and Dr Z Svendsen
• The History of Material Texts (Convenor: Ms S Cain)

 

Graduate Reading Groups

• Cambridge Popular Culture Reading Group (Convenor: Marie Léger-St-Jean)
• Ruskin Reading Group (Convenor: Austen Saunders)

 

Seminars in Other Faculties

• The Guild: Interdisciplinary 19th Century Forum (Graduate Convenors: Ranald Lawrence, Architecture; Aurélie Pétiot, History of Art)
• Modern Cultural History Seminar (History Faculty)
• Cambridge Seminars in Political Thought and Intellectual History (Cambridge Centre for Political Thought)

 

                                                                   

 

PEOPLE

Faculty Members Working in the Period (Current and Emeritus)

N.B. Some individuals may have substantial interests in other periods, or in overlapping areas (e.g. Romanticism). 

• Professor Dame Gillian Beer (Clare Hall)
• Dr Jenny Bavidge (ICE)
• Dr Rowan Boyson (King's)
• Dr Nuzhat Bukhari (Fitzwilliam)
• Ms Sarah Cain (Corpus Christi)
• Dr Paul Chirico (Fitzwilliam)
• Dr Philip Connell (Selwyn)
• Dr Joseph Crawford (Murray Edwards)
• Dr Ildiko Csengei (Newnham)
• Dr Tamara Follini (Clare)
• Dr Linda Freedman (Selywn)
• Dr Sinead Garrigan-Mattar (Girton)
• Professor Heather Glen (Murray Edwards)
• Dr Caroline Gonda (St Catherine's)
• Dr Mina Gorji (Pembroke)
• Miss Alison Hennegan (Trinity Hall)
• Dr Sarah Houghton-Walker (Gonville & Caius)
• Dr Michael Hurley (Robinson)
• Dr Emma Jones (Trinity)
• Dr Louise Joy (Homerton)
• Professor Angela Leighton (Trinity)
• Dr Isobel Maddison (Lucy Cavendish)
• Dr Sarah Meer (Selwyn)
• Dr Rod Mengham (Jesus)
• Dr Catherine Phillips (Downing)
• Professor Adrian Poole (Trinity)
• Dr Peter Raby (Homerton)
• Dr Corinna Russell (Emmanuel)
• Dr Jan Schramm (Trinity Hall)
• Dr Trudi Tate (Clare Hall)
• Prof. David Trotter (Gonville and Caius)
• Dr Marcus Waithe (Magdalene)
• Dr Jennifer Wallace (Peterhouse)
• Mr Clive Wilmer (Sidney Sussex)
• Dr Mark Wormald (Pembroke)

Visiting Scholars: Current and Recent

• Professor Ann Colley (Buffalo State College)
• Dr Jennifer McDonell (University of New England)

PhD Students

• James Castell (St John's): 'Wordsworth and Animal Life'
• Ian Felce, 'The Rise of Norse Texts in English Literature'
• Owen Holland (St Catherine's): 'Re-Visioning London'
• Laura Kilbride (St John's): 'Swinburne's Style'
• Marie Léger-St-Jean (Trinity Hall): 'Penny Bloods: Circulating Stories in London's Popular Culture, 1837-1860'
• Peter Morelli (King's): 'Clare's Subtle Nature: Metaphor, Allegory and Subtext in the Published Volumes, 1820-1835'
• Simon Morley (Trinity Hall): 'Henry James's Suspended Judgements'
• Ian Patel (Queens'): 'William Hazlitt and the Spirit of the Age'
• Ellie Stedall (St John's): 'The Sea Stories of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad'
• Sarah Weaver (Trinity Hall): 'Nineteenth-century Imitations and Translations of the Medieval'
• Yih Dah Wu (St Catharine's): 'Jane Austen and the Poetics of Waiting'
• Katrina Zaat: 'Henry James and Sterne'
• Clare Walker-Gore, Victorian Representations of Disability

 

                                                                   

 

RESEARCH

Collaborative Research Projects and Digital Resources

• 'Alexander Crummell, the Abolitionist': An Online Presentation (Dr Sarah Meer)
• The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (Prof. Adrian Poole and Dr Tamara Follini)
• Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860 (Marie Léger-St-Jean, Graduate Student) 
• Ruskin at Walkley: Reconstructing the St George's Museum (Dr Marcus Waithe)
• The Samuel Butler Project (Rebecca Watts and St John's College, Cambridge)

Recent Publications by Faculty Members

N.B. This is an indicative, rather than exhaustive, list of publications since January 2011.

• Linda Freedman, Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• Michael D. Hurley, 'On or about July 1877', in Victorian Transformations: Genre, Nationalism, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature, ed. by Bianca Tredennick (Ashgate, 2011)
• Adrian Poole, 'Henry James and Charm', F. W. Bateson Memorial Lecture, Essays in Criticism, LXI (April 2011), 115-136
• Adrian Poole, ed., Great Shakespearians, Vol V: Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy (Continuum, 2011)
• FitzGerald's "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam": Popularity and Neglect, eds Adrian Poole, Christine van Ruymbeke, William H. Martin and Sandra Mason (Anthem Press, 2011)
• Clive Wilmer, 'Ruskin and the Challenge of Modernity', in Nineteenth-Century Prose, Special Issue: John Ruskin, 38.2 (Fall, 2011), 13-34
• Jennifer Wallace, 'Classics as Souvenir: L.E.L. and the Annuals', Classical Receptions Journal, 3.1 (2011), 109-128
• Jennifer Wallace, '"Copying Shelley's Letters": Mary Shelley and the Uncanny Erotics of Greek', Women's Studies, 40.1 (2011), 404-428
• Joseph Crawford, 'The Haunting of Thomas De Quincey', Cambridge Quarterly, 40:3 (2011), 224-242
• Marcus Waithe, 'Hill, Ruskin and Intrinsic Value, in Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts, ed. by Piers Pennington and Matthew Sperling (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 133-149
• Marcus Waithe, 'From Folklore to Folk Law: William Morris and the Popular Sources of Legal Authority', in The Voice of the People: Writing the European Folk Revival, 1760-1914, ed. by Matthew Campbell and Michael Perraudin (London: Anthem Press, 2012) (Ch. 10)

Books by Faculty Members in Date Order (Serving and Emeritus)

N.B. This list is under construction (notification of additions can be sent to the Hub Co-ordinator).

• Adrian Poole, Gissing in Context (Macmillan, 1975)
• Gillian Beer, Darwin's Plots (Routledge & Paul, 1983)
• Angela Leighton, Shelley and the Sublime (CUP, 1984)
• Angela Leighton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Harvester Press, 1986)
• Gillian Beer, George Eliot (1986)
• David Trotter, Circulation: Defoe, Dickens and the Economics of the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 1988)
• Eric Griffiths, The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry (Clarendon Press, 1989)
• Adrian Poole, Henry James (Prentice Hall, 1991)
• Stefan Collini, Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850-1930 (OUP, 1991)
• Angela Leighton, Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart (Virginia University Press, 1992)
• David Trotter, The English Novel in History, 1895-1920 (Routledge, 1993)
• Stefan Collini, Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait (OUP, 1994)
• Gillian Beer, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (OUP, 1996)
• Peter Raby, Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers (Chatto & Windus, 1996)
• Peter Raby, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (CUP, 1997)
• Jennifer Wallace, Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism (Macmillan, 1997)
• Jennifer Wallace, Lives of the Great Romantics: Keats (Pickering and Chatto, 1997)
• Stefan Collini, English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture (OUP, 1999)
• Philip Connell and Nigel Leask, eds, Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland, ed. Philip Connell and Nigel Leask (CUP, 2009)
• Philip Connell, Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' (OUP, 2001)
• Heather Glen, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (CUP, 2000)
• Jan-Melissa Schramm, Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (CUP, 2000)
• David Trotter, Cooking With Mud: The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction (OUP, 2000)
• Rod Mengham, Charles Dickens (Writers and their Work series) (Northcote House, 2001)
• Heather Glen, Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History (OUP, 2002)
• Alex Houen, Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson (OUP, 2002)
• Gail Marshall and Adrian Poole, eds, Victorian Shakespeare, 2 vols (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
• Helen Small and Trudi Tate, eds, Literature, Science, Pyschoanalysis 1830 -1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer (OUP, 2003)
• Adrian Poole, Shakespeare and the Victorians (Arden Shakespeare, 2004)
• Sinead Garrigan-Mattar, Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival (OUP, 2004)
• Jennifer Wallace, Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (Duckworth, 2004)
• Sarah Meer, Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s (University of Georgia Press, 2005)
• Marcus Waithe, William Morris's Utopia of Strangers: Victorian Medievalism and the Ideal of Hospitality (Boydell & Brewer, 2006)
• Angela Leighton, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism and the Legacy of a Word (OUP, 2007)
• Paul Chirico, John Clare and the Imagination of the Reader (Palgrave, 2009)
• Robert Macfarlane, Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature (OUP, 2007)
• Rod Mengham and Sophie Gilmartin, Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2007)
• Catherine Phillips, Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual Imagination (OUP, 2007)
• Mina Gorji, John Clare and the Place of Poetry (Liverpool UP, 2008)
• Sarah Houghton Walker, John Clare's Religion (Ashgate, 2008)
• Linda Freedman, Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination (CUP, 2011)
• Jan-Melissa Schramm, Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative (CUP, 2012)