Meanwhile, with the development of the railways in the 19th century, travelling became common and egalitarian, and those curious about the world ventured further and further afield, gaining new ...

A French chef, he explains, would become necessary as a status symbol for many aristocrats of the 19th and 20th Century. "One of the biggest examples in literature is PG Wodehouse writing about ...

Bridget M. Marshall's most recent book is "Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature" (University of Wales Press, 2021). Her research and ...

This turned out to be a wholly new reading experience for the Danish critic, not only because of the fact that Polish literature was for him a terra incognita (he does not cover it in his monumental ...

Mary Bowden specializes in British literature of the long nineteenth century, focusing particularly on environmental topics. Her current book project, "Radical Science: Plants, Agency, and British ...

Erin specializes in African American and U.S. literature of the long 19th century, with interests in the intersections between race and environment, aesthetics, late eighteenth-century yellow fever ...

18th- and 19th-century literature, thought, and history of science; material culture; environmental humanities; the novel, including Modernism (Proust, and also English and German prose Modernism).

My courses encourage dynamic class discussions about important current and historical social issues along with close textual analysis of literature. My specific area of research is late 19th- and ...