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Talia Schaffer
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Ph.D. Cornell University 1996.
Associate Professor, Queens College. English

Books:

  • ‘Lucas Malet’ (Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison). The History of Sir Richard Calmady  Ed. Talia Schaffer. Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 2003.

  • The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

  • Women and British Aestheticism. Ed. Talia Schaffer and Kathy A. Psomiades. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Book in Progress: 

  • The Imitative Arts: The Victorian Domestic Handicraft and the Realist Novel (including chapters on Yonge, Gaskell, Oliphant, Eliot, Dickens)

Articles:

  • “Craft, Authorial Anxiety, and the Cranford Papers.” VPR (Victorian Periodical Review) 38:2 (Summer 2005): 221-39.

  • "Taming the Tropics: Charlotte Yonge Takes on Melanesia." Victorian Studies 47:2 (Winter 2005): 204-214.

  • “‘A Novelist of Character’: Becoming Lucas Malet.” Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves, and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930. Ed. Marysa DeMoor. (London: Palgrave, 2004), 73-95.

  • “The Importance of Being Greedy: Connoisseurship and Domesticity in the Writings of Elizabeth Robins Pennell.” The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions. Ed. Laurel Forster, Janet Floyd. Aldershot: Ashgate Press,  2003, 105-126.

  • “The Origins of the Aesthetic Novel: Ouida, Wilde, and the Popular Romance.” Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions. Ed. Joseph Bristow. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, 212-229.

  • “‘Nothing But Foolscap and Ink’: Inventing the New Woman.” The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact. Ed. Angelique Richardson, Chris Willis. London: Palgrave, 2001, 39-52.

  • “The Mysterious Magnum Bonum: Fighting to Read Charlotte Yonge” Nineteenth Century Literature 55:2 (September 2000): 244-275.

  • “Fashioning Aestheticism by Aestheticizing Fashion: Wilde, Beerbohm, and the Male Aesthetes’ Sartorial Codes.” Victorian Literature and Culture 28:1 (Spring 2000): 39-54.

  • “Some Chapter of Some Other Story: Henry James, Lucas Malet, and the Real Past of The Sense of the Past.” The Henry James Review 17:2 (Spring, 1996): 109-128.

  • “A Wilde Desire Took Me: The Homoerotic History of Dracula.” ELH 61 (Summer 1994): 381-425. Republished in Bram Stoker, Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition.  Ed. Nina Auerbach. David J. Skal. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997, 470-482.

Forthcoming Publications:

  • Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siècle. New York: Addison, Wesley, Longman.

 

  

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