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Linda M. Austin

Professor
PhD, University of Rochester


Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, particularly the intersection of economics, art, literature, and psychology

Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught

Upper Division:

  • Theory and Criticism
  • Victorian Novel
  • Victorian Poetry

Graduate:

  • Reviving the Renaissance:  Nineteenth-century Perspectives on Venice
  • Victorian Narrative Poetry

Selected Publications

 

Nostalgia in Transition:  Remembering and Physiological Aesthetics, 1780-1917. U of Virginia P, 2007.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism contributor. 2nd edition, 2005.

The Practical Ruskin: Economics and Audience in the Late Work. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1991.

"Children of Childhood:  Nostalgia and the Romantic Legacy." Studies in Romanticism 42 (2003): 75-98.

"Emily Bronte's Homesickness."  Victorian Studies 44 (2002): 573-96.

"The Lament and the Rhetoric of the Sublime." Nineteenth-Century Literature 53 (1998): 279-306.

"Smoking, the Hack, and the General Equivalent," Prose Studies 18.2 (1996): 159-70.

Recent Conference Presentations

 

"Remembering England:  the Picturesque Cottage," MLA National Convention, 2001.


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