Amy Levy: Critical Essays

Contributors

ix contributors Susan David Bernstein, a professor of English, Jewish studies, and gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the author of Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power inVictorian Literature and Culture (1997) and the editor of two novels by Amy Levy: The Romance of a Shop (2006) and Reuben Sachs (2006). She has coedited (with Elsie B. Michie) VictorianVulgarity :Taste inVerbal andVisual Culture (2009). Currently she is working on a book about the Reading Room of the British Museum, gender, and space, from George Eliot toVirginiaWoolf. Gail Cunningham is a professor of English and former dean of the faculty of arts and social sciences at Kingston University. She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, particularly in the areas of women’s writing and the New Woman. Her current interest is in representations of suburbia inVictorian and Edwardian writing. Elizabeth F. Evans is an assistant professor of English at Pennsylvania State University–DuBois. She has published essays on George Gissing andVirginia Woolf and is now completing a book, provisionally titled “Liminal London: Gender and Threshold Spaces in Narratives of Urban Modernity,” which investigates the roles of urban sites in the formation of new identities, power relations, and stories in London narratives, 1880–1940. Emma Francis is an associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British women’s writing and the intellectual history of feminism. Alex Goody is a senior lecturer in English studies at Oxford Brookes University . She is the author of Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein (2007) and of a forthcoming book with the working You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. x contributors title Literature, Technology and Culture, as well as of a range of articles and chapters on women’s writing and poetry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Naomi Hetherington teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has previously published on Amy Levy’s juvenilia in The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf, edited by Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and is currently completing a monograph on the religious structures of New Woman Wction. T. D. Olverson is a researcher in nineteenth-century literature and culture and has recently completed her Wrst monograph, Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late Victorian Hellenism. She is currently at work on the use of Hellenism in children’s literature of the nineteenth century, and the issue of children and violence as represented in literature and culture. Lyssa Randolph holds a doctorate on New Woman writing. New Women Writers of the Late Nineteenth Century, a study of New Woman Wction and drama, is coauthored with Professor Marion Shaw, and published by Northcote Books. Lyssa is a visiting lecturer on Victorian Wction at the University of Wales, Newport. Meri-Jane Rochelson is a professor of English at Florida International University . The author of numerous articles on Victorian and Anglo-Jewish literature , she is coeditor with Nikki Lee Manos of Transforming Genres: New Approaches to British Fiction of the 1890s (1994) and editor of Israel Zangwill’s 1892 novel Children of the Ghetto (1998). Her book A Jew in the Public Arena:The Career of Israel Zangwill was published in 2008. Nadia Valman is a senior lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture (2007) and several articles on Jews andVictorian literature. She is the coeditor with Bryan Cheyette of The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789–1914. She is currently researching the literature of the East End of London. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Amy Levy critical essays You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying...