In anticipation of the bicentenary one week from today, a little quiz. I will not be disclosing my abysmal score.  Ahem.

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I have assigned my Victorian Literature and Visual Culture class the task of analyzing a Bleak House illustration, so I've been thinking about my own illustration.  My mother gave me an original 1853 copy of "A New Meaning in the Roman": I was elated; I had requested it as part of my acquisition-of-old-things campaign.  Now … Continue reading On the Phiz Illustrations

I am Assistant Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University, where I teach composition and eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century British literature.  I hold a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.A. and B.A. in English from Boston College.  Before moving to Manchester in 2011, I taught at Bemidji … Continue reading About Me