Professor Emerita

Research interests:

 

Victorian literature; adolescent literature

 

Selected publications:

 

Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction. Alberta: University of Alberta Press, 2000.


The Spasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell. Lanham and London: University Press of America, 1992.


The Wilson Sisters: A Biographical Study of Upper Middle-Class Victorian Life. Athens and London: Ohio University Press, 1984.


Numerous articles on Victorian literature and children’s literature.