Program

ACLS Grants-In-Aid, 1985

Project

Narrative and ideology in Daniel Deronda

Abstract

Program

ACLS Grants-In-Aid, 1991

Project

Unstable icons: Victorian gender ideology and narrative, 1850-1883

Abstract

Program

ACLS Fellowship Program, 2007

Project

Fictions of Belonging: Penny Dreadfuls and the Victorian Working Class Imagination, 1840-1870

Department

English

Abstract

This project analyzes Victorian penny dreadfuls—cheap, sensational fiction designed for Victorian working class readers—as both aesthetically and ideologically significant. These works protest the marginalization of the working-class and depict massive redistributions of power in their implausible plots, organizing the utopian aspirations of popular politics into compelling and accessible fantasies. In spite of their wide circulation, they have received almost no scholarly attention.