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Kathy A. Psomiades CV

Associate Professor of English
English
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
308 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications


Thinking in Time

Journal Article Victorian Literature and Culture · January 1, 2025 Full text Cite

Anthropology and classical evolutionism

Chapter · January 1, 2019 In 2019, it is no longer possible to say, as Christopher Herbert did in 1998, that Victorian anthropology has been excluded from the field of reputable inquiry in Victorian studies. Over the past 20 years, literary scholars have begun reexamining both the ... Full text Cite

Real Domesticity

Journal Article Novel · November 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Hidden Meaning: Andrew Lang, H. Rider Haggard, Sigmund Freud, and Interpretation

Journal Article Romanticism on the Net · January 1, 2014 This essay examines the role Andrew Lang played in the circulation of ideas within and among the fields of anthropology, literature, and psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lang popularized anthropologist Edward Tylor's the ... Full text Cite

Polygenist Ecosystems: Robert Knox’s The Races of Man (1850)

Journal Article Victorian Review · October 2010 Cite

The Marriage Plot in Theory

Journal Article NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction · April 2010 Cite

He Knew He Was Right: the Sensational Tyranny of the Sexual Contract and the Problem of Liberal Politics

Chapter · January 1, 2009 Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, this collection offers readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. ... Cite

'Dante Gabriel Rossetti' and 'Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant'

Chapter · 2006 A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries. ... Cite

The Novel and the Culture Concept

Chapter · October 2005 Cite

’The Lady of Shalott’ and the Critical Fortunes of Victorian Poetry

Chapter · October 26, 2000 This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike. ... Cite

Whose Body? Christina Rossetti and the Embodiment of Aestheticism

Chapter · 1999 This collection of essays introduces new scholarship on the women novelists, poets, fiction writers, essayists, lifestyle experts, and critics who played a central and long-forgotten role in the history of aestheticism, the late nineteenth ... ... Cite

Women and British Aestheticism

Book · 1999 This collection of essays introduces new scholarship on the women novelists, poets, fiction writers, essayists, lifestyle experts, and critics who played a central and long-forgotten role in the history of aestheticism, the late nineteenth ... ... Cite

Beauty’s Body: Gender Ideology and British Aestheticism

Journal Article Victorian Studies · October 1992 Cite

Poetry by Women

Journal Article Nineteenth Century Contexts · January 1, 1992 Full text Cite

“Material Witness:”Feminism and Nineteenth-Century Studies

Journal Article Nineteenth Century Contexts · March 1, 1989 Full text Cite