Barbara Leckie

Datos Biográficos

ID1375882
NOMBREBarbara Leckie
NOMBRESBarbara
APELLIDOLeckie
FIRMALECKIE B
AFILIACIONESCarleton University
ORCID0000-0002-3598-3495
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Climate Witnessing in Canada’s National Science and Technology Collection

    Cathy Gray, Casey Gray et al.ARTICLEMemory studies review2025

    In a workshop on climate witnessing and material storytelling held at Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Technology – scholars, curators and artists collaboratively studied five artefacts from the museum’s collection through the lens of climate change and witnessing. Collaborators submitted interpretive captions that represent the hybrid testimonies of objects that bear witness to our changing global climate and humans who receive their s…

  • Co-Writing the Clouds

    Open AccessBarbara Leckie, Charles Warner et al.ARTICLEVictoriographies2025Referencias: 7

    This essay positions John Ruskin’s 1884 lecture ‘The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth-Century’ and its accompanying Annotations in relation to experimental methods in co-writing and an implicit challenge to prevailing understandings of the individual. Ruskin’s essay has been much discussed for anticipating the climate crisis and staging the struggle to find terms for concepts that, as Jesse Oak Taylor argues, have not yet emerged. I turn to another …

  • Climate Period. Punctuation as Infrastructure

    Open AccessBarbara LeckieARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2024

    This paper considers fossil fuel infrastructure alongside the punctuation infrastructure of writing. It focuses, in particular, on the period—as both punctuation and time frame—to ask how one demarcates the Victorian period in the context of climate change impacts that exceed it. The paper itself traverses different temporal periods and different forms of punctuation to make its point that infrastructure, while often unnoticed, shapes both ideas …

  • Desire paths

    Barbara LeckieARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2021

    This paper considers the idea of “desire paths” in relation to nineteenth-century studies, academic writing, and climate change. It argues that desire paths offer one example of how it is possible to rethink nineteenth-century studies in response to the joint challenges posed by the pandemic and the climate crisis. Desire paths, like pot-banging and protests, can interrupt established routes and model alternative approaches to academic work

  • Henry Mayhew, Urban Ecologist

    Open AccessBarbara LeckieARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2020Referencias: 9

    This article argues that Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor articulates a mid-nineteenth-century urban ecology that resonates with the “open” and “unfinished” form of midcentury London and Mayhew's London Labour itself. Mayhew's extensive elaboration of midcentury recycling, repurposing, and reusing practices is put into dialogue with the volumes’ print innovations and, in particular, print recycling practices. Drawing on the passage in w…

  • Slow Causality

    Tina Young Choi, Barbara LeckieARTICLEVictorian Studies2018Referencias: 10

    Both theorists and activists confront the challenge of representing the often untraceable causalities of climate change and, specifically, of linking action to effect over long periods. Nineteenth-century authors and scientists, faced with their own long temporal spans, devised strategies for representing the slow causalities of geological and generational processes, for which empirical evidence was often scarce. For writers like Charles Lyell, C…

  • Liberty's Dawn

    Barbara LeckieARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2016

  • Sequence and Fragment, History and Thesis

    Barbara LeckieARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2016Citada por: 4Referencias: 11

    The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.—Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach The storm irresistibly propels him [the angel of history] into

  • On Print Culture

    Open AccessBarbara LeckieARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2015Referencias: 7

    In 2001 Laurel Brake wrote an article entitled “On Print Culture: The State We're In.” Now, almost fifteen years later, where does the term “print culture” stand in relation to Victorian studies? Brake was both brave and wise in her speculations. She knew very well that terminology – and fields and theories – have lives of their own and yet that sometimes someone has to step forward and try on certain names for size, make a pitch for style and fi…

  • A Preface Is Written to the Public”

    Open AccessBarbara LeckieARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2009Referencias: 4

    In 1818 John Keats claims that prefaces are written to the public and that he does not want to participate in this mode of address. In 1837 Thomas Love Peacock notes that his novels had originally appeared without prefaces and that he would have preferred that they remain that way. But, he writes, “an old friend assures me, that to publish a book without a preface is like entering a drawing-room without making a bow” (cited in Grierson 134). In E…

  • Culture and Adultery

    Barbara LeckieBOOKCulture and Adultery1999

    Barbara Leckie mines novels, newspapers, and court and parliamentary records to explore how adultery became visible in the public sphere in the second half of the nineteenth century and how the history of the Victorian novel is revised when the culture's concern with adultery and censorship is brought into focus