Elisabeth Jay

Biographic Data

ID1017759
NAMEElisabeth Jay
GIVEN NAMESElisabeth
FAMILY NAMEJay
SIGNATUREJAY E
AFFILIATIONSOxford Brookes University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1850s

    Open AccessSupritha Rajan, Alisha R Walters et al.BOOKNineteenth-Century Literature in…2025

    Establishing a fresh critical paradigm, this volume shows how the 1850s was significantly defined by forms of increasing intellectual, class, and geographical mobility. It saw the flourishing of major Victorian writers, including George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, Matthew Arnold, Charles Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Outputs by these writers were read alongside a v…

  • Jewish feeling: Difference and affect in nineteenth-century Jewish women’s writing

    Elisabeth JayARTICLEJournal of Modern Jewish Studies2017

    Jewish feeling: difference and affect in nineteenth-century Jewish women’s writing." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 16(2), pp. 351–352

  • British Writers and Paris 1830–1875

    Elisabeth JayBOOKBritish Writers and Paris2016

    Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, this book examines British writers’ engagement with mid-nineteenth-century Paris. This historically grounded account of the ways in which Paris touched the careers and work of both major and minor Victorian writers considers both their actual experiences of an urban environment—distinctively different from anything Britain offered—and the extent to which this became absorbed and expressed within the Vi…

  • British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875

    Elisabeth JayBOOKBritish Writers and Paris2016

    This work tells the story of the way in which the turbulent, hedonistic world of mid-19th-century Paris touched the careers and work of a host of Victorian writers, major and minor.

  • Thackeray’s debt to the print world of Paris

    Elisabeth JayCHAPTERBritish Writers and Paris2016

    This chapter contends, against a long tradition in Thackeray studies, that Thackeray’s time spent studying art and practising journalism in Paris strongly influenced the way in which he saw and represented the world. Though he was slower to establish a distinctive voice than his youthful rival in Paris, G. W. M. Reynolds, like him he learned how to use his narrative to manipulate the expectations of multiple audiences. Thackeray’s combing of Fren…

  • Constance Maynard's Life-Writing Considered as Spiritual Autobiography

    Elisabeth JayARTICLEWomen s History Review2016

    Viewing Constance Maynard's unwieldy life-writings within the tradition of spiritual autobiography reveals many of the irresolvable tensions with which she wrestled. Although she chose to see her public role as spearheading a crusade against modern rationalism, her inner life was as much concerned with the struggle to repudiate her parents’ ascetic Evangelical piety in favour of a more emotionally intense spirituality. Her conviction of conversio…

  • The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature

    Open AccessDavid Finkelstein, L Price et al.BOOKThe Cambridge history of…2012

    This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…

  • Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market by Linda H. Peterson

    Open AccessElisabeth JayARTICLEGender & History2010

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology

    Andrew Hass, David Jasper et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of English…2009

    The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is a defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume first offers a chronological account of key moments in the formation of the tradition; goes on to demonstrate literary ways of reading the Bible, theological ways of reading literature, and literary…

  • Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology

    Andrew Hass, Andrew W Hass et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of English…2009

  • Critics of capitalism: Victorian reactions to "political economy"

    Elisabeth Jay, Richard JayBOOKCritics of Capitalism1986

  • Critics of Capitalism: Victorian Reactions to 'Political Economy'

    Open AccessRichard M Jay, Elisabeth Jay et al.BOOKCritics of Capitalism1986

    By the start of the Victorian period the school of British economists acknowledging Adam Smith as its master was in the ascendancy. 'Political Economy', a catch-all title which ignored the diversity of viewpoints to be found amongst the discipline's leading proponents, became associated in the popular mind with moral and political forces held to be uniquely conducive to the progress of an increasingly industrialised and competitive society. 'Poli…