Katherine Newey

Biographic Data

ID1709481
NAMEKatherine Newey
GIVEN NAMESKatherine
FAMILY NAMENewey
SIGNATURENEWEY K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Exeter
ORCID0000-0001-9758-5671
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition

    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…

  • Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century

    Joanne Shattock, Joanne Wilkes et al.BOOKLiterary and Cultural Criticism…2021

  • ‘Shelley's “Wandering Jew”’

    Joanne Shattock, Joanne Wilkes et al.CHAPTERLiterary and Cultural Criticism…2021

    Percy Bysshe Shelley was sceptical, and with more sincerity, with a conviction, perhaps, that disbelief of Christianity was a duty; he also was eccentric, but he was gentle-hearted, self-denying, a lover of his species, a yearner after its improvement. He too wrote poetry, some of it embodying his anti-Christian views,—a paradise, in which the Tree of Life had been cut down, but certainly containing less to pollute the imagination, poison the spr…

  • Victorian Theatre

    Katherine NeweyCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Victorian…2015

    The theatre was a significant institution of public life in the nineteenth century, and an important source of aesthetic innovation and entrepreneurial energy in Victorian culture. The theatre offers an important perspective on Victorian affect and attitudes to the real. However, drama, theatre, and performance have been overlooked in subsequent histories of Victorian public life and culture, in part because of the theatre’s uncomfortable positio…

  • Climbing Boys and Factory Girls

    Katherine NeweyARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2000Cited by: 2References: 2

    Journal Article Climbing Boys and Factory Girls: Popular Melodramas of Working Life Get access Katherine Newey Katherine Newey 1Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 28–44, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2000.5.1.28 Published: 01 January 2000

  • Sightlines

    Katherine NeweyARTICLETheatre Journal1999

    Reviewed by: Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre Katherine Newey Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre. By Helen Gilbert. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998; pp. x + 274. $49.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. Sightlines is an important contribution both to theatre studies and post-colonial criticism. Indeed, it is Helen Gilbert’s placin…

  • Attic Windows and Street Scenes

    Open AccessKatherine NeweyARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture1997Cited by: 1References: 1

    In 1843, during a decade marked by political and cultural recognition of the industrialization and urbanization of Britain, a number of plays concerned with city life and the representation of the city were produced on the popular stage in London. These plays were variously called The Bohemians of Paris, The Scamps of London, The Mysteries of Crime, The Mysteries of London or The Mysteries of Paris . Arguably the first and most influential play a…