Deidre Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deidre Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deidre |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Believing in Novels
Concentrating especially on Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, this essay redescribes the rise of the Gothic novel, recounting how this fictional tradition supplied its readers with opportunities to believe in others’ believing. At the same time, this essay also explores how and why the founding figures of this tradition linked their writing of fiction to the practice of hoaxing. Thinking about the novel and hoaxing and the novel as hoaxing …
Charles Lamb's Pen-Pushing
This essay explores the works and work-life of Charles Lamb: essayist, East India Company "writer," or clerk, and a literary celebrity unusually willing to supply autographic writing to his fans. Against the backdrop of narratives of media shift and ideals of workforce efficiency crystallizing during Lamb's lifetime, it analyzes the conflicting cultures of penmanship that funneled into the manuscript book-a category that, we should more often rec…
The Grounds of the Novel
On Keeping Things as Books
Music, literature, history. These things are not quite alike. But in Europe, before the advent of recording machines thatmade it possible for sounds to be recorded and played back, the three activities relied on the same technology ofpreservation. They were kept in/as books. Bookishness, in European and colonial imaginaries, was an often idealized,powerful means of keeping things from slipping away. An understanding of bookish things as a reposit…
Walter Scott's Loose Leaves
Novel studies and book history alike emphasize the significance of Walter Scott's creation of his Magnum Opus edition (1829–33): a repossession, on behalf of a newly individuated author and between the covers of a uniformly manufactured edition, of publications that had previously appeared as the works of sundry authorial eidolons. For a nineteenth-century culture of collected editions, this act of rebinding represented a foundational moment. But…
Pen Pals
A scene of reading found early in My Brilliant Friend, the opening novel in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet, seems to have supplied Chihaya, Emre, Hill, and Richards with the model for the “experiment in collective criticism” they stage in The Ferrante Letters, a book in which they mean, ambitiously, to lay down “first a procedure and then the beginning of a tradition” (3). When Ferrante has her first-person narrator, Lenù Greco, recall how s…
The Unfinished Book
This collection is founded on the premise that the physical book is far from exhausted as informational medium, art object, or conceptual resource. The Unfinished Book identifies instead the many ways in which study of books—of their compounding of matter and meaning, their global travels and historical transitions, their shaping of and by new media technologies—remains unfinished business for humanist scholarship generally and literary studies i…
Unfinished Book
Is This Real?”
One salutary effect of encountering the often bizarre materials—Leibniz's possible worlds theory, war-games played in Prussian military academies, books about the presidency of Jefferson Davis—that Catherine Gallagher has assembled in Telling It Like It Wasn't is that one obtains a better purchase on the deep weirdness that also informs normal realist novels. That weirdness is central to the realist tradition's historical fictions especially, by …
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wi…
Persuasion
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with no fortune, ancestry, or prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chan…
At Home with Jane Austen
Cultural Institutions of the Novel
The story of the development of the novel - its origin, rise, and increasing popularity as a narrative form in an ever-expanding range of geographic and cultural sites - is familiar and, according to the contributors to this volume, severely limited. In a far-reaching blend of comparative literature and transnational cultural studies, this collection shifts the study of the novel away from a consideration of what makes a particular narrative a no…
Their Fathers' Daughters
"Beating the Track of the Alphabet"
Cultural Institutions of the Novel
The story of the development of the novel - its origin, rise, and increasing popularity as a narrative form in an ever-expanding range of geographic and cultural sites - is familiar and, according to the contributors to this volume, severely limited. In a far-reaching blend of comparative literature and transnational cultural studies, this collection shifts the study of the novel away from a consideration of what makes a particular narrative a no…
On Keeping Things as Books
Music, literature, history. These things are not quite alike. But in Europe, before the advent of recording machines thatmade it possible for sounds to be recorded and played back, the three activities relied on the same technology ofpreservation. They were kept in/as books. Bookishness, in European and colonial imaginaries, was an often idealized,powerful means of keeping things from slipping away. An understanding of bookish things as a reposit…
"Beating the Track of the Alphabet"
Their Fathers' Daughters
At Home with Jane Austen
Cultural Institutions of the Novel
The story of the development of the novel - its origin, rise, and increasing popularity as a narrative form in an ever-expanding range of geographic and cultural sites - is familiar and, according to the contributors to this volume, severely limited. In a far-reaching blend of comparative literature and transnational cultural studies, this collection shifts the study of the novel away from a consideration of what makes a particular narrative a no…
Persuasion
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with no fortune, ancestry, or prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chan…
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wi…
Is This Real?”
One salutary effect of encountering the often bizarre materials—Leibniz's possible worlds theory, war-games played in Prussian military academies, books about the presidency of Jefferson Davis—that Catherine Gallagher has assembled in Telling It Like It Wasn't is that one obtains a better purchase on the deep weirdness that also informs normal realist novels. That weirdness is central to the realist tradition's historical fictions especially, by …
The Unfinished Book
This collection is founded on the premise that the physical book is far from exhausted as informational medium, art object, or conceptual resource. The Unfinished Book identifies instead the many ways in which study of books—of their compounding of matter and meaning, their global travels and historical transitions, their shaping of and by new media technologies—remains unfinished business for humanist scholarship generally and literary studies i…
Unfinished Book
Pen Pals
A scene of reading found early in My Brilliant Friend, the opening novel in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet, seems to have supplied Chihaya, Emre, Hill, and Richards with the model for the “experiment in collective criticism” they stage in The Ferrante Letters, a book in which they mean, ambitiously, to lay down “first a procedure and then the beginning of a tradition” (3). When Ferrante has her first-person narrator, Lenù Greco, recall how s…
Walter Scott's Loose Leaves
Novel studies and book history alike emphasize the significance of Walter Scott's creation of his Magnum Opus edition (1829–33): a repossession, on behalf of a newly individuated author and between the covers of a uniformly manufactured edition, of publications that had previously appeared as the works of sundry authorial eidolons. For a nineteenth-century culture of collected editions, this act of rebinding represented a foundational moment. But…
Believing in Novels
Concentrating especially on Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, this essay redescribes the rise of the Gothic novel, recounting how this fictional tradition supplied its readers with opportunities to believe in others’ believing. At the same time, this essay also explores how and why the founding figures of this tradition linked their writing of fiction to the practice of hoaxing. Thinking about the novel and hoaxing and the novel as hoaxing …
Charles Lamb's Pen-Pushing
This essay explores the works and work-life of Charles Lamb: essayist, East India Company "writer," or clerk, and a literary celebrity unusually willing to supply autographic writing to his fans. Against the backdrop of narratives of media shift and ideals of workforce efficiency crystallizing during Lamb's lifetime, it analyzes the conflicting cultures of penmanship that funneled into the manuscript book-a category that, we should more often rec…
The Grounds of the Novel
On Keeping Things as Books
Music, literature, history. These things are not quite alike. But in Europe, before the advent of recording machines thatmade it possible for sounds to be recorded and played back, the three activities relied on the same technology ofpreservation. They were kept in/as books. Bookishness, in European and colonial imaginaries, was an often idealized,powerful means of keeping things from slipping away. An understanding of bookish things as a reposit…
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