JULIETTE ATKINSON
Biographic Data
| ID | 5786733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | JULIETTE ATKINSON |
| GIVEN NAMES | JULIETTE |
| FAMILY NAME | ATKINSON |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot
The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot is the most wide-ranging collection of essays on Eliot’s life and works published to date. Part I, on Eliot’s ‘Life and Networks’, explores her personal and intellectual relationships with her contemporaries. Part II, ‘Influences’, gives unprecedented attention to Eliot’s close engagement with earlier poets, dramatists, novelists, as well as with painting, sculpture, and music, and in so doing probes Eliot’s in…
Oxford Handbook of George Eliot
Jane Eyre
Silas Marner
The Mill on the Floss
The London Library and the Circulation of French Fiction in the 1840s
The enduring notion that Victorian readers avoided French novels—predominantly on the ground of immorality—is challenged by the archives of the London Library, founded in 1841. This article argues that the London Library found the highbrow, exclusive image it endeavored to project constantly shaken by the demands of its subscribers, who made contemporary, and often risqué, French fiction a central part of their leisure reading. These demands help…
Victorian Biography Reconsidered
‘Forgotten Benefactors’
The final chapter considers the crowning achievement of Victorian biography: the Dictionary of National Biography. The chapter stresses the divergent biographical interests of the DNB's editors, Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, which help to account for the way in which the dictionary unites the two different strands of Victorian biography: the celebration of ‘great lives’ and the homage paid to ‘hidden’ ones. He was also motivated by a desire to p…
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Victorian Biography Reconsidered
‘Forgotten Benefactors’
The final chapter considers the crowning achievement of Victorian biography: the Dictionary of National Biography. The chapter stresses the divergent biographical interests of the DNB's editors, Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, which help to account for the way in which the dictionary unites the two different strands of Victorian biography: the celebration of ‘great lives’ and the homage paid to ‘hidden’ ones. He was also motivated by a desire to p…
The London Library and the Circulation of French Fiction in the 1840s
The enduring notion that Victorian readers avoided French novels—predominantly on the ground of immorality—is challenged by the archives of the London Library, founded in 1841. This article argues that the London Library found the highbrow, exclusive image it endeavored to project constantly shaken by the demands of its subscribers, who made contemporary, and often risqué, French fiction a central part of their leisure reading. These demands help…
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Jane Eyre
The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot
The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot is the most wide-ranging collection of essays on Eliot’s life and works published to date. Part I, on Eliot’s ‘Life and Networks’, explores her personal and intellectual relationships with her contemporaries. Part II, ‘Influences’, gives unprecedented attention to Eliot’s close engagement with earlier poets, dramatists, novelists, as well as with painting, sculpture, and music, and in so doing probes Eliot’s in…
Oxford Handbook of George Eliot
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