Karen Bourrier

Biographic Data

ID6535923
NAMEKaren Bourrier
GIVEN NAMESKaren
FAMILY NAMEBourrier
SIGNATUREBOURRIER K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Calgary
ORCID0000-0002-7984-864X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Victorians, Digitized

    Karen BourrierARTICLENOVEL A Forum on Fiction2025

    Paul Fyfe's monograph Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities joins a body of work in the Victorian digital humanities that includes Sarah Allison's Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing and Troy Bassett's The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel. Instead of using digital humanities methods to facilitate new readings of Victorian literature and book history, however, Fyfe offers readers a…

  • Podcasting Feminism: The Multimodality of Women’s Writing and Literary-Historical Studies

    Open AccessChristie Hurrell, Kathryn Holland et al.ARTICLEKULA knowledge creation…2025

    Created by a team of literary scholars, students, and a librarian, Orlando: A Podcast on Womenʼs Writing comprises twelve informal interviews that synthesize and share scholarly work on womenʼs writing from medieval times to the present, with capacious definitions of “women” and “writing.” The podcast is closely connected to Orlando: Womenʼs Writing in the British Isles, from the Beginnings to the Present (Cambridge UP, 2006–), a textbase of orig…

  • The ‘wilds of Brompton’: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Women Writers’ Early Careers in the Sociable London Suburbs

    Open AccessKaren Bourrier, R D Jacobson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2024

    In this paper, we geocode the residences of nineteenth-century Brompton residents to the level of the building in order to argue that literary sociability and propinquity – leading to face-to-face interaction with writers, editors, artists, actors, and publishers – may have played a more important role in the formation of women’s literary careers than scholars have yet recognized. Taking the popular novelist and poet Dinah Craik as our case study…

  • The Lives of Mistresses and Maids: Editing Victorian Correspondence with Genealogy, Prosopography, and the TEI

    Open AccessKailey Fukushima, Karen Bourrier et al.ARTICLEDigital humanities quarterly2022

    In this paper, we explore the material conditions of scholarship and digital editorial work that make uncovering nineteenth-century women’s lives possible in the twenty-first century. Taking our project, Digital Dinah Craik, a TEI-edition of the letters of the bestselling Victorian author, as a case study, we discuss research methods that combine digital scholarly editing with genealogy and prosopography. We argue that by combining research tools…

  • Mapping Victorian Homes and Haunts: A Methodological Introduction

    Open AccessKaren Bourrier, Hannah L Kakara Anderson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2021

  • The Social Lives of Books: Reading Victorian Literature on Goodreads

    Open AccessKaren BourrierARTICLEJournal of Cultural Analytics2020

    This paper compares social media traces from Goodreads to data from the MLA International Bibliography and the Open Syllabus Project, in order to better understand the preferences of readers of Victorian literature from different but overlapping communities. We find that the majority of works of Victorian literature that are indicated as being read on Goodreads occur about as often as they are taught or written about in the academy, although book…

  • Data

    Open AccessKaren BourrierARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2018References: 1

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  • Victorian Memes

    Bourrier Bourrier, Karen BourrierARTICLEVictorian Studies2016

    From November 2014 to May 2015, I collected references to four Victorian authors—Dinah Craik, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope—on the social media site Twitter. I argue that the realist novel, as exemplified by these writers’ works, offers a particularly fertile ground for the development of memes that resonate with current cultural values, including the importance of love, the best ways to deal with failure and success, and th…

  • Orthopaedic Disability and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    Karen BourrierARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2014References: 1

    AcknowledgementThanks to Christine Ferguson, Tara MacDonald, two anonymous peer reviewers and audiences at NAVSA at Yale, Harvard, and King's College London for their comments on earlier versions of this paper

  • Narrating Insanity in the Letters of Thomas Mulock and Dinah Mulock Craik

    Open AccessKaren BourrierARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2010References: 1

    Scholars have had a difficult time assessing the significance of Dinah Mulock Craik (1824–1887), best remembered as the author of John Halifax, Gentleman (1856). The critical verdict on her life and letters has swung toward extremes. Some critics have seen her, to quote Henry James, as “kindly, somewhat dull, pious, and very sentimental” (172); her novels embody the Victorian values of self-help, moral earnestness, and hard work, and it is assume…