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Mary Jean Corbett

Biography

Mary Jean Corbett teaches nineteenth-century British literature and culture as well as additional graduate and undergraduate courses.

Education

• Ph.D. English, Stanford University (1989)
• A.B. English, Smith College (1984)

Research Interests

• Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British literature and culture
• women's writing
• gender and sexuality studies

Courses Taught

• ENG 124 Introduction to Fiction
• ENG 232 Women Writers
• ENG 273 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature
• ENG 298 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
• ENG 339 British Romanticism
• ENG 343 Victorian Literature

Selected Publications

Books

• Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts. Cornell UP, 2020.
• Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf. Cornell UP, 2008. Paperback, 2010.
• Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold. Cambridge UP, 2000. Paperback, 2008.
• Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women’s Autobiographies. Oxford UP, 1992.

Articles/Chapters

• "Real Figures." Afterword. Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, edited by Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie, Ohio State UP, 2018, pp. 229-37.
• 'The Great War and Patriotism: Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, and ‘Intolerable Unanimity.'" Virginia Woolf Miscellany, no. 91, Spring 2017, pp. 20-22.
• "Behind the Times? Virginia Woolf and 'the Third Generation.'" Twentieth-Century Literature 60 (2014): 27-58.
• "No Second Friend? Perpetual Maidenhood and Second Marriage in In Memoriam." ELH 81 (2014): 299-323.
• "Cousin Marriage, Then and Now."  Invited essay for Extending Families.  Spec. issue of Victorian Review 39:2 (2013): 74-78.
• "Two Identities: Gender, Ethnicity, and Phineas Finn." The Politics of Gender in Trollope: New Readings for the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Regenia Gagnier, Deborah Denenholz Morse, and Margaret Markwick. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2009. 117-29.
• "Orphan Stories and Maternal Legacies in Charlotte Brontë." Other Mothers. Ed. Ellen Rosenman and Claudia Klaver. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. 227-47.
• "‘The Crossing o’ Breeds’ in The Mill on the Floss." Victorian Animal Dreams. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin Danahay. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007. 121-43.
• "Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family."Victorian Literature and Culture 35 (2007): 1-19.
• "Postcolonial Theory and the Case of Castle Rackrent." Rpt. In Two Irish National Tales: Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth, and The Wild Irish Girl, Sydney Owenson. New Riverside Editions. Ed. James M. Smith. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005. 391-407.
• "Performing Identities: Actresses and Authobiography." The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Drama. Ed. J. Kerry Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 109-126.
• "Between History and Fiction: Plotting Rebellion in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui." Nineteenth-Century Literature 57 (December 2002): 297-322.
• "Reading Mary Shelley’s Journals: Romantic Subjectivity and Feminist Criticism." InThe Other Mary Shelley. Ed. Anne K. Mellor et. al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 73-88.

Web Publications

• "Virginia Woolf." The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women Writers, edited by Lesa Scholl, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, .
• "Generational Critique and Feminist Politics in The Heavenly Twins and The Voyage Out." Women’s Writing, special issue on "Generations," edited by Doreen Thierauf and Lauren Pinkerton, vol. 26, no. 2, 2019, pp, 214-28. DOI:10.1080/09699082. 2019.1534674
•  Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 11:3 (Winter 2015). 
• "New Woman Fiction." Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. 4 vols. Ed. Dino Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 
• "On Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke (1886)." Invited essay for BRANCH (Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History), Ed. Dino Felluga.

Grants and Awards

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2014-2015.
• Distinguished Scholar Award, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, 2014-2015.