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Research interests

  • (long) nineteenth-century English literature and culture, with particular focus on the novel, gender, popularity, Empire, realism and Anglo-German connections
  • travel writing, often with a China/ Hong Kong focus, and travel writing theory
  • literary theory and poetic theory (genre, realism, geopoetics)

Publications

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: an Introduction

Re-examining Nineteenth-Century Easts: Gendered Narratives of Encounter

The Good, the Bad, and the Popular: The Question of a Popular Canon and Other Methodological Contemplations

“A broader, truer glimpse of existence”: Ella Sykes’s post-romantic, affective realism in Through Persia on a Side-Saddle (1898)

Island Logic, Continent Logic: The Travelogues and Fictions of the First Opium War

Opium's Imperial Intimacies

'Please, sir, I want some more': Food in the Victorian Bildungsroman

Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Constantinople 1869-70: The Harem

Marginalisation within Marginalisation: The case of Popular Victorian Women Authors

Being “Off Course” in The Small House at Allington: Expectations, Realities and What Trollope Wants the Reader to Know About Love, the Novel and Modern Life

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