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John Reed Distinguished Professor Office: 9307.3, 5057 Woodward Hours: By Appointment Phone: (313) 577-3304 E-mail: john.reed@wayne.edu

Area of Specialization:
Fiction of Dickens and Thackeray; poetry of Tennyson; on-going interest in H.G. Wells; current large project - the military in 19th-century British literature and culture. Also interested in description in literature. Current research project is a book-length study of the military in nineteenth-century British literature and culture.

Education

B.A.s, Music and English, University of Minnesota at Duluth, 1959
Ph.D., English, University of Rochester, New York, 1963

Representative Publications

"Dickens on Jacob's Island and the Functions of Literary Description," NARRATIVE, 1999.

Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and Forgiveness, 1995.

Life Sentences (poetry) 1996.

Great Lake (poetry) 1995.

Victorian Will, 1989.

Publications Available Through Amazon.com

Decadent Style

Dickens and Thackeray : Punishment and Forgiveness

Victorian Conventions

The Natural History of H. G. Wells

Victorian Will

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