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Cannon Schmitt

Associate Professor

Editor, Criticism

Office:10409.3 5057 Woodward
Hours: by appointment
Phone: (313) 577-3055
E-mail: cschmitt@wayne.edu

Area of specialization:

Victorian literature and culture; the novel and narrative theory; empire; science studies

 

 

Education

Ph.D. English Literature, Indiana University, 1994
B.A. English Literature, Oberlin College, 1985

Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

"Victorian Beetlemania." In Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Deborah Deneholz Morse and Martin Danahay. London: Ashgate, forthcoming.

"Empire Recollected: Charles Kingsley, At Last." In Connecting Continents: Britain and Latin America, 1780-1900. Ed. Robert Aguirre and Ross Forman. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming.

"Darwin's Savage Mnemonics."  Representations 88 (Fall 2004): 55-80.

"'The Sun and Moon Were Made to Give Them Light': Empire in the Victorian Novel."  In The Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel.  Ed. Francis O'Gorman.  London: Basil Blackwell, 2004. 4-24.

"Suffering Through the Gothic: Teaching Radcliffe." In Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions. Ed. Tamar Heller and Diane Long Hoeveler. New York: MLA Publications, 2003. 115-21

"Victorian Investments."  Special Issue. Guest Co-editor, with Nancy Henry and Anjali Arondekar.  Victorian Studies 45.1 (Autumn 2002).

"Narrating National Addictions: De Quincey, Opium, and Tea." Reprint of the second chapter of Alien Nation. In High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction. Ed. Janet Brodie and Marc Redfield. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: U of California P, 2002. 63-85.

Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality.  New Cultural Studies Series.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997.

Work In Progress:

Savage Mnemonics: South America, Victorian Science, and the Reinvention of the Human

Savage Love: Sex and Savagery in Modern Science (edited collection)

 
 


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