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Book Review Links
Review of Seraphina by Rachel Hartmann.
Review of A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley.
Review of The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters.
Review of And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass.
Review of One Plus One by Jojo Moyes.
Review of The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan.
Review of The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell.
Review of Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.
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Academic Publications and Links
Review of From Culbone Wood and Heathen and Outcast, published in the Fortnightly Review.
“Speaking Bodies and Fe/Male Discourses in Proserpine and The Cenci.” Mary Shelley: Her Circle and Her Contemporaries. Ed. Lucy Morrison and L. Adam Mekler. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2010.
“Telling Bodies: Reading, Dancing, and the Nineteenth-Century English Novel.” Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009.
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"‘Delicate and Aerial’: The Vanishing Body in Jane Eyre.” Cycnos: revue d’études anglophones 25 Numéro Spécial: Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre. Nice, France: Centre de Recherche sur les Ecritures de Langue anglaise (C.R.E.L.A.): 2008. 93-108.
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“Barbara Taylor Bradford” and “The Emma Harte Saga.” Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Ed. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2008.
Shmoop Learning Guides & Teacher Resources