Faculty
Rachel Ablow
Associate Professor
Office: 431 Clemens
Phone number: 645-0690
E-mail address: rablow@buffalo.edu
Interests:
Victorian literature and culture; history of the novel; gender and sexuality; history of the emotions.
Courses taught:
- Undergraduate: Introduction to Victorian Literature, The Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Victorian Sentimentality, The Gothic, The Brontes, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Victorian Sexualities
- Graduate: Introduction to Literary Theory, Victorian Sympathy, Victorian Violence
Work in progress:
- Violent Language and Victorian Literature. Book in progress.
Selected publications:
The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot. (August, 2007) Stanford University Press
Editor, "Victorian Emotions," Special issue of Victorian Studies (50.3, 2008). http://inscribe.iupress.org/toc/vic/50/3
Victorian Feeling and the Victorian Novel. Solicited Article. Literature Compass 4.1 (January, 2007): 298-316.
Wilkie Collins. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 37 (Fall
2003/Spring 2004): 158-80.
Labors of Love: The Sympathetic Subjects of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield. Dickens Studies Annual 31
(2002): 23-46.
David Copperfield. Encyclopedia of the Novel. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.
