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Solveig C. Robinson

Associate Professor of English


Director, Publishing & Printing Arts (PPA) Program

 

Office: Blomquist 9
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 10:30-12:30, and by appt.
E-mail: solveig.robinson@plu.edu
Phone: 253-535-7241
Fax: 253-536-5132
 

COURSES (2007-2008)

Fall 2007
ENGL 311/COMA 321: The Book in Society
ENGL 362: Romantic & Victorian Literature
WRIT 101: Endurance
Spring 2007

ENGL 312/COMA 322: Publishing Procedures
INTC 112/190: Liberty & Power

EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1994
M.A. University of Chicago, 1987
B.A. Gustavus Adolphus College, 1983

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Husband: Peter Grosvenor, Dept. of Political Science
Identical twin brothers: John and Charles

PUBLICATIONS

A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Broadview Press, 2003)

Selected Articles

'Sir, It is an Outrage': George Bentley, Robert Black,
and the Condition of the Mid-List Author in Victorian Britain. Book History 10 (2007)

'At All Times Conspicuous as Art': Henry James, Margaret Oliphant, and Resistance to Decadence. Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement, ed. David Garrett Izzo and Daniel T. O'Hara (McFarland, 2006)

Expanding a 'Limited Orbit': Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and the Development of a Critical Voice. Victorian Periodicals Review 38.2 (2005)

Entries on Eliza Cook and Lady Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton. New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford UP, 2004)

Of 'Haymakers' and 'City Artisans': The Chartist Poetics of Eliza Cook’s Songs of Labor. Victorian Poetry 39.2 (2001)

'Amazed at Our Success': The Langham Place Editors and the Emergence of a Feminist Critical Tradition. Victorian Periodicals Review 29.2 (1996)

Editing Belgravia: M.E. Braddon’s Defense of 'Light Literature.' Victorian Periodicals Review 28.2 (1995)

Plus reviews in Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Journal of British Studies


RESEARCH INTERESTS
Publishing Studies (History of the Book, Editing)
Victorian Literature
History of Criticism

Professional Service and Affiliations
 Book Review Editor for Victorian Periodicals Review
Managing Editor for Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Member:
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)
Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ)
Council of Science Editors (CSE)
 
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