| Robert Newsom | |
Position: |
Professor Emeritus School of Humanities 
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Degrees: |
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972 M.A., Cambridge University, 1972; BA, Columbia 1966 |
Research |
Victorian Literature and Culture; The Novel; Literature and Science; Theory of Fictions; Literature and Ethics |
Abstract: |
Robert Newsom holds degrees from Cambridge (B.A., M.A.) and Columbia (B.A., Ph.D.) Universities and taught at Columbia and UC Riverside before coming to UCI. He has written about the uncanny in a book on Dickens's Bleak House: (Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things, 1977) and about literary probability and make-believe in relation to probability more broadly conceived and theories of fictions (A Likely Story, 1988). His most recent book is Charles Dickens Revisited (2000) for the Twayne's English Authors Series. His current project is a book about pleasure -- on Dickens and Victorian ethical controversies in particular -- with the working title "Just Pleasure: Dickens in the Bentham World." He has been a fellow at the Rockefeller Study Center at Bellagio. |
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“Dickens and the Goods,” Contemporary Dickens, Ed. Deirdre David and Eileen Gillooly (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009), 35-52. |
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Charles Dickens Revisited (New York:Twayne Publishers, 2000) A Likely Story: Probability and Play in Fiction (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988). Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things: Bleak House and the Novel Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977; rpt. The Dickens Project, UC Sanata Cruz, 1988). |
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“Teaching Bleak House and Victorian Prose,” Approaches to Teaching Bleak House, Ed. Gordon Bigelow and John O. Jordan (New York: Modern Language Association, 2008), 113-19. |
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"Fictions of Childhood." The Cambridge Companion to Dickens. Ed. John O. Jordan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). "Athenaeum," "Bentham," "Black, John," "Carlyle, Thomas," "Chadwick, Edwin," "Church of England," "Criticism, biographical," "Dissent, religious," "Evangelicals," "Goldsmith, Oliver," "House, Humphry," "Jews," "The Life of Our Lord," "Mill, John Stuart," "The Morning Chronicle,," "Poor law and poor law reform," "Religion," "Roman Catholics," "Sabbatarianism," "Style of Dickens," "Unitarians," (signed articles), The Oxford Reader’s Companion to Charles Dickens, Ed. Paul Schlicke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). "Walks of Life: Administrative," A Companion to Victorian Literature, ed. Herbert F. Tucker, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). "Pickwick in the Utilitarian Sense," Dickens Studies Annual, 23 (1994), 49-72. "Fear of Fictions" (Dialogue with Kendall L. Walton), Narrative, 2 (1994), 140-151. "Fiction" (signed article), Collier’s Encyclopedia (New York: Macmillan Educational Co., 1991 and subsequent editions). "Villette, and Bleak House: Authorizing Women," Nineteenth-Century Literature, 46, (1991), 54-81. "Embodying Dombey: Whole and in Part," Dickens Studies Annual, 18 (1990), 197-219. "The Hero’s Shame," Dickens Studies Annual, 11 (1983), 1-24. "‘To Scatter Dust’: Fancy and Authenticity in Our Mutual Friend," Dickens Studies Annual, 8 (1980), 39-60. |
Professional
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Dickens Society of America |
Address |
University of California 369 Humanities Instructional Building Mail Code: 2650 Irvine, CA 92697 |
Phone: | (949) 824-6712 |
Fax: | (949) 824-2916 |
Email: | rnewsom@uci.edu |
| Updated | 10/12/2009 |
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