Roop Distinguished Professor of English
Office: Keezell
418
Phone: 540-568-3751
Email: federiar@jmu.edu
Office Hours:
Courses: Fall 2013
Eng 329: Victorian Literature: Victorian Subjectivities
Specialization: Victorian literature
Education:
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1989
M.A., Case Western Reserve University, 1986
B.A., Ohio University, Honors Tutorial College, 1982
Trinity College, Carmarthen, Wales, 1980-81
Interests: Victorian literature, gender studies, Scottish literature
Publications:
Books
Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years, ed. (University
of Missouri Press, 2009).
Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture (University Press
of Virginia, 2000).
Masculine Identity in Hardy and Gissing (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991).
Selected articles since 1994
"The Violent Deaths of Oliver Twist." PLL: Papers on Language and
Literature 47.4 (Fall 2011): 363-385.
“Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved: Love’s Descent.” ELT: English Literature
in Transition 50.3 (2007): 269-90.
“Making Do: George Orwell’s Coming Up for Air.” Studies in the Novel 37.1 (2005): 50-63.
“Irony, Ethics, and Self-Fashioning in George Moore’s Confessions of a Young
Man.” Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and
Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930. Ed. Marysa Demoor. London: Palgrave, 2004. 96-113.
“David Copperfield and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Victorian Studies 46.1 (2003): 69-95.
“Being Torn: The Mill on the Floss.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 12 (2001):
359-79.
“Dickens and Disgust.” Dickens Studies Annual 29 (2000): 145-62.
“Marie Corelli and the New Woman.” Victorian Women Writers and The Woman
Question. Ed. Nicola Diane Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1999.
“Marie Corelli: Aestheticism in Suburbia.” Women and British Aestheticism, 1860-
1934. Eds. Talia Schaffer and Kathy Alexis Psomiades. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 2000.
“Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh: Rewriting the Family.” ELT: English Literature
in Transition 38.4 (1995): 466-82.
“The Other Case: Gender and Narration in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor.” PLL:
Papers on Language and Literature 30.4 (1994): 323-45. Reprinted in The
Brontës. Ed. Patricia Ingham. London: Longman, 2002; Nineteenth-
Century Literature Criticism (2002); The Brontës: Critical Assessments. Ed.
Eleanor McNees. Sussex: Helm, 1995.
“Books for Boys: Violence and Representation in Kidnapped and Catriona.”
Victorians Institute Journal 22 (1994): 115-33.
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