Eleanor Courtemanche

Assistant Professor

Office: 102D English
Office Phone: 244-6926
Office Hours: By appointment

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Courses

ENGLISH 247: THE BRITISH NOVEL

Eng 300: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE: LOVE AND REVOLUTION IN INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN

ENGLISH 396: HONORS SEMINAR: PULP FICTIONS OF THE 1890s

ENGLISH 434: VICTORIAN POETRY AND NON-FICTION PROSE

ENGLISH 455: MAJOR AUTHORS - DICKENS AND THE VICTORIAN CITY

ENGLISH 537: SEMINAR IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE
TOPIC: The industrial Novel and the Rise of Cultural Studies

Teaching Interests

Victorian Literature and Culture (especially Dickens and the industrial novels), The British Novel, Aestheticism, Political Theory

Specializations

Nineteenth-Century British Literature; European Fin-de-Siècle Culture; History and Theory of the Novel; Industrialism and Commodity Culture; Economic Theories of Literature

Publications

“Invisible Hands and Visionary Narrators: Why the Free Market is Like a Novel,” in Metaphors of Economy (Rodopi Press, 2005); “‘Naked Truth is the Best Eloquence’: Martineau, Dickens, and the Moral Science of Realism” (forthcoming in ELH), “Bread Roses, and Reason: Or, Can Victorian Cultural Criticism Reform Political Economy?”, review essay in Nineteenth Century Studies (2002)

Work in Progress

Book manuscript entitled "Invisible Hand: Laissez-Faire and the 19th-Century Realist Novel"