Professor Catherine Maxwell, MA DPhil (Oxford)
Professor of Victorian Literature
Catherine Maxwell, 'Second Sight' (2008)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8527
email: c.h.maxwell@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
- Nineteenth Century Poetry and Prose
- Vision and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Professor Catherine Maxwell’s research focuses on nineteenth-century literature with a particular emphasis on the Victorian period. She has published the monographs The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (Manchester University Press, 2001), Swinburne in the British Council series Writers and Their Work (Northcote House, 2006), and, most recently, Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (Manchester University Press, 2008). She has edited a collection of Swinburne’s poetry for the Everyman’s Poetry Library Series (J. M. Dent, 1997), and co-edited with Patricia Pulham Vernon Lee’s Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales (Broadview Press, 2006) and a collection of essays Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is guest-editor of the special issue ‘Victorian Literature and Classical Myth’, Victorian Review 34 (Fall 2008) in honour of Professor Margot Louis, and guest editor (with Stefano Evangelista) of The Yearbook of English Studies 40.1 & 40.2 (2010) ‘The Arts in Victorian Literature’. She has published essays on Shelley, Browning, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Eliot, Ruskin, Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Vernon Lee, Arthur Symons, and John Addington Symonds. She is currently co-editing with Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham a collection of critical essays on Swinburne for Manchester University Press and working on a new monograph on Aestheticism.
Catherine Maxwell, 'The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne' (2001)
Publications:
Books
Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (Manchester University Press, 2008)
Swinburne, Writers and Their Work Series (Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2006)
Vernon Lee: Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales, co-edited with Patricia Pulham (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006)
Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics, co-edited with Patricia Pulham (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (Manchester University Press, 2001)
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Everyman’s Poetry (London: J. M. Dent, 1997)
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Recent articles
‘Whistlerian Impressionism and the Venetian Variations of Vernon Lee, John Addington Symonds, and Arthur Symons’, in ‘The Arts in Victorian Literature’, The Yearbook of English Studies 40.1 & 40.2 (2010), guest-eds. Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista, 217-45. (See also the co-written essay in the same volume 'The Arts in Victorian Literature: An Introduction', pp.1-7
‘Swinburne’s Friendships with Women Writers’, in A. C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work, ed. Yisrael Levin (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2010), pp. 127-48.
‘Swinburne and Thackeray’s The Newcomes’, Victorian Poetry (Swinburne Special Issue), guest eds. Terry Meyers and Rikky Rooksby, 47.4 (Winter 2009), 733-46.
‘Sappho, Mary Wakefield, and Vernon Lee’s “A Wicked Voice”’, The Modern Language Review 102.4 (2007), 960-74.
‘Theodore Watts-Dunton’s Aylwin and the Reduplications of Romanticism’, in The Yearbook of English Studies, 37.1 (2007), 1-21.