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Dr Matthew Rubery, BA (Texas) PhD (Harvard)
Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Research interests:

Matthew Rubery works on nineteenth-century literature, print culture, and reading practices. He is the author of The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford 2009), which won the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) First Book Award 2010. His work on print culture has appeared in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. He has also contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture and Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.  

He is currently at work on two projects investigating how writers have responded to new media. The first of these projects is an anthology, Victorian Sensation Journalism, that gathers together the nineteenth century's most dramatic news stories, ranging from Henry Mayhew's pioneering interviews with impoverished Londoners in the 1850s to Anglo-Indian woman journalist Olive Malvery’s undercover reporting in the 1900s. The second project involves editing a collection of essays, Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (Routledge, 2011), and completing a monograph entitled The Untold Story of the Talking Book, a history of recorded literature since the invention of the phonograph in 1877.

His short video lectures for Deepbook’s electronic edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations are available here.

Publications:

 

Books:

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies, ed. Matthew Rubery (Routledge, 2011)

 

Journal Articles:

‘Victorian Print Culture, Journalism, and The Novel’, Literature Compass 7.4 (March 2010): 290-300

Roundtable on Géraldine Muhlmann, A Political History of Journalism for Media History 16.4 (2010): 423-27.

‘Victorian Literature Out Loud: Digital Audio Resources for the Classroom’, Journal of Victorian Culture 14.1 (April 2009): 134-40.

‘Henry James, in Short’, the Henry James Review 29.3 (Fall 2008): 222-228.

‘Bleak House in Real Time’, English Language Notes 46.1 (Spring/Summer 2008): 113-18.

‘Play It Again, Sam Weller: New Digital Audiobooks and Old Ways of Reading’, Journal of Victorian Culture 13.1 (Spring 2008): 58-79.

‘Wishing to Be Interviewed in Henry James’s The Reverberator’, Henry James Review 28.1 (February 2007): 57-72.

‘Unspoken Intimacy in Henry James’s “The Papers”’, Nineteenth-Century Literature 61.3 (December 2006): 343-367.

‘Joseph Conrad’s “Wild Story of a Journalist”’, ELH 71.3 (Fall 2004): 751-774.

 

Book Chapters:

‘Journalism’, in The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Cambridge University Press, 2010): 177-94.

‘A Transatlantic Sensation: Stanley’s Search for Livingstone and the Anglo-American Press’, in U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920 (Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Series), ed. Christine Bold (Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming June 2011).

‘Journalism’, in Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel and Novel Theory, ed. Peter Logan (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming December 2010).

‘Journalist: Rise of Profession’, ‘Interviews’, ‘Institute of Journalists’, ‘Court Reports and Reporting’, in Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (British Library Publishing and Academia Press, 2008).

‘Science and Technology’, in Conrad in Context, ed. Allan H. Simmons (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009): 237-44.