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Dr Tess Cosslett

Reader in Victorian Studies and Women's Writing

Degree: DPhil

Research Interests

Tess Cosslett has published books on Victorian science and literature; women's friendship in Victorian fiction; Victorian women poets; representations of childbirth in twentieth-century women's writing; women's autobiography; and nineteenth-century animal stories for children.

One of her current research interests is children's literature. She has published articles in this area on talking animals, time-slip narratives, and transformations of pastoral and gothic. She is also interested in ideas of place in literature, and in representations of Continental travel in Victorian and Modernist Fiction. She has a subsidiary interest in Finland-Swedish literature, including Tove Jansson's work, and the chronotope of the summer cottage. She is going to be involved in a major project to publish all the works of Margaret Oliphant: she will be editing the historical guides to Florence and Venice, in a volume on Historical Writings.

Recent and current postgraduate supervision includes: contemporary women's poetry; Charles Kingsley; humour in contemporary women's fiction; matrilineal narratives; Charlotte Brönte; hybridity in nineteenth-century science and literature; children's literature and imperialism; Hardy and the carnivalesque; the representationof single women; women's grief memoirs;alternative worlds in children's fiction. She would be happy to supervise work on women novelists or poets; women's autobiography; representations of motherhood; children's literature; Bakhtinian approaches; animals in literature.

Current postgraduate students:

Suzanne Brierley, 'Ellen Glasgow and the Political Unconscious', MPhil/PhD part time, fifthyear.

Jacky Wilkinson, 'Hardy and the Carnivalesque', MPhil/PhD, thirdyear, submitted.

Amy Prodromou, 'Women's Grief Memoirs', MPhil/PhD,third year.

Chloe Buckley, 'Power in the Alternative Worlds of Children's Fantasy Literature', MA by research, part time,second year.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I will be retiring from the end of September 2010, so will not be taking on any more doctoral students

Retirement

I am retiring from the end of September 2010

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

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Other Interests and Hobbies

Mountain walking; gardening; painting; writing poetry and short stories; theatre and opera.

Associated Keywords: Animals, Bakhtin, Brontes, Children's literature, Class and gender relations, Contemporary literary studies, Contemporary women's writing, Feminist literary and cultural theory, Gender, Green literature, Life-writing, Literature, Literature and gender, Literature and science, Nineteenth-century culture, Nineteenth-century literature, Poetry, Victorian culture, Victorian literature, Women's autobiography, Women's writing

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