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Romantic and Victorian literature

Romantic popular culture, female literary history, gothic fiction, popular fiction, female writers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Publications:

Book
Knowles, Claire. Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860: The Legacy of Charlotte Smith. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010.

Articles
Knowles, Claire. “Ann Yearsley, biography and  ‘The powers of sensibility untaught!’” Women’s Writing. Forthcoming, 2010

Knowles, Claire. “Poetry, Fame and Scandal: The Cases of Byron and Landon.” Literature Compass 4:4 (2007): 1109-1121.

Knowles, Claire. “Female Poetic Tradition in the Regency Period: Susan Evance and the Evolution of Sentimentality.” Keats-Shelley Journal 55 (2006): 199-225.

Book Chapter
Knowles, Claire. “Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility.” Postfeminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture. Eds. Benjamin A Brabon and Stéphanie Genz. Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2007. 140-153.

Essays in Online Edition
Knowles, Claire. “Charlotte Dixon.” Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2008.
http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/iwrp/

Knowles, Claire. “Catherine Luby.” Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexander Street Press, 2008.
http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/iwrp/

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