Judith Wilt

Newton College Alumnae Professor Emerita

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Judith Wilt

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall S454

Telephone: 617-552-3702

Email: judith.wilt@bc.edu

Education

  • Duquesne University, BA
  • Indiana University, Ph.D.

Department

English

Publications

Books
  • Women Writers and the Hero of Romance (Palgrave Macmillan; 2014)
  • Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward听, University of Virginia Press; 2005)
  • Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon of the Maternal Instinct,听University of Chicago Press; 1990)
  • Secret Leaves: The Novels of Walter Scott (University Of Chicago Press; 1985)
  • Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot and Lawrence,听Princeton University Press; 1980)
  • The Readable People of George Meredith,听Princeton University Press

Essays (selected)

  • "Wuthering Heights" in the听Twilight听Universe" in听Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature: 134 (winter 2018), 274-88.
  • 鈥淐annibal and Transcendence Narratives in Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, and Interview with the Vampire in The Journal of Neo-Victorian-Studies (online) 9:1 (2016), 74-97,
  • 鈥淩eading the Arts in the Bronte Fiction,鈥� in A Companion to the Brontes, ed. Diane Long Hoeveler and Deborah Denenholz Morse. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), 453-470.
  • 鈥淓rnest in Town and Jacques in the Country: Wildean Perspectives on A Tale of Two Cities in Dickens Quarterly 30:3 (June 2013), 123-30.
  • 鈥淯nending: Acts of Retrieval in Pearl, Gilead, and The Year of Magical Thinking in Literature and Belief 31:1 (June 2011), 1-21.
  • 鈥淩epositioning the Bodies: Peter Ackroyd鈥檚 The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein and other Monstrous Retellings,鈥� in 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000. (Scarecrow Press, 2011), 72-83.
  • 鈥淏谤辞苍迟别鈥檚 Shirley: Reflections on Marrying Moores,鈥� in Victorian Literature and Culture 30:1 (March 2002), 1-19.
  • 鈥淒own Here in Paradise: Toni Morrison鈥檚 Americas,鈥� in Tracy Fessenden Ed., The Puritan Origins of American Sex (Routledge, 2000), 273-292.
  • 鈥淭he Romances of Ayn Rand,鈥� in Mimi Gladstein and Chris M. Sciabarra Eds. Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State Univ. Press, 1999), 173-198.
  • 鈥淕od鈥檚 Spies: The Knower in Woolf鈥檚 The Waves,鈥� in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 92:2 (April 1993), 180-199.
  • 鈥淗e Would Come Back: The Fathers of Daughters in Daniel Deronda,鈥� in Nineteenth Century Literature 42:3 (December 1987), 313-338.
  • 鈥淭he Imperial Mouth: Imperialism, the Gothic, and Science Fiction,鈥� in The Journal of Popular Culture XIV:4 (1981), 618-28.
  • 鈥淣otes on the Collision between Comedy and Feminism,鈥� in Gender and Literary Voice: Women & Literature I, (1980), ed. Janet Todd, 173-196.
  • 鈥淐onfusion and Consciousness in Dickens鈥� Esther,鈥� in Nineteenth Century Fiction 32:3 (December 1977), 285-309.
  • 鈥淗e Could Go No Farther: A Modest Proposal about Lovelace and Clarissa,鈥� in PMLA 92 (January 1977), 19-32.

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Recent Courses

Undergraduate

Previous Courses

Undergraduate

  • EN 354 - The Novels of Dickens -听
  • EN 481 - Woolf/Hemingway -听
  • EN 584 - Seminar: Science Fiction: Past Futures -听
  • EN 599 - Ayn Rand and Her Contemporaries: A Readings and Research Course

Graduate

  • EN 827 - Master Narratives/Fielding to Lessing
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