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  • Job title: Reader
  • Dept: English and Language Studies
  • Tel: 01227 782340
  • Campus: Canterbury
C Oulton

 

Reader (English) 

Appointed 2004

Carolyn Oulton BA Hons (Leeds 1994), MA (King's College, London 1995), PhD (Birkbeck College, London 1998).

Office: Es16
Ext: 2340

Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton is a Reader in Victorian Literature, with particular interests in romantic friendship, women's writing and biography. She is interested in supervising research topics in nineteenth-century literature, including: Mary Cholmondeley and New Woman fiction, Dickens and the New Humour. She is currently completing a biography of Jerome K. Jerome.

Publications include:

Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England. Palgrave Macmillan 2003

Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature. Ashgate 2007

Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley. Pickering & Chatto 2009

Ed. with SueAnn Schatz, Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered. Pickering & Chatto 2009

General Editor, New Woman Fiction 1881 – 1899. Pickering & Chatto July 2010 - May 2011.

Ed. with Adrienne E. Gavin, Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Poetry includes most recently A Child, a Death and the Making of the Fairy Tale Woman. bewrite books, 2011.

Further details on some of these projects can be found at www.marycholmondeley.com||

Aso see Dr Oulton's entry on our research page.|