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Distinguished Scholar in Residence
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Ph.D. 1959 (English), M.A.1953, Minnesota; B.A. 1952, New York University
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Areas of Research/Interest: Victorian fiction; Victorian prose; narrative and Science; narrative and epistemology; science and culture.
Select Publications:
Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World. Princeton, Princeton UP. 2006.
Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England. Chicago: U of Chicago P. 2002.
Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction. Cambridge: Harvard UP. 1988.
The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley. Chicago: U of Chicago P. 1981.
The Boundaries of Fiction. Princeton: Princeton UP. 1968.
Fellowships/Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship; Resident Fellowships at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bogliasco Foundation Liguria Center.
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