Relevant Information

Adela Pinch

Associate Professor
English Department
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Tel. (743) 647-7669
email: apinch@umich.edu

Primary Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; romanticism; eighteenth-century British literature; lyric poetry; the novel; women's studies; feminist criticism.

Secondary Interests: Literary theory; literature and philosophy; psychoanalysis; social history.

Relevant publications:

Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen (Stanford University Press, 1996; paperback edition 1999)

"Learning What Hurts: Romanticism, Pedagogy, Violence," in The Lessons of Romanticism ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert Gleckner (Duke University Press, 1998)

"Rubber Bands and Old Ladies," in In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century ed. Nicholas Dirks (University of Minnesota Press, 1998)

"Stealing Happiness: Shoplifting in Early Nineteenth-Century England" in Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Places ed. Patricia Spyer (Routledge, 1998)

"Emotion and History: A Review Article," Comparative Studies in Society and History (January 1995)

"Lost in a Book: Jane Austen's Persuasion," Studies in Romanticism (Spring 1993)

"Female Chatter: Meter, Masochism, and the Lyrical Ballads," ELH (Winter 1998)

... and other articles on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature.