Eleanor Courtemanche
Assistant Professor of English
Education
PhD (Comparative Literature): Cornell 1998. BA: Yale 1990.
Teaching Interests
Victorian literature and culture; histories of economics, technology, and design; narrative theory; popular culture; urbanism and steampunk.
Courses
Grad Courses: "The Industrial Novel and the Rise of Cultural Studies (2006), "Sexuality and Empire in the Fin de Siècle" (2009). Selected Undergrad Courses: "Dickens and the Victorian City," "Pulp Fictions of the 1890s," "Love and Revolution in Industrial Britain"
Research Interests
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; irony and comedy.
Publications
Books
- Invisible Hand: Capitalist Plots in 19C Britain and Germany. Work in Progress, 2010.
Book Contributions
- "Invisible Hands and Visionary Narrators: Why the Free Market is Like a Novel." Metaphors of Economy. Ed. Nicole Bracker and Stefan Herbrechter. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 69-78.
Journal Articles
- "'Naked Truth is the Best Eloquence': Martineau, Dickens, and the Moral Science of Realism." ELH 73.2 (2006): 383-407.
- "Bread, Roses, and Reason: Or, Can Victorian Cultural Criticism Reform Political Economy?." Nineteenth Century Studies 16 (2002): 115-25.
- "Kafka and the Mirror of Instrumental Reason." Journal of the Kafka Society of America 19.1-2 (1995): 16-24.
Reviews
- Rev. of Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and SocietyNineteenth Century Contexts (2008):
- Rev. of Victorian Writing About Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous WorldNineteenth Century Literature 56.2 (2001): 265-268.
Works in Progress
- Other Book Projects: "Victorian Businesswomen and Sustainable Development"; "Literature and Sorcery."
