Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Julia F Saville

Associate Professor of English

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Office Hours

  • MW 3:30-5:00 and other times by e-mail appointment

Education

PhD Stanford University, 1993; MA University of Cape Town, 1984; BA (Hons) University of Natal, 1972.

Teaching Interests

My past graduate courses have included "Cosmopolitan Republican Poets: 1840-1885"; "Aesthetics and Aestheticism in Victorian Britain"; and "Words and Images: Visual and Verbal Arts in Victorian Britain." Undergraduate courses most currently focus on Victorian Poetry and Politics, especially the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-century Republicanism; Poetry and the Visual Arts; Gender and Women's Studies

Selected Publications

Books

  • A Queer Chivalry: the Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2000.

Book Contributions

  • "Swinburne's Swimmers: from Insular Peace to the Anglo-Boer War ." Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate. Ed. Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista, and Patricia Pulham. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, Forthcoming, 2012.
  • "The Poetic Imaging of Michael Field." The Fin de Siècle Poem. Ed. Joseph Bristow. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. 178-206.
  • "Marriage and Gender." A Companion to Victorian Poetry . Ed. Alison Chapman, Richard Cronin, and Antony Harrison. Malden, MA & Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002. 526-542.
  • "The Romance of Boys Bathing: Poetic Precedents and Respondents to the Paintings of Henry Scott Tuke." Victorian Sexual Dissidence. Ed. Richard Dellamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 253-277.

Journal Articles

  • "Swinburne Contra Whitman: From Cosmopolitan Republican to Parochial Jingo?." ELH 78.2 (2011): 479-505.
  • "Nude Male Alfresco Swimmers: The Prehistory of a Nineteenth-Century Republican Trope." Word & Image, 25.1 (2009): 56-74.
  • "Cosmopolitan Republican Swinburne, the Immersive Poet as Public Moralist." Victorian Poetry 47.Winter (2009): 691-713.
  • "Eccentricity as Englishness in David Copperfield." Studies in English Literature 42.4 (2002): 781-797.
  • "'The Lady of Shalott': A Lacanian Romance." Word & Image, 8.1 (1992): 71-87.
  • "Of Fleshly Garments: Ascesis and Desire in the Ethic of Psychoanalysis." American Imago 49.4 (1992): 60-75.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • "Gerard Manley Hopkins." Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Works in Progress

  • "Cosmopolitan, Republican, Feminist: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Risorgimento Poetry" article under consideration.
  • *Cosmopolitan Republican Poets: Poetic Bodies and the British Body Politic, 1840-1885* a book manuscript on the contribution of British poets to trans-European and trans-Atlantic popular democratic movements.