Scott, Dr Rebekah

Job Title: Plumer Research Fellow in English
College: St Anne’s
Period/Subject: Victorian/Modernist/American Literature
Email address: rebekah.scott@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

English and American literature of the Victorian and Modernist periods; transatlantic literary and philosophical relations; periodical communities; variant editions; style; vulgarity. I am currently turning my PhD into a monograph (“On Complex Terms: the discursive fields of Henry James”), and researching a new project on the aesthetics of “relationism”, 1865-1915.

Teaching Areas:

Introduction to Literary Studies (practical criticism, ethical criticism); Victorian Literature (Dickens, Eliot); Modern Literature (Woolf, Beckett); American Literature (Emerson, Faulkner); Henry James; textual scholarship; the history and theory of literary criticism (philosophical hermeneutics).

Recent Publications:

(ed.) Henry James, ‘The Lesson of the Master’ and Other Tales, vol. 24 of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (CUP: forthcoming 2016)
Charles Dickens, Bleak House: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: AMS Press, forthcoming 2014)
“C’est strictement confidentiel: buried allusions in Henry James’s Confidence”, Henry James and Europe: Heritage and Transfer (Cambridge: Open Book, 2010)
(with Adrian Poole) “Shakespeare and Dickens,” Ch. 2, Great Shakespeareans: Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, ed. Adrian Poole (London: Continuum, 2010)
“‘Pickpurses in love’: Henry James’s Confidence and Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Notes and Queries 55.4 (2008): 1-6
 “Little Language,” rev. of Angela Leighton’s On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word (OUP, 2007), Essays in Criticism 58.1 (2008): 88-96
“A fitting ‘form’: the ethical bearing of a keyword in Roderick Hudson,” The Henry James Review 28.3 (2007): 232-41

Other Information:

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