Professor Isobel Armstrong

Contact details

Name:

Professor Isobel Armstrong

Qualifications:

FBA. BA, PhD Leicester

Position/Fellowship type:

Senior Research Fellow

Institute:

Institute of English Studies

Location:

Birkbeck

Phone:

01392 264361

Email address:

isobel.armstrong@logic-net.co.uk

Website:

http://isobelarmstrong.tripod.com/

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

English Literature

Summary of research interests and expertise:

To change the way nineteenth-century poetry is read by restoring women's poetry to its prominent place and by attending to the importance of print culture, making the periodical a structural part of research; to rethink the category of the aesthetic in response to a long period in which the hermeneutics of suspicion set aside a range of aesthetic and philosophical questions; glass, technology, and text in the nineteenth century, seeks an alternative to the methods of contemporary cultural theory, speculating on a method for thinking of the way a material enters the world of the text; debates on the Crystal Palace drawn from periodicals and newspapers; poems on glass

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2012	'Spaces of the Nineteenth Century' Articles Kate Flint, ed. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. pp. 757-597.
01-Jan-2012	'The Pre-Raphaelites and Literature' Articles Elizabeth Prettejohn, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. pp. 15-31
01-Jan-2012	'Sally Ledger' Research aids Dictionary of National Biography. May 2012.
01-Jan-2011	'Meter and Meaning' Chapters Jason David Paul, ed. Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Nineteenth Century. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2011. pp. 26-52
01-Jan-2010	Poems in Infinite Difference, Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, ed. Carrie Etter, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010, 17-25.
01-Jan-2010	‘Harriet Martineau and India: On not writing accusatory history’ Chapters Chapter in: Harriet Martineau. Authorship, Society, and Empire, ed. Ella Dzelzainis, Cora Kaplan, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010, 214-30.
01-Jan-2009	‘Transatlantic Scholarship in Victorian Literature and Culture’ (Journal article) 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 5, 2009, 1-9.
01-Jan-2009	Review of Herbert Tucker 'Epic' Victorian Studies, 51, 2 (2009), 387-90.
01-Jan-2009	‘Introduction’, The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter ‘Introduction’, The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter. Haydn’s Tuneful Voice, ed. Caroline Grigson, Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 56, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009, 1-11.
01-Jan-2008	Victorian Glassworlds. Glass Culture and the Imagination OUP, 2008. James Russell Lowell Prize, awarded by the Modern Language Association, December, 2009, for the best Book published during 2008
01-Jan-2003	'"Casa Guidi Windows": Spectacle and Politics in 1851' Chapters '"Casa Guidi Windows": Spectacle and Politics in 1851' in Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-century British Women Artists in Italy, ed. by Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler ( Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003)
01-Jan-2000	The Radical Aesthetic Blackwell Publishers, Oxford
01-Jan-2000	Technology and Text: Glass Consciousness and Nineteenth-Century Culture?, Culture, Landscape, and the Environment ed. Kate Flint, Howard Morphy, Oxford University Press

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2012	‘Anna Letitia Barbauld and Joanna Baillie: A Unitarian Poetics?’ Anna Letitia Barbauld in Twenty Hundred and Twelve. Chawton House Library. May 2012.
01-Jan-2012	‘Browning’s Generic Plenitudes’ Re-assessing the Dramatic Monologue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Royal Holloway University of London, June 2012.
01-Jan-2012	‘The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Democratic Imagination’ University of Sussex Graduate Lecture. February, 2012.
01-Jan-2012	‘George Eliot and Spinoza’ Reading and Reception Studies Seminar. Institute of English Studies, University of London. May, 2012.
01-Jan-2011	‘Many-coloured Glass, Aerial Images and the Work of the Lens: Romantic Poetry and Optical Culture’ Warton Lecture on English Poetry. British Academy. May, 2011.
01-Jan-2011	‘The Ninteenth-Century Novel and the Democratic Imagination’ Kathleen Banks Lecture. November 2011.
01-Jan-2011	‘The traffic in representation: the case of Kipling’s Kim’ Commodities and Migration project conference. New York University. December, 2011.
01-Jan-2011	‘Reflections on Glass’ What is to become of the Crystal Palace? The Crystal Palace after 1851. University of York. June, 2011.
01-Jan-2011	‘Abjection and the Nineteenth-Century Novel’ Re-Imagining the Brontës. University of Warwick with Institute of English Studies. November 2011.
01-Jan-2011	‘George Eliot and Spinoza’ Wandering Feelings: The Transmission of Emotion in the Long Nineteenth Century. Queen Mary University of London. November, 2011.
01-Jan-2011	‘The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Democratic Imagination’ Conference in Honour of Professor Joanne Shattock. November 2011.
01-Jan-2010	‘Many Coloured Glass: Romantic Poetry and Mediation’ Haverford College Mellon Symposium, ‘Mediums, Media, and Mediation’, March, 2010.
01-Jan-2010	‘Optical Media and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century: the Phantasmagoria and the Photograph’ Lisbon University, 2010.
01-Jan-2009	Round Table on Victorian Glassworlds. Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-80, Journal of Victorian Culture, 14, 1 (Spring 2009). Participants: Clare Pettit, Marcia Pointon, Bruce Robbins, Isobel Armstrong.
01-Jan-2009	‘Sense and Sensibility: William James and Henry James and The Golden Bowl’ (Plenary Lecture) Harvard University Cognitive Studies and British Literature Seminars, October, 2009.
01-Jan-2009	‘Metre and Meaning: Hegel’s Theory of Metre’ (Principal speaker) Rushton Seminar, University of Virginia, November, 2009.
01-Jan-2003	Chair, Eighth British Council Seminar, 'Places and Spaces' Chair, Eighth British Council Seminar, 'Places and Spaces', Delphi. Greece (September 6-13, 2003)