French Novels and the Victorians - Atkinson, Juliette (Lecturer in English, UCL)
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Despite the warnings of critics and moral leaders, French novels were widespread in Victorian culture. How did Victorian readers gain access to them? How were the novels' supposed immorality debated and challenged? And how far did the influx of French novels raise questions and anxieties about the literary and commercial value of the English novel?

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Despite the warnings of critics and moral leaders, French novels were widespread in Victorian culture. How did Victorian readers gain access to them? How were the novels' supposed immorality debated and challenged? And how far did the influx of French novels raise questions and anxieties about the literary and commercial value of the English novel?
Autorenporträt
Juliette Atkinson was born in Paris, and grew up in both France and England. She did her BA(Hons) at UCL, and went to Oxford to study the MSt Literature 1900-Present. In 2008, she completed a PhD on Victorian life-writing at UCL (funded by a UCL Research Scholarship), and between 2009 and 2012 she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She is now a lecturer in the English department as UCL, where she specialises in the literature of the long 19th century. Her book Victorian Biography Reconsidered (OUP) was published in 2010, and she has written the introduction and notes for The Mill on the Floss and edited Silas Marner, both for Oxford World's Classics.