Emeritus Professor
Jocelyn Harris
MA (Otago) PhD (London)
| jocelyn.harris@otago.ac.nz | |
| Phone | (03) 477-7187 |
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| Department of English University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand |
Expertise
Eighteenth-century literature, Women's literature
Publications
Books
Rewriting the Long Eighteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Thirteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar. Eds. Jocelyn Harris and Shef Rogers. Eighteenth-Century Life 32:2, 2008.
A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” Delaware UP, 2007.
Chapter 1 presents new theories about the novel’s origins of the novel in reviews of Frances Burney’s The Wanderer and Austen’s letters to her niece about marriage; chapters 2-3 trace comprehensively for the first time Austen’s writing and re-writing of her manuscript; chapter 4 explores the naval and military contexts of the book; chapters 5-6 show Austen tackling issues of rank and gender, especially in Scott; and chapters 8-9 set the constraints of Bath against the revolutionary storms of Lyme. Harris concludes that far from being an “autumnal” work by a dying creator, Persuasion stresses restoration after the grief and jubilee of Waterloo. New information reveals that Austen is an outward-looking, intertextually aware, and remarkably self-conscious author.
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Eds. Jocelyn Harris and Lisa Zunshine. MLA Press, 2005.
Jane Austen’s Art of Memory. CUP 1989 repr. 2003.
Samuel Richardson. CUP 1987, repr. 1989.
Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Ed. Jocelyn Harris, 3 parts. OUP, 1972, repr. 1986, 2001.
Orders for Sir Charles Grandison Reprint
John Duncombe, The Feminead, or Female Genius. Ed. Jocelyn Harris, Augustan Reprint Society, 1981.
Samuel Richardson’s Published Commentary on “Clarissa” 1747-65, vol.1, “Preface, Postscripts and Related Writings.” Introduction by Jocelyn Harris. Pickering & Chatto, 1998.
World and Stage: Essays for Colin Gibson. Eds Greg Waite, Jocelyn Harris, Heather Murray and John Hale, Otago Studies in English 6, 1998.
Studies in the Eighteenth Century 7: Papers Presented at the Seventh David Nichol Smith Seminar. Eds. Jocelyn Harris and Shef Rogers. College of William and Mary with Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.
Chapters
“Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park.” The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, 2nd edtn. Eds Juliet McMaster and Edward Copeland. CUP 2010, ch. 3, 39-54.
“Jane Austen,” The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists, ed. Adrian Poole (CUP, 2009), ch. 6, 98-115.
“Jane Austen, Jane Fairfax, and Jane Eyre,” ch. 2, Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture. Eds. Penny Gay, Judith Johnston, and Catherine Waters (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 29-38.
‘“Clarissa Lives!’: Reading Richardson through Re-writings. “ Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson, 140-46.
‘“Such a transformation!’: Translation, Imitation and Intertextuality in Jane Austen On-screen.” Jane Austen On-Screen. Eds Andrew and Gina MacDonald. CUP 2003, 44-68.
“Silent Women, Shrews and Bluestockings: Women and Speaking in Jane Austen,” The Talk in Jane Austen. Eds Bruce Stovel and Lynn Weinlos Gregg. U of Alberta P, 2002, 3-22.
“Protean Lovelace,” Passion and Virtue: Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Ed. David Blewitt. U of Toronto P, 2001, 92-113.
“The Handmaid’s Tale as a Re-Visioning of 1984.” Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society. Eds George Slusser, Paul Alkon, Roger Gaillard & Danielle Chatelain. AMS Press, 1999, 268-79.
“Grotesque, Classical and Pornographic Bodies in Clarissa,” New Essays on Samuel Richardson. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. St. Martin’s P, 1996, 101-16.
“Jane Austen and the Burden of the (Male) Past: The Case Re-examined.” Jane Austen: Discourses of Feminism, ed. Devoney Looser. St. Martin’s P, 1995, 86-100.
“Richardson: Original or Learned Genius?” Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays. Eds Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor. CUP 1989, 108-202.
“Love and the Aspiring Mind in Villette.” Art and Society in the Victorian Novel: Essays on Dickens and his Contemporaries. Ed. Colin Gibson. Macmillan, 1989. Pp. 82-110.
“Sappho, Souls and the Salick Law of Wit.” Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France, and Germany. Eds Alan Charles Kors and Paul J. Korshin (U of Philadelphia P, 1986), 232-58.
“Anne Elliot, the Wife of Bath, and other Friends.” Jane Austen: New Perspectives, Women in Literature, n.s. 3. Ed. Janet Todd (Holmes & Meier, 1983), 273-93.
“Learning and Genius in Sir Charles Grandison.” Studies in the Eighteenth Century, vol. 4. Eds R.F. Brissenden and J.C Eade (Australian National UP, 1979), 167-191.
Articles, reviews and review essays
“Jane Austen and Celebrity Culture: Shakespeare, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Bennet.” Shakespeare 6:4 (2010), 411-30.
Review of Lyn Shepherd, Clarissa’s Painter: Portraiture, Illustration, and Representations in the Novels of Samuel Richardson. TLS (25 February 2011), 23.
Review of Jane Austen’s “The History of England” & Cassandra’s Portraits (2009). Eds Annette Upfal and Christine Alexander. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23:2 (2010-11), 451-54.
“As she left it?” Review essay, Jane Austen, Later Manuscripts, TheCambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen vol. 9. TLS (24 April 2009), 26.
“Frances Burney’s The Wanderer, Jane Austen’s Persuasion, and the Cancelled Chapters,” Persuasions 31 (2009), 130-44.
Review of Jan Fergus, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England. Ideas and Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 1650-1850, 16 (2009), 409-13.
“Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, and the Academy.” Persuasions 30 (2008), 27-37.
“‘Domestic Virtues and National Importance’: Captain Wentworth, Nelson, and the English Napoleonic War Hero.” War/La Guerre, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 19:1-2, 2006-7, 181-205. Runner-up, Best Special Issue Prize, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, USA.
“Jane Austen, Jane Fairfax, and Jane Eyre.” Persuasions 29 (2007), 99-109.
Review of Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor, “Pamela” in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101 (2007), 237-38.
Review essay of Peter Knox-Shaw, Jane Austen and the Enlightenment; William Deresiewicz, Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets; Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Austen’s Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History; Ann Gaylin, Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust. Nineteenth-Century Literature 60:4 (2006), 511-27.
“The Case of the Woman Artist: Virginia Woolf and Frances Hodgkins.” Bulletin of New Zealand Art History Special Series 4 (1998), 57-80.
“Does Anybody Own this Text? Eighteenth-Century Readers as Consumers and Producers.” The Age of Johnson 13 (2002): 457-71.
“The Austen Versions: Recent Films.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8:3 (1996), 427-30.
“Protean Lovelace.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2:4 (1990), 327-46.
“Locke and T.S. Eliot.” Notes and Queries 232:4 (1987), 507-8.
“Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and the Dial-plate.” British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 9 (1986), 157-63.
“As if they had been living friends: Sir Charles Grandison into Mansfield Park,” Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 83:3 (1980), 360-405.
“The Reviser Observed: The Last Volume of Sir Charles Grandison.” Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976), 1-31.
“Twenty-eight Volumes of Sir Charles Grandison.” Notes and Queries 20:1 (1973), 18-19.