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Professor Joanne Shattock
Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature
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Profile
Research
Publications
Books and Editions
Authorship, Journalism and the Nineteenth-Century Press, vol. 3 of Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century, eds Joanne Shattock, Katherine Newey, Valerie Sanders and Joanne Wilkes. 4 vols. Routledge, 2021
Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain (ed). Cambridge University Press, 2017, pbk 2019.
Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant 25 vols. General editor with Elisabeth Jay, Pickering & Chatto/Routledge, 2011-16. Editor of vol. 1 Literary Criticism 1854-69. (2011); vol. 5 Literary Criticism 1887-97 (with V. Sanders and J. Wilkes 2012); vol. 13 Essays on Life-Writing and History (2013), vol. 17 The Perpetual Curate (2014).
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1830-1914 (ed). Cambridge University Press, 2010. Includes The Culture of Criticism pp. 71-90.
The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, general editor, 10 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005-6. Editor of vol. 1 Journalism, early fiction and personal writing. 2005. CHOICE Academic Title of the Year 2006
Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900 (ed). Cambridge University Press, 2001. Includes The Construction of the Woman Writer, pp. 1-34.
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 3rd edition Vol. 4, 1800-1900. (ed). Cambridge University Press, 2000.
The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, pbk 1994.
Politics and Reviewers: the Edinburgh and the Quarterly in the early Victorian Age. Leicester University Press, 1989.
Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff, (eds). The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings. Leicester University Press, 1982.
Recent Articles and Chapters
Essays in the ‘Golden Age’ of the British Newspaper, in the Cambridge History of the British Essay, eds Jason Child and Denise Gigante. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Mary Howitt and Howitt’s Journal, Journal of European Periodical Studies 6.1 (Summer 2021), 42-55.
The Challenge of Longevity: Blackwood’s as a Post-Romantic Periodical, in Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole, eds, Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century. Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp. 227-43
Cultural Agents and Contexts: The Professionalization of Journalism, in David Finkelstein, ed. Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, 1800-1900. Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp. 153-76
Margaret Oliphant and the Changing World of Victorian Journalism, Yearbook of English Studies 49 (2019), 67-81
The Feminization of Literary Culture, in The History of British Women’s Writing 1830-1880, vol.6, ed. Lucy Hartley. Palgrave 2018, pp. 23-38.
Literature and the Expansion of the Press, in The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture ed. Juliet John. Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 507-21
Becoming a Professional Writer, The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Writing, ed. Linda H. Peterson. Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 29-42
Contexts and Conditions of Criticism in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. 6. ed Rafey Habib. Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 21-45
Publishers and Publication and Editions, George Eliot in Context. ed. Margaret Harris. Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.12-33
The Publishing Industry, The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Vol. 3. ed. Jenny Bourne Taylor and John Kucich. Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 3-21.
The Professionalisation of Authorship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60.1 (2012), 65-76.
Professional Networks: Masculine and Feminine, Victorian Periodicals Review. 44:2 (Summer 2011), 128-40.
Bessie Rayner Parkes, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Supervision
Teaching
Press and media
Activities
Editor, with Julian North and Vincent Newey, The Nineteenth Century series Ashgate and Routledge 1994—
Academic Co-editor, Culture, Literature and the Arts in the Long Nineteenth Century, Routledge Historical Resources
Director, Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester 1990-2009
Dean of Arts, University of Leicester 2003-8
Founding President British Association of Victorian Studies 2000-2003
President Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 2013-16
Moser Fellowship Humanities Research Centre Keele University 2008-11
Visiting Professor, Department of English, University of Keele 2011-2021
Editor-in-Chief 19th Century U.K. Periodicals Online. Gale Cengage Publishing 2007-11.
Associate Editor Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004
Awards
Fellow of the English Association 2003
Hon. D. Litt University of New Brunswick 2004
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 2011-13