Prof Jenny Bourne Taylor

Biography

BA (York); MA (Warwick); PhD (Warwick)

Jenny is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to nineteenth century literature and culture, in particular in how emerging debates in psychology - on identity, consciousness and unconscious mental activity -  were appropriated and transformed in fictional narrative.  She has published widely on nineteenth century psychology and literature, including In the Secret Theatre of Home:  Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative and Nineteenth-Century Psychology and in the co-editor, with Sally Shuttleworth, of Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts. She is interested, too, in the legal and cultural constructions of 'illegitimacy' in the nineteenth century, and is also the co-editor, with Martin Ryle of George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins.  She is also co-editor, with John Kucich, of The Oxford History of the Novel in English, vol 3 1820-1880. She is currently preparing a new edition of Sarah Grand's The Beth Book.

My office hours this term are Tuesday 11.00 and Wednesdays 11.00.

My office is B333

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2013) Thomas Hardy and psychology. In: Thomas Hardy in context. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521196482 (In Press)

Vance, Norman (2012) Religion and the Novel. In: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880. The Oxford History of: The Novel in English, 3 . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 476-491. ISBN 9780199560615

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2011) Short fiction and the novel. In: Oxford history of the novel in English vol 3: the nineteenth-century novel, 1820-1880. Oxford History of the Novel in English . Oxford University Press, pp. 239-255. ISBN 9780199560615

Taylor, Prof Jenny Bourne, ed. (2011) Oxford History of the Novel in English vol 3: The Nineteenth-century Novel, 1820-1880. Oxford History of the Novel in English . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956061-5

Taylor, Prof Jenny Bourne, ed. (2010) Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Literature, Law and History. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-57652-0

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2010) Body and mind. In: The Cambridge companion to English literature 1830-1914. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 184-204. ISBN 9780521882880

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2010) Trollope and the sensation novel. In: The Cambridge companion to Anthony Trollope. Cambridge University Press, pp. 85-98. ISBN 9780521713955

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2009) Bastards to the time: legitimacy as legal fiction in Trollope's novels of the 1870s. In: The politics of gender in Anthony's Trollope's novels. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 45-60. ISBN 9780754663898

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2007) Psychology at the fin de siècle. In: The Cambridge companion to the fin de siècle. Cambridge companions to literature . Cambridge University Press, pp. 13-30. ISBN 9780521615617

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2007) Bastardy and nationality: the curious case of William Shedden and the 1858 Legitimacy Declaration Act. Cultural and Social History, 4 (2). pp. 171-192. ISSN 1478-0038

Taylor, Prof Jenny Bourne, ed. (2006) The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521549660

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2005) The strange case of Godwin Peak: double consciousness in 'Born in exile'. In: George Gissing: voices of the unclassed. The nineteenth century series . Ashgate, pp. 61-76. ISBN 9780754636755

Taylor, Jenny Bourne (2001) Received, a blank child: Charles Dickens, John Brownlow and the London Foundling Hospital - archives and fictions. Nineteenth-Century Literature, 56 (3). pp. 293-363. ISSN 0891-9356