
Ruth Robbins
1965
Ruth Robbins is Professor of English Literature and head of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities. Her work has focused on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, on autobiography, on literary theory and on particular writers such as Oscar Wilde and Arnold Bennett. Ruth's research interests centre on the late-Victorian period in English literature, especially the literature of Decadence. She also has research interests in literary theory.
Books
- Applying
- As if I were dead
- Subjectivity
- York Notes on Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest"
- Oscar Wilde
- Victorian identities
- The Continuum encyclopedia of modern criticism and theory
- The French connections of Jacques Derrida
- The impact of gender myth on artistic production and its philosophy in the works of Yeats and Lawrence
- York Notes Advanced on "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte
- Literary feminisms
- Victorian Gothic
- Medical Advice for Women, 18301915 (History of Feminism)
- Key concepts in literary theory
- The Franklin's prologue and tale, Geoffrey Chaucer
- Pater to Forster, 1873-1924
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