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Nancy Henry

Nancy Henry joined the faculty in the fall of 2008.  Her research and teaching interests are in Victorian literature with special emphases on nineteenth-century cultures of finance, colonialism and imperialism.  She also has interests in textual criticism, biography and the life and writings of George Eliot.

Selected Publications:

Books

  • The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot.  Cambridge University Press, 2008.
    George Eliot and the British Empire.  Cambridge University Press, 2002. (Paperback issued, 2006).

Edited Collections and Editions

  • Victorian Investments:  New Perspectives on Finance and Culture (ed.) with Cannon Schmitt.  Indiana University Press (2008).
  • The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.  Edited with an introduction, notes and additional material by Nancy Henry.  New Riverside Editions, Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
  • Guest Editor, Victorian Studies 45:1 (Autumn2002). Special Issue on Victorian Investments, with Cannon Schmitt and Anjali Arondekar. 
  • Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell.  Edited with an introduction and notes by Nancy Henry. Everyman Paperbacks, 2001.
  • Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell. Edited with an introduction and notes by Nancy Henry.  Additional material by Graham Handley.  Everyman Paperbacks, 1997.
  • Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot.  Edited with an introduction and notes by Nancy Henry.  Pickering and Chatto (UK) and University of Iowa Press (paperback), 1994.

Articles

  • “’Rushing into Eternity’: Suicide and Finance in Victorian Fiction.”  Victorian Investments:  New Perspectives on Finance and Culture.  Edited by Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt.  Indiana University Press (2008).
  • “’Ladies do it?’:  Victorian Women Investors in Fact and Fiction.” Victorian Literature and Finance.  Edited by Francis O’Gorman. Oxford UP, 2007:  111-131.
  • “Elizabeth Gaskell and Social Transformation.” The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell.  Edited by Jill Matus. Cambridge UP, 2007: 148-163.
  • “Teaching the Victorians Today.”  Teaching Literature:  A Handbook. Edited by Tanya Agathocleous and Ann Dean.  Palgrave Press, 2003:  49-57.
  • “Critical Perspectives on Daniel Deronda.” A Companion to the Victorian Novel.  Edited by William Baker and Ken Womack.  Greenwood Press, 2002:  283-92.
  • “George Eliot and Politics.” The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot.  Edited by George Levine. Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, 2001: 138-58.
  • “George Eliot and the Colonies.” Victorian Literature and Culture 29:2 (2001):  413-433.
  • “Impressions of Theophrastus Such” and “Problems of Life and Mind.” The Oxford Reader’s Companion to George Eliot.  Edited by John Rignall. Oxford UP, 2000:  166-170; 313-315.
  • “George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, and Comparative Anatomy” in George Eliot and Europe.  Edited by John Rignall.  Warwick Studies in the European Humanities.  Scolar Press, 1997: 44-63.
  • “Ante-Anti-Semitism:  George Eliot’s Impressions of Theophrastus Such” in Victorian Identities:  Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature.  Edited by Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys.  Macmillan, 1996: 65-80.
Nancy Henry

Contact Information

Nancy Henry
Professor
Department of English
301 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6960
E-mail: nhenry3@utk.edu

Education

Ph.D.  The University of Chicago
M.A.  The University of Chicago
B.A.   Stanford University

Research

Victorian Fiction