Gail Marshall

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Head of School
Head of School of Literature and Languages.
Postgraduate supervision
Victorian literature and culture, specifically fiction, theatre, women’s writing and history, actresses, historiography, and Shakespeare’s Victorian after-life. I am currently completing a book on 1859, with particular attention to George Eliot’s life and work in that year, and am one of the General Editors for a new Cambridge University Press series on Re-Reading the Nineteenth Century.
Areas of interest
Victorian literature and culture, specifically fiction, theatre, women’s writing and history, actresses, historiography, and Shakespeare’s Victorian after-life. I am currently completing a book on 1859, with particular attention to George Eliot’s life and work in that year, and am one of the General Editors for a new Cambridge University Press series on Re-Reading the Nineteenth Century.
Postgraduate supervision
I am happy to supervise PhD students working in any area of Victorian literature and culture.
Publications
- Marshall, G. (2020) Temporality and statuesque women in George Eliot. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (29). ISSN: 1755-1560 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ntn.1937
- Marshall, G. (2020) Adam Bede, realism, the past, and readers in 1859. English Literature , 6 (1). pp 0. ISSN: 2420-823X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.30687/el/2420-823x/2019/01/002
- Marshall, G. (2019) Queen Victoria and George Eliot in 1859. Journal of Victorian Culture , 24 (4). pp. 426-430. ISSN: 1750-0133 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz050
- Marshall, G. (2018) Adam Bede and 'the green trash of the railway stall': George Eliot and the lady novelists of 1859. In: Gavin, A. and de la L. Oulton, C. , (eds.) British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury. , 1. Springer pp. 245-260. ISBN: 9783319782256 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78226-3
- Marshall, G. (2016) Henry James's houses: domesticity and performativity. In: John, J. , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 702-716. ISBN: 9780199593736
- Jay, E. , Marshall, G. , Sanders, V. , eds. (2015) The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, part V: major novels. The Pickering Masters , 22. Pickering and Chatto , London. pp 286. ISBN: 9781851966004