#  Deidre Shauna Lynch 

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard Department of English

 

 

 



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- Region(s): Britain
- Time Period(s): 18th century
- Theme(s): Eighteenth-century and Romantic-period British literature and culture; theory and history of the novel; the Gothic; the Enlightenment; book history and the history of reading; affect theory; history of English studies

 Education: B.A. Hons., University of British Columbia (1983)  
A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University (1992)  
  
Interests: Eighteenth-century and Romantic-period British literature and culture; theory and history of the novel; the Gothic; the Enlightenment; book history and the history of reading; affect theory; history of English studies.

 Selected Works:  
*Loving Literature: A Cultural History* (2015); (co-ed with Jack Stillinger) *The Romantic Period*, Volume D of *The Norton Anthology of English Literature* (2012); (ed.) *Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees* (2000); *The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning* (1998); (co-ed with William Warner) *Cultural Institutions of the Novel* (1996).



 

 

 





 

 

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