Mark Storey
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts
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Teaching Summary
I am convening four modules in 2011-12:
- In semester 1, 'Fictions of America' (globalisation and American fiction since the 1980s) and 'Landscapes of American Fiction' (space, place, and landscape in American fiction between 1840 and 1940). These are both for final year and/or MA students.
- In semester 2, I am teaching 'Identifiably American' (cultural memory in American literature and film since the Salem Witch Trials) and 'The Contemporary American Novel' (since 1990). These are for third-year and second-year undergraduates respectively.
I also teach on the first-year core modules American Literature 1 (to 1900) and American Literature 2 (since 1900).
Research Summary
My general research interests lie in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature, especially realism, modernism, regionalism, and popular fiction.
My first book, Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature, will be published by Oxford University Press in late 2012. In it, I use American 'rural fiction' of the late nineteenth century to understand the cultural and literary effects of urbanisation and modernisation in the period, focussing on four key areas of everyday life - transport, entertainment, medicine, and law. I discuss many writers, including William Dean Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Hamlin Garland, Mary Noailles Murfree, Edward Eggleston, Owen Wister, and Booth Tarkington.
My current research includes work on forms of popular entertainment in late nineteenth-century America (especially the productions of P.T. Barnum) and literary realism/modernism, and the uses of Ancient Rome in nineteenth-century literature.
Recent Publications
STOREY, M., 2012. Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature. Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
STOREY, M., 2011. 'Huck and Hank Go to the Circus: Mark Twain Under Barnum's Big Top'. European Journal of American Culture. 29(3), 217-228.