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William Galperin
William Galperin
Professor of English
Associate Chair of Department
Contact Information
Office: Murray Hall, 016
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: william.galperin@rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-7960
Office Hours:

Wednesdays 3:00-4:30 p.m.

and by appointment

Specialization
late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century British poetry and fiction; literary and cultural theory; film studies
Biography

A.B., Chicago; A.M., Ph.D., Brown

Professor Galperin is the author of Revision and Authority in Wordsworth (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), and, most recently, The Historical Austen (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).  In The Historical Austen, he reads the history of Austen's novels' reception through other histories -- literary, aesthetic and social -- to reassess Austen's achievement and historical method in general.  He is currently working on a study on the history of missed opportunities in romantic-period discourse.

Publications

 

"'Describing What Never Happened': Jane Austen and the History of Missed Opportunities." 

ELH, Volume 73, Number 2, Summer 2006

The Historical Austen The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism
Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Principles of Literary Study

British Romantic Writers

Shakespeare

Jane Austen

Early Romantic Literature

Romanticism and Realism

Lord Byron

Placing Jane Austen

Romanticism and the History of Missed Opportunities

 
 
 
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