B.A. Brown University, 1989; M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1993; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1996.

Interests

Nineteenth-century British literature; history, form, and sociology of the novel; narrative and temporality Selected Works: The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel (Johns Hopkins, 2002)

Additional Information

Jonathan Grossman's first book concerns early nineteenth-century crime fiction's relation to the law courts prior to detective fiction's invention in the 1840s. It falls into the interdisciplinary field of law and literature as well as early Victorian studies. There are two chapters on Charles Dickens, who is a long-standing-and current-research interest. At present, he is completing a book manuscript about the rise of public transport, the standarization of time, and Charles Dickens, entitled “The Transportive Work of Fiction in the Time of Charles Dickens.”

Homepage

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