Nina Auerbach
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Nina Auerbach
- Born: 1943
Nina Auerbach teaches the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she specializes in nineteenth-century England. She has written books and articles on Victorian literature, theater, cultural history and horror fiction and film.
Among Auerbach's awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the annual Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts in 2000.
Most Famous Works
- Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth (1982)
- Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time (1987)
- Our Vampires, Ourselves (1997)
- Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress (1999)
- Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction (2000)
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Works by Nina Auerbach
(b. 1943)
| 1982 | Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth. Auerbach, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, contends that the stereotype of the repressed Victorian woman obscures a countermyth of the dangerous, demonic woman. Critic George Levine finds Auerbach's scholarship impressive and persuasive, noting that she had culled her argument from an impressive array of evidence: poems, paintings, popular and serious fiction, biographies, essays, and psychological studies. |
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