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Nancy Henry

Nancy Henry

March 9, 2023

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301 McClung Tower
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nhenry3@utk.edu

Nancy Henry

Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English

19th Century, Animal Studies, Short Story, Women/Gender Studies

Nancy Henry specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century realist novels (especially the life and work of George Eliot), literature and economics (especially women and finance), and Animal Studies (especially horses in nineteenth-century literature and culture).

Professor Henry teaches courses on the nineteenth-century British novel, major authors (George Eliot, Charles Dickens), the short story, and introduction to fiction. Graduate courses have included nineteenth-century novels, literature and finance and Victorian Studies/Animal Studies.

Education

    • Ph.D., The University of Chicago

    • M.A., The University of Chicago

    • B.A., Stanford University

Specialties

19th Century, Animal Studies, Short Story, Women/Gender Studies

Honors

    • Senior Career Award for Research and Creative Achievement. College of Arts and Sciences. UT, 2019

    • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2014-15

    • Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creative Achievement. UT, 2013

Publications

Books

    • Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

    • The Life of George Eliot. Blackwell Critical Biography Series. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. (Paperback issued, 2015).

    • The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot. Cambridge University Press, 2008.  Japanese translation, 2014.

    • George Eliot and the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2002. (Paperback issued, 2006).

    • The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (2nd Edition). Eds. Nancy Henry and George Levine. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

    • Victorian Investments:  New Perspectives on Finance and Culture. Eds. Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt. Indiana University Press, 2009.

Critical Editions

    • The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. Edited with an introduction, notes and additional material by Nancy Henry.  New Riverside Editions, Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

    • Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell.  Edited with an introduction and notes by Nancy Henry. Everyman Paperbacks, 2001.

    • Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell. Edited with an introduction and notes by Nancy Henry.  Everyman Paperbacks, 1997.

    • Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot.  Edited with an introduction and notes by Nancy Henry.  Pickering and Chatto (UK) and University of Iowa Press (paperback), 1994.

Representative Articles

    • “George Eliot’s Humans and Animals.” George Eliot Review 51 (2020): 41-54.

    • “George Eliot and Jonathan Swift.” Etudes Anglaises 73:1 (2020): 57-73.

    • “Horseracing Fraud in Victorian Fiction.” Special Issue on Fraud and Forgery. Eds. Eleanor McCausland and Jakob Gaardbo Nielsen. Victorian Review 45:2, 2020: 235-52.

    • “‘It was all over with Wildfire’: Horse Accidents in George Eliot’s Fiction.” George Eliot: Interdisciplinary Essays. Eds. Jean Arnold and Lila Harper (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019): 197-211.

    • “High Interest and Impaired Security: Trollope’s Women Investors.” Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope. Eds. Ortwin de Graef, David Skilton and Frederik Van Dam (Edinburgh University Press, 2019): 303-316.

    • “George Eliot and Politics.” Revised version of previously published essay in the Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (2nd edition). Eds. Nancy Henry and George Levine (Cambridge UP, 2019): 155-174.

    • “Money and Business.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Eds. Dino Feluga, Pamela K. Gilbert and Linda Hughes, 2015.

    • “2008 and All That: Economics and Victorian Literature” (Review Essay). Victorian Literature and Culture 43:1 (2015): 217-222.

    • “Charlotte Riddell: Novelist of the City” in Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Eds. Jill Rappoport and Lana Dalley. Ohio State UP, 2014: 258-270.

    • “George Eliot and Finance” in The Blackwell Companion to George Eliot. Eds. Amanda Anderson and Harry Shaw. Wiley Blackwell, 2013: 323-337.

Editorial

  • Professor Henry is a co-editor of The Journal of Victorian Culture (Oxford UP) and George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies (Penn State UP).

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