Nancy Henry

Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English

Biography

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, 1994
M.A., The University of Chicago, 1988
B.A., Stanford University, 1987

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 (2^nd 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 (2^nd 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).

Awards

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