William Thesing: Department of English Language and Literature


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William B. Thesing Professor Office: 216 Humanities Office Building, (803) 777-7073 thesingw@mailbox.sc.edu Education Ph.D., Indiana University, 1977 Specialization Areas Nineteenth-Century British Literature Recent Courses See Course Descriptions for detailed information. ENGL 725 English Novel of the Victorian Period ENGL 726 Victorian Poetry Current Research Project(s) Many- including the James Dickey Newletter Publications The London Muse English Prose adn Criticism, 1900-1950 Conversation with South Carolina Poets Victorian PRose Writers before 1867 Victorian PRose Writers after 1867 Mrs Humphrey ward: A Biblography Executions and the BRitish Experience Critical Essays on Edna St. Vincent Millay A Companion to the Victorian Novel (with Patrick Brantlinger) Editor, Victorian Women Poets. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 199. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999. 380pp. Includes his "Introduction" and "Books for Further Reading." Book chapter. "Frances Trollope." In American National Biography. Volume 21. Eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. Book review of Sex, Drugs, and Madness in Poetry from William Blake to Christina Rossetti by E. Senaha in Eigo Seinen [The Rising Generation] (Aug 1997) Editor, Special Issue on Nineteenth-Century Realism: Theory and Practice, Studies in the Literary Imagination. Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring 1996). 112 pp. Includes his essay "A New Realism for a New Era." Pp. 1-7. Book review of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Critical Discourse by E. Hollahn in Victorian Studies (Spring 1996) Book review of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Literary Life. by Gerald Roberts in Victorian Studies (Spring 1996) Book review of Influence and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry, ed. Blank and Louis in Victorian Studies (Spring 1996) Book review of British Poetry of the Nineteenth Century by S. Gurney in Victorian Studies (Spring 1996) Book review of Walking the Victorian Streets by D. E. Nord in Victorian Studies (Summer 1996) Editor, Robinson Jeffers and a Galaxy of Writers: Essays in Honor of William H. Nolte. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. 218pp. Includes his "Foreword" and "Select Bibliography." Article: "Vile Maternity: G. R. Sims and Victorian Child Abuse." Victorians Institute Journal. 22 (1994) [published April 1995] : 135-164. Book Review of Apprehending the Criminal by M C Leps in Nineteenth Century Prose ( Spring 1995.) Book Review of Walking, Literature, and English Culture by Anne D. Wallace in Nineteenth Century Prose (Spring 1995) Book Review of Crime in Victorian Britain. by E M Palmegiano in Victorian Periodicals Review (Summer 1995)