Professor
She/her
Office Information:
3268 ANGELL HALL
hours: MON 1-2, TUES 12-1
& by appointment
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British; Womens Literature; Graduate Faculty; Nineteenth Century British; Novel and Narrative; English; Theory; Romanticism American and British; Poetry and Poetics; British
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Cornell 1990Current Courses
ENGLISH 370-001
Jane Austen
ENGLISH 710-001
Methods and Forms of Writing
Highlighted Work and Publications

Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing
Adela Pinch
Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable, to believe that thinking about another person could affect them. She explains why nineteenth century British writers - poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, devotees of the occult - were both attracted to and repulsed by radical or substantial notions of purely mental relations between persons, and... See More