Christopher Herbert
Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities
University Hall Room 324
Telephone: (847) 491-3637
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: c-herbert@northwestern.edu
Christopher Herbert (Ph.D. Yale University) is a Victorianist specializing in the novel and in cultural and intellectual history. He is the author of Trollope and Comic Pleasure (Chicago, 1987), Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1991), and Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery (Chicago, 2001), as well as articles on Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Henry Mayhew, Bram Stoker, Virginia Woolf, and various issues of nineteenth-century scientific and social thought. His most recent book, War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma, was published by Princeton University Press in late 2007. He has received an NEH and two ACLS Fellowships and two WCAS Outstanding Teaching Awards
War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma
Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the 19th Century
