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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, will be published by Princeton University Press in late 2007. He has received an NEH and two ACLS Fellowships and two WCAS Outstanding Teaching Awards

Publications by Christopher Herbert

Victorian Relativity
Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery




Culture and Anomie

Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the 19th Century



Trollop and Comic Pleasure

Trollope and Comic Pleasure






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