Annika Bautz

Dr Annika Bautz - ()

Job title: Lecturer in English, School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts)
Address: Room 6, 4 Portland Villas, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585116
Email: annika.bautz@plymouth.ac.uk

Qualifications & background

Ph.D. Newcastle; M.A. Zurich; B.A. Hamburg

Teaching interests
The English Toolkit
Introduction to Theory
Reading Poetry
Romanticism
Women and Romanticism
Victorian Literature and Culture
Reading Jane Austen - then and now
Gothic Fictions: Villains, Virgins, Vampires

Research interests
Romantic and Victorian fiction; history of the book; reception studies

Publications

Books

The Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott: A Comparative Longitudinal Study (Continuum, 2007).

Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

With W. St Clair: ‘Imperial Decadence: the making of the myths. Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), in Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. John Maynard and Adrienne Munich, 40:2, (forthcoming Sep. 2012).

‘Scott’s Victorian Readers’, Nineteenth Century Contexts, 31:1, pp.19-29 (April 2009).

‘The Reception of Jane Austen in Germany, 1949-2003’, in The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe, ed. by Anthony Mandal and Brian Southam (Continuum 2007). pp. 93-116.

‘Walter Scott’s Novels in East and West Germany, 1949-1990’, in The Reception of Scott in Europe, ed. by Murray Pittock (Continuum 2007), pp. 117-137.

‘Early Readers of Jane Austen’, Literature Compass: Romanticism, vol. 4 (August 2007).

‘The Heart of Mid-Lothian’, The Literary Encyclopedia (July 2005).

‘Persuasion’; The Literary Encyclopedia (January 2005).