Professor Annika Bautz
Profiles

Professor Annika Bautz

Head of School

School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

Professor Annika Bautz can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
  • 19th century literature
  • History of the book
  • Literature reception studies
  • Literature
Biography

Biography

Head of School, School of Society and Culture

Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature

Qualifications

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

I joined the English and Creative Writing team at the University of Plymouth in 2010. Since then I have developed a number of new modules, including ‘Gothic Fictions: Villains, Virgins, Vampires’, and ‘Reading Jane Austen: then and now’. I have supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations as well as ResM and PhD theses on a range of topics relating to Romantic and Victorian literature. I welcome PhD and ResM applications in the areas of nineteenth-century literature and book history in particular.

My research focuses on Romantic and Victorian fiction, principally the history of the book, library history and reception studies. My publications include books and essays on the afterlives of Jane Austen, Walter Scott, George Eliot, Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

I am now Head of the School of Society and Culture. The school consists of over 30 UG and PG programmes across the areas of Criminology, Creative Writing, English, Politics, International Relations, History, Art History, Anthropology, Sociology, Law, Acting, Drama, and Music, and is home to 2000 UG, PGT and research students.

My research

An introduction to some of my research An introduction to some of my research

Some of my publications Some of my publications

Public Lecture: Jane Austen and her readers: what makes a bestseller? Public Lecture: Jane Austen and her readers: what makes a bestseller?

Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

Romantic and Victorian Literature, including modules on the Gothic and on Jane Austen. 

Research

Research

Research interests

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

Publications

Publications

Key publications

Key publications are highlighted

Journals
Articles
Bautz A (2021) 'Transatlantic Business: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and the American Literary Marketplace' Symbiosis – A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations 25, (1) 51-73 Open access
Bautz A & Wootton S (2018) '‘Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives’' Women's Writing 25, (4) Publisher Site Open access
Bautz AB (2018) ''Austen’s late-nineteenth-century afterlives: 1890s introductions to her novels'' Women's Writing 468-485 , DOI Open access
Bautz A (2017) 'The ‘universal favourite’: Daniel Terry’s Guy Mannering; or, The Gipsey’s Prophecy (1816)' Yearbook of English Studies 47, (0) 36-57 Publisher Site Open access
Bautz A & St Clair W (2012) '‘Imperial Decadence: the making of the myths. Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)' Victorian Literature and Culture 40, (2) 359-396 , DOI
Bautz A (2009) 'Scott’s Victorian Readers' Nineteenth Century Contexts 31, (1) 19-29 , DOI
Bautz A (2007) 'Early Readers of Jane Austen' Literature Compass: Romanticism 4, (August) 1412-1427
Books
Bautz A (2022) Victorian Culture, Historical Romance, Material Texts, and Edward Bulwer Lytton. Routledge Series: Studies in Cultural History
Bautz A; Sinanan K; Cook D (2022) Austen after 200: New Reading Spaces. Palgrave
Bautz A; Wootton S (2019) Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives. Routledge Series: Historical Women’s Writing
Bautz A; Gregory J (2018) Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900. Routledge Studies in Cultural History Publisher Site
Bautz A; Grey D; Gregory J (2018) Judgement in the Victorian Age. Taylor and Francis
Bautz A; Napier Gray K (2017) Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850: Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture. Routledge Series: Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Publisher Site
Bautz A (2010) Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility. Palgrave MacMillan
Bautz A (2007) The reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Continuum Intl Pub Group
Chapters
Bautz A (2022) 'Nineteenth-century illustrated editions' in Bray J; Moss H Jane Austen and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press
Bautz A (2022) '‘Gentle humour’ to ‘savage satire’: Austen obituaries on her death, its centenary and bicentenary' Austen after 200: New Reading Spaces. Palgrave Open access
Grey D, Bautz A & Gregory JR (2018) 'Introduction' Judgment in the Victorian Age. London Taylor and Francis 1-39
Bautz A (2018) ''Reading in the Provinces: Plymouth Public Library's Nineteenth-Century Catalogues'' in Gregory J; Bautz A Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900. 172-194
Bautz AB (2017) 'The foundation of Plymouth Public Library: cultural status, philanthropy, and expanding readerships, 1810-1825' in Towsey M; Roberts K Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 Leiden and Boston Brill 260-283
Bautz A (2017) ''Christian Morality and Roman Depravity: Illustrating Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii in a transatlantic literary market'' in Bautz A; Napier Gray K Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850: Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture Routledge 112-146
Bautz A (2016) ''In perfect volume form, price sixpence': Illustrating pride and prejudice for a late-victorian mass-market' Romantic Adaptations: Essays in Mediation and Remediation 101-124
Bautz A (2016) 'George Eliot in East, West and Reunified Germany, 1949-2013' in Shaffer E; Brown C The Reception of George Eliot in Europe London Bloomsbury Academic 41-65 , DOI
Bautz AB (2016) 'The Transatlantic Publishing Industry: Book Trade, Copyright, Reception, 1776–1891' in Straub J Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies De Gruyter 413-427
Bautz A (2013) '‘In perfect volume form, Price Sixpence’: Illustrating Pride and Prejudice for a late-Victorian mass-market' in Ruddell C; Duffy C; Howell P Romantic Adaptations: Essays in Mediation and Remediation Ashgate 101-124
Bautz A & St Clair W (2012) '‘Imperial Decadence: the making of the myths. Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)'' in Gardner Coates V; Lapatin K; Seydl J The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection Los Angeles J. Paul Getty Museum 52-59
Bautz A (2007) 'The reception of Jane Austen in Germany' in Mandal A; Southam BC The reception of Jane Austen in Europe Continuum Intl Pub Group 93-116
Bautz A (2006) '‘The Reception of Walter Scott in East, West and Reunified Germany, 1949-2005'' in Pittock M The reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe Continuum Intl Pub Group 117-137
Exhibitions
A Tale of Two Texts. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery 01/01/2012
Other Publications
Bautz A Podcast: How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland. https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/how-walter-scotts-stories-shaped-scotland-podcast-annika-bautz/. BBC History Extra