Professor Lyn Pykett

Emeritus Professor
BA, PhD (London) Photograph of Professor Lyn Pykett.

Contact

Email: lyp@aber.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622534

Teaching Areas

Teacher of nineteenth-century literature.  She has also published on nineteenth and twentieth-century fiction and its cultural contexts, and on the Victorian periodical press. She has also published on several aspects of the teaching of English.

Staff Publications

Has recently completed a book on Charles Dickens in the Palgrave Critical Issues series and essays for the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Fiction (ed. Deirdre David), the Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (ed. Martin Priestman), Women and Literature in Britain, 1800-1900 (ed. Joanne Shattock).

Lyn is also Editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture which is published by Edinburgh University Press.

Books

Emily Bronte (Macmillan, 1989)

The Improper Feminine: The Women’s Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing (Routledge, 1992)

The Sensation Novel from The Woman in White to The Moonstone (British Council/Northcote House, 1994)

Engendering Fictions; The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century (Edward Arnold, 1995)

(Ed. and introduction) Reading Fin de Siecle Fictions (Longman, 1996)

(Ed. and introduction) Wilkie Collins: A New Casebook (Macmillan, 1998)

(Ed. and introduction) Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife (Oxford University Press, 1998)

Articles, Essays and Chapters

‘The Real versus the Ideal: theories of fiction in the periodicals, 1850-1870’, Victorian Periodicals Review (1982)

‘Typology and the End(s) of History: Daniel Deronda’, Literature and History (1983)

‘George Eliot and Arnold: the narrator’s voice and ideology in Felix Holt the Radical’, Literature and History (1985)

‘Dombey and Son: a Sentimental Family Romance’, Studies in the Novel (1987)

‘The Century’s Daughters: recent women’s fiction and history’, Critical Quarterly (1987)

‘Reading the Periodical Press: Text and Context’, Victorian Periodicals Review (1989)

‘Seizing the Crime: recent women’s crime fiction’, The New Welsh Review (1989)

‘Beyond A level English: English in the sixth form and in the universities’, in Essays and Studies, 1989

‘Investigating women: the female sleuth after feminism’ in Watching the Detectives: Essays on Crime Fiction, ed. Ian Bell and Graham Daldry (1990)

‘Class(room) Wars’ [on recent feminist pedagogy], Woman: A Cultural Review (1990)

‘Representing the Real: The English debate about Naturalism, 1884-1900’, in Naturalism and the European Novel: Modern Essays in Criticism, ed. Brian Nelson (1992)

‘Ruinous Bodies: women and sexuality in Hardy’s late fiction’, Critical Survey (1993)

‘Gender and Genre in Wuthering Heights’ in Wuthering Heights: Contemporary Critical Essays, ed. P. Stoneman (1993)

‘The Cause of women and the Course of Fiction; the Case of Mona Caird’, in Gender Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Literature, ed. Christopher Parker (1995)

‘Women Poets and "Women’s Poetry"’ in British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s: Politics and Art, ed. Gary Day and Brian Docherty (1998)

‘A Woman’s business: women and writing 1830-1880’ in An Introduction to Women’s Literature, ed. Marion Shaw (1998

‘Women and the Sensation Business’, in Writing: A Woman’s Business, ed. Judy Simons and Kate Fullbrook (1998)

‘A New way with words? Jeannette Winterson’s post-modernism’, in ‘I’m telling you stories’: Jeannette Winterson and the Politics of Reading’ ed. Tim Woods and Helena Grice (1998)

‘The Making of a modern woman writer: Rebecca West’s Journalism, 1911-1930’ in Reading Journalism, ed. Kate Campbell (Edinburgh University Press, 2000).

‘Portraits of the artist as a young woman: representations of the female artist in the women’s writing of the 1890s’, in Victorian Women Novelists and the Woman Question, ed. Nicola Thompson (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Writing around Modernism: Mary Sinclair and Rebecca West in Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-30, ed. Lynne Hapgood and Nancy L Paxton (Macmillan, 2000)