Gordon Bigelow teaches courses on nineteenth-century English literature and on the literature and culture of modern Ireland. He joined the department of English at 糖心Swag in 1998, after earning a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book focused on connections between literature and economic thought in the nineteenth century He is currently at work on a book dealing with the Irish fiction of Anthony Trollope and the history of the modern novel.
Professor Bigelow鈥瞫 Books
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Reviews
Bigelow, Gordon. Review of Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism, by Mary L. Mullen. Victorian Studies, vol. 64 no. 3, 2022, p. 507-508. Project MUSE, .
Gordon Bigelow; Review: Irish Literature in Transition, 1830鈥1880, edited by Matthew Campbell. Nineteenth-Century Literature 1 December 2022; 77 (2-3): 189鈥191. doi:
Articles/Book Chapters
鈥淚rish Questions: Trollope鈥檚 Irish Novels.鈥 Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope, ed. Deborah Morse, Margaret Markwick, and Mark Turner. Routledge, 2017.
鈥淔orm and Violence in The Macdermots of Ballycloran.鈥 NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 46.3 (Fall 2013).
鈥淭he Cost of Everything in Middlemarch.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture, ed. Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport. Ohio State University Press, 2013.
"Trollope and Ireland." The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope. Eds. Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles. Cambridge University Press, 2010. .
鈥淒racula and Economic History.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History38.1 (Fall 2008).
鈥淚nside Out: Value and Display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Victorian Literature and Capital. Oxford University Press, 2007.
鈥淟et There Be Markets: The Evangelical Roots of Economics.鈥 Harper鈥瞫 Magazine (May 2005).
鈥淩evolution and Modernity: Assia Djebar鈥瞫 Les Enfants du nouveau monde.鈥 Research in African Literatures 34.2 (Summer 2003).
"Market Indicators: Banking and Domesticity in Dickens鈥瞫 Bleak House. " ELH 67 (Summer 2000).
Education
1998, Ph.D., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
1991, M.A., English, University of New Hampshire
1985, A.B., Comparative Literature, Brown University