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About us Practical matters How to find us prof. dr. J.C. (Julia) Kühn

Research interests

  • (long) nineteenth-century English literature and culture, with particular focus on the novel, gender, popularity, Empire, realism and Anglo-German connections
  • travel writing, often with a China/ Hong Kong focus, and travel writing theory
  • literary theory and poetic theory (genre, realism, geopoetics)

Publications

Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Constantinople 1869-70: The Harem

Marginalisation within Marginalisation: The case of Popular Victorian Women Authors

Being “Off Course” in The Small House at Allington: Expectations, Realities and What Trollope Wants the Reader to Know About Love, the Novel and Modern Life

Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Constantinople 1869-70: Public Spaces

George Eliot’s Italian Roads: Mobility, Temporality and the Crises of Realism in Romola and Middlemarch

西方旅行者的中国书写: A Collection of Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940

Before Scenes of Clerical Life: Eliot’s 1854-57 Travelogues as Poetic Practice

'All is vanity, nothing is fair': Thackeray on heroism and money

Mobilis in Mobili: Notes from Hong Kong

Journeys to a War, and the Literature of the 1860s and 1870s

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