Stewart : English : University of Leicester

Dr Victoria Stewart

BA (Hons) Sheffield, MA (Leeds), PhD (Leeds)

Senior Lecturer

Email: vas6@le.ac.uk

Tel: +44-116-252-2634

Research Interests || Postgraduate Students || Publications || Teaching & Admin

Research Interests

Dr Stewart’s research interests include the twentieth-century and contemporary novel, war writing and life-writing. Her book Women’s Autobiography: War and Trauma (Palgrave, 2003) considered the work of writers including Vera Brittain, Virginia Woolf and Anne Frank from the perspective of trauma theory. Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (Palgrave, 2006), her latest book, examines a range of novels from this decade, focusing in particular on their depiction of the processes of memory. Dr Stewart has also had articles published in a range of journals, and has written book reviews for Literature and History.

Dr Stewart is an Associate Member of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies.

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Dr Stewart would welcome inquiries from prospective research students interested in working in the following areas:

Writing from and about the First and Second World Wars
Holocaust Writing
Mid 20th-Century Novel
Non-canonical Authors, the ‘Middlebrow’, and Detective Fiction
Life-Writing

Recent Publications

Books

Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006)

Women’s Autobiography: War and Trauma (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003)

About O’Casey: The Playwright and the Work (London: Faber & Faber, 2003)

Articles and Book Chapters:

'Middelbrow Psychology in Gilbert Frankau’s Novels of the 1930s’, Working Papers on the Web 11 (2008) http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/middlebrow/Stewart.html

'Realism, Modernism and the Representation of Memory in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle', Studies in the Novel 40.3 (2008), 328-43

'J. W. Dunne and Literary Culture in the 1930s and 1940s.' Literature and History 17.2 (2008), 62-81

The Last War: the Legacy of the First World War in 1940s British Fiction’, in ed. Jessica Meyer, British Popular Culture and the First World War. (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 259-81

“That Eternal ‘Now’”: Memory and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Seven Winters’, Modern Fiction Studies, 53.2 (Summer 2007) 334-50

The Other War: Christopher Priest’s The Separation’ in ed. Andrew M. Butler, Christopher Priest: The Interaction (London: Science Fiction Foundation, 2005). pp. 115-28

“The Big War Outside and the Little War at Home”: Anamnesis and the Second World War in Recent British Fiction’, English, 54.210 (Autumn 2005) 209-24

“War Memoirs of the Dead”: Writing and Remembrance in the First World War’, Literature and History, 14.2 (Autumn 2005) 37-52

‘Holocaust Diaries: Writing from the Abyss’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41.4 (2005) 418-26

Q.D. Leavis: Women and Education under Scrutiny’, Literature and History, 13.2 (Autumn 2004) 67-85

The Auditory Uncanny in Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear’, Textual Practice, 18.1 (2004) 65-81

“I may have misrecalled everything”: John Banville’s The Untouchable’, English, 52.204 (Autumn 2003) 237-51

Anne Frank and the Uncanny’, Paragraph, 24.1 (2001) 99-113

Writing Trauma: Charlotte Delbo and the Struggle to Represent’, in eds. Anne Whitehead and Michael Rossington, Between the Psyche and the Polis: Refiguring History in Literature and Theory (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001). pp.97-107

Dramatic Justice: The Aftermath of the Holocaust in Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides’, Modern Drama, XLIII.1 (May/June 2000) 1-12

A Theatre of Uncertainty: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen’, New Theatre Quarterly, XV.4 (November 1999) 301-07

Teaching and Administration

EN3030: Victorian to Modern: Literature 1870-1945

EN3040: Post War to Postmodern: Literature 1945-present day

EN3141: Representing the Holocaust

Dr Stewart contributes a module on the 1940s to the MA in Modern Literature

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Research Interests Dr Stewart’s research interests include the twentieth-century and contemporary novel, war writing and life-writing. Her book Women’s Autobiography: War and Trauma (Palgrave, 2003) considered the work of writers including Vera Brittain, Virginia Woolf and Anne Frank from the perspective of trauma theory. Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (Palgrave, 2006), her latest book, examines a range of novels from this decade, focusing in particular on their depiction of the processes of memory. Dr Stewart has also had articles published in a range of journals, and has written book reviews for Literature and History. Dr Stewart is an Associate Member of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies.

Current Postgraduate Supervision Dr Stewart would welcome inquiries from prospective research students interested in working in the following areas: Writing from and about the First and Second World Wars Holocaust Writing Mid 20th-Century Novel Non-canonical Authors, the ‘Middlebrow’, and Detective Fiction Life-Writing

Recent Publications Books Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006) Women’s Autobiography: War and Trauma (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003) About O’Casey: The Playwright and the Work (London: Faber & Faber, 2003) Articles and Book Chapters: 'Middelbrow Psychology in Gilbert Frankau’s Novels of the 1930s’, Working Papers on the Web 11 (2008) http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/middlebrow/Stewart.html 'Realism, Modernism and the Representation of Memory in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle', Studies in the Novel 40.3 (2008), 328-43 'J. W. Dunne and Literary Culture in the 1930s and 1940s.' Literature and History 17.2 (2008), 62-81 The Last War: the Legacy of the First World War in 1940s British Fiction’, in ed. Jessica Meyer, British Popular Culture and the First World War. (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 259-81 “That Eternal ‘Now’”: Memory and Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen’s Seven Winters’, Modern Fiction Studies, 53.2 (Summer 2007) 334-50 The Other War: Christopher Priest’s The Separation’ in ed. Andrew M. Butler, Christopher Priest: The Interaction (London: Science Fiction Foundation, 2005). pp. 115-28 “The Big War Outside and the Little War at Home”: Anamnesis and the Second World War in Recent British Fiction’, English, 54.210 (Autumn 2005) 209-24 “War Memoirs of the Dead”: Writing and Remembrance in the First World War’, Literature and History, 14.2 (Autumn 2005) 37-52 ‘Holocaust Diaries: Writing from the Abyss’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41.4 (2005) 418-26 Q.D. Leavis: Women and Education under Scrutiny’, Literature and History, 13.2 (Autumn 2004) 67-85 The Auditory Uncanny in Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear’, Textual Practice, 18.1 (2004) 65-81 “I may have misrecalled everything”: John Banville’s The Untouchable’, English, 52.204 (Autumn 2003) 237-51 Anne Frank and the Uncanny’, Paragraph, 24.1 (2001) 99-113 Writing Trauma: Charlotte Delbo and the Struggle to Represent’, in eds. Anne Whitehead and Michael Rossington, Between the Psyche and the Polis: Refiguring History in Literature and Theory (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001). pp.97-107 Dramatic Justice: The Aftermath of the Holocaust in Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides’, Modern Drama, XLIII.1 (May/June 2000) 1-12 A Theatre of Uncertainty: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen’, New Theatre Quarterly, XV.4 (November 1999) 301-07

Teaching and Administration EN3030: Victorian to Modern: Literature 1870-1945 EN3040: Post War to Postmodern: Literature 1945-present day EN3141: Representing the Holocaust Dr Stewart contributes a module on the 1940s to the MA in Modern Literature