Elvira Casal - Ph.D. in English Vanderbilt, 1993.
Areas of Specialization:
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Prose Fiction (especially the eighteenth and nineteenth century British
novel)
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The Victorian Period
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Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)
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Jane Austen
Topics of Special Interest:
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Space in literature
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Motherhood in literature
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The development of the concept of domesticity
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Courtship novel
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Women in fiction
Other Research Interests:
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Comic theory, the long eighteenth-century, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Brontë, George Meredith, E.M. Forster
See Profile.