Writing — Victoria Wiet, Ph.D.

Scholarly publications

Theatrical License and the Pleasures of Victorian Fiction (in progress)

“Licensing Pleasure: Five Scenes from the Victorian Theatre” (under revision; manuscript available by request)

“Programs,” Theatre Things: Material Theories and Histories, edited by Eero Laine and Andrew Friedman, University of Michigan Press (forthcoming; manuscript available by request)

“‘Boyish as a Ganymede’: Greek Love and the Erotic Experiment in Jude the Obscure,” ELH, vol. 90, no. 4 (Winter 2023), pp. 1123-1157 (https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a914018)

“‘Women’” (co-authored with Kimberly Cox, Shannon Draucker, and Doreen Thierauf), Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 51, issue 3, Keywords Redux (Sept. 2023), pp. 543-547 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150323000062)

“Theatre Critics,” Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women Writers, edited by Lesa Scholl and Emily Morris (published online October 2019) (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78318-1_186)

“Dickens’s Tableaux: Melodrama and Sexual Opacity in David Copperfield and Bleak House,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 74, issue 2, pp. 167-198 (https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2019.74.2.167)

“The Actress in Nature: Environments of Artistic Development in Victorian Fiction and Lifewriting,” Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, vol. 45, issue 2: Special Issue on Theatrical Ecologies and Environments, pp. 232-253 (https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372718823663)

Book reviews (academic)

Jacob Bloomfield, Drag: A British History (California 2023), Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film (forthcoming)

Dustin Friedman, Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self (Hopkins 2019), Modern Philology, vol. 118, issue 2, pp. 129-132 (https://doi.org/10.1086/711160)