Dr. Arlene Young

Professor Emeritus
Office: 610 Fletcher Argue
Phone: (204) 474-7145
Email: Arlene.Young@umanitoba.ca

Education: PhD (Cornell), MA (Manitoba, Cornell), BA Honours (Manitoba)

Recent Courses:

• The Victorian City
• Women Working in Victorian Fiction
• The Novel
• Detective Fiction
• Flowers of Evil: Literature of the Victorian fin de siècle
• Dickens in Context (graduate)

Areas of Specialization:

Victorian literature and culture; class and gender in Victorian culture; the nineteenth–century novel; nineteenth–century women writers; women and professions in the nineteenth century; literature and affect; George Gissing; Charles Dickens.

Other Interests / Recent Undertakings:

• Director, The Affect Project
• Victorian nursing (it’s more interesting than you think!)
• Victorian hospital organisation and management
• Victorian lady detectives (real and fictional)
• Jack the Ripper and Victorian crime
• Editing: I have edited editions of George Gissing’s The Odd Women and Tom Gallon’s The Girl Behind the Keys.
• I am currently completing a major project on middle–class women and work in Victorian literature and culture.

Useful Links:

• Victorian Web
• Victorian Writers Project
• The Dickens Project
• The Affect Project