DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Biography

Christopher Herbert (Ph.D. Yale University) is a Victorianist specializing in the novel and in cultural and intellectual history. He is the author of Trollope and Comic Pleasure (Chicago, 1987), Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1991), Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery (Chicago, 2001), and War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma (Princeton, 2007), as well as articles on Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Henry Mayhew, Bram Stoker, Virginia Woolf, and various issues of nineteenth-century scientific and social thought. His most recent book is Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to "Dracula."  He has received an NEH and two ACLS Fellowships and two WCAS Outstanding Teaching Awards.

Specializations

Victorian, Science & Literature

Books

Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula (University of Virginia Press, 2019)

War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery (University Of Chicago Press, 2001)

Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the 19th Century (University of Chicago Press, 1991)

Trollope and Comic Pleasure (University of Chicago Press, 1987)