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Stephanie Russo specialises in early modern and eighteenth-century women’s writing. Her work has focused on exploring representations of politics, monarchy, power, and revolution. She has published widely on a range of female novelists of the eighteenth century, including Jane Austen, Mary Robinson, Frances Burney,  Charlotte Smith, Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Eliza Haywood. She is particularly interested in recovery work on non-canonical women writers of the eighteenth century, such as Helen Craik and Sarah Harriet Burney.

Her current research is focused on exploring the ways in which Anne Boleyn has figured as a symbol for a whole range of ideas about sex, history, politics, gender, religion and power. She is writing The Literary Afterlife of Anne Boleyn for Palgrave Macmillan’s Queenship and Power series (due to be completed in 2020). This project will span five hundred years of writing about the Tudors, from the work of Sir Thomas Wyatt, to contemporary literary, televisual and digital texts.

Recent Publications

BOOKS

Russo, Stephanie. The Literary Afterlife of Anne Boleyn (under contract at Palgrave Macmillan, for publication in 2021)

Russo, Stephanie. Women in Revolutionary Debate: Female Novelists from Burney to Austen. Houten: Brill: 2012.

Cousins, A.D., Dani Napton and Stephanie Russo (editors). The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Russo, Stephanie. “Virtue Betray’d: Women writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century”. Accepted for inclusion in Remembering Queens and Kings in Early Modern England and France: Reputation, Reinterpretation, Reincarnation (Palgrave Macmillan) on 6 April 2017.

Russo, Stephanie. “Domesticating Charlotte Corday: Helen Craik’s Adelaide de Narbonne (1800) and Private Vengeance”. In Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday. To be published in 2017/8 by Lexington Books. Accepted 2 March 2017.

Russo, Stephanie. “Adelaide de Narbonne”. In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820, edited by April London. To be published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. Accepted 11 November 2016.

Russo, Stephanie. “Stella of the North”. In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820, edited by April London. To be published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. Accepted 11 November 2016.

Russo, Stephanie. “Theodosius and Arabella”. In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820, edited by April London. To be published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. Accepted 11 November 2016.

Russo, Stephanie. “The Western Mail”. In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820, edited by April London. To be published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. Accepted 11 November 2016.

Cousins, A.D., Dani Napton and Russo, Stephanie. “Introduction”. In The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period, edited by A.D. Cousins, Dani Napton and Stephanie Russo, 1-14. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

Russo, Stephanie, “A people driven by terror: Charlotte Smith, The Banished Man and the Politics of Counter-Revolution”. In The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period, edited by A.D. Cousins, Dani Napton and Stephanie Russo, 37-54. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

Russo, Stephanie and Cousins, A.D., “In a state of terror and misery indescribable: Violence, Madness and Revolution in the novels of Frances Burney”. In The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period, edited by A.D. Cousins, Dani Napton and Stephanie Russo, 83-100. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

Russo, Stephanie and Cousins, A.D., “Educated in Masculine Habits: Mary Robinson, Androgyny and the Ideal Woman”. In The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period, edited by A.D. Cousins, Dani Napton and Stephanie Russo, 101-112. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

 

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Russo, Stephanie. “Austen Approved: Pemberley Digital and the Transmedia Commodification of Jane Austen”. Women’s Writing, special issue on Jane Austen’s Afterlives, forthcoming, accepted 24 February 2016.

Russo, Stephanie. “History Repeating: Mothers, Daughters and Incest in Mary Robinson’s Vancenza and The False Friend”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 37, no. 1 (2018), 67-90.

Russo, Stephanie. “My mite for its protection: The conservative woman as action hero in the writings of the writings of Charlotte West, Helen Craik, Maria Edgeworth and Grace Dalrymple Elliott”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 41, no. 1 (2018), 43-60.

Russo, Stephanie. “Rewriting Radcliffe in the Age of Victoria: Sarah Harriet Burney’s The Romance of Private Life”. Gothic Studies, 19, no 1 (2017), 73-90.

Russo, Stephanie. “The Damsel of Brittany: Mary Robinson’s Angelina, Tyranny and the 1790s”. English Studies, 97, no. 4 (2016), 397-411.

Russo, Stephanie. “The writer died at Autun in her 26th year: Genre, health tourism, and Anna Jameson’s Diary of an Ennuyée”. Studies in Travel Writing, 20, no 2 (2016), 200-213.

Russo, Stephanie. “Ovid was a mere fool to you: Clothing and nationality in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer”. Sydney Studies in English, 41 (2015), 31-46.

Russo, Stephanie. “The exertion of your perverted Abilities: Lady Susan and Mary Robinson’s The Widow”. Persuasions: the Jane Austen Journal 36 (2014), 181-191.

Russo, Stephanie. “Where virtue struggles midst a maze of snares: Mary Robinson’s Vancenza (1792) and the Gothic Novel”. Women’s Writing 20.4 (2013), 586-601.

Russo, Stephanie and Napton, Dani, “Place in Smith’s The Banished Man and Scott’s Woodstock”. SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 52.4 (Autumn 2012), 747-763.

Russo, Stephanie and Cousins, A.D., “Educated in Masculine Habits: Mary Robinson, Androgyny and the Ideal Woman”. AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 115 (November 2011), 37-50.

Russo, Stephanie. “Would it be pleasing to me? Surveillance and Sexuality in Frances Burney’s Camilla”. The Burney Journal 2011, 80-93.

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England

Expertise by Geography

England

Expertise by Chronology

Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century

Expertise by Topic

Gender, Rebellion & Revolution, Women