Ruth Robbins
Ruth Robbins is Professor of English Literature and head of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities. Her work has focused on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, on autobiography, on literary theory and on particular writers such as Oscar Wilde and Arnold Bennett. Ruth's research interests centre on the late-Victorian period in English literature, especially the literature of Decadence. She also has research interests in literary theory.
Works (12)

Key concepts in literary theory
2001

Literary feminisms

Ishi, the Last of His Tribe

York Notes on Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest"

Victorian identities

Victorian Gothic

Subjectivity

The Continuum encyclopedia of modern criticism and theory

Oscar Wilde

The French connections of Jacques Derrida

Pater to Forster, 1873-1924

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