Clayton Tarr

Education

Ph.D., University of Georgia, British Literature, 2013

M.A., University of South Carolina, British Literature, 2007

B.A., Indiana University, British Literature, 2005

Publications

Books

Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation Fiction. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2022.

Peru and Peruvian Tales. By Helen Maria Williams. Ed. Paula R. Feldman, Clayton Tarr, et al. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2015.

Articles

“Food for Thought: ‘Goblin Market’ and Victorian Pulp.” Forthcoming, Victorian Review. 9,000 words.

“Queer Gothic Poetry.” Forthcoming, Edinburgh Companion to the Queer Gothic. 9,000 words.

“Spoiler Alert: The Sensation Novel and Victorian Criticism.” Forthcoming, Victorian Periodicals Review. 11,000 words.

“‘[A] commotion in the firmament’: The Thermodynamics of Neverland.” Forthcoming, Children’s Literature 51 (2023): 10,000 words.

“Registration and Impersonation in A Tale of Two Cities.” Forthcoming, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 62.4 (Autumn 2022): 9,000 words.

“Mind Matters: Psychosurgical Horror in The Great God Pan and Peter and Wendy.” Forthcoming, Horror Studies 14.1 (Spring 2023): 8,000 words.

“This Is How I Win: Uncut Gems, Colonial Violence, and the Victorian Adventure Story.” The Journal of Popular Culture 55.2 (April 2022): 392–410.

“Stillborn Plots: Revolution, Imagination, and the Failure of Romanticism.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 74.4 (March 2020): 415–47.

“Big Oil: Petroleum Politics in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race.” Symbiosis 23.2 (Fall 2019): 171–92.

“The Loss of Maidenhead: Rape and the Revolutionary Novel.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31.3 (Spring 2019): 549–74.

“For British Eyes Only: Arrested Development and Neo-Victorian Humor.” Neo-Victorian Studies 11.1 (2018): 65–84.

“The Tables Turned: Curious Commodities in Victorian Children’s Literature.” Journal of Victorian Culture 23.1 (2018): 25–44.

“Abnormal Narratives: Disability and Omniscience in the Nineteenth-Century Novel.” Victorian Literature and Culture 45.3 (September 2017): 645–64.

“Long in the Tooth: Dental Degeneracy and the Savage Mouth.” Gothic Studies 19.1 (May 2017): 113–26.

“Pleasurable Suspension: Erotic Asphyxiation in the Nineteenth Century.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 38.1 (2016): 55–68.

“Infectious Fiction: Plague and the Novelist in Arthur Mervyn and The Last Man.” Studies in the Novel 47.2 (Summer 2015): 141–57.

“Absolute Heathenism: Bog Bodies and the Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Literature.” Nineteenth-Century Studies 27 (2013): 1–20.

“Purloined Letters: Edgar Allan Poe, Maria Edgeworth, and the Study of Chirography.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review 14.2 (Autumn 2013): 178–98.

“‘Who are your heroes?’: Thomas Carlyle and Louisa May Alcott.” Carlyle Studies Annual 28 (2012): 121–40.

“Covent Goblin Market.” Victorian Poetry 50.3 (Fall 2012): 297–319.

“Knots in Glass: Dickens and Omniscience from Boz to Bucket.” Dickens Studies Annual 43 (2012): 33–66.