Dr Emily Coit
BA (Wellesley) , MA (Yale), PhD (Yale)
Current positions
Lecturer in English (American Literature of the 19th Century)
Department of English
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Research interests
I work on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American literature, especially novels and nonfiction prose. More broadly, I am interested in Victorian liberalism, nineteenth-century feminisms, the history of higher education, and transatlantic approaches to literary study.
My website is here.
My book, American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture, and the Genteel Tradition, is coming out with Edinburgh University Press in early 2021.
Contact Information
Email me at emily.coit [at] bristol.ac.uk.
Teaching
At Bristol, I teach undergraduate and MA-level units on British and American literature from the eighteenth century through the present.
I am on leave during AY 20-21.
Research Supervision
I am not currently reviewing applications for new research students.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Lecturer in English (American Literature of the 19th Century)
Department of English
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2021American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture, and the Genteel Tradition
American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture, and the Genteel Tradition
Edith Wharton's Microscopist and the Science of Language
The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science
American Nervousness: Motherhood and 'the Mental Activity of Women' in the Era of Sexual Anarchy
Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts
'A Roaring and Discontinuous Universe': Edith Wharton's Modern Hauntings
Routledge Companion to the Ghost Story
'The Orthodox Creed of the Business World'? Philanthropy and Liberal Individualism in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree
Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920