Herbert Tucker

(1986)
John C. Coleman Professor
Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. Yale, 1977
B.A. Amherst, 1971

Books

  • Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910. Oxford, 2008.
  • Editor, Victorian Literature 1830-1900. Harcourt College Publishers, 2001.
  • Editor, A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Blackwell, 1999.
  • Editor, Under Criticism. Ohio, 1998.
  • Editor, Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson. G.K. Hall, 1993.
  • Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism. Harvard, 1988.
  • Browning's Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure. Minnesota, 1980.

Articles

  • “Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.”  In Cambridge History of English Poetry, ed. Michael O’Neill. Forthcoming.
  • “Alfred Lord Tennyson.”  In Cambridge Companion to the English Poets, ed. Claude Rawson.  Forthcoming.
  • "Epic." The Cambridge History of English Literature: The Victorian Period, ed. Kate Flint. Cambridge, forthcoming.
  • “Metaphor, Translation, and Autoekphrasis in FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát.”  Victorian Poetry 46 (2008.
  • "Doughty's The Dawn in Britain and the Modernist Eclipse of the Victorian." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, (August 2007).
  • "Tactical Formalism: A Response to Caroline Levine." Victorian Studies (2006).
  • "Ut Poesis Pictura? Romantic Irony in the Ryals Collection." Romantic Eye: Drawings and Watercolors from the Ryals Collection (2006).
  • "An Ebbigrammar of Motives; or, Ba for Short." Victorian Poetry (2006).
  • "James's Browning Inside Out." Henry James Review (2005).
  • "History Played Back: In Defense of Stoppard’s Coast of Utopia." Raritan (2005).
  • "Southey the Epic-Headed." Romanticism on the Net (Nov. 2004).
  • "Glandular Omnism and Beyond: The Victorian Spasmodic Epic." Victorian Poetry (2004).
  • "Stricken Through: Victorian Poetry Edits Itself." Literary Imagination (2004).
  • "Rossetti's Goblin Marketing: Sweet to Tongue and Sound to Eye." Representations, 2003.
  • "Teaching Ambiguity." Pedagogy, 2003.
  • "Literal Illustration in Victorian Print." The Victorian Illustrated Book, ed. Richard Maxwell. Virginia, 2002.
  • "Arnold and the Authorization of Criticism." Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture. ed. Suzy Anger. Cornell, 2001.
  • "The Fix of Form: An Open Letter." Victorian Literature and Culture (1999).

Reviews

  • Kathryn Ledbetter, Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals.  In Victorian Studies.  Forthcoming.
  • Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem  In Nineteenth-Century Literature 62 (2008) 527-30.
  • Seamus Perry, Alfred Tennyson.  In Nineteenth-Century Literature 61(2006) 110-13.
  • Philip Davis, The Victorians, 1830-1880.  In Victorian Studies 46 (2004) 95-97.
  • Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Victorian Afterlives.  In Nineteenth-Century Literature 58 (2003) 268-72.
  • Matthew Reynolds, The Realms of Verse: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building.  In Victorian Studies 45 (2003) 387-89.
  • Donald S. Hair, Robert Browning’s Language. In Nineteenth-Century Contexts 24 (2002) 219-22.
  • Yopie Prins, Victorian Sappho.  In Nineteenth-Century Literature 55 (2000) 121-25.

Lectures

  • "Hardy at the Bottom Line." Metre Matters Conference (University of Exeter, July 2008).
  • "Victorian Genre Generalized." Dickens Universe (University of California at Santa Cruz, August 2007).
  • "Hardy's Epic Spectacle of Feeling in The Dynasts." Thomas Hardy Association (Yale University, June 2007).
  • "Charms and the Nerd: Tennyson's Technocrat." North American Victorian Studies Association (Purdue University, September 2006).
  • "Over Worked, Worked Over: The Poetics of Fatigue." Northeast Victorian Studies Association (Drew University, April 2006).
  • "Split Ends in Victorian Literature: All Over All Over Again." Boston University (March 2006).

Editorial

  • Associate Editor, New Literary History, 1996-
  • Series Editor, Victorian Literature and Culture, Virginia, 1989-

Honors

  • Fellow, Teaching and Technology Initiative (Virginia), 2008-2009
  • Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor (Williams College), 2006
  • Donald J. Gray Prize (North American Victorian Studies Association), 2004
  • National Humanities Center Fellow, 2000-2001
  • Shannon Center for Advanced Studies (University of Virginia) 1986-1988, 1997
  • MLA-ACLS Fellow, 1982-1983
  • Whiting Fellow, 1976-1977
  • Danforth Fellow, 1973-1977