Expertise

Victorian and 19th-century Literature and Culture; Psychology; Religion and Literature; Christianity and Literature; Disability Studies

Biography

Anna Peak joined the Intellectual Heritage Program in 2011. Her work has appeared in journals such as Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Review. Her current research project investigates disability and religion in Victorian fiction.

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Selected Publications

• “That Flexible Flageolet”: Music, Homophobia, and Anti-Semitism in George Du Maurier’s Trilby.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 21.4 (2019), 476-492.
• “Re-thinking Trollope and Anti-Semitism: Gender, Religion, and ‘the Jew’ in The Way We Live Now.” The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margaret Markwick, and Mark Turner. Routledge, 2017.
• “The Condition of Music in Victorian Scholarship.” Victorian Literature and Culture 44 (2016), 423- 437.
• “The Chinese Language and the Saturday Review: A Case Study in Sinophobia’s Scholarly Roots.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.2 (2015), 431-444.
• “Servants and the Victorian Sensation Novel.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 54.4 (Autumn 2014), 835-851.
• “Music and New Woman Aesthetics in Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus.” Victorian Review 40.1 (Spring 2014), 135-154.

Courses Taught

• Intellectual Heritage I
• Intellectual Heritage II