Arata

Degrees

• Ph.D. Chicago 1990
• M.A. William & Mary 1984
• B.A. William & Mary 1980

Books

• Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle, Cambridge University Press, 1996
  (paperback, 2008)

Edited Works

• A Companion to the English Novel, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015
• Stevenson and Conrad (co-edited with Linda Dryden and Eric Massie), Texas Tech University Press, 2009
• H.G. Wells The Time Machine, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008
• George Gissing New Grub Street , Broadview Press, 2007
• William Morris News from Nowhere , Broadview Press, 2002

Forthcoming Works

• The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (General Co-Editor with Richard Dury, Penny Fielding, and Anthony Mandal), 39 volumes, Edinburgh University Press (Editor). Five volumes published, three due in 2019-20.
• A History of the English Novel (Blackwell, forthcoming)

Recent Articles

• "Form," Victorian Literature and Culture 46:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2018).
• "Literature and Information," PMLA 130.3 (May 2015): 673-678
• “Some Versions of Form,” in A Companion to the English Novel, ed. Stephen Arata, J. Paul Hunter, and Jennifer Wicke (Blackwell, 2015): 192-208.
• “George Meredith,” Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, ed. Dino Franco Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes (Blackwell, 2015).
• “Decadent Form,” ELH 81.3 (Fall 2014): 1007-1028.
• “On E. W. Lane’s Edition of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, 1838.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. (http://www.branchcollective.org/). 2012.
• “The Victorian Fin de Siècle,” in New Cambridge History of English Literature: The Victorian Period, ed. Kate Flint (Cambridge University Press, 2012): 124-147.
• “Rhyme, Rhythm, and the Materiality of Poetry,” Victorian Studies 53: 3 (Spring 2011): 518-526.
• “The Impersonal Intimacy of Marius the Epicurean,” Feeling Victorian Reading, ed. Rachel Ablow and David Kurnick (University of Michigan Press, 2010): 131-156.
• “Stevenson and Fin-de-Siècle Gothic,” in Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. Penny Fielding (Edinburgh University Press, 2010): 53-69.
• “Stevenson’s Close Observances,” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 47 (August 2007). http://www.ron.umontreal.ca
• "Late-Victorian Realism," in Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle, ed. Gail Marshall (Cambridge University Press, 2007: 165-188.
• "On Not Paying Attention," Victorian Studies 46 (2004): 193-205.
• "Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ," in Wilde Writings, Contextual Conditions, ed. Joseph Bristow (University of Toronto Press, (2002): 254-72.

Selected Recent Lectures and Conferences

• “Decadent Form,” Keynote Address, Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (Toronto, Ontario), April 2014.
• “Some Versions of Form,” Invited Lecture, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL), April 2014.
• “The Modernity of the 1880s,” Keynote Address, Symposium on “British Writing in the 1880s: Literary History’s Uncertain Decade,” University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland), March 2012.
• “Decadent Form,” Keynote Address, Conference on “Decadent Poetics” organized by the Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter (Exeter, UK), July 2011.
• “Printed Talk: Close Reading ‘Of King’s Treasuries’,” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (Montreal, Quebec), November 2010.
• “Realism, Limited,” Conference on “The Novel and Its Borders” organized by The Centre for the Novel (Aberdeen, Scotland), July 2008.
• “The Impersonal Intimacy of Marius the Epicurean,” Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago, IL), December 2007.
• “Singing Fire: Walter Pater and the Secrets of Consciousness,” Victorians Institute Conference (Tuscaloosa, AL), November 2007.
• “Imperial Aestheticism,” Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Nation and Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature in English, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (Murcia, Spain), September 2007.
• “Hard, Gem-like Flames,” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (Toronto, ON), October 2004.