Rosetta Young
Senior Lecturer
Appointments
Senior Lecturer
Assistant Director of Faculty Development
Biography
I am a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature and culture. In my research, I study how the novel creates cultural narratives that readers absorb, interpret, and put into practice.
I am currently at work on two book projects. The first project, "Upper Middle Class: the Novel and the Invention of a Social Group," examines how authors of the nineteenth-century transatlantic novel expended tremendous creative and linguistic energy imagining and detailing this emergent social group. Reading across the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Frank J. Webb, George Eliot, and Henry James, the project argues that, through its narrative techniques, the novel invented a speech register that defined the upper middle class as a transatlantic social echelon.
My second project, "The New Game of Human Life: Childhood and the Career," studies how children's literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth century championed the white-collar career as having the power to preserve and extend youth.
Before joining the Dartmouth faculty in 2022, I taught first-year writing seminars at Haverford College. I received my Ph.D. in English from UC-Berkeley in 2019 and my B.A. from NYU in 2012.
I also have a broad interest in popular culture from the eighteenth century to the present. I love a wide range of books and media, so I am always happy to chat with students about their own pop culture passions.
Education
Ph.D. UC-Berkeley
M.A. UC-Berkeley
B.A. New York University
Publications
"To be a Quicksand: A Re-Examination of Nella Larsen's Plagiarism of John Galsworthy," forthcoming from Journal of Modern Literature.
"'Six Officers at Once': Jane Austen's Orgiastic Imagination and its Afterlives," forthcoming from The Journal of Popular Culture.
"Gaslighting, Misogynoir, and the Mixed-Race Heiress in The Woman of Colour and Vanity Fair." Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice, edited by Nora Gilbert, Tara MacDonald, and Diana Bellonby, forthcoming from SUNY Press.
"'How nicely you talk…I love to hear you': Speech as Cultural Capital in Emma, Middlemarch, and The Portrait of a Lady." Nineteenth-Century Literature 78.4 (March 2024): 286-315.
Review of Devoney Looser's Sister Novelists: the Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 35.4 (October 2023): 523-526.
"The Persistence of Social Groups: Georg Simmel and John Galsworthy." The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain, edited by Albert Pionke and Maria K. Bachman, Routledge (October 2019): 178-197.
"'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me': Bourdieuan Multiform Capital and Dickensian Characterization." Studies in the Novel 51.2 (Summer 2019): 218-238.
"'A Fucking Jane Austen Novel': An Alternative Popular Culture Legacy." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 41.4 (Summer 2019): 355-368.
"Table Games, 1790-1832." The Wordsworth Circle 49 (Winter 2018): 46-53.
"A Robert Martin, a Jane Fairfax, and an Anne Cox: Miss Woodhouse's Indefinite Logic in Emma." Persuasions: the Jane Austen Journal On-Line 38.1 (Winter 2017).
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