Rosetta Young

|Senior Lecturer
Academic Appointments

  • Senior Lecturer

  • Assistant Director of Faculty Development

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. 

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Contact

Rosetta.Young@dartmouth.edu
37 Dewey Fld Rd, Room 219
HB 6250

Department(s)

Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

Education

  • Ph.D. UC-Berkeley
  • M.A. UC-Berkeley
  • B.A. New York University

Selected Publications

  • "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).