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Associate Professor of
English
(256) 890 -6320
earlyj@email.uah.edu
Dr. Early specializes in British Victorian literature, teaching Victorian prose, poetry, fiction, and special topics such as the literature of imperialism, literature of the transition (1890-1910), and seminars on the Brontes, George Eliot, and other less-known Victorian women writers. The Victorian period is particularly rich for women's issues: for the first time, women in significant numbers published in all genres, in the periodical press, as reviewers, and particularly as novelists. One-third of British 19th century novels are estimated to have been by women--and much of recent feminist scholarship has been concerned with bringing them back into view. Further, in a period particularly self-conscious about cultural issues, the "Woman Question" was hotly debated, not only directly to discuss 'woman's nature', 'woman's role', but also as one embedded in discussions of national identity, science, religion, indeed, what constitutes progress--all debates that women participated in. Dr. Early's Victorian courses (EH 493, EH 391) focus these issues: EH 418 (Women Writers) and EH 618 (Women and Literature) take up Victorian women, both the highly visible--the Brontes, George Eliot--and many less well-known writers.
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