Assoc. Prof. Jenny Gribble

MA Melb. BPhil Oxf.
Honorary Associate

Current Research Project

• Dickens and the Bible: an Inter-textual Study

Books

• The Lady of Shalott in the Victorian Novel (London and New York : Macmillan 1988).
• Christina Stead (Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1994).

Edited Text

• George Eliot Scenes of Clerical Life (London and New York : Penguin Classics 1998)

Chapters in Books

• ‘Portable Property: Postcolonial Appropriations of Great Expectations’ in Victorian Turns, Neo-Victorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture ed. Penny Gay, Judith Johnston, and Catherine Walters (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008).
• ‘Christina Stead’s Politics’ in Running Wild: Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding ed. David Brooks and Brian Kiernan (Sydney: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture 2004).
• ‘Booriobhoola Gha: Dickens, John Jarndyce and the Heart of Darkness’ in Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds ed. Anny Sadrin ( London: Macmillan 1998).
• ‘The Hero’s Guilt: Dickens and The Bride’s Chamber’ in Imperfect Apprehensions: Essays in Honour of G.A. Wilkes ed. Geoffrey Little (Sydney: Challis Press 1996).
• ‘Patrick White: Vivisector’ in Reconnoitres: Essays in Australian Literature in Honour of G.A. Wilkes ed. Margaret Harris and Elizabeth Webby (Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1992).

Selected Articles

• ‘The Bible in Great Expectations’, Dickens Quarterly 25, 4, December 2009.
• ‘Why the Good Samaritan was a Bad Economist: Dickens’ Parable for Hard Times’, Literature and Theology 18, 2004.
• ‘Subject and Power in “Porphyria’s Lover” ‘, Sydney Studies in English 29, 2003.
• ‘Postmodern Tess’, Sydney Studies in English 25, 1999.
• ‘The Quiet Women of Egdon Heath’, Essays in Criticism 46, 1997. Reprinted in Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native ed. Phillip Mallett (New York: Norton Critical Editions 2001).
• ‘Books of Laughter and Forgetting’, Meridian 1997.
• ‘The Hidden Shame: Telling Hetty Sorrel’s Story’, Sydney Studies in English 22, 1996.
• ‘The Fogginess of The Heart of Darkness’, Sydney Studies in English 11, 1995.
• ‘Value in The Golden Bowl’, The Critical Review 27, 1985.
• ‘Cages’, The Critical Review 24, 1982.
• ‘Pip and Estella: Expectations of Love’, Sydney Studies in English 2, 1976.
• ‘Depth and Surface in Our Mutual Friend’ Essays in Criticism 25, 1975.
• ‘Jane Eyre’s Imagination’, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 1968.