Professor Alice Jenkins

  • Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture (English Literature)

telephone: 01413305699
email: Alice.Jenkins@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 302, 4 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671

Research interests

Research interests

  • Victorian literature and science
  • Literature and mathematics
  • Victorian poetry and non-fiction prose

Biography

Alice Jenkins is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture and works mainly on the emergence of the knowledge economy in the nineteenth century. Publications include  Space and the 'March of Mind’: Literature and the Physical Sciences, 1815-1850  (OUP, 2007) and an edition of Michael Faraday’s essays,  Michael Faraday’s ‘Mental Exercises’: An Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London  (Liverpool UP, 2008). She has recently completed a book on Victorian ideas about the ultimate unity of knowledge, as well as a cultural history of Euclidean geometry in the nineteenth century, which was written as part of Professor Jenkins’s three-year research project, ‘Nineteenth-Century Euclid’, funded by the European Research Council.

Research groups

  • Literature & Science
  • Victorian

Publications

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2021

Tubbs, Robert, Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 and Engelhardt, Nina (Eds.) (2021) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9783030554774

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2021) Non-normative Euclideans: Victorian literature and the untaught geometer. In: Tubbs, Robert, Jenkins, Alice and Engelhardt, Nina (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 81-96. ISBN 9783030554774 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-55478-1_5)

2019

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2019) Victorian nightmares of unbounded knowledge. In: Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. (Accepted for Publication)

2017

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2017) Mathematics. In: Holmes, John and Ruston, Sharon (eds.) The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472429872

2016

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2016) Beyond two cultures: science, literature, and disciplinary boundaries. In: John, Juliet (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Victorian LIterary Culture. Series: Oxford handbooks of literature. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 401-415. ISBN 9780199593736 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199593736.013.30)

2013

Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2013) Genre and geometry: Victorian mathematics and the study of literature and science. In: Marsden, B., Hutchison, H. and O'Connor, R. (eds.) Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800-1914. Series: Science and culture in the nineteenth century (23). Pickering & Chatto: London, UK, pp. 111-123. ISBN 9781848933620

2012

Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2012) Wonders and ologies. Nature, 482(7383), pp. 32-33. (doi: 10.1038/482032a)

2011

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2011) Gerard Manley Hopkins. In: Oxford Bibligraphies Online: Victorian Literature. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199799558-0034)

Jenkins, A. (2011) Science. In: Oxford Bibligraphies Online: Victorian Literature. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199799558-0061)

2010

Jenkins, A. (2010) Mathematics and mental health in early nineteenth-century England. BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, 25(2), pp. 92-103. (doi: 10.1080/17498431003696242)

2009

Jenkins, A. (2009) Politeness and intertextuality in Michael Faraday's artisan essay-circle. In: Krishnamurthy, A. (ed.) The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, UK, pp. 219-234. ISBN 9780754665045

2008

Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (Ed.) (2008) Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: an Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London. Series: Liverpool English texts and studies. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781846311406

Jenkins, A.(Ed.) (2008) Michael Faraday’s Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London. [Scholarly Editions]

Jenkins, A. (2008) George Eliot, geometry and gender. In: Ruston, S. (ed.) Literature and Science. Series: Essays and studies 2008 (61). D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 72-90. ISBN 9781843841784

2007

Howsam, L., Stray, C., Jenkins, A., Secord, J.A. and Vaninskaya, A. (2007) What the Victorians learned: perspectives on nineteenth-century schoolbooks. Journal of Victorian Culture, 12(2), pp. 262-285. (doi: 10.3366/jvc.2007.12.2.262)

Jenkins, A. (2007) Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos and the beginnings of ecocriticism. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 14(2), pp. 89-105.

Jenkins, A. (2007) What Katy ate: girls eating and reading in classic nineteenth-century American children's fiction. In: Wagner, T. and Hassan, N. (eds.) Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700-1900. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, pp. 173-185. ISBN 9780739112076

Jenkins, A. (2007) Space and the 'march of mind': literature and the physical sciences in Britain, 1815-1850. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199209927

Jenkins, A. (2007) Technique and technology: electronic voting systems in an english literature lecture. Pedagogy, 7(3), pp. 526-533. (doi: 10.1215/15314200-2007-012)

2006

Jenkins, A. (2006) Tunnel visions: underground geography in fantasy London. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 35(98), pp. 28-43.

Jenkins, A. (2006) Knowledge and geography in Olivia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and Maureen McHugh. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 16(4), pp. 320-334.

2002

Jenkins, A. (2002) Getting to utopia : railways and heterotopia in children's literature. In: Hintz, C. and Ostry, E. (eds.) Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults. Series: Children's literature and culture (29). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415940177

2000

Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 and John, J. (Eds.) (2000) Rereading Victorian Fiction. Palgrave: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780312226435

John, J. and Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (Eds.) (2000) Rethinking Victorian Culture. Macmillan Press: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780333714461

Coyle, J. and Cronin, R. (2000) Tennyson and the apostles. In: Johns, J. and Jenkins, A. (eds.) Rethinking Victorian Culture. Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 115-125. ISBN 9780333714461

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Number of items: 25.

Articles

Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2012) Wonders and ologies. Nature, 482(7383), pp. 32-33. (doi: 10.1038/482032a)

Jenkins, A. (2010) Mathematics and mental health in early nineteenth-century England. BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, 25(2), pp. 92-103. (doi: 10.1080/17498431003696242)

Howsam, L., Stray, C., Jenkins, A., Secord, J.A. and Vaninskaya, A. (2007) What the Victorians learned: perspectives on nineteenth-century schoolbooks. Journal of Victorian Culture, 12(2), pp. 262-285. (doi: 10.3366/jvc.2007.12.2.262)

Jenkins, A. (2007) Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos and the beginnings of ecocriticism. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 14(2), pp. 89-105.

Jenkins, A. (2007) Technique and technology: electronic voting systems in an english literature lecture. Pedagogy, 7(3), pp. 526-533. (doi: 10.1215/15314200-2007-012)

Jenkins, A. (2006) Tunnel visions: underground geography in fantasy London. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 35(98), pp. 28-43.

Jenkins, A. (2006) Knowledge and geography in Olivia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and Maureen McHugh. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 16(4), pp. 320-334.

Books

Jenkins, A. (2007) Space and the 'march of mind': literature and the physical sciences in Britain, 1815-1850. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199209927

Book Sections

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2021) Non-normative Euclideans: Victorian literature and the untaught geometer. In: Tubbs, Robert, Jenkins, Alice and Engelhardt, Nina (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 81-96. ISBN 9783030554774 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-55478-1_5)

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2019) Victorian nightmares of unbounded knowledge. In: Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. (Accepted for Publication)

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2017) Mathematics. In: Holmes, John and Ruston, Sharon (eds.) The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472429872

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2016) Beyond two cultures: science, literature, and disciplinary boundaries. In: John, Juliet (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Victorian LIterary Culture. Series: Oxford handbooks of literature. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 401-415. ISBN 9780199593736 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199593736.013.30)

Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2013) Genre and geometry: Victorian mathematics and the study of literature and science. In: Marsden, B., Hutchison, H. and O'Connor, R. (eds.) Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800-1914. Series: Science and culture in the nineteenth century (23). Pickering & Chatto: London, UK, pp. 111-123. ISBN 9781848933620

Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (2011) Gerard Manley Hopkins. In: Oxford Bibligraphies Online: Victorian Literature. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199799558-0034)

Jenkins, A. (2011) Science. In: Oxford Bibligraphies Online: Victorian Literature. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199799558-0061)

Jenkins, A. (2009) Politeness and intertextuality in Michael Faraday's artisan essay-circle. In: Krishnamurthy, A. (ed.) The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, UK, pp. 219-234. ISBN 9780754665045

Jenkins, A. (2008) George Eliot, geometry and gender. In: Ruston, S. (ed.) Literature and Science. Series: Essays and studies 2008 (61). D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 72-90. ISBN 9781843841784

Jenkins, A. (2007) What Katy ate: girls eating and reading in classic nineteenth-century American children's fiction. In: Wagner, T. and Hassan, N. (eds.) Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700-1900. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, pp. 173-185. ISBN 9780739112076

Jenkins, A. (2002) Getting to utopia : railways and heterotopia in children's literature. In: Hintz, C. and Ostry, E. (eds.) Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults. Series: Children's literature and culture (29). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415940177

Coyle, J. and Cronin, R. (2000) Tennyson and the apostles. In: Johns, J. and Jenkins, A. (eds.) Rethinking Victorian Culture. Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 115-125. ISBN 9780333714461

Edited Books

Tubbs, Robert, Jenkins, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 and Engelhardt, Nina (Eds.) (2021) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9783030554774

Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (Ed.) (2008) Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: an Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London. Series: Liverpool English texts and studies. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781846311406

Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 and John, J. (Eds.) (2000) Rereading Victorian Fiction. Palgrave: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780312226435

John, J. and Jenkins, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-5671 (Eds.) (2000) Rethinking Victorian Culture. Macmillan Press: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780333714461

Scholarly Editions

Jenkins, A.(Ed.) (2008) Michael Faraday’s Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London. [Scholarly Editions]

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Supervision

Professor Jenkins welcomes applications from students intending to work on nineteenth-century poetry and non-fiction prose. She has also supervised dissertations on fantastic fiction.

  • Lewis, Rachel
    Magic, Medicine, Metamorphosis: Representations of Medicine in the Victorian Fairy Tale