Deborah Lutz (born 1970) is an American academic and writer. She is currently the Thruston B. Morton Endowed Chair at the University of Louisville.[1] Her scholarship focuses on Victorian literature, material culture, the history of sexuality, gender and LGBTQ+ studies, and the history of the book. Lutz has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation at the Huntington Library, and the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.[2][3] She is also a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.[4]
Lutz received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center.[1] She is the author of five books, including The Dangerous Lover (2006),[5] Pleasure Bound (2011),[6] The Brontë Cabinet (2015),[7][8] Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture (2015),[9] and Victorian Paper Art and Craft (2022). The Brontë Cabinet was shortlisted for the PEN/Weld Award for Biography and has been translated into Spanish and Japanese.[10][non-primary source needed] She is the editor of two Norton Critical Editions—Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.[11][12][non-primary source needed]
Books
edit- -----. The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative. Ohio State University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8142-5286-4 OCLC 63187398
- -----. Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism. W. W. Norton, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-393-06832-0 OCLC 601106342
- -----. The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects. W.W. Norton, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-393-35270-2 OCLC 891611162
- -----. Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture . Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781139924887 OCLC 8987703 99
- -----. Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and Their Materials. Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 9780198858799 OCLC 1346368125
References
edit- ^ a b "Deborah Lutz — Department of English". University of Louisville. Archived from the original on 2024-08-06. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Deborah Lutz – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2024-08-07. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Current Fellows 2024-2025". The New York Public Library. Archived from the original on 2021-02-11. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Fellows H-N". NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES. Archived from the original on 2024-08-07. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ Browne, Ray B. (March 2007). "The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth‐Century Seduction Narrative by Deborah Lutz". The Journal of American Culture. 30 (1): 140–141. doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.2007.00497.x. ISSN 1542-7331.
- ^ "Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism by Deborah Lutz". Publishers Weekly. 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ Churilla, Lauren M. (2017-12-01). "The Brontä Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects . By Deborah Lutz. (New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2015. Pp. xi, 310. $16.95.)". The Historian. 79 (4): 897–899. doi:10.1111/hisn.12726. ISSN 0018-2370.
- ^ "The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz". Publishers Weekly. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ Ledger-Lomas, Michael (2016-07-02). "Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture: How the Dead Live: Relics in Victorian Literature and Culture". Journal of Victorian Culture. 21 (3): 414–417. doi:10.1080/13555502.2016.1204692. ISSN 1355-5502.
- ^ "The Brontë Cabinet". W. W. Norton. Archived from the original on 2024-08-07. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Jane Eyre". W. W. Norton. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". W. W. Norton. Archived from the original on 2024-08-07. Retrieved 2024-08-07.