Diana R Newby
Princeton University, Princeton Writing Program, Faculty Member
- https://www.dianarosenewby.com/ Diana Rose Newby is a Postdoctoral Lecturer in Writing at Princeton University. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2022. Her research examines 19th century literature and science, drawing on the frameworks of env... morehttps://www.dianarosenewby.com/
Diana Rose Newby is a Postdoctoral Lecturer in Writing at Princeton University. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2022. Her research examines 19th century literature and science, drawing on the frameworks of environmental and health humanities, the new materialisms, queer of color theory, and critical feminism.
She is currently at work on a book manuscript titled The Vanishing Self: Ethics and Vitality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in ELH, Victorian Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Literature and Medicine, Genre, Future Humanities, Lit Hub, Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, Politics/Letters, and multiple edited collections.edit
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Weather in Bleak House is a representational locus for Charles Dickens's bleak environmentalism: my term for his concern with the body's porous receptivity to physical and political environments that restrict individual agency. Situating... more
Weather in Bleak House is a representational locus for Charles Dickens's bleak environmentalism: my term for his concern with the body's porous receptivity to physical and political environments that restrict individual agency. Situating the novel in relation to Victorian meteorology and chemistry, I suggest these scientific contexts scaffolded Dickens's critique of legal institutions that systemically weather human life, helping him make visible the material impact of bureaucratic biopolitics.