LuAnn McCracken Fletcher
Professor, History Literature and Languages Department | Cedar Crest College
Allentown, PA, UNITED STATES
LuAnn is a professor of English in the History, Literature, and Languages Department; she began her Cedar Crest career in 1993.
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Biography
During her time at the college, LuAnn has taught more than 30 different literature and writing courses, including courses for the English program, the Honors program, and the First Year Experience. She has taught courses with study abroad components and has taken students to England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. She also advises Preterite, the college's literary club, and advised Pitch: A Journal of Arts and Literature for that online journal's first five years. She served as Director of the English Program for thirteen years and as department chair for six years.
LuAnn has co-edited an anthology of Victorian prose. She has also published scholarly articles on Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, and J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. She has presented conference papers on George Gissing's New Woman novel "The Odd Woman" and on Sir Walter Scott and Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series. Her current research focuses on history, fiction, and literary tourism.
LuAnn is a member of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
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British Literature
Women's Literature
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Harry Potter
Neo Victorian British Literature
Education (3)
University of California, Los Angeles: Ph.D., English 1991
Lehigh University: M.A., English 1985
Lehigh University: B.A., English & Psychology 1983
Affiliations (2)
- Modern Language Association (MLA) : Member
- The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) : Member
Articles (3)
Late Victorian Feminist Novels
English Literature in Transition
1996-01-01
A survey of recent studies of the work of late Victorian women novelists gives one sense that here is an era of Victorian studies that has not yet been done to death by conscientious scholars looking to document the political, social and ideological influences on the period's literature...
Manufactured Marvels, Heretic Narratives, and the Process of Interpretation in Villette
Studies in English Literature
1992-01-01
You used to call yourself a nursery-governess; when you first came here you really had the care of the children in this house... and now Madame Beck treats you with more courtesy than she treats the Parisienne, St. Pierre; and that proud chit, my cousin, makes you her ...
"Singing in her song she died": Form as Heterotopic Mirror in Tennyson and Byatt
Studies in the Novel
2016-09-01
This essay reads A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book in the context of Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” to argue for the sophistication of Byatt’s aesthetic in light of ongoing debates about Byatt’s status as a contemporary British author. The essay employs Foucault’s description of the mirror as heterotopia to discuss art’s “form” and art’s relationship to artist and reader in Tennyson and Byatt. In focusing on the creative act itself and its impact on the lives of many of the novel’s major characters, The Children’s Book illuminates the complexities and moral dimensions of Byatt’s own writer’s aesthetic, a subject Byatt has explored in previous works of fiction and nonfiction. In demonstrating narrative’s potential dangers, Byatt’s novel tacitly offers a response to poststructural and cultural criticism of her fiction as essentialist and reactionary, even as it admittedly leaves the contradictions of her aesthetic unresolved.
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