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British literature scholar (1956–2021)
Marcus at New College Oxford
Laura Marcus
FBA (7 March 1956 – 22 September 2021)
[1] was a British literature scholar. She was Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at
New College, Oxford and published widely on 19th- and 20th-century literature and film,
[2] with particular interests in
autobiography ,
modernism ,
Virginia Woolf , and
psychoanalysis .
[3]
Marcus won the
Modern Language Association 's
James Russell Lowell Prize for her book The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period .
[3] In 2011, she was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy .
[4]
Prior to joining Oxford, Marcus was Professor of English at
Sussex University and
Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the
University of Edinburgh .
[5]
She was an editor of the journal Women: a Cultural Review .
[2]
She died of pancreatic cancer on 22 September 2021 at the age of 65.
[6]
Books
Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994)
[7]
Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004)
The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007)
[8]
[9]
[10]
Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014)
[11]
[12]
Autobiography: a very short introduction (2018)
[13]
[14]
co-ed. The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004)
References
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"Professor Laura Marcus | New College" . www.new.ox.ac.uk . Oxford University.
Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021 .
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"Professor Laura Marcus" . www.english.ox.ac.uk . Oxford University.
Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021 .
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b
"In Memoriam: Professor Laura Marcus" . British Association for Modernist Studies . 24 September 2021.
Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021 .
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"Professor Laura Marcus FBA" . The British Academy .
Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021 .
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"Laura Marcus - Institut d'études avancées de Paris" . www.paris-iea.fr . Retrieved 30 September 2021 .
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"Laura Marcus obituary" . the Guardian . 19 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021 .
^ Corbett, Mary Jean (1995).
"Review of The Auto/Biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/Biography; De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography; I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir; Sending My Heart Back across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography; Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories" . Signs . 20 (2): 476–481.
doi :
10.1086/494993 .
ISSN
0097-9740 .
JSTOR
3174968 .
^ Highmore, Ben (9 December 2009).
"The Making of English Photography: Allegories by Steve Edwards The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film c. 1900 by Lynda Nead The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period by Laura Marcus" . Visual Culture in Britain . 10 (3): 361–368.
doi :
10.1080/14714780903266604 .
ISSN
1471-4787 .
S2CID
191212813 .
Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021 .
^ Shail, Andrew (2009).
"Review of The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period" . The Modern Language Review . 104 (1): 155–157.
doi :
10.2307/20468145 .
ISSN
0026-7937 .
JSTOR
20468145 .
^ Trotter, David (1 October 2009).
"The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period" . Screen . 50 (3): 345–346.
doi :
10.1093/screen/hjp019 .
ISSN
0036-9543 .
^ Shin, Jacqueline (2016).
"Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema by Laura Marcus (review)" . Modernism/Modernity . 23 (4): 916–918.
doi :
10.1353/mod.2016.0083 .
ISSN
1080-6601 .
S2CID
152255024 .
Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2021 .
^ Heffer, Byron (2 January 2016).
"Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema" . Textual Practice . 30 (1): 189–193.
doi :
10.1080/0950236X.2015.1112652 .
ISSN
0950-236X .
S2CID
146535501 .
Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021 .
^ Schmitt, Arnaud (3 April 2021).
"Autobiography. A Very Short Introduction" . Life Writing . 18 (2): 303–305.
doi :
10.1080/14484528.2019.1644269 .
ISSN
1448-4528 .
S2CID
199955530 .
^ Jolly, Margaretta (2020).
"Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction by Laura Marcus (review)" . Biography . 43 (2): 501–504.
doi :
10.1353/bio.2020.0047 .
ISSN
1529-1456 .
S2CID
235017125 .