Barbara Leckie
Associate Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Barbara Leckie Degrees: B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (McGill), Postdoc (U of California, Berkeley)
Research Interest
Nineteenth-century print culture Cultural History of Procrastination Climate change and eco-criticism Architecture and the built environment Narratives of nineteenth-century social reform Print censorship, law, and literature Critical and cultural theory Theories of the novel
Publications
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A New Departure in Biography’: Samuel Smiles’s Writing.†Nineteenth-Century Prose 43.1-2 (Spring-Fall 2016): 283-301.
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Sequence and Fragment, History and Thesis: Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help, Social Change, and Climate Change.†Nineteenth-Century Contexts 38.5 (2016): 305-17.
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Animated Conversations: Form, Transformation, and the Category of the Novel in the 1880s.†The Literary 1880s. Eds. Andrew Taylor and Penny Fielding. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Forthcoming.
