Chris Vanden Bossche is the author of Carlyle and the Search for Authority, and editor of Carlyle's Historical Essays and Past and Present. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Strouse Edition of the Works of Thomas Carlyle, and also maintains the Carlyle Web Site.

His essays have dealt with family and class as represented in cookery books and David Copperfield, separate spheres and social reform in Ruskin, and the idea of authorship in the copyright debates of 1837-1842. He contributed the entry "Moving Out: Adolescence" in The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. In addition, he has published essays on Tennyson, Scott, and other nineteenth-century topics. His most recent work deals with class and agency in Bleak House and Jane Eyre. He is currently working on a study titled Reform Acts: The Franchise, Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832-1867.

Courses

ENGL 13186:
University Literature Seminar

ENGL 30101:
Introduction to Literary Study

ENGL 40332:
Reforming Victorian Literature

ENGL 53001:
Honors Colloquium

ENGL 90325:
Victorian Novel

ENGL 90340:
Victorian Literature and Culture

Selected Publications