Centre for Studies in Literature (CSL)
Dr Charlotte Boyce
Lecturer in English Literature
charlotte.boyce@port.ac.uk
My research centres on nineteenth-century literature and culture. In particular, I am interested in Victorian representations of food, cooking and domesticity, as well as the social spaces in which these activities took place.
I am currently revising an article on the exhibition of ‘taste’ in the Victorian dining-room, which examines the conflicting textual and visual instruction offered to middle-class householders in a range of publications, from fiction to domestic design literature. This forms part of a wider project on the ideological significance of the dining-room and acts of consumption in Victorian culture, which will result in the production of a book-length monograph.
Together with Dr Páraic Finnerty, I am also working on a HEIF-funded project on 'Tennyson's Celebrity Circle: Cultural Interactions on the Isle of Wight'. For further information, visit http://www.port.ac.uk/research/csl/researchprojects/tennysonscelebritycircle/
Journal Articles
‘Reading Recipes: The Victorian Cookery Book and its Literary Analogues’, Peer English 2 (2007), 19-31.
Book Chapters
“Food, Famine and the Abjection of Irish Identity in Victorian Representation.” Victorian Xenophobia. Ed. Marlene Tromp, Maria Bachman and Heidi Kaufman. [forthcoming].
Conference Papers
“’When Hunger Rages Fierce and Strong:’ The Politics of Hunger in Victorian Illustrated Periodicals, 1840-49.” Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century, University of Sheffield. March 2010.
“The Art of Dining: The Exhibition of Taste in the Victorian Dining Room.” Artistry and Industry: Representations of Creative Labour in Literature and the Visual Arts 1830-1900, University of Exeter. Jul 2008.
“A Peculiarly Middle-Class Institution: Picnicking with the Victorians.” British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Salford. Aug 2007.
“Reading Recipes: The Victorian Cookery Book and its Literary Analogues.” Print Culture and the Novel 1850-1900, Faculty of English, University of Oxford. Jan 2007.
“Picturing the Past, Negotiating the Present: Reading the Photography of Lewis Carroll.” British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Gloucestershire. Sept 2005.
Research Awards
2003-05 Arts and Humanities Research Council Studentship (PhD)
2002-03 University of Wales Postgraduate Studentship (PhD)
2002 Victor Neo Prize, Cardiff University
2001-02 Arts and Humanities Research Board Studentship (MA)