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- Edward Jacobs
- Professor
- English
- 417 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-4028
- ejacobs@odu.edu
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Education
- University of Illinois,
1990
- Major: English
- Degree: Ph. D.
- University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana,
1986
- Major: English
- Degree: M.A.
- University of Tennessee,
1983
- Major: English
- Degree: B.A.
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Book Chapters
- Jacobs, E. (1996). Disvaluing the Popular: London Street Culture, `Industrial Literacy,' and the Emergence of Mass Culture in Victorian England."
Victorian Urban Settings. (pp. 89-113). New York: Garland.
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Articles
- Jacobs, E. (2008). The Politicization of Everyday Life in Cleave’s Weekly Police Gazette. Victorian Periodicals Review, 41, (pp. 225-47).
- Jacobs, E. (2003). Eigtheenth-Century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History. Book History, 6, (pp. 1-22).
- Jacobs, E. (2000). Dispersing Gothic Discourse. Gothic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1 (2),
- Jacobs, E. (1999). Buying into Classes: the Exercise of Power through Book Selection in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 31, (pp. 43-64).
- Jacobs, E. (1995). `Lost Books' and Publishing History: Two Annotated Lists of Imprints for the Fiction Titles Listed in the Circulating-Library
Catalogs of Thomas Lowndes (1766) and M. Heavisides (1790), of Which No Known Copies Survive. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 89, (pp. 260-97).
- Jacobs, E. (1995). A Previously Unremarked Circulating Library: John Roson and the Role of Circulating-Library Proprietors as Publishers in Eighteenth-Century
Britain. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 89, (pp. 61-71).
- Jacobs, E. (1995). Anonymous Signatures: Circulating Libraries, Conventionality, and the Production of Gothic Romances. ELH, 62, (pp. 603-29).
- Jacobs, E. (1995). Bloods in the Street: London Street Culture, `Industrial Literacy,' and the Emergence of Mass Culture in Victorian England. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 18, (pp. 321-47).
- Jacobs, E. (1994). Review of Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorical Theory,
by H. Lewis Ulman (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Journal of Advanced Composition, 14, (pp. 605-7).
- Jacobs, E. (1991). Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and `the Semiotics of Waste. Revista da Associaçäo Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, 1, (pp. 25-37).
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Presentations
- The Politicization of Everyday Life in Cleave’s Weekly Police Gazette, 1834-36
- Conference Name:
- Location: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
- Date: September 15, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- The Politicization of Science and Technology in Cleave’s Weekly Police Gazette, 1834-36
- Conference Name:
- Location: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
- Date: September 3, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Cosuming Jack Sheppard
- Conference Name:
- Location: Orlando, Florda
- Date: November 21, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Romantic Emblematizations and the Problematics of Periodization
- Conference Name:
- Location: Aberystwyth, Wales
- Date: June 23, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Learning to Love the Panopticon;or, How Eighteenth-Century British Newspapers Discouraged Civic Activism
- Conference Name:
- Location: Glasgow, UK
- Date: June 12, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- The Past is a Foreign Country, So Who Are You? Paratextuality and the Problematics of Modernity and Empire
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Date: November 15, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Anonymous Women, Irish Pirates, and Circulating Libraries: British fiction Publishing 1766 vs. 1790
- Conference Name:
- Location: Sheffield, UK
- Date: July 28, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Restituting Doubt: Nathaniel Bacon and the Civil War between Artificial and Common Reason
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans, LA
- Date: November, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Time and Trouble: How the Newspaper Format Subverted Bolingbroke’s Historiographical Essays in the Craftsman
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: October, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Who’s Afraid of Michel Foucault?
- Conference Name:
- Date: October, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Circulating Library Manufacture': the Cultivation of Generic Writing by Female and Anonymous Authors
- Conference Name:
- Location: Gregynog, Wales
- Date: July 23, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Textual/Architectural Orders: Publishing, Bookselling and the Construction of Social Space
- Conference Name:
- Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date: April 5, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Managing Modernity's Bloody Fluxes: Eighteenth-Century British Newspapers and the Conquest of Mutability
- Conference Name:
- Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date: April 5, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Panel Chair. Textual / Architectural Orders: the Social Construction of Space in the Eighteenth Century
- Conference Name:
- Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date: April 5, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- The Gothic Library; or, The Strange and Interesting Romance of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe and Mr. Thomas Hookham
- Conference Name:
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee
- Date: April 13, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- The Politics of Incomprehensibility: Gothic Romances, Philology, and the Dream of a Common Language in Regency Britain
- Conference Name:
- Location: Dallas, Texas
- Date: October 8, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Buying into Classes: the Construction of Genres and Tradition by Circulating Libraries, Catalogs, and the Provincial Book
Trade in Eighteenth-Century England
- Conference Name:
- Location: Tucson, Arizona
- Date: April 9, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Whig Novel / Tory (Gothic) Romance: The Economic and Political History of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction Publishing
- Conference Name:
- Location: East Lansing, Michigan
- Date: April 16, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Bloods in the Street: Street Culture, `Disvalue,' and the Emergence of `Mass Literature' in England
- Conference Name:
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Date: April 17, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Anonymous Signatures: Circulating Libraries and the Production of Gothic Romance Authors
- Conference Name:
- Location: Birmingham, Alabama
- Date: March 6, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Partying with Jack: Street Culture, Trickster Festivity, and the `Problem' of Early-Victorian Penny Literature
- Conference Name:
- Location: Manchester Polytechnic, England
- Date: July 11, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Patriot Missiles or Historical Women? A Cultural Account of the Gothic Romance Genre and its "Mis"-readings
- Conference Name:
- Location: Braga, Portugal
- Date: April 13, 1991
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Vampires, Tricksters, and Street People: The Oral Readership of Victorian `Penny Dreadfuls
- Conference Name:
- Location: Vila Real, Portugal
- Date: March 13, 1991
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Horace Walpole and the Ethic of Triviality: Recovering The Castle of Otranto as a Satire on `Literary' Reading Modes
- Conference Name:
- Location: Iowa City, Iowa
- Date: October 13, 1989
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
- Gothic Discourse and the Veil of Language
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date: March 25, 1988
- Authors/Presenters:
Jacobs, E.
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