Janet Yount
Professor

Department of English
University of New Hampshire

   

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Janet Yount, Professor of English, received her B.A. from Grinnell College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests center on eighteenth-century studies, with special emphasis on the novel and drama as genres. In 1989 she received a UNH Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her two most recent graduate courses focused on narrative theory and on the legacy of Ian Watt’s groundbreaking study, The Rise of the Novel (1957). Professor Yount's most recent publication is “Strange Bedfellows: Textual Transference among Samuel Richardson, Edith Wharton, and T.S. Eliot within the Modern Sexology Movement," Eighteenth-Century Life 31, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 29-59. Currently she is in the process of assembling two volumes of twentieth-century critical, cultural, and creative response to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, to be published by AMS Press as part of "The Clarissa Project." She is also a Series Editor for Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies, a monograph series published by the University Press of New England.
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