
Lawrence J. Starzyk, Ph.D. English (Chicago)
Professor
lstarzyk at kent.edu
Lawrence J. Starzyk, Ph.D. English (Chicago)
Professor
lstarzyk at kent.edu
Professor
lstarzyk at kent.edu
Areas of Interest
Victorian literature and aesthetics
Victorian literature and aesthetics
Selected Recent Publications
- The Imprisoned Splendor: A Study in Victorian Critical Theory. New York: Kennikat Press, 1977.
- Effective Business Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1984.
- “The Victorian Poetics of Indeterminacy.” The Victorian Newsletter 87 (1990): 27-35.
- The Dialogue of the Mind with Itself: Early Victorian Poetry and Poetics. Calgary: U Calgary P, 1992.
- “‘The Shadow of Ourselves’: Early Victorian Poetics.” Nineteenth-Century Prose 19 (1993): 1-33.
- “If Mine Had Been the Painter’s Hand’: Pictorial Strategy in Arnold’s Revision of Wordsworth.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 27 (1994): 49-74.
- “The Gallery of Memory’: The Pictorial in Jane Eyre.” Papers in Language and Literature 33 (1997): 288-309.
- “Browning and Ekphrastic Encounter.” Studies in English Literature 38 (1998): 689-706.
- “Tennyson’s ‘The Gardener’s Daughter’: The Exegesis of Icons.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 32 (1999): 41-58.
- “Swinburne’s ‘Notes on Designs of the Old Masters at Florence.’” The Victorian Newsletter 96 (1999): 15-22.
- If Mine Had Been the Painter’s Hand: The Indeterminate in Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Painting. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
- “Rosetti’s ‘Jenny’: Aestheticizing the Whore.” Papers on Language and Literature 36 (2000): 227-45.
- “‘Tristram and Iseult’: Arnold’s Ekphrastic Experiment.” Victorian Review (2001): forthcoming.
- “‘Ut Pictura Poesis’: The Nineteenth-Century Perspective.” The Victorian Newsletter 99 (2002): forthcoming.
