ohn P. Farrell is retired from the English Department at the University of Texas (Austin). He has held fellowships from the NEH and the ACLS, and visiting professorships at Rice University and University College, Galway. Among his publications are studies that focus on writers who have explored political crises by aligning them with formal literary structures and genres, e.g., Revolution as Tragedy: The Dilemma of the Moderate from Scott to Arnold (Cornell UP, 1980) and “Reading the Text of Community in Wuthering Heights, ELH 56 (1989): 173–208. Part of the latter essay is available on the Victorian Web. More recent publications have studied Thomas Hardy’s construction of Wessex as a narrative and communal space.
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