Claire Jarvis

Claire Jarvis studies Victorian literature with emphasis on the novel and theories of sexuality.  Her current project is titled Making Scenes: Supersensual Masochism and Victorian Literature, and examines the relationship between masochism and companionate marriage in novels by Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy, and in representations of Queen Victoria.

Her other research interests include sensation fiction, New Woman novels, the long Victorian poem, nineteenth-century material culture, Henry James and Barbara Pym.