Joe McLaughlin

Joe specializes in the theory and history of the novel, especially nineteenth- and twentieth-century realism. His dissertation examines how literature makes visible, reinforces, and challenges the vexed and often contradictory role that authoritarianism plays in the conception of liberal modernity.

He is now at work on a chapter about Dickens and his obsession with pointed-fingers, as well as a chapter about Victorian fathers and their modernist children.

List of Publications

• “Queer Families, Queer Futures in Dombey and Son,” Dickens Studies Annual, 2021-03-01, Vol. 52, p. 30-52; Pennsylvania State University Press