Patricia McKee
Appointments
Professor of English, Emerita
Edward Hyde Cox Professorship, Emerita
Area of Expertise
Whiteness in American Fiction,
nineteenth-century British novel,
Henry James,
Toni Morrison,
William Faulkner,
Charles Dickens
Education
B.A. Vassar College
Ph.D. Brandeis University
Publications
"Racial Strategies in Jane Eyre," Victorian Literature and Culture (2009).
"'In the Cage': Henry James's London", Publications in American Studies, University of Naples (2008).
“Geographies of Paradise ,” CR: The New Centennial Review , 3:1 (Spring 2003) 197-223.
“Travel in James’s The Ambassadors ,” Arizona Quarterly , 59 (2003).
“Revisions of Whiteness: Racialization, Capitalism, and Aesthetics in Stoker’s Dracula ,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction , 36:1, (Fall 2002) 42-60.
Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison , (1999).
Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel 1764-1878 , (1997).
Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
"Spacing and Placing Experience in Toni Morrison's Sula." Modern Fiction Studies (1996)
"William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Experience in Passing." South Atlantic Quarterly 90 (1991): 579-632.
Heroic Commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Works in Progress
Reading Constellations: Urban Modernity and Victorian Fiction, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (2014).
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