A/Prof Roslyn Jolly
- Phone: +61 2 9385 3218
- Email: r.jolly@unsw.edu.au
- Building: Robert Webster
- Room No: 204
Associate Professor
BA Syd, DPhil Oxf
Teaching
ARTS2038 The Novel
ARTS3032 Author Study - Henry James: Art, Travel and Boundless Desire
Publications
Books:
Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).
(Editor), South Sea Tales, by Robert Louis Stevenson (OUP, 1996).
(Editor), The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (UNSW Press, 2004).
Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific: Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession (Ashgate, 2009)
Recent articles:
‘Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Maine, and the Anthropology of Comparative Law’, Journal of British Studies 45.3 (2006), 556-80.
‘The Ebb-Tide and The Coral Island’, Scottish Studies Review 7.2 (Autumn 2006), 79-91.
‘Piracy, Slavery and the Imagination of Empire in Stevenson’s Pacific Fiction’, Victorian Literature and Culture 35.1 (March 2007), 157-73.
Interests
Narrative literature and theories of narrative; travel writing; literature and empire.
