Contact Info
Location
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
E maalliso@owu.edu
Education
B.A., Kenyon College
M.A., University of Chicago
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
About
Mark Allison specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century Britain. His research interests include utopian literature and theory; socialism, working-class political culture, and Marxism; and the British novel. His current book project, Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-Politics, and Literature, 1817–1917, explores the intersections of socialism and literature in the long nineteenth century, with special emphasis on their shared antipathy to institutional politics.
Publications/Presentations
“Prematurity, Periodicity, and Agency in ‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,’” Nineteenth-Century Prose 34 (2007): 143–62.
“Utopian Socialism, Women’s Emancipation, and the Origins of Middlemarch,” ELH 78 (2011): 715–39.
“The Importance of Ernest: Poetic Vanguardism and Popular Revolution in Capel Lofft’s Forgotten Epic,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 67 (2012): 285–311.
“The Mustard Seed of British Socialism: Carlyle, Robert Owen, and ‘Infallible Influence.’” In Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence, ed. Paule E. Kerry et al. Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2018. 279-93.
“Building a Bridge to Nowhere: Morris, the Education of Desire, and the Party of Utopia,” Utopian Studies 29.1 (2018): 44-66.