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Ruth Robbins



Ruth Robbins is Professor of English Literature and head of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities. Her work has focused on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, on autobiography, on literary theory and on particular writers such as Oscar Wilde and Arnold Bennett.

Ruth's research interests centre on the late-Victorian period in English literature, especially the literature of Decadence, and include the writings of Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Vernon Lee - her book Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 (2003) deals with literature written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century period. Her recent book Oscar Wilde (2011) revisits her interests in the fin de siècle; additionally she is co-author of a book on the British Sho
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Baboushka and the Three Kings

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Literary Feminisms

4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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A Woman of No Importance (Y...

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Subjectivity (Transitions, 40)

3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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How the First Rainbow Was Made

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Oscar Wilde

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions
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Taliesin and King Arthur

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions
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Victorian Identities: Socia...

3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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Villette

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