Michael Flynn

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Gamble Hall Room 220S
293 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209

Since arriving at UND in 2007, Professor Flynn has taught in the areas of nineteenth-century British literature and culture, and of the British novel more generally. Much of his published work examines the strained relationship of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray and considers issues of intertexuality, fictional form, and the social status of literature in early Victorian England. His most recent research focuses on journalist E. S. Dallas, who sought to claim for anonymous book reviews the cultural authority of sage writing, and who used them to warn about the dangers of individualism in the mid-Victorian period.

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“E. S. Dallas, Mid-Victorian Individualism, and the Form of the Book Review.” Nineteenth-Century Prose, vol. 43, no. 1/2, 2016, pp. 49-64.
“E. S. Dallas and Trollope’s Vicar of Bullhampton.” Notes and Queries, vol. 261, no. 2, 2016, pp. 258-61. Oxford Journals, doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjw069.
“Dickens, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, and the ‘Guilt’ of Literature and Art.” Dickens Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, 2012, pp. 68-80.
“Pendennis, Copperfield, and the Debate on the ‘Dignity of Literature.’” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 41, 2010, pp. 151-89.
“Parodies for the Rail: Dombey and Son, Vanity Fair, and the Class-Coding of Victorian Realism.” Double Vision: Literary Palimpsests of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, edited by Darby Lewes, Lexington Books, 2008, pp. 173-203. (Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 307, Gale, 2015, pp. 135-52.)
“Novels by Literary Snobs: The Contentious Class-Coding of Thackerayan Parody.” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 36, 2005, pp. 199-228.
“The Transatlantic Grudges of William Makepeace Thackeray and G. P. R. James.” Notes and Queries, vol. 250, no. 4, 2005, pp. 476-78.