Dr. B.P. (Ben) Moore
- Spuistraat 134
- Room number: 5.28
- Postbus 1641
1000 BP Amsterdam
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Profile and Research Interests
Ben Moore joined the UvA in 2017 as Assistant Professor in English Literature. Previously he taught at Cardiff University (2015-16) and the University of Manchester (2011-15), where he also completed his BA (2007), MA (2010) and PhD (2014). His research has focused mainly on modernity, cities, vision, space and architecture in the nineteenth century. This work has led to a monograph, Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity (Edinburgh University Press). He has also written articles and book chapters on Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Kingsley, Margaret Oliphant, Victorian childhood, Rem Koolhaas, and Walter Benjamin, among other topics.
Ben is also interested in re-reading discourses of biology and the human in nineteenth-century literature, in light of recent debates around the Anthropocene. A short book on this topic, Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895, was published by Palgrave in 2023.
His next major project is provisionally titled Spatialising Money in Modern Literature and Culture: 1821 to the Present. It will look at the interaction between money and space in authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Margaret Oliphant. It examines the role of specific locations in disrupting, suspending or bypassing the 'normal' processes of economic circulation. Such locations include the pawnbroker's shop, the debtors' prison, the bank in crisis and the European spa town. Conceptually, this project examines the relations between the symbolic and allegorical sides of money, in Walter Benjamin's sense of allegory as fractured, broken and incomplete, as opposed to the fullness of meaning associated with the Romantic symbol. The project aims to extend this interest into reading the cultural role of money and value in contemporary society. A recent article on surplus in Oliphant's novel Hester (2021) and a book chapter on money and representation in Dickens and Gissing (2022) are the first outcomes of this work.
Ben is Co-Editor and outgoing Reviews Editor for the Gaskell Journal, and a Trustee of the Dickens Society. He co-convenes an annual ASCA reading group on Politics and Aesthetics in Critical Theory (details here), which for the 2022-23 academic year will be replaced by a symposium on 'Troubling Universalisms' in June 2023.
Current or potential students interested in supervision possibilities are welcome to get in touch.
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Teaching
In 2022-23 Dr Moore is co-ordinator for the BA English core course Texts in Focus 1. He also teaches on the MA Thesis Seminar course and contributes to the BA course English Literature 1.
He is co-Programme Director for BA English Language and Culture, and the UvA's Harting Programme representative.
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Publications
2024
- Moore, B. P. (Accepted/In press). Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity. (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Literature). Edinburgh University Press.
2023
- Moore, B. P. (2023). Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895. (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Moore, B. P. (2023). The Eyes of the Other: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Uncanny. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis (pp. 35-48). (Bloomsbury Handbooks). Bloomsbury.
- Moore, B. P. (Accepted/In press). ‘Drawd too architectooralooral’: Ambiguous Architecture in Dickens. In J. John, & C. Wood (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts Edinburgh University Press.
2022
- Moore, B. P. (2022). Money, Narrative and Representation from Dickens to Gissing. In P. Poplawski (Ed.), Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings (pp. 305-320). Cambridge University Press.
- Moore, B. P. (2022). The Flâneur. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies (pp. 661-6). Palgrave.
2021
Moore, B. (2021). ‘Of Pride and Joy No Common Rate’: From the Surplus Women Problem to Surplus Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester. Journal of Victorian Culture, 26(1), 119-133. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaa018 [details]
2020
- Moore, B. (2020). The Flâneur. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies (Living ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_23-1 [details]
- Moore, B. (2020). Walter Benjamin, Advertising and the Utopian Moment in Modernist Literature. Modernism/Modernity, 27(4), 769-790. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2020.0062 [details]
2019
- Moore, B. (2019). [Review of: N. Henry (2018) Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment]. The Gaskell Journal, 33, 59-61. [details]
2018
- Moore, B. (2018). Invisible Architecture and Social Space in North and South. The Gaskell Journal, 32, 17-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48518861 [details]
2017
- Moore, B. (2017). Childhood in Victorian Literature. Oxford Bibliographies, Victorian Literature. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199799558-0144 [details]
- Moore, B. (2017). The Railway and the River: Conduits of Dickens’s Imaginary City. In E. Murail, & S. Thornton (Eds.), Dickens and the Virtual City: Urban Perception and the Production of Social Space (pp. 35-56). (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35086-8_2 [details]
- Moore, B. (2017). [Review of: P. Fyfe (2015) Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis]. Dickens Quarterly, 34(3), 271-274. https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2017.0028 [details]
- Moore, B. P. (2017). Becoming-evolutionary? Animal Transformations in Kingsley’s Alton Locke. Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, 85. https://doi.org/10.4000/cve.3176 [details]
2016
- Moore, B. (2016). Ruptures in the City: Retrospective Memory in Benjamin’s Paris and Koolhaas’s New York. In L. Huskinson (Ed.), The Urban Uncanny: A collection of interdisciplinary studies (pp. 90-106). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317399377/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315681177-6 [details]
- Moore, B. (2016). The Dolls’ Dressmaker Re(ad)dressed: Jenny Wren’s Critique of Childhood, Femininity and Appearance. Victorian Literature and Culture, 44(3), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150316000103 [details]
- Moore, B. (2016). Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City (pp. 59-73). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_4
2015
- Moore, B. P. (2015). Disraeli and the Archi-textual: Constructions of Authority in Sybil. The Modern Language Review, 110(1), 47-68. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0047
- Moore, B. P. (2015). Review of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London. Dickens Quarterly, 32(4), 341-344. https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2015.0040
2014
- Moore, B. P. (2014). Review of Dickens and Benjamin: Moments of Revelation, Fragments of Modernity. Dickens Quarterly, 31(3), 262-265.
2013
- Moore, B. P. (2013). Review of London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 64, NA. https://doi.org/10.7202/1025682ar
2012
- Moore, B. P. (2012). "When I went to Lunnon town sirs": Transformation and the Threshold in the Dickensian City. Dickens Quarterly, 29(4), 336-349.
- Moore, B. P. (2012). Review of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914. The Modern Language Review, 107(1), 280-281. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.107.1.0280
2022
- Moore, B. (2022). [Review of: G. Whiteley (2020) The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth Century British Literature, 1843-1907. English Studies, 103(1), 171-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2021.1926767 [details]
- Moore, B. P. (2022). Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel, by Anna Burton. The Gaskell Journal, 36, 104-106.
2020
- Moore, B. (2020). Even Better than the Real Thing? Victorian Literary Imitations [Review of: A. Abraham (2019) Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel: Imitation, Parody, Aftertext]. Journal of Victorian Culture, 25(4), 619–621. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaa028 [details]
- Moore, B. (2020). [Review of: J. Hofer-Robinson (2018) Dickens and Demolition: Literary afterlives and mid-nineteenth century urban development]. BAVS Newsletter, 20(1), 6-7. https://bavs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BAVSNewsletter_20.1_Jul2020-2.pdf [details]
2019
- Moore, B. (2019). [Review of: G. Hellyer, J. Murphet (2016) Rancière and Literature]. English Studies, 100(2), 247-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2019.1566854 [details]
2019
- Moore, B. P. (2019). Middlemarch and the Pleasures of the Everyday. In Still Crazy about George Eliot 200 Years Later Bite-Sized Books.
2016
- Moore, B. P. (2016). Response to 'Spikes, Shopping and Selfridges'; Response to 'The Meaning of Michael Gove'; Response to 'Jeremy Corbyn and the Future of the Left'; Reading the British Passport. In A. Bown, & D. Bristow (Eds.), Politactics: Political Conversations from Everyday Analysis (pp. 13-15; 38-39; 62-63). Winchester: Zero Books.
2015
- Moore, B. P. (2015). The Pure Advert: Analysing Perfume; On Seeing Yourself on a Big Screen; What’s Really at Stake in Women Serving on the Frontline?; Nelson Mandela: Symbol or Allegory?; Superman vs. Batman: The Quest for American Exceptionalism. In A. Bown, & D. Bristow (Eds.), Twerking to Turking: Everyday Analysis: Volume 2 (pp. 12-14; 134-36; 180-83; 193-95; 226-27). Alresford, UK: Zero Books.
2014
- Moore, B. P. (2014). Baby Food, or How to Eat Like an American; “Change Your Life”; Manning Up. In A. Bown, & D. Bristow (Eds.), Why are Animals Funny?: Everyday Analysis: Volume 1 (pp. 12-13; 88-89; 93-94). Alresford, UK: Zero Books.
Journal editor
- Moore, B. (editor) (2023-2028). The Gaskell Journal (Journal). https://gaskelljournal.co.uk/
- Moore, B. (member of editorial board) (2019-2023). The Gaskell Journal (Journal).
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Ancillary activities
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Moore, B. (2021). ‘Of Pride and Joy No Common Rate’: From the Surplus Women Problem to Surplus Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester. Journal of Victorian Culture, 26(1), 119-133.