Virginia Cope

Virginia Cope, assistant professor, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2002. Her research focuses on the eighteenth-century British novel, with an emphasis on issues of gender, property, and education. She teaches classes on the eighteenth and nineteenth century novel, Gothic literature, women's studies, and writing.
 
Publications and Presentations:
 
"Evelina's Peculiar Circumstances and Tender Relations." Eighteenth Century Fiction 16:1 (October 2003) p. 59-78. 
 
" 'I Verily Believed Myself a Free Woman': Harriet Jacobs's Journey into Capitalism," African American Review 38:1 (Spring 2004) pp. 5-20.
 
"A Simple Story's Gothic Complex," European Society for the Study of English Annual Conference,
Zaragoza, Spain, September 2004.
 
"Elizabeth Inchbald's Gothic Exchanges," International Gothic Association Annual Conference, Liverpool, England, July 2003.

Eighteenth Century Fiction has nominated "Evelina's Peculiar Circumstances and Tender Relations" for the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Clifford Prize.

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