Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at

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. She received her PhD from

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and, previous to Princeton, taught for thirteen years at

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New Brunswick. Wolfson's recent books include ''Frankenstein: Longman Cultural Edition'' (2007). ''Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in English Romanticism'' (Stanford University Press, 1996) and The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry (Cornell, 1986); two editions, Lord Byron: Selected Poems (Penguin 1986), co-edited with Peter Manning, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, coedited with Barry V. Qualls (Washington Square Press, 1995), and scholarship on William Blake, S.T. Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Lamb, Lord Byron, John Keats, Felicia Hemans,

Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also ...

, Percy Bysshe Shelley, various topics on British Romanticism. She is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Cobb salad Society, and the

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. Wolfson has a number of works forthcoming in ELH, Literature Compass, entries in The Cambridge Companion To British Poets and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Her new work ''Romantic Interactions: Social Being & the Turns of Literary Action'' was published in 2010 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Borderlines: The Shaping of Gender in British Romanticism has also been reprinted by Stanford University Press.

Books authored

*The Questioning Presence (1986) *Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (1997) *Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (2006) *Felicia Hemans: Poems, Letters, Reception (2000)

Books edited

Longman Cultural Edition of ''Pride and Prejudice'' 2003

References

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Susan Wolfson
at Princeton University, Department of English
Review of Frankenstein
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfson, Susan J. Princeton University faculty Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni Year of birth missing (living people)