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Jonathan Hamilton Grossman (born April 17, 1967) is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (
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UCLA English Department He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature.


Biography

Grossman was born in Oxford, England, in 1967 to Marc and Penelope Grossman. He attended
Milton Academy Milton Academy (informally referred to as Milton) is a coeducational, co-educational, Independent school, independent, and College-preparatory school, college-preparatory boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts, educating students in g ...
in Milton, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English and religion from
Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
in 1989, and his PhD in English from the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...
in 1996.


Scholarship

Grossman's first book, ''The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel'', was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2002. The book examines early nineteenth-century crime fiction's relation to the law courts prior to detective fiction's invention in the 1840s. It falls into the interdisciplinary field of law and literature as well as early
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studies. ''Charles Dickens's Networks: Public transport and the Novel'' (Oxford), his second book, examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time, space, and community, and how the art form of the novel played a special role in synthesizing and understanding that revolution. Focusing on a trio of road novels by Charles Dickens, this study looks first at a key historical moment in the networked community's coming together, then at a subsequent recognition of its tragic limits, and, finally, at the construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious, limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine their journeying in the network. Since 2011, Grossman has been co-editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature. Grossman's academic interests include the history, form, and sociology of the novel, and narrative and temporality.


References

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