Ghostly Reference

Elaine Freedgood is Professor of English at New York University, where she works on Victorian literature and culture, critical theory, and the history of the novel. She is the author of Victorian Writing About Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge, 2000) and The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago, 2006). Her current project is called “Worlds Enough: Fictionality and Reference in the Novel.”