Publications
Read my newest publication, "Dentist of the Wild West" in the Fall 2011 issue of Hunger Mountain.
My short story "Dialogue" is in the Fall 2010 issue of Hunger Mountain.
Read my scholarly articles in Studies in English Literature, Studies in the Novel, Victorian Poetry, and Pedagogy.
Read my biographical sketches in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ("Henry Mayhew," "Horace Mayhew").
In the not-too-distant future, I hope you will be able to read my novel, Lost and Found (formerly Sorrow Park), and my article on Wuthering Heights and Railway Capitalism (stay tuned). A second novel, The Idle Hours, is in the works.
And here's some information on my first book:
Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
Book Description
In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theatre. Through an examination of theatrical and popular-cultural sources--including accounts of noted actors and actresses, and of popular theatrical characters of the time--Vlock uncovers unexpected precursors for some popular Dickensian characters, and throws new light on the conditions in which Dickens' novels were initially received.
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