Laura Marcus Explained

Laura Marcus FBA (7 March 1956 – 22 September 2021)^[1] was a British literature scholar. She was Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at New College, Oxford and published widely on 19th- and 20th-century literature and film,^[2] with particular interests in autobiography, modernism, Virginia Woolf, and psychoanalysis.

Marcus won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize for her book The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period.^[3] In 2011, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.^[4]

Prior to joining Oxford, Marcus was Professor of English at Sussex University and Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.^[5]

She was an editor of the journal Women: a Cultural Review.

She died of pancreatic cancer on 22 September 2021 at the age of 65.^[6]

Books

• Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994)^[7]
• Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004)
• The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007)^{[8] [9] [10]}
• Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014)^{[11] [12]}
• Autobiography: a very short introduction (2018)^{[13] [14]}
• co-ed. The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Laura Marcus New College . www.new.ox.ac.uk . Oxford University . 28 September 2021 . 28 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210928202543/https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/professor-laura-marcus . live .
2. Web site: Professor Laura Marcus. 28 September 2021. www.english.ox.ac.uk. Oxford University. en. 28 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210928202557/https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-laura-marcus#/. live.
3. Web site: 2021-09-24. In Memoriam: Professor Laura Marcus. live. 2021-09-30. British Association for Modernist Studies. en. 2021-09-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20210924154214/https://bams.ac.uk/2021/09/24/in-memoriam-professor-laura-marcus/.
4. Web site: Professor Laura Marcus FBA. 2021-09-30. The British Academy. en. 2021-01-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20210127105023/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/laura-marcus-FBA/. live.
5. Web site: Laura Marcus - Institut d'études avancées de Paris. 2021-09-30. www.paris-iea.fr.
6. Web site: 2021-10-19. Laura Marcus obituary. 2021-10-20. the Guardian. en.
7. Corbett. Mary Jean. 1995. Review of The Auto/Biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/Biography; De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography; I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir; Sending My Heart Back across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography; Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Signs. 20. 2. 476–481. 10.1086/494993 . 3174968 . 0097-9740.
8. Highmore. Ben. 2009-12-09. The Making of English Photography: Allegories by Steve Edwards The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film c. 1900 by Lynda Nead The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period by Laura Marcus. Visual Culture in Britain. 10. 3. 361–368. 10.1080/14714780903266604. 191212813 . 1471-4787. 2021-09-30. 2021-09-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20210930035703/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14714780903266604. live.
9. Shail. Andrew. 2009. Review of The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period. The Modern Language Review. 104. 1. 155–157. 10.2307/20468145. 20468145 . 0026-7937. free.
10. Trotter. David. 2009-10-01. The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period. Screen. 50. 3. 345–346. 10.1093/screen/hjp019. 0036-9543.
11. Shin. Jacqueline. 2016. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema by Laura Marcus (review). Modernism/Modernity. 23. 4. 916–918. 10.1353/mod.2016.0083. 152255024 . 1080-6601. 2021-09-30. 2020-12-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20201203090708/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/643197. live.
12. Heffer. Byron. 2016-01-02. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema. Textual Practice. 30. 1. 189–193. 10.1080/0950236X.2015.1112652. 146535501 . 0950-236X. 2021-09-30. 2021-09-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20210930035703/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0950236X.2015.1112652. live.
13. Schmitt. Arnaud. 2021-04-03. Autobiography. A Very Short Introduction. Life Writing. 18. 2. 303–305. 10.1080/14484528.2019.1644269. 199955530 . 1448-4528.
14. Jolly. Margaretta. 2020. Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction by Laura Marcus (review). Biography. 43. 2. 501–504. 10.1353/bio.2020.0047. 235017125 . 1529-1456.