Dr Sarah Gubbins

Sarah’s research focuses on French poetry of the mid-nineteenth century and on the prose writings of poets of that period. She has published articles and chapters on formal and generic aspects of the writings of Gérard de Nerval and Charles Baudelaire, on their exploitation of the press, and on Nerval’s travel writing in verse and in prose. A monograph, Gérard de Nerval’s Political Poetics, is under contract with Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. 

Publications

‘Writing letters and creating readers in Gérard de Nerval’s Les Faux Saulniers’ in Seán Allan and Christian Moser (eds.), Reimagining the Public Sphere in the Long Nineteenth Century, Aisthesis-Verlag, 2024.

‘Journalistic Intermediation: The Newspaper Poetics of Nerval and Baudelaire’, Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, 27.2-3 (2023), 134-150. 

‘Nerval’s Journeys in Verse and in Prose’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 41.1 (2019), 75-84.

‘Generic baggage: Encountering Other People in Baudelaire’s ‘À une passante’ and ‘Les Veuves’’. L’Esprit Créateur, 58.1 (2018), 8-16.

‘Reading the Tarot in Nerval’s La Main enchantée’ in Sinéad Furlong (ed.), The DS Project: Image, Text, Space/Place, 1830-2015 (2015).  See: www.thedsproject.com

‘Transgressions et conformités poétiques dans les sonnets de Nerval et de Baudelaire’. Synergies Royaume-Uni et Irlande, 6 (2013), 141-152. 

Sarah teaches on the Applied Languages French modules and on the Graduate Diploma in French.