Books by Nina Auerbach

In novels, popular fiction, and biographies Nina Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle, childhood, passage to maturity, and death, she demonstrates how the process of living was for the Victorians the acting of a role.

Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.

A collection of eleven fairy tales by Victorian women.

Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.

Here is a bold new vision of Victorian culture: a study of myths of womanhood that shatters the usual generalizations about the squeezed, crushed, and egoless Victorian woman.

Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Nina Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last 200 hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history.