Adrienne Munich

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Adrienne Auslander Munich is an American professor emerita of English literature. She is known for her books about the Victorian era including Andromeda's Chains and Queen Victoria's Secrets.

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Biography

Adrienne Munich was born on 13 March 1939 in Michigan. She was educated at the University of Michigan and Brandeis University where she earned her B.A. in comparative literature. She took a MAT teaching degree at Yale University, teaching for a while at the University of Kentucky. [1] She gained her Ph.D. in 1976 at City University of New York. [1] [2]

She was a professor of English at Stony Brook University. [2] She is an editor of the Victorian Literature and Culture journal. [1] She states that feminism enabled her to write about Victorian figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning. [2]

Reception

Lynn Alexander writes that Andromeda's Chains examines how artists and authors in the Victorian era and earlier made use of the myth of Andromeda. She found the treatment repetitive with a similar story for each artist. She states that Munich argues that attitudes to the myth shifted in the Victorian era, making Andromeda more passive "from a fear of female vitalism" and "sentimentalisation of marriage". [3]

Barbara Garlick, reviewing Queen Victoria's Secrets, writes that Munich has written a lively and extended treatment of the centrality of Victoria's image in her era, calling the book "intriguing and entertaining". [4]

Ce Rosenow writes that the editors frame the essays in Amy Lowell: American Modern around earlier dismissals of Lowell's poetry, and the lack of scholarship on her. They suggest that homophobia and Lowell's constant experimentation in her verse may have helped to cause that neglect. Rosenow finds that the book makes it hard "not to see Lowell's importance to the modernist movement". [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Adrienne Munich". Stony Brook University. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Woods, Livia Arndal (April 10, 2013). "Alumni Spotlight: Adrienne Munich (Class of '76)". City University of New York English Student Association. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
  3. ↑ Alexander, Lynn (1991). "Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature . 10 (1): 151. doi:10.2307/463964. JSTOR   463964.
  4. ↑ Garlick, Barbara (1997). "Reviews: Queen Victoria's Secrets, by Adrienne Munich. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996". Australasian Victorian Studies Journal: 187–188.
  5. ↑ Rosenow, Ce (2006). "Adrienne Munich and Melissa Bradshaw (eds). Amy Lowell, American Modern. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2004" (PDF). Colloquy: Text Theory Critique. Monash University: 275–277.
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