About
My work focuses on religion in Victorian literature. Education
Ph.D., Temple University, 2010 Publications
Peak, Anna. “That Flexible Flageolet”: Music, Homophobia, and Anti-Semitism in
George Du Maurier’s Trilby.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 21.4 (2019), 476-492.
Peak, Anna. “Re-thinking Trollope and Anti-Semitism: Gender, Religion, and ‘the
Jew’ in The Way We Live Now.” In The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony
Trollope. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margaret Markwick, and Mark Turner.
Routledge, 2017.
Peak, Anna. “The Condition of Music in Victorian Scholarship.” Victorian Literature and
Culture 44 (2016), 423-437.
Peak, Anna. “The Chinese Language and the Saturday Review: A Case Study in
Sinophobia’s Scholarly Roots.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.2 (2015), 431-444.
Peak, Anna. “Servants and the Victorian Sensation Novel.” SEL: Studies in English
Literature, 1500-1900 54.4 (Autumn 2014), 835-851.
Peak, Anna. “Music and New Woman Aesthetics in Mona Caird’s The Daughters of
Danaus.” Victorian Review 40.1 (Spring 2014), 135-154. Projects
. Memberships
British Women Writers Association, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Dickens Society, George MacDonald Society, Modern Language Association, North American Victorian Studies Association, Northeast Modern Language Association, Northeast Victorian Studies Association
