Oddvar Holmesland

Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, 1983. Literature/culture courses taught range over the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Research interests include early modern as well as modern literature.

Main publications (monographs):

*Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish (Syracuse University Press, 2013)

*Form as Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virginia Woolf’s Novels (Boydell & Brewer/Camden House, 1998)

*A Critical Introduction to Henry Green’s Novels: The Living Vision (Palgrave Macmillan, 1986).

Select international publications (articles): ‘Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia (1516)’ (forthcoming in Special Issue of Utopian Studies (2022); ‘Truth-Telling and the Representation of the Surinam “Indians” in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko’ + 'Critical Reflections', in Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings, ed. Paul Poplawski (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 167-82; ‘Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: Natural Art and the Body Politic’, in Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700, ed. Sara H. Mendelson, vol. 7 (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009), 307-29 (first published in Studies in Philology, XCVI, No. 4, 1999); 'Fighting the Kingdom of Faction in Bell in Campo', Early Modern Literary Studies, 14 (May 2004), pp. 1-12; ‘Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Cultural Dialectics and the Novel’, ELH, 68 (2001), pp. 57-79; ‘Structuralism and Interpretation: Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”‘, in New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, ed. Jackson J. Benson (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), pp. 58-72.