Juliet McMasterFRSC (born 1937) is a Canadian scholar of eighteenth and nineteenth-century English literature,a specialist in Jane Austen,and Full Professor at the University of Alberta.
McMaster joined the University of Alberta as an assistant professor of English in 1965.[5] In addition to teaching literature and theatre studies,she also taught a fencing course in the theatre department.[3] McMaster eventually achieved the rank of Full Professor in 1986.[5] The following year,she received a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts from 1987 to 1989.[6]
McMaster was the founding President of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada in 1973.[7] The following year,she republished her thesis through the University of Toronto Press into her first book titled Thackeray:The Major Novels.[8] She also served as president of ACUTE (Association of Canadian University Teachers in English) from 1976 to 1978.[7] During this time,McMaster published various books such as Jane Austen’s Achievement and Jane Austen on Love. The first of these novels,Jane Austen’s Achievement, which she edited in 1976,was a collection of papers delivered at the Jane Austen Bicentennial Conference at the University of Alberta.[9] The second novel,Jane Austen on Love was a short collection of essays on the theme of love in Austen's novels.[10] In the same year as Jane Austen on Love was published,McMaster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[7]
McMaster founded a pedagogical press,Juvenilia Press in 1994. Publishing the early works of established writers,Juvenilia Press involves students in the editorial,annotation,illustration and design of editions under the supervision of experienced scholars.[11]
Personal life
An avid fencer,McMaster qualified for a place on Canada's fencing team in 1965,after placing second in the National fencing championships.[3] She was named the athlete of the year at the University of Alberta in the same year.[3] She returned to the sport at the age of 77,and was an active member of the Edmonton Fencing Club.[12]
McMaster, Juliet; Thackeray, William Makepeace (1981). "Bluebeard at breakfast": an unpublished Thackeray manuscript. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press.
McMaster, Juliet (1990). The index of the mind: physiognomy in the novel. Lethbridge, Alta.: University of Lethbridge Press. ISBN978-0-919555-66-2.
McMaster, Juliet (1995). Thackeray: the major novels. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Books on Demand.
McMaster, Juliet (1996). Jane Austen the novelist: essays past and present. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Macmillan Press; St. Martin's Press. ISBN978-0-230-37546-8.
McMaster, Juliet (2000). Index of the mind: physiognomy and the eighteenth-century novel. Edmonton, AB: The Press at Pilot Bay. ISBN978-0-9681479-0-0.
McMaster, Juliet; Austen, Jane (2001). Jane Austen's business her world and her profession. Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN978-0-333-62920-8.
McMaster, Juliet (2004). Reading the body in the eighteenth-century novel. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN978-1-4039-3314-0.
Alexander, Christine; McMaster, Juliet (2005). The child writer from Austen to Woolf. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-81293-1.
McMaster, Juliet (2009). That mighty art of black-and-white: Linley Sambourne, Punch and the Royal Academy. Edmonton: Ad Hoc Press. ISBN978-0-9813838-0-4.
Alexander, Christine; McMaster, Juliet (2010). The child writer from Austen to Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McMaster, Juliet (2017). Jane Austen, Young Author. Routledge. ISBN978-1-317-11139-9.
↑ Greene, Michael (Summer 1974). "Reviewed Work(s): The Exposure of Luxury: Radical Themes in Thackeray by Barbara Hardy; Thackeray: The Major Novels by Juliet McMaster". The Georgia Review. 28 (2): 345–347. JSTOR41397110.
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