Peter Melville Logan

Short Biography

Peter Melville Logan is currently writing on the use of fiction in Victorian psychiatric discourse and psychiatric discourse in Victorian fiction. He is the author of Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009) and Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997). He is also Editor of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel, scheduled for publication in 2009, and Associate Professor of English at Temple University.