Bruce Wyse

The principal focus of my current research is the representation of Mesmerism in nineteenth-century British literature.

• “Entranced by Death: Mesmeric Visions and Twists of Faith in Horace Smith’s Mesmerism.” The Gothic and Death. Ed. Carol Davison. Manchester University Press. Forthcoming in 2017.
• “Double Voice and Extimate Singing in Trilby.” Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Literature. Eds. Jorge Sacido Romero and Sylvia Mieszkowski. Brill/Rodopi Press, 2015, 101-29.
• “Living ‘As If’: Ripley’s Imaginary and the Problem of Other People in The Talented Mr. Ripley.” Special Issue: “Re-Evaluating Patricia Highsmith.” Guest Editor, Fiona Peters. Clues: A Journal of Detection 33.2 (Fall 2015), 44-55.
• “The Skull in the Eye: ‘How fucked up is that?’ Carnivalesque and Metatextual Variations on Hamlet in Let the Devil Wear Black.” Adaptation 5.2. (2012), 241-61.
• “Consuming Life: Narcissism, Liminality, and the Posthuman Condition in Bulwer-Lytton’s A Strange Story.” Fastitocalon 1.2. (Fall 2010), 93-111.
• “Cultural Circulation and Circularities in Doctor Who: Bardolatry and the Time-Vortex of Intertextuality.” Peregrinations, Ruminations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who. Ed. Chris Hansen. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, 177-89, 348-49.
• “Traumatizing Romanticism in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer.” Modern Drama 47.3 (Fall 2004), 446-63.
• *Reprinted (with permission from Modern Drama) in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 253, Gale/Cengage, 2008.
• “Mesmerism, Narrative, Technology and Agency in Bulwer-Lytton’s ‘The House and the Brain.’” Victorian Review 30.2 (Fall 2004), 32-57.
• “The Equivocal Erotics of Mesmerism in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite.” Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 10 (2004), 168-93.