Casie LeGette

Casie LeGette (PhD, University of Michigan, 2010) specializes in Nineteenth-century British Literature. Her interests include poetics, excerpting, anthologies, education, radical politics, periodical culture, and book history. She is currently at work on a book manuscript on the uses of poetry in educational anthologies and textbooks used throughout the British Empire, especially in the Caribbean. Related articles include "Poetry and the Visual Dynamics of Race in the West Indian Readers" in Victorian Poetry and "Cutting Lyric Down to Size: Victorian Anthologies and the Excerpt as Poem” in Genre. In 2018, she edited a special issue of Nineteenth Century Studies, on "Reassembly." Her first book, Remaking Romanticism: the Radical Politics of the Excerpt (Palgrave 2017) argues that radical editors and publishers transformed literary history, hauling the texts of the recent past directly into the present and undoing literary chronology in the service of political change. Related articles on prison poetry and Caleb Williams can be found in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Romanticism, respectively.