Background
Bernstein, Carol Lippit was born on February 9, 1933 in New York City. Daughter of Jules and Rose (Regenbogen) Lippit.
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Bernstein explores the representation of the city in Victorian fiction—from the scandal of its slums, through the sublime of its fashionable society, to a darker urban sublime. The Celebration of Scandal analyzes the urban fiction of both well-known novelists (Dickens, Gissing, James, and Meredith) and more marginal writers (Disraeli and Bulwer-Lytton) in terms of their representations of the city, both the scandalous and the sublime. It also includes a discussion of the dandy novels of Catherine Gore, whose parodies of high life are virtually unknown to modern readers. Bernstein explores the scandals lying at the heart of the representation of the city in Victorian fiction. Social scandals—slums that belie the myths of urban progress, for instance—are only intensified by methods of representation that overturn mimetic conventions. But if one pole of this study is the scandal, then its opposite is the sublime. Bernstein examines the parodic mode of the dandy and moves to the serious urban sublime that records urban experience in its ambiguity, its narcissism, its negativity, and its strength. Bernstein then discusses fictional and nonfictional urban sketches that present many of the problems facing urban artists in their encounters with the city. She stakes out new territory, blending the work of major critics of Victorian literature (Steven Marcus, Hillis Miller, etc.), lesser-known nineteenth-century urban texts, and a substantial dosage of Continental materials, ranging from the crucial work of Baudelaire and his great expositor, Walter Benjamin, to theorists such as Freud, Bakhtin, Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan.
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Bernstein, Carol Lippit was born on February 9, 1933 in New York City. Daughter of Jules and Rose (Regenbogen) Lippit.
Bachelor with high honors, Swarthmore College, 1954; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1961.
Instructor, Hebrew U. Jerusalem, 1957-1958;
visiting lecturer English and American studies, Hebrew U. Jerusalem, 1965-1966;
lecturer, Albertus Magnus College, 1965;
lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1969;
assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1969-1974;
lecturer, Bryn Mawr College, 1974-1976;
associate professor, Bryn Mawr College, 1976-1990;
Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College, since 1990;
Fairbank professor humanities, Bryn Mawr College, since 1992;
department chairman English, Bryn Mawr College, 1986-1992;
chairman comparative literature program, Bryn Mawr College, since 1993. Lecturer Bryn Mawr College, 1974, 82, Victorians Institute Conference, 1980, International Association Philosophy and Literature, 1983, 85, 87, 89, Vanderbilt University, 1985, Friends of Bryn Mawr Library., 1986, Haverford College, 1988, 6th East-West Philosopher's Conference, 1989, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, 1991, University of California Berkeley, 1992, U. Oslo, 1992, U. Bergen, Norway, 1992, Instituto de Filosofia, Madrid, 1993, Universidade Catolica de Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1993, St. Mary's College, Maryland., 1994, Josai International U., Japan, 1994, Kobe Jogakuin U., Japan, 1994, Kyoto Sangyo U., Japan, 1994, Kounan Joshi U., Japan, 1994, many others. Consultant American Council of Learned Societies, 1984.
Honors examiner Swarthmore College, 1975, 76. Member of faculty fellowship selection committee Swarthmore College, 1988, 89, 92, 93. Moderator symposium Paris and London in 18th Century Bryn Mawr College, 1976, Annenberg Center, 1986.
Moderator, member panel Victorians Institute Conference,1980. Chairman panel responding to post-modernism eastern division American Society Aesthetics, 1989.
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Member Modern Language Association (lecturer 1982, 87, 90, delegate assembly 1990-1992, manuscript referee, lecturer Northeast chapter 1983, 85, 88, chair panel on figuring the sublime 1990, secretary continental critics panel 1989, chair literature and philosophy panel 1985, chair literary criticism panel 1984, consultant reader Pennsylvania chapter), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Richard J. Bernstein, September 11, 1955. Children: Robin, Andrea, Jeffrey, Daniel.