# Jonathan Grossman

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{{Short description|English professor (born 1967)}}
'''Jonathan Hamilton Grossman''' (born April 17, 1967) is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles ([UCLA](/source/UCLA)).<ref>[http://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/grossman-jonathan-h/] UCLA English Department</ref> He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature.

== Biography ==
Grossman was born in Oxford, England, in 1967 to Marc and Penelope Grossman. He attended [Milton Academy](/source/Milton_Academy) in [Milton, Massachusetts](/source/Milton%2C_Massachusetts). He received his Bachelor of Arts in English and religion from [Brown University](/source/Brown_University) in 1989, and his PhD in English from the [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania) in 1996.

== Scholarship ==
Grossman's first book, ''The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel'', was published by The [Johns Hopkins University Press](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University_Press) in 2002. The book examines early nineteenth-century crime fiction's relation to the law courts prior to detective fiction's invention in the 1840s. It falls into the interdisciplinary field of law and literature as well as early [Victorian](/source/Victorian_literature) studies.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stern |first=Simon |date=2003 |title=The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2003.58.2.262 |journal=Nineteenth-Century Literature |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=262–265 |doi=10.1525/ncl.2003.58.2.262 |issn=0891-9356}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dolin |first=Kieran |date=May 2004 |title=The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/423646 |journal=Modern Philology |volume=101 |issue=4 |pages=626–630 |doi=10.1086/423646 |issn=0026-8232|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Joyce |first=Simon |date=2003 |title=The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/54218 |journal=Victorian Studies |language=en |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=159–160 |doi=10.1353/vic.2004.0057 |issn=1527-2052|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 

''Charles Dickens's Networks: Public transport and the Novel'' (Oxford), his second book, examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time, space, and community, and how the art form of the novel played a special role in synthesizing and understanding that revolution.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 2014 |title=Charles Dickens’s Networks: Public Transportation and the Novel by Jonathan H. Grossman (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/551621 |journal=Technology and Culture |language=en |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=744–745 |doi=10.1353/tech.2014.0078 |issn=1097-3729|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Paul Young |date=2014 |title=[No title found] |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/modelangrevi.109.4.1069 |journal=The Modern Language Review |volume=109 |issue=4 |pages=1069 |doi=10.5699/modelangrevi.109.4.1069|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kennedy |first=Valerie |date=2014-07-04 |title=Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0013838X.2014.926669 |journal=English Studies |language=en |volume=95 |issue=5 |pages=588–589 |doi=10.1080/0013838X.2014.926669 |issn=0013-838X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Focusing on a trio of road novels by [Charles Dickens](/source/Charles_Dickens), this study looks first at a key historical moment in the networked community's coming together, then at a subsequent recognition of its tragic limits, and, finally, at the construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious, limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine their journeying in the network.

Since 2011, Grossman has been co-editor of the journal [Nineteenth-Century Literature](/source/Nineteenth-Century_Literature).

Grossman's academic interests include the history, form, and sociology of the novel, and narrative and temporality.

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