Pat Kelly

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto, 1972.
Master of Arts, University of Toronto, 1973. Thesis: A Reading of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1980. Thesis: The Way of the Labyrinth: Mystery and Detection in the Novels of Charles Dickens.

The crisis in religious faith in 19th-century British literature.
The development of new forms of the gothic in 19th-century British novelists.
Shakespeare’s metadrama: the author’s implicit commentary within the plays on the nature of drama.

Themes of resurrection in the works of Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Shakespeare’s view of comedy as interpreted through those characters who act as surrogate dramatists in the plays.

“The Detective as Guide to the Underworld of the City: Charles Dickens’ Inspector Bucket.” Presentation to the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, University of Victoria, October, 1980.
“The Spy in the Confessional Box: The Human Factor. Presentation at the Conference on the Late Fiction of Graham Greene, University of Waterloo, October, 1985.
“Day and Night: Mystery and Error in Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’,” English Studies in Canada, XI (September, 1985), 296-310.
“Graham Greene,” in Modern British Essayists: Second Series, Vol 100 of The Dictionary of Literary Biography (Detroit: Gale, 1990), 116-126.
“The Sublimity of Catherine and Heathcliff,” The Victorian Studies Newsletter, Number 86 (Fall, 1994), 26-30.
“Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and the Art of Christian Mercy,” in Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape. London: Rowan & Littlefield, 2004.
Various articles, reviews, and translations on both literary and non-literary topics in The Chelsea Journal and The Canadian Catholic Review.