Publications

Books and Editions

 

Completed manuscript:

• Americomania : Transatlantic Utopianism and the French Revolution Debate, 1789-1800 (monograph).

In progress:

• Joel Barlow: American Patriot. Monograph biography (manuscript scheduled for completion 2012).

• Volume editor, The Letters of William Godwin, Vol. 4 (1816-1828). Gen. ed. Pamela Clemit. Oxford University Press (manuscript scheduled for completion 2012).

 

Major Editorial Projects

 

• General editor. The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft. 5 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto,  2007 . For further details, see: http://www.pickeringchatto.com/major_works/the_novels_and_selected_plays_of_thomas_holcroft .
• General editor. Anti-Jacobin Novels (consulting editor: Claudia Johnson). 10 vols. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2005. General Introduction, pp. vii-lxxv. For further details, see http://www.pickeringchatto.com/major_works/anti_jacobin_novels .

 

Books, Edited Collections and Editions

 

• Gilbert Imlay: Citizen of the World . Monograph biography. Pickering & Chatto, London, 2008. xiv + 300 pp.  For further details, see: http://www.pickeringchatto.com/monographs/gilbert_imlay . Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement, 25 April 2008 (24); William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series 66:2 (445-449); Keats-Shelley Journal (187-88); Journal of the Early Republic 29:2 (379-382); Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 52.
• Editor. Anna St. Ives (1792). By Thomas Holcroft. London: Pickering & Chatto, London, 2007. xxvii +454 pp.
• Editor. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-97). By Thomas Holcroft. London: Pickering & Chatto,  2007. xxiv + 468 pp.
• Editor (with Amanda Gilroy ), new edition (with Introduction and Explanatory Notes) of The Female Quixote (1752). By Charlotte Lennox. London : Penguin, 2006. liii + 465 pp.
• Editor. Berkeley Hall . (1796). Anonymous. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2005. xxxvi + 528 pp.
• Editor. The Democrat (1795) and The Aristocrat (1799). By Henry James Pye. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2005. cxiv + 332 pp.
• Editor. The Vagabond (1799). By George Walker. With an Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and Contextual Material. Peterborough , Ont. , Canada : Broadview Press, 2004. 389 pp.
• Editor. Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism, 1775-1815. London and New York : Macmillan/Palgrave, 2002.
• Co-editor (with Amanda Gilroy ). Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture. Charlottesville , VA:  University Press of Virginia , 2000.
• Co-editor (with Beth Dolan Kautz). Revolutions & Watersheds: Transatlantic Dialogues, 1775-1815. Amsterdam and Atlanta : Rodopi, 1999.
• Edited, with and Introduction and Explanatory Notes (with Amanda Gilroy ). The Emigrants (1793). By Gilbert Imlay. New York : Penguin Books Inc., 1998.
• Co-editor (with A. Robert Lee). Making America/Making American Literature: From Franklin to Cooper . Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1995.
• Editor. James Fenimore Cooper: New Historical and Literary Contexts. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1993.
• Editor. Rewriting the Dream: Reflections on the Changing American Literary Canon. Amsterdam and Atlanta , GA : Rodopi, 1992.

 

Articles (selected, all peer-reviewed)

 

In press: 

• “The Literature of Discovery and Transatlantic Travel Narratives.” Under contract with CUP (Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1680-1820, ed. Susan Manning and Eve Tavor Bennet).
• “Beyond Empire: Charles Brockden Brown and the Recolonization of America.” Under contract with Ashgate Press (Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies, ed. Julia Wright and Kevin Hutchings).
• “Leveling the Land: Thomas Holcroft and Radical Utopianism.” Under contract with Pickering & Chatto (Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809, ed. Arnold Markley and Miriam Wallace).
• "The Global British Novel." In The Oxford History of the Novel in English (10 vols). Gen. ed. Patrick Parrinder. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [2010 - ]

 

• “ Citizen Imlay and the Empire in the West.” In Largeness of Nature: American Travel Writing and Empire. Eds. David Seed and Susan Castillo . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2009. 78-98.
• “‘The condition of our country’: Self-Control and Discipline in Charles Brockden Brown’s National Tales.” In Civilizing America : Manners and Civility as Categories of Social, Cultural, and Literary Analysis . Ed. Dietmar Schloss. Heidelberg : Universitatsverlag Winter, 2009. 97-107.
• “Gilbert Imlay and the Triangular Trade.” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series 63:4 (October 2006): 827-42.
• “General Introduction.” Anti-Jacobin Novels. 10 vols. London : Pickering & Chatto. Volume 1, pp. vii-lxxv.
• “William Godwin.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature . Ed. David Scott Kastan, et al. 4 vols. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. Vol. 2: 422-26.
• “Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail.” In American History through Literature, 1820-1870. Eds. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert D. Sattelmeyer. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005. 833-38.
• “Book Trade,” “Print Culture,” and “Print Technology.” In Encyclopedia of the New American Nation. Ed. Paul Finkelman, et al. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005. Vol. 1: 213-214; Vol. 3: 37-40; Vol. 3: 43-44.
• “‘A Colony of Aliens’: Germans and the German Language Press in Colonial and Revolutionary America .” In Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America . Eds Sharon Harris and Mark Kamrath . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2005. 75-102.
• “Transatlantic Ventures.” In A Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865. Ed. Shirley Samuels . New York : Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 119-24.
• “‘This blissful period of intellectual liberty’: Transatlantic Radicalism and Enlightened Conservatism in Brown ’s Early Writings.” In Revising Charles Brockden Brown : Reconfiguring the Early Republic . Eds Philip Barnard, Mark Kamrath , and Stephen Shapiro . University of Tennessee Press , 2004. 7-40.
• “America and the ‘British Revolution’: Geopolitics and Transatlantic Emigration in the 1790s’ Jacobin and Anti-Jacobin Novel.” In Dreams of Paradise , Visions of Apocalypse: Utopia and Dystopia in American Culture . Ed. Jaap Verheul . Amsterdam : Free University Press, 2004. 13-25.
• “‘Some corner of a foreign field that is forever England’: The Transatlantic Construction of the Anglo-American Landscape.” In England’s Green and Pleasant Land: The Cultural Construction of the English Countryside. Ed. Amanda Gilroy. Leuven: Peeters, 2004. 155-71.
• “Ecology As Requiem: Nature, Nationhood, and History in Francis Parkman’s ‘history of the American forest.’” In Configuring Romanticism . Ed. Theo D’haen. Amsterdam and Atlanta : Rodopi, 2003. 137-52.
• “‘I will use no daggers! I will unfold a tale—!’: Historical Sensitivity and Generic Contiguity in the Narrative Theories of William Godwin.” In Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism, 1775-1815 . Ed. W.M. Verhoeven. London and New York : Macmillan/Palgrave, 2002. 166-87.
• “Gothic Logic: Charles Brockden Brown and the Science of Sensationalism.” European Journal of American Culture 20.2 (2001): 91-99.
• “New Philosophers” in the Backwoods: Romantic Primitivism and American Emigration in the 1790s’ Jacobin and Anti-Jacobin Novel.” The Wordsworth Circle 32.3 (2001): 130-33.
• “American Studies: Society.” In International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. 26 vols. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001. Vol. 1: 454-61.
• “Land-Jobbing in the Western Territories : Radicalism, Transatlantic Emigration, and the 1790s’ American Travel Narrative.” In Romantic Geographies: Discourses of Travel 1775-1844. Ed. Amanda Gilroy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 184-203.
• “Performing Revolution: Charles Brockden Brown and the Jacobin Legacy in America .” Profils Américains 11 (1999): 121-33.
• “Hannah Webster Foster.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 200 (“American Women Writers to 1820”). Detroit , Washington , D.C. , London : Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998. 122-131.
• “West of ‘Woman’; Or, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Geofeminism in Aritha van Herk.” In A Sense of Place: Re-Evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American Writing. Eds. Chris tian Riegel and Herb Wyile. Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 1998. 61-80.
• “How Hyphenated Can You Get?: A Critique of Pure Ethnicity.” Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature 29.3 (1996): 97-116 (Winner, Best Special Issue of the Year Award, Society of Editors of Learned Journals).
• “‘Persuasive Rhetorick’: Representation and Resistance in Early American Epistolary Fiction.” In Making America/Making American Literature: From Franklin to Cooper . Eds A. Robert Lee and W.M. Verhoeven. Amsterdam - Atlanta , GA : Rodopi, 1995. 123-164.
• “What We Talk About When We Talk About Raymond Carver; Or, Much Ado About Minimalism.” In Postmodern Studies, Vol. 11. Eds Th. D’haen and H. Bertens. Amsterdam - Atlanta , GA : Rodopi, 1995. 41-60.
• “Opening the Text: The Locked-Trunk Motif in Late Eighteenth-Century British and American Gothic Fiction.” In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition. Eds P. Davidson and V. Tinkler-Villani. Amsterdam - Atlanta , GA : Rodopi, 1995. 205-219.
• “Playing Hide and Seek in Language: Michael Ondaatje’s Historiography of the Self.” The American Review of Canadian Studies 24.1 (1994): 21-38.
• “(De)Facing the Self: Michael Ondaatje and (Auto)Biography.” In Postmodern Fiction in Canada . Eds Th. D’haen and H. Bertens. Amsterdam and Atlanta , GA : Rodopi, 1992. 181-200.

 

Reviews

 

Numerous book reviews have appeared in the following scholarly journals: Romanticism; Modern Language Review; The Year’s Work in English Studies; The Yearbook of English Studies; British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin; American Studies in Europe.

 

Reviews include:

 

• Charles Mahoney, Romanticism and Renegades: The Poetics of Political Reaction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), in Keats-Shelley Journal 106 (2007): 196-97.
• Joel Pace and Matthew Scott, eds. Wordsworth in American Literary Culture ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2005), in The Wordsworth Circle (forthcoming).
• David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick, eds., The British Transatlantic World, 1500-1800 ( New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2002), in Romanticism (forthcoming).
• M.O. Grenby, The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001), in Romanticism 9.2 (2003): 234-37.
• Malcolm Kelsall, Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism: Folk, Land, Culture and the Romantic Nation (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), in YES 31 (2001): 313-15.
• James D. Hartman, Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), in Modern Language Review 95.4 (2000): 1077-78.
• Joseph N. Riddle, The Turning Word: American Literary Modernism and Continental Theory, ed. Mark Bauerlein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), in Modern Language Review 94.1 (1999): 179-80.
• Christopher Looby, Voicing America : Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996), in Modern Language Review 93.3 (1998): 804-5).

 

Papers, Presentations and Panel Contributions (selected)

 

• "Gilbert Imlay and the Transatlantic Enlightenment." Invited lecture. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 13 October 2008.
• "In Defense of Empire: Charles Brockden Brown and the Recolonization of America." Keynote address. Sixth Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society, Dresden, 10 October 2008.
• “‘Come to these Arcadian Regions where there is room for millions’: Citizen Imlay and the Empire in the West.” Invited guest lecture, Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen , 6 February, 2007.
• “Wilderness for Sale : American Land-Jobbers and British Radicals in the 1790s.” Leiden October Conference (“The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1945”), University of Leiden , October 25, 2006.
• “Printed in England : ‘ America ’ and the Public Sphere in B rita in , 1789-1800.” Annual meeting Mid-America American Studies Association, St. Louis , MO , 8 April, 2006.
• “ From Newgate Prison to Ohiopiomingo: The ‘Mania for Emigration’ and the British Radical Press in the 1790s.” Invited lecturer, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Williamsburg , VA , 24 January, 2006.
• “‘ Americomania’: Transatlantic Speculations in Land and Print, 1783-1800.”Invited lecture. Brown University and John Carter Brown Library, Providence , RI , 26 April, 2005.
• “Down and Out in London and Louisville : Kentucky Land-Jobbers and English Radical Emigrants in the 1790s.” Invited guest lecture, University of California , Riverside , 11 November, 2004.
• “‘ A Colony of Aliens’: Germans and the German Language Press in Colonial and Revolutionary Pennsylvania .” Beyond Colonial Studies Conference, Brown University , Providence , 4 November, 2004.
• “ The American Front of the French Revolution in England : The Case of Walker’s The Vagabond.” Annual meeting American Studies Association, Atlanta , 14 November, 2004. [revised paper]
• “Revolutions and Watersheds in British-American Relations.” Keynote speaker, conference “Literary and Cultural Mappings Across the Atlantic, 1620-1914: Teaching the Intercultural.” AMATAS (Americanisation and the Teaching of American Studies). Warwick University , September 10, 2004.
• “ ‘The condition of our country’: Self-Control and Discipline in Charles Brockden Brown’s National Tales.” Invited speaker, symposium “Civilizing America: Manners and Civility as Categories of Social, Cultural, and Literary Analysis.” University of Heidelberg , June 25, 2004.
• "Is America Reaching Its Sell-By Date? Thoughts on the Life Cycle of a Super Culture." Inaugural address, chair in American Culture and Cultural Theory, University of Groningen, September 9, 2003.
• “The American Front of the French Revolution in England : The Case of Walker’s The Vagabond. Fourth Symbiosis Conference (“Across the Great Divide”), Edinburgh , July 21, 2003 .
• “Declarations of Independence : Brown , Caritat and Transatlantic Print Culture.” Third Biennial convention of the Society of Early Americanists, Providence , RI , April 12, 2003 .
• “Declarations of Independence : The American Revolution and the History of the Book.” Commencement address, inauguration of the Charles H. Watts II Visiting Professorship in the History of the Book, Brown University , May 25, 2002 .
• “Printed in America : Franklin and the German-Language Press.” Presentation for the research fellows and associates of the John Carter Brown Library, Providence , Rhode Island , April 3, 2002 .
• “Pulp Fiction: Caritat, Lane, and Transatlantic Print Culture at the End of the Eighteenth Century.” Invited keynote address. “Print Culture in the Era of the Circulating Library.” Sheffield Hallam University , July 20, 2001 .
• “Caught Between Two Nations: Germans and the German Language Press in Colonial and Revolutionary Pennsylvania .” Biennial convention of the Society of Early Americanists, Norfolk , VA , March 9, 2001 .
• “Contested Lands: Travel Narratives and the Printing of ‘ America .’” Second Biennial convention of the Society of Early Americanists, Norfolk , VA , March 10, 2001 .
• “‘New Philosophers’ in the Backwoods: Romantic Primitivism and Transatlantic Emigration in the 1790s’ Jacobin and Anti-Jacobin Novel.” Modern Language Association annual convention, Washington , DC , December 30, 2000 .
• “Gothic Logic: Science and Sensationalism in Charles Brockden Brown .” Charles Brockden Brown Society Conference, Las Vegas , October 27, 2000.
• Research seminar for faculty and graduate students on transatlantic travel narratives in the late eighteenth century (invited speaker). Department of English, Brown University . April 20, 2000 .
• “The ‘only remaining primitive society’: Baudrillard’s America .” “Transatlantic Exchanges: Europe , Africa , and the Americas , 1945-2000.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , October 24, 1999 .
• “German Language Periodicals and Pamphlets of the Revolutionary Period.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual convention, Milwaukee , March 28, 1999 .