Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies)​
The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century …

This chapter argues that one must look back to the nineteenth century to see the beginnings
of the commercial adaptation industry that dominates the present. Although discussions of …

This volume provides readers with a comprehensive literary and historical basis for
understanding servant characters and servant narratives in the early Gothic mode …

The New York Public Library is an invaluable institution—especially given that it is free and
open to the public. Many years ago, while I was browsing its stacks, I happened upon a copy …

The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals
of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late …

This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and …

This thesis explores the mediation of eighteenth-century women's dramatic performance in
contemporary print both within, and outside of, the theatre. Taking the performance …

Abstract The Realist Stage: Theatrical Verisimilitude in the Nineteenth Century Novel
reconsiders the relationship of theatre and the novel in the nineteenth century. It engages …

Abstract The Anglo-German drama, which comes to proliferate in London's patent theatres at
the close of the 1790s, renders ubiquitous an arms-bearing heroine whose foreign character …

One of the defining features of the Gothic mode is its attraction to obscurity, its central
interest in what cannot quite be apprehended. Gothic writing circles around the unseen, the …