Eliza Haywood and Empire: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator
In my presentation on Dr. Catherine Ingrassia's Eliza Haywood and Empire panel today at 4:50 EST, I will be discussing my research using the digital...
Constructing and Performing Masculinity in the Novels of Richardson, Radcliffe and Austen
The question of how the construction or performance of masculinity changes throughout the long eighteenth century has been widely debated in field of literary/cultural studies,...
Character and Context in Equiano and Swift
The question of the relationship between character and context has been widely debated in the field of long eighteenth century literary/cultural studies with scholars such...
“The Power of my Pen”: Wielding Subjectivity to Engage and Influence the Collective Experience of the Nation
The question of how the highly individualized genre of life writing engaged with the collective experience of the nation has been widely debated in the...
Dividing the Kingdom: Non-Monarchical Perioditization of English Lit
The question of whether it makes sense to divide English literature into a category in alignment with English monarchs’ reigns such as George III’s (1760-1820)...