Research and Publications
Current Book Project
- Tentatively entitled Women and the Domesticated Landscape
of England, 1770-1850, co-authored with Elise L. Smith
Books
Articles and Chapters of Books
- "Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford: Miss Marjoriebanks,
Narrative Space, and the Meaning of Victorian Gardens" (under
consideration)
- "The Garden in Mansfield Park; or, Fanny Price's Potted
Plants" (under consideration)
- "Shylock's Turquoise Ring: Jane Austen and the "exquisite
acting" of Edmund Kean" (forthcoming, 2008, Corvey Women
Writers Journal, CW3)
- "Reforming Honeysuckles: Hannah More's Coelebs in Search
of a Wife and the Politics of Women's Gardens," The Keats-Shelley
Journal (2006): 11-36.
- “Anglo-Jewish Identity and the Politics of Cultivation in Hazlitt,
Aguilar, and Disraeli,” in The Jews and British Romanticism:
Politics, Religion, Culture, Palgrave, (2005), 149-64.
- “Gender and Domesticity,” Chapter 12 of The Cambridge Companion
to Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill (2003), 125-41.
- “Hath not a Jew eyes?”: Edmund Kean and the Sympathetic Shylock,”
(Spring 2003) The Wordsworth Circle. 216-19.
- “Neatly-Penned Memorials: Dora Wordsworth’s Journal of 1828 and
the Community of Authorship,” A/B: Autobiography Studies
17 (Summer 2002), 65-80.
- “Hyman Hurwitz’s Hebrew Tales (1826): Restoring the Talmudic
Garden,” British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture,
Literature, ed. Sheila A. Spector, New York: Palgrave (2002),
197-213.
- “Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington: From Shylock to Shadowy
Peddlers,” The Wordsworth Circle 32 (Winter 2001), 9-13.
- “’Nor yet redeemed from scorn: Wordsworth and the Jews,’” Journal
of English and Germanic Philology 99 (October 2000), 537-54.
- “Jerusalem and Jewish Memory: Judith Montefiore’s Private
Journal,” Victorian Literature and Culture 27
(1999), 125-41.
- “Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,”
Women’s Studies Encyclopedia, vol. 3, Greenwood Press
(1992), 458-60.
- “‘Judge her gently’: Passion and Rebellion in Wordsworth’s ‘Laodamia,’”
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 33 (Spring 1991),
24-39.
- “Images of Women in British Romantic Literature,” Women’s
Studies Encyclopedia, vol. 2, 297-99, Greenwood Press (1991),
297-99.
- “William Wordsworth,” in English Romantic Poets, Dictionary
of Literary Biography, Gale Publishing Company (1990), 304-345.
Reprinted in the Concise Dictionary of Literary Biography.
- “Shelley’s Adonais as Pastoral Elegy,” in Approaches
to Teaching Shelley’s Poetry MLA (1990), 100-102.
- “‘A History / Homely and rude:’” Genre and Style in Wordsworth’s
Michael,” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
29 (Autumn 1989), 621-36.
- “‘The weight of too much liberty:’ Genre and Gender in Wordsworth’s
Calais Sonnets,” Criticism 30 (Spring 1988),
189-203.
- “The Preface to Lyrical Ballads in Relation to the
Poems,” in Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth’s Poetry,
MLA (1986), 75-78.
- “Wordsworth and the Psychology of Meter," Papers on Language
& Literature 21(Summer 1985), 275-94.
- “Style and Rhetorical Intention in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads,”
Philological Quarterly 62 (Summer l983), 293-313.
- “The Garland Facsimiles of the Poetry of James Montgomery,” Blake
Quarterly (Summer l981), 28-35.
Reviews
- Kevin Gilmartin's Writing against Revolution: Literary Conservatism
in Britain, 1790-1832. Cambridge University Press, 2007 (forthcoming
in Modern Philology)
- Eitan Bar-Yosef's The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799-1917:
Palestine and the Question of Orientalism. Oxford University Press,
2005 (forthcoming in Review of English Studies)
- Alyson Pendelbury's Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain.
Portland, Oregon: Vallentine Mitchel, 2006 (forthcoming in the AJS
Review)
- Daniel P. Watkins’ Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry,
Modern Philology (February 1999) 390-92.
- Laura E. Skandera-Trombley’s Mark Twain in the Company of
Women, Women’s Historical Review (1996), 303-4.
- David Collings’s Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural
Dismemberment, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
(1996), 257-59.
- Don H. Bialostosky’s Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice
of Criticism, Modern Philology (August 1994),
110-14.
- Peter J. Manning’s Reading Romantics: Text and Context,
The Wordsworth Circle (Autumn 1993), 215-16.
- Marlon B. Ross’s The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism
and the Rise of Women’s Poetry, Modern Philology
(November 1991), 292-97.
- Don H. Bialostosky’s Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth’s
Narrative Experiments, Modern Philology (February
l987), 326-29.
- T.V.F. Brogan’s English Versification, Blake
Quarterly (Fall l982), 125-26.
- Charles Sherry’s Wordsworth’s Poetry of the Imagination,
Modern Philology (November 1982), 205-8.
Selected Presentations
- "Dorothy Wordsworth's 'gratitude to insensate things': Gardening
in The Grasmere Journals," International Conference on
Romanticism, Baltimore, October 2007
- Moderator and opening remarks, Symposium on Erich Auerbach's Mimesis,
UF, October 2007
- Invited lecture, "The Garden in Mansfield Park,"
JASNA, Jacksonville, FL, November 2007
- Invited Lecture. "Reinventing Shylock: Romanticism and the Representation
of Shakespeare's Jew." Center for Judaic Studies, University of Kentucky.
Lexington, KY. April 2006.
- Inivited, Plenary Lecture, University of London, conference on Romanticism
and Judaism, February 2006
- “Jewish Spectacle: Culture and Cultivation in Early Nineteenth
Century Britain” Association for Jewish Studies, December 2004,
Chicago, IL
- “Jewish Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Cultivation in Hazlitt
and Disraeli,” NASSR, September 2004, Boulder, CO
- “Women and Landscape: Improvements and Prospects from Anne
Finch to Anna Seward and Jane Austen,” Conference on Women and
Material Culture, 1660-1830, Chawton House, UK, July 14-15,
2004
- “Milk and Honey: Grace Aguilar and the Politics of Cultivation,”
18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference, Athens,
Georgia, March 2004
- “Jewish Scholars and Romantic Texts,” Association for
Jewish Studies, Boston, December 23, 2003
- Respondent, “Cities of Women: The Filmic Portrayal of
Urban Female Struggles,” University of Florida, December
6, 2003
- “What Happened at Drury Lane on January 26, 1814?”
invited lecture, Millsaps College Friday Forum, November
14, 2003
- “Reinventing Shylock: Romanticism and the Representation
of Shakespeare’s Jew,” invited talk, Oxford Centre
for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UK, February 2003 and
to the Romantic Realignments, University College,
Oxford University, April 2003
- “Edmund Kean, Theatrical Performance, and the
Innovation of a Sympathetic Shylock,” Keats-Shelley
Association panel, MLA, NYC, December 2002
- “Jews, Otherness, and Sympathy in Maria Edgeworth’s
Harrington” (1817), MLA, NYC, December
2002
- “Reinventing Shylock: Romanticism and the
Representation of Shakespeare’s Jews,” invited
lecture, Fall Lecture Series, Center for Jewish
Studies, University of Florida, October 2002
- “Imagining Jerusalem: Judith Montefiore’s
Private Journal and Romanticism,” North American
Society for the Study of Romanticism, Univ.
of Washington, Seattle, August 2001
- “The Jewish Presence in Wordsworth,” MLA
panel, “The Jewish Presence—or Absence in
Romanticism,” Washington, December 2000
- “From Shylock to Shadowy Peddlers,”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies,
Yale Center for British Art,” New Haven,
April 6-9, 2000
- “The Jew in the Gothic: Maria Edgeworth’s
Harrington,” American Conference
on Romanticism, University of Georgia,
January 1998
- “Travel Writing as Spiritual Pilgrimage:
Judith Montefiore in Jerusalem (1827),”
Associated Colleges of the South Women’s
Studies Conference, Millsaps College,
October 1997
- “Expanding the Wordsworth Circle:
Dora Wordsworth and Her Literary
Mothers,” British Association of
Romanticism, Univ. of Leeds, England,
July 1997.
- “‘A Thousand Patches’: Dora
Wordsworth’s Journal of 1828 and
the Community of Authorship,”
18th and 19th Century British
Women Writers, Annual Conference,
U.C. Davis, March 1997
- “Dora Wordsworth, William
Wordsworth, and a Jewish Family
in the Rhineland, 1828,” North
American Society for the Study
of Romanticism, Boston, November
1996
- “Feminism, Faculty, and
Academic Politics,” Associated
Colleges of the South, Women’s
Studies Conference, Trinity
University, San Antonio, TX,
November 1995
- “Dora Wordsworth’s Travel
Writing,” British Comparative
Literature Association,
Edinburgh, Scotland, July
1995
- Session Moderator, “Political
Dimensions of Reading
in the American Academy,”
Southern Humanities Conference,
Jackson, MS, February
1995.
- Session Moderator,
North American Society
for the Study of Romanticism,
Annual Meeting, Duke
University, November
1994
- “Dora Wordsworth
and the Legacy of
‘Tintern Abbey,’”
MLA, Toronto, December
1993
- “Wordsworth from
Romantic to Victorian:
The Case of ‘The
Egyptian Maid,’”
MLA, Romantics Division,
Toronto, December
1993
- “Genre and Gender
in Romantic Writing,”
response paper,
North American
Society for the
Study of Romanticism,
University of
Western Ontario,
August, 1993
- “European
Images of Africans:
Wordsworth and
Benoist,” Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth Century
Studies, New
Orleans, April
1992.
- “Dora Wordsworth
at Tintern
Abbey,” Mississippi
Philological
Association,
February 1992
- “Wordsworth’s
White-Robed
Negro: Race
and Gender
in 1802,”
MLA, Chicago,
December
1990
- “Passion
and Rebellion
in ‘Laodamia,’”
Wordsworth
Summer
Conference,
Grasmere,
England,
August
1990
- “The
Feminine
Sublime
in Wordsworth’s
Prelude
of 1799,”
ASECS
National
Convention,
New
Orleans,
April
1989
- “‘Slaves
of
Feeling:’
Language
and
Sexuality
in
Wollstonecraft’s
Vindication
of
the
Rights
of
Woman,”
ASECS
National
Convention,
Knoxville,
April
1988
- “Calais,
August
1802:
Wordsworth’s
Political
Sonnets
and
the
Rhetoric
of
Freedom,”
Philological
Association
of
the
Carolinas,
March
1986
