My Criticism
Book Project
Getting Lost in the Novel: The Impassioned Movements of the Self in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction focuses on moments when characters get socially or geographically lost at which they also fail to understand their experiences. I argue that attending closely to these moments reorients our understanding of subgenres of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel (the marriage-plot, the gothic, the Bildungsroman, and the sensation novel) toward both the protagonist's and the reader's moment-to-moment experience.
Articles
"'Self-Distancing in the Victorian Bildungsroman." Victorian Literature and Culture, forthcoming
"Proprioception and Thinking in the Gothic Novel." European Romantic Review, Spring 2020
"A Shift in the Ethics of Hardy's Fiction." Thomas Hardy Journal, Winter 2017
"Negative Capability: A Capable Cognitive Act." Literary Imagination, Fall 2017
Encyclopedia Entries
Entry on Bridget St Hillaire’s The Priory of St Mary for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-
Century Novel 1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Entry on Mary Pickar’s The Castle of Roviego for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-
Century Novel 1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Entry on Henry Summersett’s Martyn of Fenrose for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century
Novel 1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Entry on The Submissions of Dependence for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Entry on The Orphan-Swains: Or, London Contagious to the Country for The Cambridge Guide to the
Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Poetry Book Reviews
Review of Elliott Colla and Ganzeer's We Are All Things, EcoTheo
Review of 'Gbenga Adeoba's Exodus, EcoTheo
Review of Dana Roeser's All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, Green Mountains Review Blog
Review of Jennifer Soong's Near, At, Iowa Review Blog
"The Sonar, Wifi and Tentacled Mind of Sarah Vap: A Review of Winter: Effulgences and Devotions," Adroit Journal
"Fully There: Jessica Laser's Literary Mediations of an Experience," Tupelo Quarterly
Getting Lost in the Novel: The Impassioned Movements of the Self in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction focuses on moments when characters get socially or geographically lost at which they also fail to understand their experiences. I argue that attending closely to these moments reorients our understanding of subgenres of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel (the marriage-plot, the gothic, the Bildungsroman, and the sensation novel) toward both the protagonist's and the reader's moment-to-moment experience.
Articles
"'Self-Distancing in the Victorian Bildungsroman." Victorian Literature and Culture, forthcoming
"Proprioception and Thinking in the Gothic Novel." European Romantic Review, Spring 2020
"A Shift in the Ethics of Hardy's Fiction." Thomas Hardy Journal, Winter 2017
"Negative Capability: A Capable Cognitive Act." Literary Imagination, Fall 2017
Encyclopedia Entries
Entry on Bridget St Hillaire’s The Priory of St Mary for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-
Century Novel 1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Entry on Mary Pickar’s The Castle of Roviego for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-
Century Novel 1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Entry on Henry Summersett’s Martyn of Fenrose for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century
Novel 1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Entry on The Submissions of Dependence for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Entry on The Orphan-Swains: Or, London Contagious to the Country for The Cambridge Guide to the
Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820, Ed. April London, Forthcoming
Poetry Book Reviews
Review of Elliott Colla and Ganzeer's We Are All Things, EcoTheo
Review of 'Gbenga Adeoba's Exodus, EcoTheo
Review of Dana Roeser's All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, Green Mountains Review Blog
Review of Jennifer Soong's Near, At, Iowa Review Blog
"The Sonar, Wifi and Tentacled Mind of Sarah Vap: A Review of Winter: Effulgences and Devotions," Adroit Journal
"Fully There: Jessica Laser's Literary Mediations of an Experience," Tupelo Quarterly