Selected Articles

“Hearing Voices in Jane Austen: Narrative Technique and the Representation of Speech and Thought in the Novels.”  The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen. Eds. Maria Frawley and Cheryl A. Wilson. Pp. 277-295. October 2021.

“Half Mended Stockings; or, Reality Sensing in Elizabeth Gaskell.”  ELH 83.3  (Autumn 2016): 821-37

“The Appeal of Panpsychism in Victorian Britain.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net #65 (2014-2015) https://ronjournal.org/s/3363

“Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 54. 4 (Autumn 2014): 943-1002

“The Mill on the Floss and The Lifted Veil: Prediction, Prevention, Protection.” In A Companion to George Eliot, eds. Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2013. Pp. 117-28

“’A Shape All Light’.” In Taking Liberties with the Author: Selected Essays from the English Institute, ed. Meredith L. McGill.  Cambridge, MA: English Institute in collaboration with the American Council of Learned Societies, 2013

“Wordsworth in Bed.” “New Perspectives on William Wordsworth,” La  Questione Romantica n.s. 3.2 (April 2011): 129-45

“Rhyme’s End.” Victorian Studies 53.3 (Spring 2011): 485-94

“Love Thinking.” Victorian Studies 50.3 (Spring 2008): 379-97

“Transatlantic Modern Love.” In The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange. ed. Meredith L. McGill. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Pp. 160-84

“Sensibility.” In Romanticism: An Oxford Guide ed. Nicholas Roe. Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 49-61

“Learning What Hurts: Romanticism, Pedagogy, Violence.” In The Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion ed. Robert F. Gleckner and Thomas Pfau. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. 413-28

“Rubber Bands and Old Ladies.” In In near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century ed. Nicholas B. Dirks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. Pp. 147-71

“Stealing Happiness: Shoplifting in Early Nineteenth-Century England.” In Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces ed. Patricia Spyer. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. 122-49

“Emotion and History: A Review Article.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 37.1 (January 1995): 100-109

“The True Colors of ‘Poor Susan’.” The Wordsworth Circle 25 (1994): 14-17

“Lost in A Book: Jane Austen’s Persuasion.” Studies in Romanticism 32 (Spring 1993): 97-117

“Female Chatter: Meter, Masochism, and the Lyrical Ballads.” ELH 55 (Winter 1988): 835-852