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Book published by Routledge in May 2022
This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pygmalion’s statue, Frankenstein’s creature, homunculi, automata, androids, golems, and steam men.
WOMEN WARRIORS IN ROMANTIC DRAMA
Book published by University of Delaware Press in 2012
This book examines quasi-historical female soldiers or assassins in French, British, and German drama between 1789 and 1830 and argues that dramas about women warriors seem to sometimes contribute to the argument for female citizenship when they take the form of tragedy, because the deaths of female protagonists in such plays often provoke consideration about women’s place in society.
March 2020
The essays on Teaching Global Romanticism collected here present varied approaches to teaching Romanticism in a global context through individual assignments, units, and syllabi.
A chapter in Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms, eds. Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason (Bucknell UP, 2020).
The Chess Player’s deception—the man hidden in the machine—has come to represent the conditions of modern labor in general, as seen in E. T. A. Hoffmann, Walter Benjamin, and Edgar Alan Poe.
in Teaching Romanticism XXXII: Drama, part 6 (July 2018), ed. Dana Van Kooy, for Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840
This essay provides a guide for teaching Parts I and II of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Romantic-era drama, Faust, to undergraduate students with no knowledge of German.
Goethe Yearbook 23 (2016): 59-75.
This essay reads the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alongside the material culture of motherless creations, the automata, androids, and golems that his contemporaries imagined and created.
In Rousseau, Switzerland, and Romanticism: New Prospects, eds. Angela Esterhammer, Patrick Vincent, and Diane Piccito, 68-83. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
This essay argues for reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s lyrical scene Pygmalion alongside the cultural phenomenon of musical automata such as those created in the workshops of Vaucanson and Jaquet-Droz. Examining Rousseau’s Pygmalion in relation to automata sheds light on Swiss contributions to Romantic-era discourse about the power of emotion over imagination, creation, and procreation.
In vol. 1 of Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, eds. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Goslee, and Diane Long Hoeveler. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 475-85.
Encyclopedia article about the drama of the French Revolution in Britain, Germany, and France.
Romantic Pedagogy Commons (May 2011).
Suggestions for teaching the drama of the French Revolution
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 49.3 (Summer 2009): 595-614.
This essay examines the theatrical legacy of Boadicea, the British warrior queen defeated by the Romans around 61 AD, in three plays: John Fletcher's "The Tragedy of Bonduca, or the British Heroine" and two unrelated dramas titled "Boadicea" by Charles Hopkins and Richard Glover.
Comparative Drama 40.2 (Summer 2006): 169-90.
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European Romantic Review 17.3 (Summer 2006): 275-88.
This essay examines Elizabeth Inchbald’s treatment of French Revolutionary women and relationship to European drama in order to appreciate the implications of tragic writing for British women playwrights.
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 43.3 (Fall 2002): 268-85. Reprint in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 127 (Aug. 2006): 79-89.
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