While I work primarily on the novel and realism (especially in the 19th and 20th centuries and mostly in western European contexts), some of my work and interests have led me into investigations of political aesthetics in drama and poetry, too. Below is a list of publications and ongoing projects.

Books:

Belief in Evidence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (forthcoming, Oxford University Press [Law and Literature series])

The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion: Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists, for Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature series (Palgrave, forthcoming 2016)

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Realism’s Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Ohio State UP, 2009)

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Reviewed in: Victorian Studies 53.1; Comparative Literature 64.2; German Quarterly 84.1; Nineteenth-Century French Studies 39.3/4; Choice Feb. 2010.
Chapter 6, on Anthony Trollope, “Global London and The Way We Live Now,” reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 274. Gale, 2013. 329-41. Print.

Realism’s Others, ed., with Eva Aldea (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)

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Books in Progress:

 

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Contact Nodes: Ports, Connection, and the World in Trollope’s Later Fiction,” in Pacific Gateways, ed. Laurence Williams and Tomoe Kumojima (forthcoming, Asia-Pacific and Literature in English series, Palgrave, 2025)

“Evidence,” in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Simon Stern and Robert Spoo, forthcoming January 2025

“Spaces that Matter: Reflections on Berlin in the Field of German Literary Production,” in Die große Mischkalkulation: Institutions, Social Import, and Market Forces in the German Literary Field, ed. William Collins Donahue and Martin Kagel, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2021, pp. 17-32.

“The Use and Abuse of Romance: Realist Revisions of Walter Scott in England, France, and Germany,” in Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature), ed. Shun-liang Chao and John Corrigan, Routledge, 2019, pp. 50-66.

“Empiricism, Evidence Law, and Emma.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 38.3 (2018).

“Legal Others: The Knowledge of National Community in Nineteenth-Century British Legal Theory and Wilkie Collins’s Man and Wife.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 40.3 (May 2018): 239-54.

“‘I know the man’: Evidence, Belief, and Character in Victorian Fiction.” Genre 50.1 (April 2017): 39-57.

“Preachers, Gangsters, Pranksters: MC Solaar and Hip-Hop as Overt and Covert Revolt.” The Journal of Popular Culture 44.2 (2011): 233-255.

“Making a Spectacle of Ourselves: The Unpolitical Ending of Thomas Mann’s Mario und der Zauberer.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 45.4 (2009): 353-68.

 Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, vol. 172. Gale, 2013. 244-253. Print.

“The Limits of Sympathy: J.M. Coetzee’s Evolving Ethics of Engagement.” ARIEL 36.1-2 (2005, special issue on Postcoloniality and Politics): 27-49.

“Empiricism and Empire: Orientalist Antiquing in Balzac’s Peau de chagrin.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 51 (2003-04): 167-74.

“Pressing Engagement: Sartre’s Littérature, Beauvoir’s Literature, and the Lingering Uncertainty of Literary Activism.” Dalhousie French Studies 63 (2003): 70-85.

“Nietzsche, Artaud, and Tragic Politics.” Comparative Literature 55.1 (2003): 1-23.

Reprinted in Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic. Ed. Mary Ann Frese Witt. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2007. 159-85.

“Other Capital: Investment, Return, Alterity and The Merchant of Venice.” The Upstart Crow 22 (2002, special issue on “Shakespeare and the Market”): 21-37.

“The Predication of Violence, the Violence of Predication: Reconstructing Hiroshima with Duras and Resnais.” Dialectical Anthropology 24:3/4 (1999): 387-406.