Publications
Book
Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment (University of Virginia Press, June 2019; winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize in Eighteenth-Century Studies).
Articles and Book Chapters
“Marriage Law,” forthcoming in
Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. George Justice and Albert J. Rivero (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
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‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent,”
Eighteenth-Century Studies 56, no. 1 (Fall 2022): 53-74.
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Corporate Persons, Collective Responsibility, and the Literary Imagination,”
Critical Analysis of Law: An Interdisciplinary and International Law Review 9, no. 2 (Fall 2022): 46-57.
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The fidelity of promising’: Egoism and Obligation in Austen,”
Review of English Studies 73, no. 309 (April 2022): 344-60.
“Debating Persuasion,” in
Approaches to Teaching Austen’s “Persuasion,” ed. Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, 2021), 175-82.
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Carrying On Like a Madman: Insanity and Responsibility in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,”
Nineteenth-Century Literature 70, no. 3 (December 2015): 363-97.
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Freedom and Fetters: Nuptial Law in Burney’s The Wanderer,” in
Impassioned Jurisprudence: Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760-1848, ed. Nancy E. Johnson (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2015), 66-88.
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Clandestine Schemes: Burney’s Cecilia and the Marriage Act,”
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 25-51.
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Binding the Will: George Eliot and the Practice of Promising,”
ELH 75, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 565-602.
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A Strange Opposition’: The Portrait of a Lady and the Divorce Debates,”
Henry James Review 27, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 156-74.
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Moll Flanders and English Marriage Law,”
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17, no. 2 (Jan. 2005): 157-82.
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Wicked Women and Veiled Ladies: Gendered Narratives of the McFarland-Richardson Tragedy,”
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 9, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 255-303.
Short Essay
“Debate,”
The Pocket Instructor: Literature: 101 Exercises for the College Classroom, ed. Diana Fuss and William A. Gleason (Princeton UP, 2015), 21-23.
Reviews and Review Essays
Review of
Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form by Claire Jarvis.
Victorian Studies 60, no. 1 (Autumn 2017): 108-10.
Review of
Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction by Ayelet Ben-Yishai.
Journal of British Studies 55, no. 1 (Jan. 2016): 237-39.
Review of
Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy by Christine L. Krueger, and
Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837-1925 by Cathrine O. Frank.
Victorian Studies 55, no. 3 (Spring 2013): 567-70.
Review of
Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature, and Gender by Susan Sage Heinzelman.
Law, Culture and the Humanities 8, no. 1 (February 2012): 173-76.
Review of
Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology by Jan-Melissa Schramm.
Victorian Studies 44, no. 4 (Summer 2002): 728-30.
Review of
Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery by Laura Korobkin.
American Journal of Legal History 45, no. 4 (October 2001): 517-18.
“Common Sinners and Moral Monsters: The Killer in American Culture.” Review of
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination by Karen Halttunen.
Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 11, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 517-28.