Essays and Reviews

Los Angeles Review of Books

Did Less Need More?

Angels in America and England

Public Books

Democracy, More or Less

The New Rambler

Burn it Down

Review of Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner

Champagne and Socialism

Review of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter

Political Anima
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Review of Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel by John Stubbs

The Humane Society

Review of The Animal Claim by Tobias Menely)

Journal Articles

“Swift’s Political Climates,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming)

“Blustering, bungling, trimming’: Byron, Hobhouse, and the Politics of Don Juan Canto I.” The Byron Journal 49.1 (2021)

“What Freedom? Frankenstein, Anti-Occidentalism, and English Liberty,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 74.3 (2019)

”Calculating Shylock: Commerce, Captivity, and the Free-Born Subject,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 60.3 (2019)

“Emotional Storm: Weathering Toxic Feeling in Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose Novels,” Contemporary Literature 58.4 (2017)

“Arbitrary Government: Tristram Shandy and the Crisis of Whig History,” ELH 81 (2014)

Book Chapters

”Party Politics,” The Oxford Handbook of Henry Fielding, eds. Tom Keymer and Henry Power (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

“‘English native brutality’: Locating Byron’s Letters,” Byron and Translation, eds. Alexander Grammatikos and Maria Schoina (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming)

“On or About 1789,” Guide to Politics and Literature in English, ed. Matthew Stratton (Routledge, forthcoming)

“Byron the Cynic,” Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry, eds. Roderick Beaton and Christine Kenyon Jones (Routledge, 2017)

”Political Sterne,” Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne, eds. Peter de Voogd, Judith Hawley, and Melvyn New (Delaware University Press, 2015)

“Only Disconnect? Laurence Sterne, Politics, and the Public,” Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Ileana Baird (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014)

Contributions to Reference Works

Experiments with the Genre of the Novel: Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey,” The History of the Novel in Britain, ed. Kirilka Stavreva (Gale, 2017)

“Brambleton Hall,” The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel1660-1820, ed. April London (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

Reviews for Academic Journals

Robert Morrison, The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World, Romanticism (forthcoming)

Melissa Mowry, Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–1742, Modern Philology (forthcoming)

Max Skjönsberg, The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Scriblerian (forthcoming)

Ashley Marshall, Swift and History: Politics and the English Past, Scriblerian 50 (2017)

“Politics in the Age of the American Revolution,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 48.3 (2015)

Christopher Reid, Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons 17601800, English Historical Review 130 (2015)

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