Scholarly PublicationsLiterary CriticismARTICLES Nature and Art: Elizabeth Inchbald in the Church of the Savoyard Vicar. The Age of Johnson. Vol. 21 (forthcoming). Idols and Idolaters in A Simple Story. The Age of Johnson. Vol. 17 (2006): 297-316. Healing the Lacerated Mind: Samuel Johnson’s Strategies of Consolation. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, & Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Vol. 7 (2002): 193-208. The Religious Psychology of Samuel Johnson. URAM: Interdisciplinary Studies in a Philosophy of Understanding. Vol. 21 (1998): 160-176. Edifying the Young Dog: Johnson's Letters to Boswell. In "Sent as a Gift": Eight Correspondences from the Eighteenth Century. Ed. by Alan McKenzie. U of Georgia P, 1993: 129-149. Gibbon vs. Law: Enlightenment and Pietist Standards for the Behavior of Women. In Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts. Ed. Frederick M. Keener and Susan Lorsch. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988: 11-17. The Age of Tormented Reason. Teaching the Eighteenth Century: Three Courses. American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1987: 38-47. Katherine of France as Victim and Bride. Shakespeare Studies. Vol. 17 (1985): 61-76. CONFERENCE TALKS "The Elusive Narrator of The Life of Mr Richard Savage." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. San Antonio. March 2012. "Robert Bage's Hermsprong: 'You Call Yourself American.'" Faculty Seminar, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford, England. June 25, 2010. "Rasselas as Book XIII of Paradise Lost." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Albuquerque. March 2010. "Nature and Art: Elizabeth Inchbald in the Church of the Savoyard Vicar." American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Richmond, Virginia. March 2009. "The Limits of Moral Education in Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art." Midwest American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Oklahoma City. October 2008. "'All Shenanigan': Co. Aytch and the Curse of Babel." Midwest Modern Language Association. Milwaukee. November 10-13, 2005. Elizabeth Inchbald: Struggles of a Catholic Philosophe. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Las Vegas, Nev. March 30, 2005. "The Killer Angels Come to Gettysburg." Midwest Modern Language Association. Minneapolis, Minn. November 8-10, 2002. "The Implacable Deities of A Simple Story." Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. October 10-13, 2002. "Parody Lost: Johnson's Happy Valley and Milton's Eden." Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature. Chicago, Ill. March 23-24, 2001. "Pursuit as Happiness: The Dilemma of Rasselas." American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Philadelphia, Penn. April 12-16, 2000. “Hortus Inconclusus: Johnson’s Flight from Paradise.” Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Columbia, Mo. October 7-9, 1999. “Keeping God in the Wings: One Playwright’s Solution.” Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature. Campbellsville, Kentucky. April 16 – 17, 1999. “Space and Meaning in Rasselas.” Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Milwaukee, Wis. October 1993. "Johnson's Johnson: Comic Self-Portraiture in the Letters to Mrs. Thrale." Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Toledo, Ohio. October 9, 1992. "Explaining Vice to Virtue: Swift, Lewis, and the Language of Fallenness." Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Macomb, Ill. Oct. 13, 1990. "Two Fine Letters by Samuel Johnson." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Minneapolis, Minn. April 28, 1990. "Johnson's 'Governess': The Hester Thrale of Johnson's Letters." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Women's Voices. San Diego, Calif. Feb. 25, 1990. "The Age of Tormented Reason: Curriculum for a Course." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Invited presentation as winner of "New Approaches to Teaching the Eighteenth Century" competition. Cincinnati, Ohio. April 1987. "Johnson's Letters of Consolation." Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Evanston, Ill., Oct. 24, 1986. "Gibbon vs. Law: Enlightenment and Pietist Standards for the Behavior of Women." Conference titled: Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts. Hofstra University; Hempstead, N.Y. Oct. 11, 1985. SESSIONS ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED "Jacobin Laughter: Comedy among the Late Eighteenth-Century Radicals." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. San Antonio, Texas. March 22-25. "The Uses of Americans in British Fiction." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vancouver, BG. March 17-20, 2011. "Johnson at 299." Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. October, 2008. "Johnson and his Enemies." Midwestern ASECS session at meeting of American Society for Eighteenth-Century Literature; Las Vegas, Nevada; March 31-April 3, 2005. “New Approaches to Teaching the Eighteenth Century.” Annual curriculum design competition of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Part I. Charleston, S.C. March 12, 1994. “Johnson’s Comic Sense.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Charleston, S.C. March 9 - 13, 1994. "Self and Other in Eighteenth-Century Correspondence." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Providence, R.I.. April 21-25, 1993. "Baseball and American Culture." Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, Ill. Nov. 15, 1991. "Three Up, Three Down: Mythologies of the National Game." Midwest Modern Language Association. Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 3, 1990. REVIEWS Samuel Johnson: A Life. David Nokes. In 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. (forthcoming) Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance. Ben P. Robertson. In The Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. LX (2011): 159-60. Samuel Johnson: The Struggle. Jeffrey Meyers. In The Historian 73 (1): 196-97. Samuel Johnson: A Biography. Peter Martin. In 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Vol. 17 (2010): 373-377. Comparative
Excellence: New Essays on
Shakespeare
and Johnson Ed. by Eric
Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso.
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Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Vol. 16 (2009): 383-386. Loving Dr. Johnson. Helen Deutsch. In 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Vol. 14 (2008): 404-407. In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. Gloria Sybil Gross. In 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, & Inquiries in the Early Modern Era.Vol. 11 (2005): 583-586. According to Queeney. Beryl Bainbridge. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Vol. 27 (2001): 369-70. The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Blakey Vermeule. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 26 (2000): 551-552. The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume. Adam Potkay. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 26 (2000): 534. Designing the Life of Johnson. Bruce Redford. In 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, & Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 10 (2004): 389-392. I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald. Annibel Jenkins. U P of Kentucky, 2003. In 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, & Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 10 (2004): 385-388. Samuel Johnson's "General Nature": Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse. Scott D. Evans. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 25 (1999): 436-437. Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property. Kevin Hart. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 25 (1999): 446-447. Dr Johnson's Women. Norma Clarke. In The Historian. Vol. 65 (3): 751-2. Robert South (1634-1716): An Introduction to His Life and Sermons (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, 12). Gerard Reedy, S.J. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 18 (1992): 441. The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale). Ed. Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom. Vol. 2: 1792-1798. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. 17 (1991): 402-403. Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism. Edward Tomarken. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. 17 (1991): 380-381. DISSERTATION: Interwoven Lives: The Letters of Samuel Johnson. July 1989. CompositionBOOKS A Field Guide to Writing. HarperCollins, 1992. (With Chris Anson) Writing
in Context. Holt, Rinehart and
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(with Chris Anson) Academic Consultant, The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers. by C. Anson & R. Schwegler. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997. ARTICLES "Time Lines in the Composing of Narratives: A Graphic Aid to Organization." The Writing Instructor 6 (1987):162-173. "Microcomputers and the Writing Instructor." Collegiate Microcomputer 4.2 (1986): 123-130. (with Craig Hansen) "Adapting Microcomputers for Use in College Composition Courses." Collegiate Microcomputer 3.4 (1985): 295-98. Reprinted from Collected Essays on The Written Word and the Word Processor, proceedings of Delaware Valley Writing Council's Spring Conference, 1984. Ed. by Thomas E. Martinez. (with Craig Hansen) "An Authoring System for Use by Teachers of Composition." Computers and Composition 1 (3) May 1984: 3. "The Usefulness of Computer Materials Created by Teachers: an Answer to Bork." Selected Papers from the Conference on Computers in Writing: New Directions in Teaching and Research. Special issue of Computers and Composition (April 1984): 293-305. CONFERENCE TALKS "The Persuasive Paper: Genuine Thinking or Articulate Prejudice?" Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, Ga. March 3, 1987. "A Time for Every Medium Under Heaven." Conference on Computers and Writing. Pittsburgh, Penn. May 3, 1986. "The Minnesota Field Test of WANDAH." UCLA Computers and Writing Conference. Los Angeles, Calif. May 1985. "The Usefulness of Computer Materials Created by Teachers: an Answer to Bork." Conference on Computers in Writing: New Directions in Teaching and Research. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. April 1984. |