Previous Books
Before The Apothecary's Wife, I published academic books for fellow scholars.
University of Delaware Press, 2005
This book shows how the character of the widow, who appears surprisingly often in the developing novel, represented economic concerns during the emergence of global capitalism. Widows were anomalous women: they could hold property, sign contracts, start businesses, rule their families, and so on. Writers of the period used these independent women to set gender rules for the economy.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
The invention of the novel and the scientific revolution occurred at the same time in England. Coincidence? Of course not. The scientific revolution's ideas of the self converged with novelists' interest in the psyche, resulting in the third person omniscient point of view and what we call "science writing" today.
Palgrave Pivot, 2017
Why were there so many films and tv programs set in the eighteenth century during this period? This book shows how these representations were designed to sanitize the origins of the United States.
Co-edited with Dr. Mona Narain
Routledge, 2014
The essays in this collection examine ways that space shapes different works of literature and how the representation of space reveals evolving British concerns and values during this period.
