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Scholarly Books | Poetry | Books Edited | Special Issues of Journals Edited | Articles Published | Articles Forthcoming

Scholarly Books (4)

Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. xxx + 284. Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 (cloth and paper). Pp. Xxi + 363.
The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990 (cloth and paper). Pp. xii + 361. Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980 (paperback edition, 1986). Pp.281.

Poetry (1)

Myth in a Metal Mirror. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1967. Pp. iv + 34.

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Books Edited (5)

(with Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Diego Saglia). Transforming Tragedy, Identity and Community. London: Routledge, 2011. Pp. vi + 174. (with Arkady Plotnitsky). Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
(with Michael O'Driscoll). After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 344. Mary Shelley. Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1998 (paperback). Pp. 492 [includes Introduction and Notes, 76 pp.].
(with Julia Wright). Romanticism, History and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature 1789-1837. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 291. (with David L. Clark). Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995 (cloth and paper). Pp. vii + 386.
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Special Issues of Journals Edited (5)

(with Lilla Maria Crisafulli). "Transforming Tragedy, Identity and Community." Proceedings of the 2008 NASSR/Centro Interdisciplinari di Studi Romantici supernumerary conference at the Università di Bologna. European Romantic Review 20:5 (2009): 613-732.

(with Nick Groom and John Halliwell). "Emancipation, Liberation, Freedom." Proceedings of the 2007 NASSR Conference at University of Bristol. European Romantic Review19:2 (2008): 81-197.

(with Linda Woodbridge). "Imagining History Before 1900." PMLA118:3 (2003): 427-603.

(with Angela Esterhammer). "Romanticism and the Ideologies of Genre." The Wordsworth Circle 25: 1 (1994).

(with Angela Esterhammer). "Nietzsche and Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 29: 1 (1990). 3-149.

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Articles Published (87)

"The Work of the Negative: Symbolic, Gothic, and Romantic in Shelley and Hegel." Studies in Romanticism 52:1 (2013): 3-32.

"Romanticism and the Unfinished Project of Deconstruction," European Romantic Review 23:3 (2012): 293-303.

"Excitability: The (Dis)Organization of Knowledge from Schelling's First Outline (1799) to Ages of the World (1815)," Romanticism and Modernity. Ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert Mitchell. New York: Routledge, 2012. 47-64.

"The Poetry of Philology: Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Mary Shelley's Valperga," Dante and Italy in British Romanticism. Ed. Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 105-16.

"'Something Not Yet Made Good': Byron's Cain, Godwin and Mary Shelley's Falkner," Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror. Ed. Piya Pal-Lapinski and Matthew Green. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 84-101.

"Difficult Freedom: Hegel's Symbolic Art and Schelling's Historiography in Ages of the World (1815)," Inventions of the Imagination: Romanticism and Beyond. Ed. Richard Gray, Nicholas Halmi, et al. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. 121-40.

"The Dis-Figuration of Enlightenment: War, Trauma, and the Historical Novel in Godwin's Mandeville." Godwinian Moments: From Enlightenment to Romanticism. Ed. Robert Maniquis and Victoria Myers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 172-93.

"Judging Justice: Godwin's Critique of Judgment in Caleb Williams and Other Novels," Special Issue on Judgment, Ed. Vivasvan Soni, Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation 51:3 (2010): 341-62.

"Excitability: The (Dis)Organization of Knowledge from Schelling's First Outline (1799) to Ages of the World (1815)," European Romantic Review 21:3 (2010): 309-25.

"The Psychonanalytic Turn of Idealism: Friedrich Schelling's The Ages of the World (1815)," Romanticism Today. Ed. Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt. Trier: Wissenschaftliche Verlag, 2009. 53-68.

"The Epigenesis of Genre: New Forms From Old." The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature. Ed. James Chandler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 507-26, 731-4.

"The Abyss of the Past; Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)" Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis, ed. Joel Faflak, Romantic Circles Praxis (December 2008):

http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/psychoanalysis/index.html (14,328 words)

"First Outline of a System of Theory: Schelling and the Margins of Philosophy, 1799-1815," Studies in Romanticism, 46 (2007): 311-35.

"The Scene of Judgment: Trial and Confession in Godwin's Novels." British and European Romanticisms. Ed. Christoph Bode and Sebastian Domsch. Trier: Wissenschaftliche Verlag, 2007. 215-26.

"Derrida, Foucault, and the University," Following Derrida: Legacies, a special issue of Mosaic, 40: 2 (2007): 133-50

"The Encyclopedia and the University of Theory: Idealism and the Organization of Knowledge." Textual Practice 21:2 (2007). 335-58.

"The Gender of Los(s): Blake's Work in the 1790s." In Women Reading William Blake. Ed. Helen Bruder. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 200-208.

"The Prose of the World: Romanticism, The Nineteenth Century, and the Reorganization of Knowledge." Modern Language Quarterly 67:4 (2006). 479-504.

"Organicism." English Studies in Canada. 30:4 (2004): 46-50. [published in 2006]

"On (Not) Being Postcolonial," Postcolonial Text 2:1 (2006): http://pkp.ubc.ca/pocol

"F.W.J. Schelling." The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed., ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

"How (Not) To Speak Properly: Writing 'German' Philosophy in Hegel's Aesthetics and History of Philosophy," Clio 33:2 (2004), 119-142.

"Philosophy in a Foreign Language: Hegel's Writing of Spirit in The Aesthetics," La Questione Romantica: Aesthetics, Philosophy and Politics, ed. Anna Maria Sportelli, 10 (2001): 17-26. (published 2004)

"Promethean Narrative: Overdetermined Form in Shelley's Gothic Fiction." In Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. 2 Vols. Ed. Fred Botting and Dale Townshend. London: Routledge, 2004. II.318-329. [Reprint of earlier article]

"Introduction." In Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. 1-14.

"Toward A Cultural Idealism: Negativity and Freedom in Hegel and Kant." In Idealism Without Absolutes. Ed. Rajan and Plotnitsky. 51-72.

"(In)Digestible Material: Illness and Dialectic in Hegel's The Philosophy of Nature." In Cultures of Taste/ Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism. Ed. Timothy Morton. London: Palgrave, 2004. 217-36.

"Baudrillard and Deconstruction," International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 1:1 (December 2003). http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies

"The Unavowable Community of Idealism: Coleridge and the Life Sciences," European Romantic Review 14:4 (2003): 395-416

"In the Wake of Cultural Studies: Globalization, Theory, and the University," Diacritics 31:3 (2001), 67-88. [dated 2001, but published in Fall 2003]

"Spirit's Psychoanalysis: Natural History, The History of Nature, and Romantic Historiography," European Romantic Review 14:2 (2003), 187-96.

"Introduction: Imagining History," PMLA 118:3 (2003): 427-35.

"Dis-Figuring Reproduction: Natural History, Community, and the 1790s Novel." In At the heart: of Jean-Luc Nancy. Special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review 2:3 (2002): 211-52.

"The Double Detour: Sartre, Heidegger, and the Genealogy of Deconstruction." In After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and Michael O'Driscoll. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 43-67.

(with Michael O'Driscoll). "Introduction." In After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory. Writing the Intellectual History of Theory. Ed. Rajan and O'Driscoll. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 3-21.

"The University in Crisis: Cultural Studies, Civil Society, and the Place of Theory," Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire, 18:35 (2001). 8-25.

"Framing the Corpus: Godwin's 'Editing' of Wollstonecraft in 1798." Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000). 511-31.

"The Mask of Death: Foucault, Derrida, the human sciences and literature." Special issue on "Rhizomatics, Genealogies, Deconstruction." Ed. Constantin Boundas. Angelaki 5:2 (2000). 211-21.

"Between Romance and History: Possibility and Contingency in Godwin, Leibniz, and Mary Shelley's Valperga." In Mary Shelley in her Times. Ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 88-102, 247-50.

"System and Singularity From Herder to Hegel." European Romantic Review 11:2 (2000). 137-49.

"Theories of Genre in Romanticism." In The Cambridge History of Romantic Criticism. Ed. Ernst Behler and Marshall Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 226-49.

"'Nothing Sooner Broke': Donne's Songs and Sonets as Self-Consuming Artifact." John Donne: New Casebooks. Ed. Andrew Mousley. London: Macmillan, 1999. 45-62. [Reprint of earlier article].

"The Phenomenological Allegory: From Death and the Labyrinth to The Order of Things." Poetics Today 19:3 (1998). 439-66.

"Uncertain Futures: History and Genealogy in William Godwin's The Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of Milton." Milton Quarterly 32:3 (1998). 75-86.

"Introduction" to Mary Shelley, Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. Milton Quarterly Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1998. 7-42.

"Keats, Poetry, and 'The Absence of the Work'," Modern Philology 95:3 (1998), 334-51.

"Autonarration and Genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney." Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 213-39.

(with Julia Wright). "Introduction." Romanticism, History and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming British literature 1789-183. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 1-1

"(Dis)figuring the System: Vision, History, and Trauma in Blake's Lambeth Books." In Robert Essick, Joseph Viscomi et. al. William Blake: Images and Texts. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1997. 107-36.

"Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Textual Abject." In Rhetorical and Cultural Dissolution in Romanticism. Ed. Thomas Pfau and Rhonda Ray Kercsmar. Special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 95:3 (1996). 797-820.

"Promethean Narrative: Overdetermined Form in Shelley's Gothic Fiction." In Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World. Ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 240-52, 308-9.

"Phenomenology and Romantic Theory: Hegel and the Subversion of Aesthetics." In Questioning Romanticism. Ed. John Beer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 155-78, 298-300.

"Radical Phenomenology: Hegel and the Dis(place)ment of Art." In Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory. Ed. Martin Kreiswirth and Thomas Carmichael. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 23-43.

"Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Prometheus Unbound." In Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995. 192-214. [Reprint from The Supplement of Reading]

(with David L. Clark). "Speculations: Idealism and its Rem(a)inders." Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and David Clark Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 1-35.

"Language, Music and the Body: Nietzsche and Deconstruction." Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and David Clark. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 147-69.

"'The Web of Human Things': Narrative and Identity in Alastor." In New Romanticisms: Theory and Critical Practice. Ed. David L. Clark and Donald C. Goellnicht. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 27-51.

"The Other Reading: Transactional Epic in Milton, Blake, and Wordsworth." In Milton, The Metaphysicals and Romanticism. Ed. Lisa Low and Anthony John Harding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 20-46.

"Mary Shelley's Mathilda: Melancholy and the Political Economy of Romanticism." Studies in the Novel. 26: 2 (1994). 43-68.

"Arthur Schopenhauer." In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 657-58.

"Hermeneutics: Nineteenth Century." In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 375-78.

"Autonarration and Genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney." Studies in Romanticism 32: 2 (1993). 149-76.

"Representation and Self-representation: The Canonical Hermeneutics of Hegel and Kierkegaard." In Aesthetic Illusion Parabasis 5 (1993). 69-81.

"Idealism and Scepticism in Shelley's Poetry." In Shelley. Ed. Michael O'Neill. London and New York: Longman, 1993. 241-63. [Reprint from Dark Interpreter]

"The Broken Mirror: The Identity of the Text in Shelley's The Triumph of Life." In Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism. Ed. Karl Kroeber and Gene W. Ruoff . Rutgers, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993. 352-65. [Reprint from The Supplement of Reading]

"The Year's Work in the Nineteenth Century." Studies in English Literature 33: 4 (1993). 875-937.

"Trans-Positions of Difference: Kristeva and Post-Structuralism." In Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing. Ed. Kelly Oliver. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. 215-37.

"En-Gendering the System: Blake's Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion." In The Mind in Creation: Essays in Honour of Ross Woodman. Ed. J. Douglas Kneale. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992). 74- 90, 155-57.

"Teaching Keats from the Standpoint of a Deconstructive Phenomenology." In Approaches to Teaching Keats' Poetry. Ed. Walter H. Evert and Jack W. Rhodes. New York: Modern Language Association, 1991. 70-76.

"Intertextuality and the Subject of Reading/Writing." In Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. Ed. Jay Clayton and Eric Rothstein. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 61-74.

"The Web of Human Things: Narrative and Identity in Alastor." In The New Shelley: Later Twentieth Century Views.Ed. G. Kim Blank. New York: Macmillan, 1991. 85-107, 251-252.

"Allegories of Intertextuality: The Controversy Over Paul de Man." Modern Philology 89:2 (1991). 231-46.

"The Eye/I of the Other: Self and Audience in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads." Symposium on Romanticism. Ed. Deirdre Coleman and Peter Otto. Adelaide: Centre for British Studies, 1990. 49-89.

"The Erasure of Narrative in Post-Structuralist Representations of Wordsworth." Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory. Ed. Kenneth Johnston et al. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 350-370.

"Introduction" to issue of Studies in Romanticism on "Nietzsche and Romanticism." 29: 1 (1990). 3-8.

"Is There a Romantic Ideology? Some Thoughts on Schleiermacher's Hermeneutic and Textual Criticism." Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship. 4 (1988). 59-77.

"Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel: Godwin and Wollstonecraft." Studies in Romanticism 27: 2 (1988). 221-152.

"The Future of Deconstruction in Romantic Studies." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 11 (1987). 131-147.

"The Supplement of Reading." New Literary History 17: 3 (1986). 573-594.

"Deconstructing Wordsworth." InApproaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry. Ed. Spencer Hall and Jonathan Ramsey. New York: Modern Language Association, 1986. 157-162.

"Displacing Post-Structuralism: Criticism of the Romantics after Paul de Man." Studies in Romanticism 24: 4 (1985). 451-474.

"Romanticism and the Death of Lyric Consciousness." Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism. Ed. Patricia Parker and Chaviva Hosek. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. 194-207.

"Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Prometheus Unbound." Studies in Romanticism. 23: 3 (1984). 317-338.

"'Nothing Sooner Broke': Donne's Songs and Sonets as Self-Consuming Artifact." English Literary History 49 (1982). 805-828.

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Articles Forthcoming (4)

"The Vitality of Idealism: Life and Evolution in Hegel's and Schelling's Systems," Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution. Ed. Joel Faflak and Joshua Lambier. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, under contract.

"The Work of the Negative: Symbolic, Gothic and Romantic in Shelley and Hegel," Studies in Romanticism, forthcoming 2013.

"A Gothic Matrix: Shelley Between the Symbolic and Romantic," Special Issue on Shelley and the Gothic, Ed. David Brookshire, in Romantic Praxis, forthcoming 2013.

"'A Peculiar Community': Mary Shelley, Godwin, and Romanticism," Romanticism and the Emotions. Ed. Richard Sha and Joel Faflak. Under review by John Hopkins University Press.

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