British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (Cambridge UP, 2001), xx + 243 pp.
Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832 (Cambridge UP, 1994), xviii + 327 pp. Paperback edition 2004.
A Mental Theater: Poetic Drama and Consciousness in the Romantic Age (Pennsylvania State UP, 1988), x + 224 pp.
Editor, with Ellen Spolsky, The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity (Ashgate, 2004), xv + 191 pp.
Editor, with Debbie Lee, Early Black British Writing, A New Riverside Edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), ix + 443 pp.
Editor, Three Oriental Tales: The History of Nourjahad, Vathek, and The Giaour, A New Riverside Edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), viii + 328 pp.
Editor, Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period, vol. 4: Verse (Pickering & Chatto, 1999), xxi + 395 pp.
Editor, with Sonia Hofkosh, Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture: 1780-1834 (Indiana UP, 1996), vii + 352 pp.
Special Journal Issues
Literature and the Cognitive Revolution, co-edited with Francis F. Steen, Poetics Today special issue 23.1 (Spring 2002).
British Romanticism: Global Crosssings, co-edited with Elizabeth Fay, European Romantic Review special issue 8.2 (Spring 1997).
Journal Articles and Essays in Books
"Cognitive Literary Criticism," The Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism: An Oxford Guide, ed. Patricia Waugh (Oxford UP, forthcoming).
"Reading Practices," Contexts and Commentaries volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, ed. Janet Todd (Cambridge UP, forthcoming).
"Studies in Literature and Cognition: A Field Map," The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity, ed. Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky (Ashgate, 2004): 1-29.
"Byron and the Theatre," The Cambridge Companion to Byron, ed. J. Drummond Bone (Cambridge UP, 2004): 133-50.
"A Neural Theater: Joanna Baillie's Plays on the Passions," Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays, ed. Thomas Crochunis (Routledge, 2004): 130-45.
"Romanticism, the Unconscious, and the Brain," Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders, ed. Steven P. Sondrup and Virgil Nemoainu (John Benjamins, 2004): 349-64.
"Apostrophe in Life and in Romantic Art: Everyday Discourse, Overhearing, and Poetic Address," Style 36 (2002): 363-85.
"Erasmus Darwin and the Fungus School," The Wordsworth Circle 33 (2002): 113-16.
"Of Heartache and Head Injury: Reading Minds in Persuasion," Poetics Today 23 (2002): 141-60.
"Literature and the Cognitive Revolution: An Introduction" (with Francis F. Steen), Poetics Today 23 (2002): 1-8.
"Mary Wollstonecraft on Education," The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. Claudia Johnson (Cambridge UP, 2002): 24-41.
"Keats and Romantic Science: Writing the Body," The Cambridge Companion to Keats, ed. Susan Wolfson (Cambridge UP, 2001): 230-45.
"Teaching Women's Poetry in British Romanticism Classes," Pedagogy 1 (2001): 95-97.
"Rethinking Romantic Incest: Human Universals, Literary Representation, and the Biology of Mind," New Literary History 31 (2000): 553-72. Online via Project Muse.
"Coleridge and the Dream of an Embodied Mind," Romanticism 5 (1999): 1-25.
"Cognitive Science and the Future of Literary Studies," Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999): 157-73. Online via Project Muse.
"Romanticism and the End of Childhood," Nineteenth-Century Contexts 21 (1999): 169-89. Reprinted in Literature and the Child: Romantic Continuations, Postmodern Contestations, ed. James Holt McGavran (U of Iowa P, 1999): 23-43.
"Literary Studies and Cognitive Science: Toward a New Interdisciplinarity" (with Mary Crane), Mosaic 32 (1999): 123-40.
"Slavery and Romantic Writing," A Companion to Romanticism, ed. Duncan Wu (Blackwell, 1998): 460-69.
'Women Poets and Colonial Discourse: Teaching More and Yearsley on the Slave Trade," Approaches to Teaching Women Poets of the Romantic Period, ed. Steven C. Behrendt and Harriet Kramer Linkin (MLA, 1997): 75-79.
"British Romanticism: Global Crossings" (with Elizabeth Fay), European Romantic Review 8 (1997): i-x.
"Darkness Visible? Race and Representation in Bristol Abolitionist Poetry, 1770-1810," The Wordsworth Circle 28 (1996): 67-72; revised and enlarged in Romanticism and Colonialism, ed. T.J. Fulford and Peter J. Kitson (Cambridge UP, 1998): 129-47.
"Epic Ambivalence: Imperial Politics and Romantic Deflection in Williams' Peru and Landor's Gebir," Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, ed. Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh (Indiana UP, 1996): 265-82.
"Archaism and Modernity: Poetic Diction, Period Style, and the Romantic Canon," Southern Humanities Review 28 (1994): 209-28.
"Romantic Voodoo: Obeah and British Culture, 1797-1807," Studies in Romanticism 32 (1993): 3-28. Reprinted in Sacred Possessions: Vodoun, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean, ed. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Margarite Fernandez-Olmos (Rutgers UP, 1997): 171-94.
"Reluctant Lords and Lame Princes: Engendering the Male Child in Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Fiction," Children's Literature 21 (1993): 3-19.
"Proserpine and Midas: Gender, Genre, and Mythic Revisionism in Mary Shelley's Poetic Dramas," The Other Mary Shelley, ed. Audrey Fisch, Anne Mellor, and Esther Schor (Oxford UP, 1993): 124-39.
"Escape from the Seraglio: Cultural Transvestism in Don Juan," Rereading Byron, ed. Robert N. Keane and Alice Levine (Garland, 1993): 175-85.
"Childhood and Romanticism," Teaching Children's Literature: Issues, Pedagogy, Resources, ed. Glenn Edward Sadler (MLA, 1992): 121-30.
"From Emile to Frankenstein: The Education of Monsters," European Romantic Review 1 (1991): 147-62.
"Wordsworth, Fairy Tales, and the Politics of Children's Reading," Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century England, ed. James Holt McGavran (U of Georgia P, 1991): 34-53.
"Teaching Manfred as Mental Theater," Approaches to Teaching Byron's Poetry, ed. F.W. Shilstone (MLA, 1991): 126-29.
"Colonialism, Race, and Lyric Irony in Blake's 'The Little Black Boy'," Papers on Language & Literature 26 (1990): 233-48.
"Nineteenth-Century Children's Satire and the Ambivalent Reader," Children's Literature Association Quarterly 15 (1990): 122-26.
"The Politics of Childhood: Wordsworth, Blake, and Catechistic Method," ELH 56 (1989): 853-68.
"Romanticism and the Colonization of the Feminine," Romanticism and Feminism, ed. Anne K. Mellor (Indiana UP, 1988): 13-25.
"Wordsworth at the Crossroads: 'Spots of Time' in the 'Two-Part Prelude'," The Wordsworth Circle 19 (1988): 15-20.
"The Dangers of Sympathy: Sibling Incest in English Romantic Poetry," Studies in English Literature 25 (1985): 737-54.
Entries in Reference Works
"Smith, Eaglesfield (1770-1838)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford UP, 2004).
"Romanticism," Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory, ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace (Garland, 1997): 353-55.
"William Blake," Dictionary of Literary Biography 163: British Children's Writers, 1800-1880 (Gale, 1996): 21-29.
"Closet Drama," "Cockney School of Poetry," "Conversation Poem," "Exoticism," "Primitivism," The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan (Princeton UP, 1993): 220-22, 240, 394-5, 975-6.
"Education," "Joseph Lancaster," "Literacy," Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain from the 1780s to the 1830s, ed. Laura Dabundo (Garland, 1992): 179-83, 321-22, 336-38.
"Sir Walter Scott," Dictionary of Literary Biography 93: Romantic Poets 1789-1832, 1st Series, ed. John Greenfield (Gale, 1990): 236-59.
Essay-Reviews
"Brains, Minds, and Texts," rev. of Mark Turner, The Literary Mind, in Review 20 (1998): 39-48.
"My Father, My Self? New-Style Patriarchy and the Daughter's Dilemma," rev. of Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Their Father's Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity, in Review 15 (1993): 193-201.
"True Fairy Tales," rev. of Jeanie Watson, Risking Enchantment: Coleridge's Symbolic world of Faery, in Review 14 (1992): 231-38.
"Colonialism and the Rise of English Studies," rev. of Gauri Viswanathan, Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India, in Papers on Language & Literature 26 (1990): 546-52.
"Hermeneutics of Subversion," rev. of John Brenkman, Culture and Domination, in Critical Texts 6 (1989): 65-70.
Selected Shorter Reviews
The Persistence of Poetry: Bicentennial Essays on Keats, ed. Robert M. Ryan and Ronald A. Sharp, in Modern Philology 99 (2002): 458-61.
Saree Makdisi, Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity, in Romantic Circles Reviews 3.1 (1999), online.
Gillian Russell, The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics, and Society 1793-1815, in Modern Philology 95 (1998): 418-21.
David Rubin, Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes, in Southern Humanities Review 31 (1997): 372-74.
Peter Murphy, Poetry as an Occupation and an Art in Britain 1760-1830, in Studies in Romanticism 34 (1995): 305-9.
Julie A. Carlson, In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women, in Criticism 37 (1995): 627-29.
David Simpson, Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt Against Theory, in Southern Humanities Review 29 (1995): 365-67.
Joan Baum, Mind-Forg'd Manacles: Slavery and the English Romantic Poets, in Keats-Shelley Journal 44 (1995): 265-66.
Nigel Leask, British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire, in Southern Humanities Review 29 (1995): 82-5.
Steven Goldsmith, Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation, in JEGP 93 (1994): 590-92.
John Barrell, The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 25 (1994): 116-17.
Richard Lansdown, Byron's Historical Dramas, in Keats-Shelley Journal 42 (1993): 227-29.