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Publications

Books

Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author: The Case of Isabella KellyCambridge Elements in the Gothic series, Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century NovelPalgrave Macmillan, 2018.

 

Edited Volumes

Editor, with Omri Herzog and Tamar S. HessCanonical and Popular: Literary Dialogues (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Resling, 2007

 

Edited Journal Issues

Guest editor, with Miranda M. Yaggi, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 8/2, special issue on British women writers (June 2010).

 

Articles and Book Chapters

"Graveyard Pleasures: Visiting (and Revisiting) the Burial Site in Late Eighteenth-Century Gothic Fiction." Graveyard Gothic, ed. Eric Parisot, David McAllister, and Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester University Press, 2024), pp. 32-46.

with Elizabeth Neiman. "Introduction: Biography and the Woman Writer Revisited." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 52 (2023): 291-297.

"Somebody's Complaint: Isabella Kelly, Warren Hastings, and the Strange Case of Ruthinglenne." Eighteenth-Century Life 46.2 (2022): 113–142.

"What 'Poor Mrs. Kelly' Saw: Isabella Kelly Reads The Monk." Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic: Innovations and Legacies, ed. Kathleen Hudson. University of Wales Press, 2020, pp. 65-87.

"Isabella Kelly and the Minerva Gothic Challenge." Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 23 (2020), http://www.romtext.org.uk/articles/rt23_n10/.

"The Gothic Novel Beyond Radcliffe and Lewis." The Cambridge History of the Gothic, ed. Dale Townshend, Angela Wright and Catherine Spooner. Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 323-344.

"An End to Wandering? Jonas B. Phillips and Mary Shelley's 'The Evil Eye.'" Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 15.2 (2017): 217-239.

Beyond the Radcliffe 'Formula': Isabella Kelly and the Gothic Troubles of the Married Heroine.Women's Writing (2015), DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2015.1110289

"'Whatever Bigots Say': Isaac Harby's The Gordian Knot and the Anti-Catholic Gothic." Studies in American Jewish Literature 33.1 (2014): 107-129.

“Shakespeare, The Castle of Otranto, and the Problem of the Corpse on the Eighteenth-Century Stage.” Eighteenth-Century Life 36.1 (2012): 1-29.

with Miranda M,. Yaggi. “Introduction. Notes on a Margin: British Women Writers and Acts of Annotation.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 8/2 (2010): 229-234.

“Hairball Speaks: Margaret Atwood and the Narrative Legacy of the Female Grotesque.” Narrative 18/1 (2010): 51-72.

“Into the Madman’s Dream: The Gothic Abduction of Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespearean Gothic, ed. Christy Desmet and Anne Williams. University of Wales Press, 2009, 133-54.

“The Horror of the Popular Author: Stephen King and the Taint of the Low.” Canonical and Popular: Literary Dialogues, ed. Shapira et. al. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2007. 135-145. (Hebrew)

with Omri Herzog and Tamar S. Hess. “Introduction.” Canonical and Popular: Literary Dialogues, ed. Shapira et. Al. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2007. 7-18. (Hebrew)

 “Where the Bodies are Hidden: Ann Radcliffe’s ‘Delicate’ Gothic.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 18/4 (Summer 2006): 453–476.

 

Database Entries

Isabella Kelly, Madeline, or the Castle of Montgomery (1794); Joseclina, or, the Rewards of Benevolence (1798); Eva (1799). Entries for database accompanying The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, ed. April London (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

Book Reviews – Academic

Dale Townshend, Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840Common Knowledge 27.3 (2021): 488-89.

Diana Wallace, Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2013). Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 15.1 (2017): 189-192.

Angela Wright, Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Common Knowledge 21.3 (2015): 520.

Cynthia Sundberg Wall, The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century (University of  Chicago Press, 2007). Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 7/2 (June 2009), 352-56.

Juliet McMaster, Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 3/1 (January 2005), 168–173.

Book Reviews - Other

Jennifer Weiner, Best Friends Forever. Haaretz English Edition Book Supplement, January 2010

Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast. Haaretz English Edition Book Supplement, January 2009

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Haaretz Book Supplement, December 2005 (Hebrew)

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife. Haaretz Book Supplement, October 2005