Publications

Books

The Politics of Disinterestedness and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Browning, Eliot, Wilde. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2025.

Representing Public Credit: Credible Commitment, Fiction, and the Rise of the Financial Subject. London: Routledge, 2016.

Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900. Ed. With Jennifer Henke. Palgrave, 2020.

Essays in Journals

“The Expansion of Finance: Comparing Paper Credit in Shakespeare and Defoe.” The Journal of European Economic History 52.2 (2023): 181-190.

“The Collapse of Dialogue, Consent, and the Controversy over Kristen Roupenian’s ‘Cat Person.’” Language and Dialogue 12.1 (2022): 54-71.

“What Form Knows: The Literary Text as Framework, Model, and Experiment.” With Wolfgang Funk and Irmtraud Huber. Anglistik 30.2 (2019): 5-13.

“Constructing the Body Politic: Form, Disinterestedness, and the Modern State.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 25.1 (2018): 85-96.

“Knowing Plants, Knowing Form: Probing the Poetics of Knowing Plants.” With Felix Sprang. European Journal for English Studies 22.3 (2018): 224-40.

“Universal Narrativity and the Anxious Scientist of the Contemporary Neuronovel.” With Anton Kirchhofer and Anna Auguscik. Mosaic 49.4 (2016): 71-87.

“The Scientist as ‘Problematic Individual’ in Contemporary Fiction.” With Anton Kirchhofer. ZAA Special Issue: Aspects of the Science Novel. Ed. Norbert Schaffeld. 64.2 (2016): 149-68.

“Rethinking Gender and Virtue through Richardson’s Domestic Accounting.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 24.3 (Spring 2012): 403-429.

“The Misfortunes of Bourgeois Values.” Genre: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts 26 (2006): 90-108.

“Kerouac’s Disappearing Act: On the Road to Heideggerian Authenticity.” The Sigma Tau Delta Review 1 (2004): 34-37.

Essays in Edited Collections and Handbooks

“The Age of Irritability.” With Ewan Jones. Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas: New Methods and Computational Approaches. Ed. Peter de Bolla. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2024. 184-205.

“Defoe, Economically Constructed Property, and Reputational Credit.” Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800): Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers. Eds. Beatrice Schuchardt and Christian von Tschilschke. New York: Peter Lang, 2022. 289-99.

“The Novel and the Literary Marketplace: Print Culture, Popular Reading, and an Emerging British Canon.” Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. Eds. Katrin Berndt and Alessa Johns. De Gruyter, 2022. 107-122.

“Science and Society in Recent Fiction.” With Jay Clayton. Science Under the Literary Microscope. Eds. Susan M. Gaines, Sina Farzin, and Roslynn Haynes. Penn State U P, 2021. 21-36.

“Rethinking Disinterestedness through the Rise of Political Economy.” Aesthetic Heteronomy: Beyond Autonomy in British and German Eighteenth-Century Tradition. Eds. Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin, and Mattias Pirholt. Routledge, 2021. 277-97.

“The Sciences of Mind and Fictional Pharmaceuticals in White Noise and The Corrections.” Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science. Ed. Triangle Collective. Palgrave, 2020. 415-32.

“Situating Psychopharmacology in Literature and Culture.” With Jennifer S. Henke. Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900. Palgrave, 2020. 1-19.

“Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus.” With Felix Sprang. Handbook of the English Novel of the Nineteenth Century (1830-1900). Eds. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. De Gruyter, 2020. 173-88.

“The Rise of Psychopharmacological Fiction.” Representations of Science Twenty-First-Century Fiction. Eds. Nina Englehardt and Julia Hoydis. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 19-35.

“Rethinking ‘Moral Economy’ through Recent Economic Criticism.” Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association for the Study of English. Vol. 39. Eds. Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Jochen Petzold, Katharina Boehm, and Martin Decker. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2018. 127-34.

“Entertainment, Optimization, and Self-Medication in The Wolf of Wall Street.” Business-Fiktionen und Management-Inszenierungen. Ed. Yvette Sanchez. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018. 289-302.

“The Eighteenth Century and the Literary Marketplace.” With Anna Auguscik. Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. De Gruyter, 2016. 40-58.

“Between Property and Propriety: David Simple and Social Mediation.” Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz Proceedings. Ed. Silvia Mergenthal and Reingard M. Nischik. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2014.

Reviews

Book Review of Stefan Lampadius’s The Human Future? Artificial Humans and Evolution in Anglophone Science Fiction of the 20th Century in Anglistik 32.2 (2021): 176-77.

Review of Susan M. Gaines’s novel Accidentals in Entropy Magazine (17 August 2020).

Book Review of Michael Genovese’s The Problem of Profit in Eighteenth-Century Studies 54.1 (2020): 187-90.

Book Review of Miranda El-Rayess’s Henry James and the Culture of Consumption in The Henry James Review 23.2 (2018): E11-13.

Book Review of Wolfgang Funk’s The Literature of Reconstruction: Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium in Textual Practice 31.2 (2017): 433-35.

Book Review of Marilyn Francus’s Monstrous Motherhood: 18th-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 26.3 (Spring 2014): 500-502.

Book Review of Deborah Valenze’s The Social Life of Money in the English Past in Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 19 (2009): 345-47.

Book Review of Judy White’s Hero-Ego In Search of Self in Comitatus 25 (2004): 292-94.