Romantic Liars, Palgrave Macmillan 2006.

See reviews in WSU Magazine, The TLS, RoN, and WSU Today

 

Literature, Science and Exploration, Cambridge 2004. Paperback 2007.




Slavery and the Romantic Imagination, UPenn Press 2002. Paperback 2004.




Early Black British Writing, Houghton Mifflin 2002.

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Travels, Explorations and Empires Pickering & Chatto 2002.

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Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, Pickering & Chatto 1999.

 

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Fortyfive/Seventeen, self-published. Printed by Publisher's Graphics 2006.

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ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

“Lost Girls, Lost Women: Foundling Hospital Art in the Work of William Blake”
Prism(s) 15 (2007), 127-153.

“The Vaccine Rose: Patronage, Pastoralism, and Public Health”
Co-Authored.  Robert Bloomfield: The Forgotten Romantic, ed. Bridget Keegan and John Goodridge, Bucknell University Press. 

“The Jenneration of a Disease: Vaccination, Romanticism and Revolution”
Co-Authored.  Reprinted in Romanticism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies ed. Michael O’Neill and Mark Sandy, Routledge 2005. Originally published Studies in Romanticism 39.1 (Spring 2000): 139-163. 

“Forgeries”
Romanticism: An Oxford Guide.  Ed. Nicholas Roe.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 521-536.

“Java, Insincerity, and Imposture: The Stories of Stamford Raffles and Mary Baker”
 European Romantic Review 15.2 (June 2004): 277-87.

 “Johnson, Stedman, Blake, and the Monkeys”
The Wordsworth Circle 33.3 (Summer 2002): 116-119.

“Romantic Subjects”
European Romantic Review 13.2 (June 2002).  Co-Editor with Gary Handwerk (University of Washington) for the journal’s special topic.

“Mental Travelers: Joseph Banks and the Romantic Imagination”
 Co-Authored.  Nineteenth-Century Contexts 24.2 (June 2002): 117-139.

“Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Aldridge Worked His Charms”
 Romantic Circles Praxis Volume: OBI.  Ed. Charles Rzepka.  August 2002. 

“The Beast Within: The Imperial Legacy of Vaccination in History and Literature”
 Co-Authored.  Literature and History 9.1 (Spring 2000): 1-23.

The Romantics and Foreign Travel
Online anthology for Xanedu Coursepacks.  Includes introductions, notes, excerpts from travel narratives, Romantic poetry and prose under the principle headings of: The South Seas, The Caribbean, Africa, North America, The Poles, The Orient.

 “The Jenneration of a Disease: Vaccination, Romanticism and Revolution”
Co-Authored.  Studies in Romanticism 39.1 (Spring 2000): 139-163. 

“Virtual Empires”
Co-Authored.  Cultural Critique 44 (Winter 2000): 3-28.

“Teaching Travel”
 British Association for Romantic Studies Review 18 (October 2000): 5-6.

 “Yellow Fever and the Slave Trade: Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
 ELH 65 (1998): 675-700.

“Poetic Voodoo: Keats in the Possession of African Magic”
 The Persistence of Poetry: Bicentennial Essays on John Keats.  Edited by Robert Ryan and Ronald A. Sharp.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, 132-152. 

“The Wild Wreath: Cultivating a Poetic Circle for Mary Robinson”
 Studies in the Literary Imagination 30.1 (Spring 1997): 23-44.

“Mapping the Interior: African Geography and Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas”
 European Romantic Review 8.2 (Spring 1997): 169-184.

“Coleridge in Somerset”
 The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series No 9 (Spring 1997): 76-79.

“Certain Monsters of Africa: Poetic Voodoo in Keats’s Lamia”
The Times Literary Supplement (October 27, 1995): 13-14.