Representative Publications

• “Gender, Sexuality, and the Status of Women,” in The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe, ed. Nicholas Seager and J. Alan Downie, Oxford University Press.
• “In Their Blood: The Eighteenth-Century Gothic Stage,” in The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Volume 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Angela Wright and Dale Townshend (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020): 198-221.
• “The Paradigms of Popular Culture” in The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Essays in Honor of John Richettti, ed. Albert Rivero and George Justice (New York: AMS Press, 2009), volume 6-7:19-59,
• “Literary Culture as Immediate Reality” in A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture, ed. Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005): 504-538.
• “Shadowing Theatrical Change” in Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800s, ed. Michael Cordner and Peter Holland (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: 78-100.
• “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11 (October 1998): 79-102.
• “’Endless Aversion Rooted in the Soul’: Divorce in the 1690-1730 Theater,” The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation 37 (1996): 99-135. 
• Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.