My interests center on British Literature, especially of the eighteenth century. I am most interested in the historical contexts of literature, and I bring that perspective to bear in all my scholarship and teaching. I am currently at work on a book tentatively titled 'The Strange Case of Elizabeth Canning,' which examines the most famous criminal case of the eighteenth century in both literary and historical (especially legal) ways.
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English literature, history and literature, eighteenth century, literature and the law and crime, detective fiction, the novel
