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I’m an Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and author or editor of a number of books and special issues of journals on the literature, culture, and book history of the period 1695-1830.

I have written on erotic literature, literary tourism, medical (mis)information, family planning and menstruation, and experimental writing in the long eighteenth century.

My current work explores women’s labour in the book trades, including their work in printing, bookselling, paper making and bookbinding.

Recent Publications

Books

1. [with David Rudrum,] Literary Heritage: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic (London: Routledge, 2025).
2. [with Peter Sabor and Richard Terry, eds,] The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2024).
3. [with Allan Ingram and Clark Lawlor, eds,] Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2024).
4. Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2021).
5. [with M-C. Newbould, eds,] Laurence Sterne and Sterneana (2019), hosted by Cambridge Digital Library, available at cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sterne.
6. [with Richard Terry, eds,] Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, by John Cleland (Peterborough: Broadview, 2018).
7. [with Patrick Wildgust, eds,] A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Laurence Sterne, illus. by Martin Rowson (Coxwold: Shandy Hall Press, 2018).

Special Issues of Journals

1. [with Ashleigh Blackwood and Allan Ingram, eds,] Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century, Special Issue of Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 46.1 (2023).
2. [with M-C. Newbould, eds,] Adaptation and Digitisation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sterneana and Beyond, Special Issue of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 28 (2023).
3. [with M-C. Newbould, Paul Goring, and Brian Michael Norton, eds,] A Festschrift in Honour of Peter de Voogd, Special Issue of the Shandean, 33 (2022).

Articles

1. ‘Constantia Grierson’s Ghost and the Problem of Posthumous Print’, in Gender and the Book Trades, ed. by Elise Watson and Jessica Farrell-Jobst, Library of the Written Word (Leiden: Brill, 2024), 150-169. Link.
2. [with Mary Newbould,] ‘Literary Adaptation and Digital Humanities: Laurence Sterne and Sterneana’, Romanticism and the Digital Humanities, ed. by Jennifer Reed, special issue of Studies in Romanticism3 (2024), 273-308.
3. ‘Bodies of Type: Tristram Shandy in the Bagnio’, Shandean 34 (2024), 85-106.
4. ‘Katrin Moye’s Filthy Trash: Interview with the Artist’, Shandean 34 (2024), 104-114.
5. ‘Extra-Illustration and the Seduction of a “Standard” Text: James Comerford’s Erotic Books’, in The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts, ed. by Jakub Lipski and M-C. Newbould (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2024), 433-459.
6. [with Clark Lawlor], Introduction, Myth and Misinformation: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2024).
7. ‘Mislabelling and the Medical Printer-Publisher: Demystifying the Ephemera of Elizabeth Rane Cox (1765-1841)’, Myth and Misinformation: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2024).
8. [with M-C. Newbould,] Introduction to the Special Feature: Fitting Things? Adaptation, Eighteenth-Century Afterlives, and Digital Cultures’, Adaptation and Digitisation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sterneana and Beyond, Special Issue of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 28 (2023), 3-22.
9. ‘Laurence Sterne and Women’s Writing: Elizabeth Bonhôte, Jane Timbury, and Miss Street’, Adaptation and Digitisation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sterneana and Beyond, Special Issue of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 28 (2023), 44-62.
10. [with Ashleigh Blackwood], Introduction, Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century, Special Issue of Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies1 (2023), 3-20. Link.
11. ‘Family Planning and the Long Eighteenth-Century Pocket Book, Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century, Special Issue of Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies1 (2023), 113-133. Link.
12. ‘Autopathography and the Bramine’s Journal’, A Festschrift in Honour of Peter de Voogd, Special Issue of the Shandean, 33 (2022), 217-236.
13. ‘Craftivism and Cottonian Bindings: “The Handiwork of Greta Hall”’, New Approaches to Critical Bibliography, Special Issue of Criticism, 64.3 (2022): 351-368.
14. ‘Printing, Publishing and Pocket Book Compiling: Ann Fisher’s Hidden Labour in the Newcastle Book Trade’, in Print Culture, Agency and Regionality in the Hand Press Era, ed. by Rachel Stenner, Adam James Smith and Kaley Kramer (London: Palgrave, 2022), 93-116.
15. ‘Communing with the Fictional Dead: Grave Tourism and the Sentimental Novel’, in British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters, ed. by Mascha Hansen and Sebastien Domsch (London: Palgrave, 2021), 41-62. Link.

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Country Focus

United Kingdom

Expertise by Geography

Ireland, United Kingdom

Expertise by Chronology

18th century

Expertise by Topic

Book History, Gender, Libraries & Archives, Literary History