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Robin Runia, Ph.D.
Books

Maria Edgeworth and Abolition: Critiquing Character. (Under Review).
Moral Tales: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. Ed. Robin Runia. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2020.
The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery, an edited collection. New York: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature Series, 2018.
Ennui, a scholarly edition of Maria Edgeworth’s 1809 tale. Kansas City, Missouri: Valancourt Books, 2016 (Introduction Co-written with Stacey Kikendall).
 
Refereed Publications - Articles
“Upstaging Abolition: Enlightened Hypocrisy in Maria Edgeworth’s Whim for Whim.” Studies in Romanticism (Forthcoming).
“Prostitutes or Proselytes: Eighteenth-Century Female Enthusiasts.” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Bucknell University Press. 2021, 3-19.
“Persuasive Precedent: Austen Rewrites Edgeworth.” Persuasions 40 (2018): 201-212.
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“Prostitutes or Proselytes: Eighteenth-Century Female Enthusiasts.” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Bucknell University Press (Forthcoming).
 “David Simple, Volume the Last and Rational Christian Faith.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment. Vol. 6. New York: AMS Press, 2015. 187-208.
“’A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit’ and Intellectual Enthusiasm.” The Explicator 72.2 (Spring 2014): 1-7.
“’Oppressed With My Own Sensations’: The Histories of Some of the Penitents and Principled Piety.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment. Vol. 4. New York: AMS Press, 2013. 257-275.
“’The breeches are my own, henceforth I’le rant’: The Widdow Ranter and Cross-Dressed Politics” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 26.1-2 (Summer 2012): 5-21.
            *Reviewed in The Scriblerian XLVI.2(Spring 2014).
“Enlightenment Revelations: Shakers’ Spiritual Sense.” Journal of South Texas English Studies 3.1(Spring 2012): 1-18.
“Rewriting Roxana: Eighteenth-Century Narrative Form and Sympathy.” Otherness: Essays and Studies 2.1(Autumn 2011): 1-19.
“Whitening the Moor of Venice in Late-Eighteenth-Century Performance.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 23.2 (Winter 2008): 43-61.  
 
Refereed Publications - Book Chapters
“Limits of the Letter: Teaching Anti-Pamela with Pamela and Shamela.” MLA Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood. New York: Modern Language Association, 2020.127-133.
 “Race and Romance: Adapting Free Women of Color in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Adapting the Eighteenth Century: Pedagogies and Practices. Eds. Sharon Harrow and Kirsten Saxton. University of Rochester Press, 2020. 204-212.
 “Satire in Composition: Writing toward Social Justice,” MLA Approaches to Teaching Modern British and American Satire, ed. Evan Davis and Nicholas D. Nace. New York: MLA, 2018. 309-315.
“’A man must make himself’: Hypochondria in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui.” The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. Ed. Greta DePledge and Andrew Mangham. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2018. 137-155.
  “’Knights of Matrimony,’ Christian Duty and Millenium Hall.” After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. Karl Leydecker and Jenny DiPlacidi. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. 91-106.
 “Maria Edgeworth’s Correspondence: Lock and Key,” The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship, Ed. Robin Runia. Routledge, 2018. 165-181.
“Edgeworth’s Letters for Literary Ladies: Publication Peers and Analytical Antagonists.” “A Tribe of Authoresses”: Women's Literary Networks and Romanticism. Eds. Andrew Winckles and Angela Rehbein, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2017. 226-244.
“Joint Tenants of the Shade”: Collective Piety in Millenium Hall.” Reasoning Beasts: Evolution, Cognition, and Culture, 1720-1820. Ed. Kathryn Stasio and Michael Austin. New York: AMS Press, 2017. 113-130.
 “Not ‘merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors’: Mary Shelley Critiques Women’s Education in Anxiety.” Critical Insights: Mary Shelley. Ed. Virginia Brackett. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2016. 83-96.
 “’What do you take me for?’: Rape and Virtue in The Female Quixote.” Ed. Anne Greenfield. Interpreting Sexual Violence: 1660-1800. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. 107-118.
            *Reviewed in The Scriblerian XLVIII.2 (Autumn 2016).
“Later Eighteenth-Century Autobiography in Britain and China, Or Shen Fu’s Six Records of a Floating Life and the Study of World Literature as Paradigm for the Study of National Literatures.” Teaching the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Mary Rooks. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, September 2009. 65-78.
“Eighteenth-Century France: The Encyclopedia Project.” The Bedford Anthology of World Literature. Compact Edition. Vol. 2. Ed. Paul Davis, et. al. New York: Bedford/St. Martin Press, 2009. 371-372.
 
Refereed Publications - Reviews
“Review: Susan Carlile, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 25, Ed. Kevin Cope (Forthcoming).
“Review: Courtney Weiss Smith, Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England.” Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment (1.1) Fall 2018: https://www.srejournal.org/
“Review: Ramesh Mallipeddi, Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic.” Studies in English Literature 1-3 (Spring 2017): 999-1002, doi.org/10.1093/res/hgx026.
 “Review: Juliet Shields, Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835. Eighteenth-Century Studies 50.3 (Spring 2017): 352-354.
“Review: Katherine Ellison, Kit Kincade, and Holly Faith Nelson, eds. Topographies of the Imagination: New Approaches to Daniel Defoe.” The Scriblerian and Kit-Cats (Autumn 2016): 17, 18, 21-22, 22-23.
“Review: Harvey Graff, Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century.” Journal of College Writing 12 (Spring 2016): 65-67.
“Review Essay: ‘General Heads,’ Great Minds and the Genesis of Scientific Racism.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 15.2 (Spring 2015): 112-118.
“Review: Misty Anderson, Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment. Vol. 5. New York: AMS Press, 2015: 300-302.
“Review: Megan Woodworth, Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman’s Liberation Movement: Independence, War, Masculinity, and the Novel, 1778-1818. New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. 11.1 (Spring 2014): 116-117.
 “Review: The Orlando Project.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing News. 22.2 (Spring 2013): 13-14.
“Review: Daniella Dostroun and Lisa Vollendorf, Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600-1800).” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment. Vol. 3. New York: AMS Press, 2012: 365-368.
“Review Essay: ‘No Common Felicity’: Britain’s Exemplary Eighteenth-Century Women;’ Emma Clery’s Madam Britannia: Women, Church, & Nation 1712-1812,” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, 12.4 (Fall 2012): 105-112.
“Review: Susan Sage Heinzelman, Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature and Gender.” Concho River Review 25.2 (Fall 2011): 110-111.
“Review: Ann Thomson, Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment. Vol. 2. New York: AMS Press, 2010. 349-351.
 
         Other Public Writing
Anon., The Adventures of Mr. Loveill (1750). The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820 (forthcoming).
Maria Susanna Cooper, Letters Between Emilia and Harriet (1762). The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820 (forthcoming).
            The Daughter (1775). The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820 (forthcoming).
            The Exemplary Mother (1769). The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820 (forthcoming).
            The History of Fanny Meadows (1775). The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820 (forthcoming).
“Sympathetic Suffering in Eighteenth-Century Prostitution Narratives.” Xavier Review 33.1 (Spring 2013): 97-103.

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