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    18th C British, Digital Humanities, Early American, Restoration

    My written work has focused on the relationship between literary and other social forms in the long eighteenth century in Britain. In my book Harlequin Britain, I explore the relationship between pantomime...

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Publications

Dark Matter: The Place of Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers (in progress)

  • Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
  • Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760
  • The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret
  • "Malthus’s Vision: Ekphrasis and Corporate Sovereignty"
  • "Institutional Structures"
  • Shakespeare and Pantomime
  • Pantomimic Politics
  • Insurance, Risk, and the Problem of Sentimental Representation
  • Pantomime
  • John Locke, Desire, and the Epistemology of Money
  • The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
  • Drama: Genre, Gender, Theater
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Contact me


jobrien@virginia.edu

Office: 230 Bryan Hall

Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-2; Wednesdays 11-12, and by appointment
 

 

 

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