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Charles Haskell Hinnant Professor Emeritus, Jogger,
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- Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair from 1996 to 1999
- Gold Chalk Award for graduate student teaching, winter term 2000
My interests include seventeenth and eighteenth-century studies, Anne Finch, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, and contemporary critical theory. I retired in 2000, but have recently taught an occasional course in the Honors College Humanities Sequence.
Publications 
In 2008, my essay, "Gifts and Wages: the Structures of Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Drama" was published as the lead article in the first issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies. An essay entitled "If Folly Grows Romantic: Allegorical Portraiture and the Restoration Court Beauty" was published in volume six of Eighteenth-Century Women.
My edition of the anonymous London Jilt was published by Broadview Press in January 2008. A lively, picaresque narrative, The London Jilt is presented as the memoir of a lady of pleasure who tells of her sexual adventures while supplying a running commentary reminiscent of the Wife of Bath.Other recent books are The Poetry of Anne Finch: An Essay in Interpretation (Delaware, l994), "Steel for the Mind": Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse (Delaware, l994), and The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Coedited with Barbara McGovern (Georgia, l998).
In 2003, I published "The Patriarchal Narratives of Genesis and the Ethos of Gift Exchange," in a collection of essays entitled The Question of the Gift, ed. Mark Osteen (Routledge, 2003); "Schiller and the Political Sublime: Two Perspectives," in Criticism (Spring 2003); "'An Uniform and Tractable Vice': Samuel Johnson and the Transformation of the Passions into Interests" in Volume Eight of 1650-1850; and "Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's 'The Flame and the Flower'," in Doubled Plots: Romance and History (University Press of Mississippi, 2003), 147-164.. "Moll Flanders and Roxana and First-Person Female Narratives: Models and Prototypes" appeared in volume four of The Eighteenth-Century Novel , (2004), 39-72. An essay entitled "Shaftesbury, Burke, and Wollstonecraft: Permutations on the Sublime and the Beautiful" was published in the Spring 2005 issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 17-36. "Forum: The London Jilt" was published in Restoration, 29 (2005), 53-64. "Moll Flanders, Roxana, and the French Tradition of the Pseudo-Memoir," was published in the The Age of Johnson, 17 (2006), 203-231. "Jane Austen's 'Wild Imagination': Romance and the Courtship Plot in the Six Canonical Novels," appeared in Narrative, 14 (2006), 294-310.
Works in Progress
An essay entitled "The erotics of the Gift: Gender and Exchange in Eighteenth Century Fiction," is scheduled to be published in a collection of essays entitled The Culture of the Gift by Palgrave/Macmillan later in 2008.
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