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Monday, Wedneday and Friday: 12:15-1:15pm, or by appointment.

Elizabeth Napier
Professor of English
Hesselgrave House 22
Phone: 802.443.5044
Email: enapier@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Kalamazoo College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Specialization: Eighteenth-century literature; the novel; literature and the visual arts

Selected Publications

Books

 F. T. Marinetti: Selected Poems and Related Prose translation with Barbara R. Studholme; selected by Luce Marinetti; with an essay by Paolo Valesio. Yale University Press, 2002. 

The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-century Literary Form, Clarendon Press, 1987.

Sounds (translation, with introduction, of Wassily Kandinsky's Klänge), Yale University Press, 1981.

Selected Articles

“’Raining Cats and Dogs’: Swift’s ‘A Description of a City Shower’.” Explicator 65:4 (2007): 208-11.

"Mary Collyer." British Novelists 1660- 1800, I. Ed. Martin C. Battestin. Dictionary of Literary Biography, BC Research, 1985. XXXIX, 113- 116.

"Elizabeth Griffith," 247- 251.

"Elizabeth Inchbald," 274- 280.

"Harriet Lee; Sophia Lee," 301- 306.

"Matthew Gregory Lewis," 313- 323.

"Ann Radcliffe," II, 37- 46.

"Clara Reeve," II, 46- 51.

"Elizabeth Rowe," II, 409- 413.

"Sarah Scott," II, 413- 418.

"Charlotte Smith," II, 433- 440.

"Horace Walpole," II, 525- 542.

"The Problem of Boundaries in Wuthering Heights," Philological Quarterly, 63 (1984), 95- 107. Rpt. (in part) in Major Literary Characters: Heathcliff, ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1993).
 
"Swift, Kaempfer, and Psalmanaazaar: Further Remarks on 'Trampling upon the Crucifix'," Notes and Queries, 226 (l98l), 226.

"Objects and Order in Robinson Crusoe," The South Atlantic Quarterly, 80 (l98l), 84- 94.

"Swift's 'Trampling upon the Crucifix': A Parallel," Notes and Queries, 224 (l979), 544- 548.

"Aylmer as 'Scheidekünstler': The Pattern of Union and Separation in Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark'," South Atlantic Bulletin, 4l (l976), 32-35.

"'Tremble and Reform': The Inversion of Power in Richardson's Clarissa," ELH, 42 (l975), 2l4- 223.

Translations from the poetry of Valie Export, Dimension: Contemporary German Arts and Letters, 8 (l975), 82- 85.

Grants/Fellowships

American Philosophical Society grant, 1983- 84.
 
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University, l983- 84.

NEH Summer Stipend, 1983.

NEH Summer Seminar, 1979.