She is the author of three books: Colonizing
Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (Pennsylvania UP,
2005), Picturing Imperial Power:
Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting (Duke UP, 1999), and Superintending
the Poor: Charitable Ladies and Paternal Landlords in British Fiction,
1770-1860 (Yale UP,
1993). She is the editor of the Oxford Classics' Eliza Haywood novel,
Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1997), and History,
Gender and Literature,
a collection of essays (U of Georgia Press, 1994). She is working on a book on natural history collecting in the eighteenth century, a project for which she recently received a scholar's award from the National Science Foundation. She also received an NEH in 2000 to work on what became her book Colonizing Nature. She is also editing a series entitled "Women and Things."
She is the author of three books: Colonizing
Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (Pennsylvania UP,
2005), Picturing Imperial Power:
Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting (Duke UP, 1999), and Superintending
the Poor: Charitable Ladies and Paternal Landlords in British Fiction,
1770-1860 (Yale UP,
1993). She is the editor of the Oxford Classics' Eliza Haywood novel,
Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1997), and History,
Gender and Literature,
a collection of essays (U of Georgia Press, 1994). She is working on a book on natural history collecting in the eighteenth century, a project for which she recently received a scholar's award from the National Science Foundation. She also received an NEH in 2000 to work on what became her book Colonizing Nature. She is also editing a series entitled "Women and Things."