Publications

Books

• The Wasting Heroine in German Women’s Fiction 1770-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

Edited books

• Women and Death 3: Women’s Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500, co-edited with Clare Bielby (Rochester: Camden House, 2010).
• German Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism, co-edited with Helen Fronius (Oxford: Legenda, forthcoming 2011).

Articles in journals

• ‘Starving for Identity: Wasting Women in German Literature 1775-1820’, German Life and Letters, vol. L no. 4 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 417-428, also in Gendering German Studies, ed. Margaret Littler (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998),  pp. 38-50.
• 'Suffering, Silence and the Female Voice in German Fiction around 1800’, Women in German Yearbook 18, 2002, ed. Ruth-Ellen Boetcher-Joeres and Patricia Herminghouse, pp. 89-110.
• ‘“Double-voiced discourse” and psychological insight in the work of Therese Huber’, Modern Language Review, 99: 2, 2004, pp. 416-429.
• ‘Forgetting the Dead in Gellert’s Leben der Schwedischen Gräfin von G*** (1747/8)’, Oxford German Studies, 2006.
• ‘Providence and Sympathy: Consoling the Bereaved in the Late Eighteenth Century’, German Life and Letters, 2006.
• ‘The sentimental novel as Trostschrift: Johann Martin Miller’s Siegwart.EineKlostergeschichte (1776)’, Publications of the English Goethe Society, Vol. LXXIX, No. 3, 2010, 147–58.

Chapters

• ‘Sense and Sentimentality? Margarete Böhme’s Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1905) in Context’, in Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in Modern German Literature, ed. Christiane Schönfeld (Camden House, 2000), pp. 98-109.
• ‘“Halb Tier, halb Engel”: Women, animals and vegetarianism in the fiction of Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) and Helene Böhlau (1856-1940)’, Millennial Essays on Film and Other German Studies, ed. Daniela Berghahn and Alan Bance (Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 111-125.
• ‘The Era of Sensibility and the Novel of Self-Fashioning’, in The Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment and Sentimentality, Vol. 5, The Camden House History of German Literature, ed. Barbara Becker-Cantarino (Boydell & Brewer, 2005).
• ‘“Change and fidelity in one”: Women, mourning, and the reconstruction of Germany in Elisabeth Langgässer’s Der Torso (1947) and Ilse Langner’s Heimkehr (1949)’, in War-Torn Tales, ed. Danielle Hipkiss (forthcoming, Peter Lang, 2006).
• ‘The Motherless Heroine in the late 18th- and 19th-century Women's Novel’, in Schwellenüberschreitungen: Politik in der Literatur von deutschsprachigen Frauen 1780-1918, ed. Caroline Bland and Elisa Müller-Adams (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007).
• ‘Mourning “with a Female Heart”?: Grief and Gender in the late Eighteenth Century’, in Women and Death: Representations of Female Victims and Perpetrators in German Culture 1500–2000, ed. Helen Fronius and Anna Linton (Rochester: Camden House, 2008).
• ‘The Eighteenth Century’, review chapter in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 69 (2006 and 2007) (London: Maney, 2008).
• ‘The Eighteenth Century’, review chapter in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 70 (2008) (London: Maney, 2009).
• ‘German Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Feminist Criticism Past, Present and Future’ in German Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism, co-edited with Helen Fronius (Oxford: Legenda, 2011).

Reviews

• Review of Vanessa van Ornam, Fanny Lewald and Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Femininity (2002), in Modern Language Review, 99:3, 2004.
• Review of Kerstin Barndt, Sentiment und Sachlichkeit: Der Roman der neuen Frau in der Weimarer Republik (2003), in Modern Language Review, 100:1, 2005.

Minor publications

• ‘Caroline Schlegel-Schelling’, entry in the Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760-1850 (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003).