My research focuses on two related fields: the Anglo-American novel, especially from 1875 to the present, and the theory of the novel, which develops into its own discipline during this period. 听I am particularly interested in problems of novelistic form. 听For my work on point of view, voice, narrative, and the politics of form, see听Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present听(Stanford UP, 1998);听The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000听(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006);听and听The Novel and the New Ethics听(Stanford UP, 2020).
Recent articles related to听The Novel and the New Ethics include "On Beauty听as Beautiful?The Problem of Novelistic Aesthetics by way of Zadie Smith" (Contemporary Literature, 2012); "Aesthetics and the New Ethics: Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-first Century" (PMLA, 2009); "The Art of English Fiction in the Twentieth Century" (The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel, 2009); and "Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel" (Narrative, 2007).
Other recent projects include: "Faulkner's听Light in August听and New Theories of Novelistic Time" in A Question of Time, ed. Cindy Weinstein, Cambridge UP (Cambridge UP, 2019); "The Place of the Novel in Reparative Reading," in听Studies in the Novel (Spring 2019);听and Afterword for "Formalism Unbound," special double issue of听Post45听(January 2021).
