Eleanor F. Shevlin

Eleanor F. Shevlin
  • Professor
  • Department: English
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: EShevlin@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park

Research Interests

Postcolonial FictionGenre TheoryFiction and LawTechnology and Digital Culturethe Institutional History of English as a DisciplineHistory of the BookPrint Culture Studies18th-Century British Literature18th-Century Culture

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-1628

List of Publications

  • Article. [Gibbes, Phebe], The Woman of Fashion: Or, the History of Lady Diana Dormer. In Two Volumes in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, (solicited, forthcoming 2019). Article. Turner, Daniel, The Fashionable Daughter. Being a Narrative of True and Recent Facts. By an Impartial Hand. In Four Parts in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, (solicited, forthcoming 2019). “When Novels and Newspapers Were New Media: The Strange and Familiar in the Eighteenth-Century Cultural Marketplace.” The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, 31.2 (October 2017): 1-10. “END: Early Novels Database.” The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, n.s. 30.1 (March 2016): 16-19. Co-editor, Age of Johnson, Special Forum on Electronic Resources and the Future of Eighteenth-Century Studies (introduction, five essays), Age of Johnson. vol. 21 (2012), pp. 255-338. The History of the Book in the West: A Library of Critical Essays (Vol. III, 1700-1800). Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2010. (Editor, compiler, introducer.) "Legal Discourse and Novelistic Form" in The Cambridge History of the English Novel, Eds. Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes, Cambridge and NY: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 46-62. "The Center for the Book and the History of the Book." Libraries and the Cultural Record 45.1 (January 2010): 56-69. Co-authored with Eric Lindquist. "Exploring Context and Canonicity: Lessons from the ECCO and EEBO Databases." The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 23.3 (Fall/Winter 2009): 4-13. "The Warwick Lane Network and the Refashioning of 'Atalantis' as a Titular Keyword: Print and Politics in the Age of Queen Anne." Solicited chapter in Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800. Eds. Laura Runge and Pat Rogers. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 163-92. Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. Amherst, MA & Washington, DC: University of Massachusetts Press and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, 2007. Co-edited with Sabrina Alcorn Baron and Eric N. Lindquist. Includes "A Conversation with Elizabeth L. Eisenstein" (Interview), by Baron, Lindquist, and Shevlin (409-420). "The Titular Claims of Female Surnames in Eighteenth-Century Fiction." Solicited chapter in Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law, eds. Andrew Buck, Margaret Ferguson, and Nancy Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004: 256-278. "'To Reconcile Book and Title, and Make 'em Kin to One Another': The Evolution of the Title's Contractual Functions." Book History 2 (1999): 42-77. "The Plots of Early English Novels: Narrative Mappings Rooted in Land and Law." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11.4 (July 1999): 379-402. "'Imaginary Productions' and 'Minute Contrivances': Law, Fiction, and Property in Eighteenth-Century England." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 28 (1999): 131-154. "The English Short Title Catalogue: Past, Present and Future: A Report on the January 21, 1998 Conference." The East-Central Intelligencer 12.1-2 (April 1998): 10-14. "Cartographic Refrains and Postcolonial Terrains: Mariama Bâ's Scarlet Song." Modern Fiction Studies 43.4 (Winter 1997): 933-962. "The Title As a Teaching Tool." SHARP News 6.2 (Spring 1997): 2-4.