Brown, Laura Schaefer

John Wendell Anderson Professor of English

research

research and scholarship focus

  •  Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature, especially matters of generic history, ideology, and form
  •  Feminist criticism
  •  Marxist criticism and cultural critique

international geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

administrative appointment

member of graduate field

service

current professional activities

    • Modern Language Association Program Committee, 1983-86
    • Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, 1986-88
    • PMLA Advisory Committee, 1995-98
    • Eighteenth-Century Studies Advisory Editor, 1995-98
    • Director of Graduate Studies in English, 1985-88
    • Chair, English Department Appointments Committee—Asian American Literature, 1991
    • Chair, English Department Appointments Committee—Native American Literature, 1999
    • Chair, Department of English, 2002-2005
    • Chair, Department of English, 2002-2005
    • Chair, English Department Appointments Committee—Native American Literature, 1999
    • Eighteenth-Century Studies Advisory Editor, 1995-98
    • PMLA Advisory Committee, 1995-98
    • Chair, English Department Appointments Committee—Asian American Literature, 1991
    • Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, 1986-88
    • Director of Graduate Studies in English, 1985-88
    • Modern Language Association Program Committee, 1983-86

background

educational background

  • University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 1977
  • Stanford University, B.A., 1971

professional background

  • University of California, Riverside, Associate Professor, 1980-1981
  • University of California, Riverside, Assistant Professor, 1977-1980

awards and distinctions

  • John Wendell Anderson Chair, 2002
  • Fellow, Cornell Society for the Humanities, 2000
  • Fellow, Cornell Society for the Humanities, 1984-85

featured in

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Books:

    • English Dramatic Form 1660-1760: An Essay in Generic History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.)
    • Alexander Pope. In Rereading Literature (ed. Terry Eagleton.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985.
    • The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature, ed. wth Felicity Nussbaum. New York: Methuen, 1987.
    • Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
    • Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

  • Articles:

    • "The Ideology of Restoration Poetic Form: John Dryden." PMLA, 97. 1982: 191-201.
    • "The Defenseless Woman and the Development of English Tragedy." Studies in English Literature 22. 1982:429-443.
    • "Contemporary Theory and the Defense of Eighteenth-Century Studies." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 23. 1985:281-287.
    • "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves." In The New Eighteenth Century: Theory. Politics, English Literature. Ed. Brown and Nussbaum. New York: Methuen, 1987.
    • "Revising Critical Practice," with Felicity Nussbaum. In The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature. Ed. Brown and Nussbaum. New York: Methuen, 1987.
    • "Reading Race and Gender: Jonathan Swift." Eighteenth-Centiury Studies, 23. 1990:24-443.
    • "Amazons and Africans: Gender, Race, and Empire in Daniel Defoe." In Women, Race, and Writing in the Early Modern Period. Ed. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker. London: Routledge, 1994.
    • "The Feminization of Ideology: Form and the Female in the Long Eighteenth Century." In Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Ed. David Richter. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 1999.
    • "Oceans and Floods: Fables of Global Perspective." In The Global Eighteenth Century: Mapping the Eighteenth-Century World, ed. Felicity Nussbaum. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
    • "Dryden and the Imperial Imagination." Cambridge Companion to Dryden, ed. Steven Zwicker. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 2004.
    • "Pope and the 'Other'" Cambridge Companion to Pope, ed. Pat Rogers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 2005.

  • Reprints:

    • "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves." Oroonoko: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Joanna Lipking. New York: Norton, 1997. And Early Women Writers: Longman Critical Reader ed. Anita Pacheco. London: Longman, 1998. And New Casebook: Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd. London: Macmillan, 1999.
    • "Reading Race and Gender: Jonathan Swift."Gullilver’s Travels, Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York, Norton, 2001. And Critical Essays on Jonathan Swift. Ed. Frank Palmeri. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993.
    • "Imperialism and Poetic Form: The Rape of the Lock, Windsor Forest." From Alexander Pope. Literary Criticism, Volume 59. Ed. Larry Trudeau. London: The Gale Group, 2001.
    • On The Way of the World from English Dramatic Form, 1660-1760 Restoration and Eighteent-Century Comedy: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Scott McMillin. New York: Norton, 1997.

contact

email address

lsb7@cornell.edu