Adam Beach

Areas of Specialization

The “long eighteenth century” in Britain (from the Restoration through the Romantic era); British literature and drama; literary theory with particular emphasis on colonial and post-colonial discourse.

Publications

• "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Slavery in the Ottoman (and the British) Empire," Philological Quarterly (forthcoming Fall 2008).
• "Restoration Poetry and the Failure of English Tangier.” SEL: Studies In English Literature (Forthcoming, Summer 2008).
• "Baffled Colonial Discourse: Representing the First Decade of English Tangier." Restoration (Forthcoming, Fall 2007), 30 pgs. ms.
• “Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys's Diary and Tangier Papers,” in Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings, ed. Goran Stanivukovic. Palgrave, 2007. 227-44.
• “Anti-Colonist Discourse, Tragicomedy, and the ‘American’ Behn.” Comparative Drama 38 (2004): 213-33.
• "Carnival Politics, Generous Satire, and Nationalist Spectacle in Behn's 'The Rover.'" Eighteenth-Century Life 28.3 (2004): 1-19.
• "The Creation of a Classical Language in the Eighteenth Century: Standardizing English, Cultural Imperialism, and the Future of the Literary Canon." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 43 (2001): 117-41.
• "A Profound Pessimism About the Empire: The Isle of Pines, English Degeneracy and Dutch Supremacy.” The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation 41 (2000): 21-36.

Courses

Graduate: Restoration and 18th-century British Literature, Literary Theory 2

Undergraduate: British Literature 1: Beginnings to 1780, Introduction to English Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Novel