Book Projects:
The European Roman d’analyse: Unconsummated Love Stories from Boccaccio to Stendhal
This book (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic) represents an important contribution to the history of the novel by defining and delineating for the first time a sub-genre that I call “analytical fiction.” Analytical novels (a translation of the French term in my book’s title) investigate the epistemology of troubled and failed love and deny the legitimacy of introspection. My book examines a selection of eight European texts written between 1343 and 1827 that illustrate a deeply pessimistic philosophy that questions the validity of every kind of communicative sign.
Danae’s Daughters: Women and Money in Early 20th Century Fiction
The ways in which women spend money has been fictionalized and satirized in a large body of literature, mostly written by men, including Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Theodore Dreiser, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many more. However, little has been written about the ways in which women themselves write about money. My second book, Danae’s Daughters: Women and Money in Early 20th Century Fiction will examine the relationships between women’s labor, capitalism, and dress in French, English, and American short stories and novels.