Language and Information Sciences

Research Interests

I have been working on eighteenth-century British novels, with a view to clarifying the sources of literary innovations introduced after the Revolution of 1688. Several articles of mine deal with Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the two literary works that have repeatedly impressed (and sometimes “vexed”—as Swift intended by the publication of Gulliver’s Travels) me. I am now interested in the relationship between continental and British novels in the early eighteenth century, reconsidering the role of nationality in the history of prose fiction.