Marilyn Francus – Publications
Books:
The Converting Imagination: Linguistic Theory and Swift’s Satiric Prose, Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
Representative Articles:
“Tis Better to Give: The Conduct Manual as Gift,” in The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Linda Zionkowski and Cynthia Klekar (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009): 79-106.
“Stepmommy Dearest? The Burneys and the Construction of Stepmotherhood,” Eighteenth-Century Women, Volume 5 (2008): 133-169.
“Erasing the Stepmother Story: Frances Burney and Elizabeth Allen,” A Celebration of Frances Burney ed. Lorna J. Clark (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), pp. 57-73.
“Calamity Jane? Austen and Owen Wister’s The Virginian,” Persuasions: The Journal of the Jane Austen Society of America, Vol. 27 (2005), pp. 219-33.
”’A-Killing Their Children With Safety’: Maternal Indentity and Transgression in Swift and Defoe,” Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Katharine Kittredge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), pp. 258-82.
“Circulating Jane,” Persuasions: The Journal of the Jane Austen Society of America, Vol. 25 (2003), pp. 129-40. reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 217 (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006), pp. 78-84.