Publications
Books:The Literature of Satire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: A Reference Guide. New York: G.K. Hall [Macmillan Reference], 1994.
Articles:
"The Function of Wills in Richardson's Clarissa." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 11 (1969): 1183-90.
"The Paradox of Reason: Argument in Rochester's 'Satyr Against Mankind.'" Modern Language Review 65 (1970): 254-260. Rpt. in John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Critical Essays. Ed. David Vieth. New York: Garland, 1988, pp. 241-52 and in Contemporary Literary Scholarship.
"Irony and Mr. Knightley." Studies in the Novel 2 (1970): 185-93. [On Jane Austen's Emma.]
"Multiple Structures and the Unity of Tom Jones." Criticism 14 (1972): 227-42.
"The Writer as Hero in Johnson's Periodical Essays." Papers on Language and Literature 13 (1977): 238-50.
"Tom Jones: The Meaning of the Main Design." Genre 12 (1979): 379-99.
"The Created World of the Edinburgh Periodicals." Scottish Literary Journal 6 (1979): 20-36.
"The Narrative Structure of Fielding's Amelia." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 11 (1980): 31-46.
"English and Interdisciplinary Studies: The Case of a Law and Justice Program." Association of Departments of English Bulletin 67 (Spring, 1981): 34-35.
"Fielding and Aristophanes." Studies in English Literature 21 (1981): 481-98.
"Ironic Loneliness: The Case of Goldsmith's Chinaman." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82 (1983): 347-64. Rpt. in Oliver Goldsmith: Critical Essays. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1989.
"Satire and Conversation: The Logic of Interpretation." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 26 (1985): 239-61.
"Bibliography and the Shape of the Literary Periodical in the Early Eighteenth Century." The Library, 6th series, 8 (1986): 232-48.
"The Images of Nations in Eighteenth-Century Satire." Eighteenth-Century Studies 22.4 (Summer, 1989): 489-511.
"Satiric Nationalism." Transactions of the Seventh International Conference on the Enlightenment. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 265 (1989): 1653-55.
"Listening to Encolpius: Modes of Confusion in the Satyricon." University of Toronto Quarterly 58.3 (Spring, 1989): 335-54.
"Imagination's Cerberus: Satire and the Definition of Genre." Philological Quarterly 69.2 (Spring, 1990): 131-151.
"Joseph Andrews and the Failure of Authority." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4.2 (January, 1992): 109-124; rpt. in Essays on Henry Fielding, ed. Albert Rivero (New York: G, K, Hall, 1997), and in Contemporary Literary Scholarship.
"Satire, Speech, and Genre." Comparative Literature. 44.1 (Winter, 1992): 22-41.
"The Spectator's Generalizing Discourse." Prose Studies 16.1 (April 1993): 44-57; rpt. in Telling People What to Think: Early Eighteenth-Century Periodicals from The Review to The Rambler. Ed. J. A. Downie and Thomas N. Corns. London: Frank Cass, 1993, pp. 44-57.
"The Spectator's Moral Economy." Modern Philology 91.2 (November, 1993): 161-79; rpt. in Contemporary Literary Scholarship.
"Identifying Satire." Review 24 (2002): 1-22.
"Satire and the Academic Novel." The Literary Encyclopedia (on-line)
Reviews:
Simon Varey, ed. Lord Bolinbroke: Contributions to the Craftsman. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 10 (1984).
Paul Salzman. English Prose Fiction 1558-1700: A Critical History. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s.11 (1985): 451-52.
K. G. Simpson, ed. Henry Fielding: Justice Observed. In Scriblerian 19 (1986): 59-61.
Pieter Spierenburg. The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression: From a Preindustrial Metropolis to the European Experience. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s.11 (1985): 170-71.
Lars Harveit. Workings of the Picaresque in the British Novel. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s.13 (1987): 308-9.
Michael G. Ketcham. Transparent Designs: Reading, Performance, and Form in the Spectator Papers. In Scriblerian 20 (1988): 193-94.
Malvin R. Zirker, ed. Henry Fielding: An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 14 (1988): 318-19.
Philip Davis. In Mnd of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler and Morris R. Brownell, Samuel Johnson's Attitude to the Arts. In Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Winter 1991).
Brian McCrea. Addison and Steele are Dead: The English Department, its Canon, and the Professionalization of Literary Criticism. In Scriblerian 23. 1 (Autumn 1990): 97-99.
Ralph A. Nablow. The Addisonian Tradition in France: Passion and Objectivity in Social Observation. In Scriblerian 24.1 (Autumn 1991): 64-64.
Martin Battestin, with Ruthe Battestin. Henry Fielding, a Life. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s.15 (1989): 327-28.
Mona Scheurmann. Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (1993) [forthcoming].
Martin Battestin and Clive Probyn, eds. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. In Journal of English and Germanic Philology 94 (July 1995).
Dustin Griffin. Satire: A Critical Reintroduction. In Scriblerian 27.1 (Spring 1995): 194-95.
Ian A. Bell. Henry Fielding: Authorship and Authority. In Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Winter 1996).
Alan Richardson. Literature, Education, and Romanticism. In Journal of English and Germanic Philology 95.3 (October 1996): 562-65.
Claude Rawson. Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830, and Marcus Wood, Radical Satire and Print Culture. In Eighteenth-Century Literature 30.1 (Fall 1996): 100-102.
Erin Mackie. Market à la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in The Tatler and The Spectator. In Scriblerian 31.1 (Autumn 1998): 85-86.
Richard A. Barney, Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography [forthcoming].
Leah Price, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography [forthcoming].
Bertelson, Lance. Henry Fielding at Work: Magistrate, Businessman, Writer. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography [forthcoming].