Dr. Edward Jacobs, Acting Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor, Literature

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.A. University of Tennessee 4030 Batten Arts & Letters 757-683-4028 EJacobs@odu.edu

Teaching

British Literature 1640-1848

Literary Theory

Narratology

Research and Criticism

Research

British Literature 1640-1848

The History of the Book

British Circulating Libraries

Recent Publications

"Anonymous Signatures: Circulating Libraries, Conventionality, and the Production of Gothic Romances." ELH 62 (1995). Available: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v062/62.3jacobs.html

"Buying into Classes: the Practice of Book Selection in Eighteenth-Century Britain." Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 (1999). Available: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v033/33.1jacobs.html

Online Resources

The following resources accompany my essay "Eighteenth-Century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History," in Book History 6 (2003).

Publishers of Fiction in the Circulating Library Catalog of Thomas Lowndes (London, c. 1766)

Publishers of Fiction in the Circulating Library Catalog of Michael Heavisides (Darlington, 1790)

Fiction Titles Common to the Circulating Library Catalogs of Thomas Lowndes and Michael Heavisides

Circulating Library Publishers of New British Fiction, 1770-1799