Alex D. Pettit

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Pettit, A.D. (2013). The History of Peregrine Pickle, by Tobias Smollett, ed. John Zomchick and O M Brack, Jr; The Works of Tobias Smollett, gen. ed. Alexander Pettit. Athens, University of Georgia Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2011). Early Works, by Samuel Richardson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2011). The Adventures of Roderick Random, by Tobias Smollett, ed. James Basker, et al.; The Works of Tobias Smollett , gen. ed. Alexander Pettit. Athens, University of Georgia Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2011). The History of Gil Blas, by Tobias Smollett, ed. O M Brack, Jr, and Leslie Chilton; The Works of Tobias Smollett, gen. ed. Alexander Pettit (forthcoming 2011).. Athens, University of Georgia Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2010). The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century , Transatlantic Collaborations in Eighteenth-Century Studies 2, ed. Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, Alexander Pettit. New York, AMS Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2009). Adventure: Essays on the Daring and the Bold as a Pre-Modern Medium , Transatlantic Collaborations in Eighteenth-Century Studies 1, ed. Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, Alexander Pettit. New York, AMS Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2004). "Fantomina" and Other Works by Eliza Haywoo, ed. Pettit, Anna C. Patchias, Margaret Case Croskery. Peterborough, Ont., Broadview Press.
• Pettit, A.D., Ahrens, R., Cope, K.L. (2002). "Our Fictions and Eliza Haywood's Fictions," Talking Forward, Talking Back: Critical Dialogues with the Enlightenment. 144–66. New York, AMS.
• Pettit, A.D. (2002). Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, by Jonathan Swift, et al.. London, Pickering & Chatto.
• Blouch, C., Pettit, A.D. (2001). "The Dramatic Historiographer" and "The Parrot", by Eliza Haywood. Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, set 2, vol. 3. London, Pickering & Chatto.
• King, K., Pettit, A.D. (2001). The Female Spectator, Volumes 1 and 2, by Eliza Haywood. Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, set 2, vol. 1. London, Pickering & Chatto.
• King, K., Pettit, A.D. (2001). The Female Spectator, Volumes 3 and 4, by Eliza Haywood. Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, set 2, vol. 2. London, Pickering & Chatto.
• Pettit, A.D. (2000). "Textual Studies and the Common Reader," Textual Studies and the Common Reader: Essays on Editing Novels and Novelists (Introduction to a collection of essays). 1–29. Athens, University of Georgia Press.
• Pettit, A.D., Collins, M. (2000). "The Wife," "The Husband," and "The Young Lady", by Eliza Haywood. Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, set 1, vol. 3. London, Pickering & Chatto.
• Blouch, C., Pettit, A.D. (2000). Epistles for the Ladies, by Eliza Haywood. Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, set 1, vol. 2. London, Pickering & Chatto.
• Pettit, A.D. (2000). Miscellaneous Works, 1725–1743, by Eliza Haywood. Selected Works of Eliza Haywood, set 1, vol. 1. London, Pickering & Chatto.
• Pettit, A.D. (2000). Textual Studies and the Common Reader: Essays on Editing Novels and Novelists. Athens, University of Georgia Press.
• "Edited by" (i.e., introduced and annotated by) Pettit. (1997). Sedition and Defamation Display'd, by William Yonge; "To the Patrons of the Craftsman," by John, Lord Hervey. British Ideas and Issues, 1660–1820, no. 1 (New York: AMS, 1997. Facsimile edition with apparatus.

Book Chapter

• Pettit, A., Cox, J.H. (2022). Fugitive Indigeneity in Paul Green’s The Last of the Lowries and Lynn Riggs’s The Cherokee Night. Routledge Handbook to North American Indigenous Modernities & Modernisms. 182-90.
• Pettit, A.D. (2017). The Literary O'Neill. The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill: Literary Modernism on the World Stage. London, Bloomsbury Methuem.
• Pettit, A.D. (2017). "The Literary O'Neill". The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill: American Modernism on the World Stage (ed. Kurt Eisen). London, Bloomsbury-Methuen.
• Pettit, A.D. (2014). "Published Native American Drama, 1980-2011,". The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature, ed. James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice. 266-83. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2012). "Bad Texts: An Eccentric Appreciation (Valdez, Brecht, and the Utility of Error),". Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text , ed. Darcy Cullen. 91-114. Toronto, University of Toronto Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2011). "The Headwaters of Ooze: Richardson the Polemicist,". Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared: Essays in Honor of Jerry C. Beasley. 67-85. Newark, University of Delaware Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2010). "Mistakes of a Night: or, Who Does What with Whom, When (and Why) in Eighteenth-Century Pornography,". The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Serge Soupel, Kevin Cope, Alexander Pettit. 123-42. New York, AMS Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2006). "Eliza Haywood's Present for a Servant-Maid: Sexual Polemics and Rotten Food," in Sustaining Literature: Essays on Literature and Culture, 1500-1800[;] Commemorating the Life and Work of Simon Varey, ed. Greg Clingham (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006), 211-25. Rpt. as "The Function of Food in Eliza Haywood's Rhetoric of Restraint," in Nourriture(s) en Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle / Nourishment in Eighteenth-Century Britain, ed. Serge Soupel (Paris and Moscow: The Russian and British Cathedra, 2006), 119-30. Bucknell University Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2006). "The Pickering & Chatto Female Spectator: Nearly Four Pounds of Ephemera, Enshrined,". Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and the "Female Spectator,"ed. Don Newman. 30-59. Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University Press.

Book Review

• Pettit, A.D. (2023). Rev. of Beth Wystra, Vows, Veils, and Masks: Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill. Comparative Drama. 288-91.
• Pettit, A.D. (2017). Rev. of J. O'Connor, Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams's America. Comparative Drama. 51 240-42.
• Pettit, A.D. (2015). Eugene O'Neill: The Contemporary Reviews, ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Robert M. Dowling. 58 (2) 226-28. Eugene O'Neill Review.
• Pettit, A.D. (2015). Robert M. Dowling, Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts. 36 398-400. Modern Drama.
• Pettit, A.D. (2012). William Jay Smith, My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams. 91 (2) 434-37. Philological Quarterly.
• Pettit, A.D. (2006). Symbolism, vol. 1, ed. Rüdiger Ahrens, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 2, for 2002. 528-29.
• Pettit, A.D. (2004). Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The Use of Literature as Pro-Government Propaganda, by Tone Sundt Urstad. 14 433–36. The Age of Johnson.
• Pettit, A.D. (2001). Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood, ed. Paula Backscheider; Selections from "The Female Spectator", by Eliza Haywood, ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks; "The Injur'd Husband" and "Lasselia", by Eliza Haywood, ed. Jerry Beasley. 33 200–201. The Scriblerian.
• Pettit, A.D. (2001). Tobias Smollett: Novelist, by Jerry Beasley. 6 382–85. 1650–1850: Ideas, Inquiries, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Era.
• Pettit, A.D. (1999). "Paradigms, Periods, and Media," review of Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England, by Harold Love. 12 199–206. TEXT.
• Pettit, A.D. (1999). At Zero Point: Discourse, Culture, and Satire in Restoration England, by Rose A. Zimbardo. 47 60–61. Seventeenth-Century News.
• Pettit, A.D. (1999). Literate Culture: Pope's Rhetorical Art, by Ruben D. Quintero. 417–18. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 18, for 1992.
• Pettit, A.D. (1999). Political Controversy: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Propaganda, by Robert Spector. 311–12. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 18, for 1992.
• Pettit, A.D. (1999). Political Writings, by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, ed. David Armitage; Bolingbroke's Political Writings: The Conservative Enlightenment, ed. Bernard Cottret. 32 240–42. The Scriblerian.
• Pettit, A.D. (1999). The Profession of Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reflections on an Institution, ed. Leo Damrosch. 260–61. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 18, for 1992.
• Pettit, A.D. (1998). "Aphra's Behn"; review of The Works of Aphra Behn (7 vols.), ed. Janet Todd. 46 1–5. Seventeenth-Century News.
• Pettit, A.D. (1997). "Culture and Evidence: Recent Work on Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater"; review of Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England, by Paula Backscheider; Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater, ed. J. Douglas Canfield and Deborah Payne; Interpreting Ladies: Women, Wit, and Morality in the Restoration Comedy of Manners, by Patricia Gill; The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory, by Jean Marsden. 38 79–87. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
• Pettit, A.D. (1997). Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels, by Jill Campbell; Framing Feeling: Sentimental Style in English Prose Fiction 1745–1800, by Barbara Benedict. 4 392–98. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era.
• Pettit, A.D. (1996). Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature, by Warren Chernaik. 54 19. Seventeenth-Century News.
• Pettit, A.D. (1996). Walpole and the Patriots: Politics, Poetry, and Myth, 1725-1742, by Christine Gerrard. 29 100–102. The Scriblerian.
• Pettit, A.D. (1995). Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts, by Philip Harth. 53 19. Seventeenth-Century News.
• Pettit, A.D. (1995). Rochester: The Poems in Context, by Marianne Thormählen. 53 50–51. Seventeenth-Century News.
• Pettit, A.D. (1995). Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830, by Claude Rawson. 56 511–13. Modern Language Quarterly.
• Pettit, A.D. (1995). Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684-1740, by Ros Ballaster; Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen, by Mona Scheuermann. 2 319–22. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era.
• Pettit, A.D. (1994). Compendious Conversations, ed. by Kevin L. Cope. 6 102–103. Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1993–94).
• Pettit, A.D. (1994). Raillery and Rage, by David Nokes. 26 220–22. The Scriblerian (1993-94).
• Pettit, A.D. (1994). Secret Journeys: Theory and Practice in Reading Dickens, by Nicholas H. Morgan. 27 166–67. Victorian Periodicals Review.
• Pettit, A.D. (1993). A Study in Eighteenth-Century Advertising Methods: The Anodyne Necklace, by Francis Doherty. 26 107–108. The Scriblerian.
• Pettit, A.D. (1993). Textual Scholarship: An Introduction, by D. C. Greetham. 31 107–109. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société Bibliographique du Canada.
• Pettit, A.D. (1993). The Friendly Reader: Modes of Cooperation between Eighteenth-Century English Poets and Their Audience, by Werner Brönnimann-Egger. 25 237–38. The Scriblerian (1992-93).
• Pettit, A.D. (1992). "Dickens on the Sensational Side"; review of The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge, by Paul Davis; Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things, by Robert Newsom; Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists, by Nicholas Rance. 8 173–83. The Dickens World.
• Pettit, A.D. (1992). Criteria of Certainty: Truth and Judgment in the English Enlightenment, by Kevin L. Cope. 9 (4) 84–86. South Central Review.
• Pettit, A.D. (1992). The Epistolary Moment, by William C. Dowling. 26 127–30. Eighteenth-Century Studies.
• Pettit, A.D. (1992). The Philosophical Biographer, by Martin Maner; Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine N. Parke. 26 121–26. Eighteenth-Century Studies.
• Pettit, A.D. (1991). Before Novels, by J. Paul Hunter; Desire and Truth, by Patricia Meyer Spacks. 52 210–15. Modern Language Quarterly.

Editor's Foreword

• Pettit, A. (2020). Editor's Foreword. The Eugene O'Neill Review. 41 (2) 2.
• Pettit, A. (2019). Editor's Foreword. The Eugene O'Neill Review. 40.1 2.
• Pettit, A. (2019). Editor's Foreword. The Eugene O'Neill Review. 40 (2) 2.

Editor's Forword

• Pettit, A. (2020). Editor's Forword. The Eugene O'Neill Review. 41 (2) 2. University Park, PA, Penn State University Press. https://www.editorialmanager.com/eor/Default.aspx

Encyclopedia Article

• Pettit, A.D. (2004). "Francis Hare (1671-1740)". New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12298

Entry in Reference Work

• Pettit, A.D. (1995). Editing Novels and Novelists, Now. 27 (3) Studies in the Novel.

Introduction to scholarly collection

• Pettit, A.D. (2009). Foreword to Adventure: Essays on the Daring and the Bold as a Pre-Modern Medium, Transatlantic Collaborations in Eighteenth-Century Studies 1, ed. Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, Alexander Pettit (New York: AMS Press, 2009), xi-xx. Co-written by Kevin L. Cope.. AMS Press.

Journal Article

• Pettit, A., Cox, J.H. (2021). Black Indigeneity and Anti-Colonial Rebellion in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones. 64 (3) 259-82. Toronto, ON, University of Toronto Press [The journal is Modern Drama, a top-tier journal that FIS seems not to recognize]. https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/302
• Pettit, A., Cox, J.H. (2021). The Practical Limits of Liberal Piety: Larissa FastHorse's "Thanksgiving Play". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 32 (3/4)
• Pettit, A., Cox, J.H. (2020). Indigeneity and Immigration in Susan Glaspell's Inheritors. Comparative Drama. 53 (1/2) 31-58. Kalamazoo, MI, Western Michigan University. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/
• Pettit, A.D. (2019). The Texts of Eugene O’Neill’s The Fountain: Indigeneity, Stereotype, and Survivance. Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 61 (2) 192-332. https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/texas-studies-in-literature-and-language
• Pettit, A.D. (2017). “Comedy and Metacomedy: Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and Its Antecedents”. Modern Language Quarterly. 78 (1) 51-76.
• Pettit, A.D. (2015). "When Smitty Stopped Pretending to Snore: O’Neill Scholarship and the Problem of Copy-Text in the Library of America Complete Plays”. The Eugene O'Neill Review. 36 (2) 150-75. Penn State University Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2015). “A Legacy of Furious Men: The American Indian Movement and Anna Mae Aquash in Plays by Tomson Highway, E. Donald Two-Rivers, Yvette Nolan, and Bruce King”. Studies in American Indian Literatures. 27 (2) 29-61. University of Nebraska Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2014). "The Border That Beckons and Mocks: Conrad, Failure, and Irony in O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon,". Journal of American Drama and Theatre. 26 (2) 6-17.
• Pettit, A.D. (2014). "The Gendered Skepticism of Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock' (Coda: Caryl Churchill)," Canadian Literature, forthcoming.. UBC.
• Pettit, A.D. (2014). "The Queer Mockery of High Expectations: Comic Closure and the Texts of 'Kingdom of Earth,'". Tennessee Williams Annual Review. 14 81-96.
• Pettit, A.D. (2014). "The Texts of O'Neill's 'Beyond the Horizon': Ruth Mayo, Agnes Boulton,and the Women of Provincetown,". The Eugene O'Neill Review. 15 15-49.
• Pettit, A.D. (2013). "A Touch of the Wrong Poet: Arthur Symons and the Ironizing of Tragedy in Beyond the Horizon,". The Eugene O'Neill Review. 34 87-105.
• Pettit, A.D. (2012). "Tennessee Williams's 'Serious Comedy': Problems of Genre and Sexuality in (and After) Period of Adjustment ,". Philological Quarterly. 91 (1) 97-119.
• Pettit, A.D. (2003). Terrible Texts, 'Marginal' Works, and the Mandate of the Moment: The Case of Eliza Haywood. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 22 293–314.
• Pettit, A.D. (2002). "Eliza Haywood's Tea-Table and the Decentering of Moral Argument,". Other.
• Pettit, A.D. (2002). Pope and Defoe: Satire and National Regeneration. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. 7 3–25.
• Pettit, A.D., Soupel, S. (2001). "Polemics as Crime, Polemics as Punishment," Crime et Châtiment dans les Isles Britanniques au Dix-huitieme Siècle. Other. 74–90.
• Pettit, A.D. (2001). Rex v. Curll: Pornography and Punishment in Court and on the Page. Studies in the Literary Imagination. 34 (1) 63–78.
• Pettit, A.D. (2001). The Adventures of Peter Wilkins: Desire, Difference, and The Fallacy of Comic Convention. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 42 91–112.
• Pettit, A.D. (1999). David Simple and the Attenuation of 'Phallic Power'. Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 11 169–84.
• Pettit, A.D. (1999). Promises and Perils of the Anticanon (Response to a special issue). Studies in the Literary Imagination. 32 (2) 114–22.
• Pettit, A.D. (1998). Old Issues and New (Introduction to a special issue). Studies in the Novel. 30 123–25.
• Pettit, A.D. (1995). A Few Last Words, First (Introduction to a special issue). Studies in the Novel. 27 251–59.
• Pettit, A.D. (1995). Revitalizing Bolingbroke's Remarks on the History of England: The Craftsman in Folio. Other. 25 (3) 7–29.
• Pettit, A.D. (1995). Wit, Satire, and Comedy: Clarissa and the Problem of Literary Precedent. Studies in the Literary Imagination. 28 (1) 35–53.
• Pettit, A.D. (1994). Anxiety, Political Rhetoric, and Historical Drama under Walpole. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. 1 109-36.
• Pettit, A.D. (1994). Lord Bolingbroke's Remarks on the History of England and the Rhetoric of Political Controversy. The Age of Johnson. 7 365–95.
• Pettit, A.D. (1994). Propaganda, Public Relations, and the Remarks on the Craftsman's Vindication of His Two Hon[oura]ble Patrons, in His Paper of May 22, 1731. Huntington Library Quarterly. 57 45-59.
• Pettit, A.D. (1994). The Francis Hare Controversy of 1732. Other. 17 41-53.
• Pettit, A.D. (1994). What the Drama Does in Fielding's Jonathan Wild. Reprinted in Critical Essays on Henry Fielding, ed. Albert J. Rivero (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1998): 21�"34. Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 6 153-68. 1993–94.
• Pettit, A.D. (1993). Place, Time, and Parody in The Ring and the Book. Reprinted in Poetry Criticism, vol. 61, ed. Larry Trudeau (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2005), forthcoming. Victorian Poetry. 31 95-106.
• Pettit, A.D. (1990). Sympathetic Criminality in the Mid-Victorian Novel. Dickens Studies Annual. 19 305–25.
• Pettit, A.D. (1990). The Grub-street Journal and the Politics of Anachronism. Philological Quarterly. 69 437–53.

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Pettit, A.D. (2013). "Horton Foote and Eugene O'Neill in Wharton, Texas, Once Upon a Time,". Eugene O'Neill Newsletter. 26.

Monograph

• Pettit, A.D. (1997). Illusory Consensus: Bolingbroke and the Polemical Response to Walpole, 1730–1737. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses.

Performance review

• Pettit, A. (2019). Rev. of An Octoroon (Undermain Theatre, Dallas). Other. 16 (1) 3.

Popular Press Article

• Pettit, A.D. (2010). Foreword to The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century, Transatlantic Collaborations in Eighteenth-Century Studies 2, ed. Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, Alexander Pettit (New York: AMS Press, 2010), xi-xx. Co-written by Kevin L. Cope.. New York, AMS Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2006). "Remarks on Simon Varey and His Work," Sustaining Literature: Essays on Literature and Culture, 1500-1800, ed. Greg Clingham . Introduction to a Festschrift.. 31-40. Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University Press.
• Pettit, A.D. (2003). Simon Varey: A Remembrance. 35 14–15. The Scriblerian.
• Pettit, A.D., Collins, M. (1999). English Drama, 1650–1760: A Critical Miscellany. 32 (2) Studies in the Literary Imagination.
• Pettit, A.D. (1998). Making Genre: Studies in the Novel or Something Lke It, 1684–1762i. 30 (2) Studies in the Novel.
• Pettit, A.D., Newman, G. (1997). "Edward Cave," "Matthias Earbery," "Fog's Weekly Journal," "Francis Hare," "Thomas Hearne," "Richard Russel," in Britain in the Hanoverian Era, 1714-1837. New York, Garland.
• Pettit, A.D., Bracken, J.K., Silver, J. (1995). "William Collins," in The British Literary Book Trade, 1700–1820. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Detroit: Gale–Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1995. 39–48.
• Pettit, A.D., Greenfield, J.R. (1993). Entries on the characters of Sophia Lee and Robert Paltock, in Dictionary of British Literary Characters. New York, Facts on File–Bruccoli Clark Layman.

Scholarly Appendix

• Pettit, A.D. (2002). Introduction and "Appendix: On Authorship," Jonathan Swift, et al., Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (4 vols.). London, Pickering & Chatto.

Scholarly Note

• Pettit, A.D., Peters, J.G. (2016). “Conrad Remembered: Richard Curle Meets S. N. Behrman and Crosby Gaige”. 40 (2) 114-19. Conradian.
• Pettit, A.D., Baird, J., Vanhoutte, J. (2012). "Bob Dylan and The Emperor Jones Revisited,". 33 273-74. The Eugene O'Neill Review.