Cynthia Wall

(1994)
Professor
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Chair of the Department

Degrees

Ph.D. Chicago, 1992
M.A. Chicago, 1987
M.A. Northwestern (Phil.), 1983
B.A. St. Olaf College, 1981

Books

  • The Impress of the Invisible (in progress)
  • The Prose of Things: Transformation of Description in the Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
  • The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
  • Editor, Restoration and Eighteeenth-Century Drama (Norton Critical Edition, forthcoming 2013)
  • Editor of John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress (Norton Critical Edition, 2009)
  • Editor, Blackwell's Concise Companion to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Blackwell, 2004)
  • Editor of Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics, 2003)
  • Editor, with Dennis Todd, Eighteenth-Century Genres and Cultures; Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter (University of Delaware Press, 2001)
  • Editor of Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (Bedford Cultural Editions, 1998)

Articles

  • “Defoe and the European Novel,” The Cambridge Companion to the European Novel, ed. Michael Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012)
  • “Domesticities and Novel Narratives,” The Cambridge History of the English Novel, ed. Clement Hawes and Robert Caserio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012)
  • “Description, Including Ekphrasis,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Efrain Kristal (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2012)
  • “London and Narration in the Long Eighteenth Century,” The Cambridge Companion to London, ed. Lawrence Manley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 102-118
  • “London,” Johnson in Context, ed. Jack Lynch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 243-250
  • “The Business of Houses: The Problem of Old London Bridge,” The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Essays in Honor of John Richetti, ed. Albert J. Rivero and George Justic, vol. 6-7 (August 2009), 261-305
  • “Defoe and London,” The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe, ed. John J. Richetti (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 158-181
  • “‘Chasms in the Story’:  Sophia Lee’s The Recess and David Hume’s History of England,” in Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks, ed. Rivka Swensen and Elise Lauterbach (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008), 21-40
  • “Poetic Spaces,” The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope, ed. Pat Rogers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 49-62
  • “The Castle of Otranto: A Shakespeareo-Political Satire?” in Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman, ed. Lorna Clymer and Robert Mayer (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007), 184-198
  • “Teaching Space in Sir Charles Grandison,” MLA Approaches to Teaching Samuel Richardson, ed. Jocelyn Harris and Lisa Zunshine (2006), 162-68
  • “A Geography of Georgian Narrative Space,” Georgian Geographies, ed. Miles Ogborn and Charles Withers (Forthcoming, Manchester University Press, 2002), 114-30
  • “‘Over-against Catharine-Street in the Strand’”: Forms of Address in London Streets," The Streets of London, ed. Tim Hitchcock (forthcoming, London: Rivers Oram, 2002), 10-26
  • “The Spaces of Clarissa in Text and Film,” Eighteenth Century Fiction on Screen, ed. Robert Mayer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 106-22
  • “The Rhetoric of Description,” Eighteenth-Century Genres and Cultures, ed. Dennis Todd and Cynthia Wall (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001), 261-79
  • “Details of Space: Narrative Description in Early Eighteenth-Century Novels,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10, no. 4 (July 1998), 387-405
  • “Novel Streets: The Rebuilding of London and Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year,” Studies in the Novel 30, no. 2 (Summer 1998), 164-177
  • “Grammars of Space: The Language of London from Stow’s Survey to Defoe's Tour,” Philological Quarterly 76, no. 4 (Fall 1997), 387-411
  • “The English Auction: Narratives of Dismantlings,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 31, no. 1 (Fall 1997), 1-25
  • “Gendering Rooms: Domestic Architecture and Literary Acts,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 5, no.4 (July 1993), 349-72
  • “‘Her Conversation heavenly’: Defoe's Architectural Dialogues and the Academy for Women,” in Compendious Conversations, ed. Kevin Cope Lang (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), 237-238

Honors

  • Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, for The Prose of Things, Modern Language Association 2007.
  • NEH Fellowship, 2003-2004
  • University of Virginia sesquicentennial, 2003-2004
  • Newberry Library/ASECS Fellowship, May 2001
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1998-1999
  • University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Fellowship, 1998-1999
  • Newberry Library/British Academy Fellowship, Summer 1997
  • NEH Summer Stipend, 1994
  • Huntington Library visiting fellowship, 1994
  • William Andrews Clark Library visiting fellowship, 1994
  • Houghton Library visiting fellowship, 1994
  • NEH Summer Seminar, 1993
  • Marc Perry Galler Prize, University of Chicago, 1993
  • Newberry Library research fellowship, 1991-1992