Margaret Anne Doody
John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature
Director, Ph.D. in Literature Program
Specialty
Restoration and Eighteenth-century British literature; the novel
Degrees
B.A., Dalhousie University; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Oxford University; LL.D. (Hon.), Dalhousie University
Profile
Margaret Anne Doody, past President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, is author of many books, including The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), The True Story of the Novel (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996), and Frances Burney: The Life in the Work (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988). She is an acknowledged expert on Richardson, Burney, Swift and Jane Austen, and on the history of prose fiction. She is a regular contributor to London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement. Doody is the author of a series of mystery novels with Aristotle as the central character; these novels have been translated into many languages, including Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Polish, and Russian. The latest is Mysteries of Eleusis. Current academic interests include the intellectual and cultural influence of Paracelsus and Jakob Boehme. She is finishing a book on Venice, a longtime passion, to be published in the fall of 2006 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is writing another book about Apuleis.
Recent publications
Mysteries of Eleusis. London: Century, 2005.
“Jane Austen That Disconcerting ‘Child’.” In The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf, edited by Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster, 101-21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Poison in Athens. London: Century, 2004.
“Deserts, Ruins and Troubled Waters: Female Dreams in Fiction and the Development of the Gothic Novel.” In The Eighteenth-Century English Novel, edited by Harold Bloom, 71-111. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004.
“Swift and Women.” In Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift, edited by Christopher Fox, 87-111. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
“Love in All Its Oddness: The Affections in Women’s Private Poetry of the Eighteenth Century.” In Forging Connections: Women’s Poetry from the Renaissance to Romanticism, edited by Anne K. Mellor, Felicity Nussbaum, and Jonathan F. S. Post, 63-80. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2002.
Contact Information
381 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-3258
margaret.doody.1@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~mdoody