With a Forbearing Spirit: The Poetics of Religious Toleration in Revolutionary England. (in progress)
A study of religious toleration—a theological and political idea deeply contested in the early modern world and with long-lasting consequences for our own. With a Forbearing Spirit asks what toleration meant and how it felt in the settings and literatures of seventeenth-century England. Drawing on poetry and theater, satire and polemic, biography and philosophy, I argue that the movements of authors and readers between and among confessional positions created and sustained the experience and practice of grudging forbearance, the very center of early modern toleration and the defining feature of its aesthetic.
Articles
"Voyages d'un évêque français à Londres," with Steven N. Zwicker, Revue Bossuet no. 12 (2021): 85–110.
"‘No empty place for complementing Doubt': The Spaces of Religious Toleration in Andrew Marvell's ‘Flecknoe'," Review of English Studies 71, no. 201 (2020): 687–708.
"‘The Phanaticks Tyring-Room': Dryden and the Poetics of Toleration," Studies in Philology 116, no. 3 (2019): 539–66.
Reviews
Review of Bryan White's Music for St Cecilia's Day: From Purcell to Handel in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 53, no. 2 (2021): 250–53.
Review of Eva Griffith's A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (c. 1605-1619) in Shakespeare Newsletter 66, no. 1 (2016): 24–25.
