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English literature, 1660-1800; Defoe; the mythology of crime (1600-present); the rise of the novel (1650-1750); literature, culture, history of the American Southwest; Native American literature; "Salvage" history and ethnography of the Cheyennes.

Literature of travel and exploration, especially early eighteenth-century English and nineteenth-century United States West.

Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1987); articles on Vanbrugh, criminal biography, murder trials, Defoe, imaginary mixed-race colonies, and early Cheyenne historiography.