AUTHORED VOLUMES
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
The Essex House Masque of 1621: Viscount Doncaster and the Jacobean Masque. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, 2000.
Cavaliers, Clubs, and Literary Culture: Sir John Mennes, James Smith and the Order of the Fancy. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994. (Honors: One of Choice’s “Outstanding Academic Books of 1995,” Choice, January, 1996.)
EDITED COLLECTIONS
The Cavendish Circle. Special issue of The Seventeenth Century, 9, 2 (1994). Guest editor.
Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994; paperback edition 2002. Co-editor (with Mark Greengrass and Michael Leslie).
Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992; paperback edition, 1994. Co-editor (with Michael Leslie) and contributor.
EDITED TEXTS
“Musarum Deliciae” (1655) and “Wit Restor’d” (1658). Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1985. (Facsimile editions with introduction, attributions and textual notes.)
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
(with Stephen Clucas), “The Clarendon Edition of De corpore: A Progress Report,” Hobbes Studies, 34.1 (2021), 86-97.
(with Stephen Clucas), “Kenelm Digby’s Two Treatises and the Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion,” Galilaeana: Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science, 17 (2020), 91-116.
“Hobbes and the Hardwick Digests,” Hobbes Studies, 31.1 (2018), 1-24.
“Andrew Marvell: Traveling Tutor,” Marvell Studies, 2.1 (2017). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/ms.7
“A Hardwick Scandal of the Early Seventeenth Century: William Cavendish, Lady Arbella Stuart, and the Case of Margaret Chatterton,” Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 134 (2014), 204-20.
“The Instability of Marvell’s ‘Bermudas,’” Marvell Newsletter, 6 (2014). Web
“Fertility, Mortality, and Anxiety in Waller’s ‘To my Young Lady Lucy Sidney’ and Marvell’s ‘The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers,’” Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 37 (2011), 161-74. (Honors: Albert W. Fields Award (2011) (awarded by South-Central Renaissance Conference for best article published in the year’s Explorations in Renaissance Culture).)
“Marvell’s Musical Dialogues,” Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 36 (2010), 245-62; reprinted in Explorations in Renaissance Culture: Anniversary Issue, 40 (2014), 231-46.
“The Anglican Attack on Hobbes in Paris, 1651,” The Historical Journal, 53 (2010), 153-64.
“A New Poem by Waller? Lady Katherine Howard, the Earl of Northumberland, and an Entertainment on board the Triumph,” English Manuscript Studies, 13 (2007), 212-31.
“The Early Poetic Career of Edmund Waller,” Huntington Library Quarterly, 69 (2006), 239-65.
“Waller’s Machiavellian Cromwell: the Imperial Argument of A Panegyrick to my Lord Protector,” Review of English Studies, new series, 56 (2005), 386-411.
“The Date and Script of Hobbes’s Latin Optical Manuscript” (with a reply by Noel Malcolm), Scribes and Transmission: English Manuscript Studies, 12 (2005), 201-9.
“Reading Machiavelli; Writing Cromwell: Edmund Waller’s copy of The Prince and his draft verses towards A Panegyrick on my Lord Protector,” Turnbull Library Record, 35 (2002), 9-32.
“Hobbes, Payne, and A Short Tract on First Principles,” The Historical Journal, 44 (2001), 29-58.
“Moseley, Walkley, and the 1645 Editions of Waller,” The Library, 7th series, 2 (2001), 236-65.
“Thomas Hobbes and ‘The Mathematical Demonstration of the Sword,’” The Seventeenth Century, 15 (2000), 175-98; reprinted in The Seventeenth Century, 30th Anniversary Virtual Edition (2016).
“‘Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue’: William Cavendish, Ben Jonson, and the Decorative Scheme of Bolsover Castle,” Renaissance Quarterly, 52 (1999), 402-39.
“The Design and Authorship of The Essex House Masque (1621),” Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, 10 (1998), 218-37.
“The ‘Lost’ Essex House Masque (1621): A Manuscript Text Discovered,” English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, 7 (1998), 86-130.
“The 1653 Copy of Denham’s Coopers Hill,” Yale University Library Gazette, 71 (1997), 130-39.
“English Responses to the Death of Moritz the Learned: John Dury, Sir Thomas Roe, and an Unnoticed Epicede by William Cartwright,” English Literary Renaissance, 25 (1995), 235-47 (with a text and translation by J.W. Binns).
“A Manuscript Poem on the Royal Progress of 1634: An Edition and Translation of John Westwood’s ‘Carmen Basileuporion,’” The Seventeenth Century, 9 (1994), 173-95 (with Jackson Bryce).
“New Light on Milton and Hartlib,” Milton Quarterly, 27 (1993), 19-31.
“Providence and Technology in the English Civil War: Edmond Felton and his Engine,” Renaissance Studies, 7 (1993), 398-413.
“Opera and Obedience: Thomas Hobbes and A Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie by Sir William Davenant,” The Seventeenth Century, 6 (1991), 205-50 (with James R. Jacob).
“A New Marvell Manuscript: Cromwellian Patronage and Politics,” English Literary Renaissance, 20 (1990), 106-62 (with Margarita Stocker).
COMMISSIONED ARTICLES; ARTICLES IN ESSAY COLLECTIONS
“Marvell and Waller,” The Oxford Handbook of Marvell, ed. Martin Dzelzainis and Edward Holberton. Oxford University Press, 2018. pp. 635-51.
“Waller, Tasso, and Marvell’s Last Instructions to a Painter,” in Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell, ed. Mathew Augustine and Christopher D’Addario. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. pp. 189-205.
“William Cavendish, Galileo, Hobbes and the Mechanical Philosophy,” in Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth Century England: William Cavendish, First Duke of Newcastle and his Political, Social and Cultural Connections, ed. Peter Edwards and Elspeth Graham. Rulers & Elites: Comparative Studies in Governance, 9. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. pp. 173-95.
“The Hunting of the Stag: Denham, Davenant, and a Royalist Dispute over Poetry,” in Sir John Denham, 1614/15-1669, Reassessed: The State’s Poet, ed. Philip Major. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. pp. 143-60.
“Hobbes on the Nature and Scope of Poetry,” The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes, ed. A. P. Martinich and Kinch Hoekstra. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. pp. 603-23.
“Hobbes, Davenant, and Disciplinary Tensions in The Preface to Gondibert,” in Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Early Modern Period: Essays in Honour of Richard Maber, ed. Paul Scott. Durham Modern Languages Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. pp. 59-72.
“Exiles, Expatriates, and Travellers: Towards a Cultural and Intellectual History of the English Abroad, 1640-1660,” in Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690, ed. Philip Major. Transculturalisms, 1400-1700. Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. pp. 15-43.
“Milton, Hartlib, and the Education of the Aristocracy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Milton, ed. Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. pp. 382-406.
“William Cavendish as a Patron of Philosophers and Scientists,” in Royalist Refugees: William and Margaret Cavendish in the Rubens House, 1648-1660, ed. Ben van Beneden and Nora de Poorter. Antwerp: Rubenshuis & Rubenianum, 2006. pp. 78-82.
“‘Faire England’s Joy is Fled’?: Visual and Performance Arts in the 1650s,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online, Update, May 2006.
“James Smith (1605-1667),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. C. G. Mathew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Vol. 51, pp. 182-3.
“Newcastle’s Ghosts: Robert Payne, Ben Jonson, and ‘The Cavendish Circle,’” in Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2000. pp. 92-114.
“Samuel Hartlib and the Commonwealth of Bees,” in Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land, ed. Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992; paperback edition, 1994. pp. 91-129.
