Books by Elizabeth R. Napier

This book argues that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on moral accountability and self-definition, and addresses Defoe's characters, narration, aesthetic, and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.

Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century.

This study examines the narrative conventions in one of the most popular and controversial of 18th-century English literary genres: the gothic novel.