Books

• The Far East and the English Imagination 1600-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
• Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Ed. Robert Markley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
• Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Book Contributions

• "The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Pacific." The Cambridge History of the English Novel. Ed. Robert Caesario and Clement Hawes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• "Climate Studies." The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. New York: Routledge, 2011. 63-76.
• "Anson at Canton, 1743: Obligation, Exchange, and Ritual in Edward Page’s ‘Secret History." The Gift in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Cynthia Klekar and Linda Ziokowski. New York: Palgrave, 2009. 215-33.
• "Summer’s Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age." Early Modern Ecostudies: From Shakespeare to the Florentine Codex. Ed. Karen Raber, Tom Hallock, and Ivo Kamps. New York: Palgrave, 2008. 131-42.
• "'I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it': Crusoe's Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of the Novel." The Blackwell Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 25-47.
• "Behn and the Unstable Traditions of Social Comedy." The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Ed. Derek Hughes and Janet Todd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 98-117.
• "'Gulfes, deserts, precipices, stone': Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House' and the Contradictions of 'Nature'." The Cultural Life of the Country and City: Identities and Spaces in Britain, 1550-1860. Ed. Donna Landry , Gerald MacLean, and Joseph Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 89-105.

Journal Articles

• "‘A Putridness in the Air’: Monsoons and Mortality in Seventeenth-Century Bombay." Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 10 (2010): 105-26.
• "Aesthetico-Constructivism: Farther Adventures in Criticism." Philological Quarterly 86 (2007): 291-314.
• "Monsoon Cultures: Climate and Acculturation in Alexander Hamilton's A New Account of the East-Indies." New Literary History 38 (2007): 527-50.
• "Aphra Behn’s The City Heiress: Feminism and the Dynamics of Popular Success on the Late Seventeenth-Century Stage." Comparative Drama 41 (2007): 141-66.
• "'Casualties and Disasters': Defoe and the Interpretation of Climactic Instability." Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 8 (2008): 102-24.
• "Gulliver and the Japanese: The Limits of the Postcolonial Past." Modern Language Quarterly. 65 (2004): 457-479.
• "New Media and the Natural World: The Dialectics of Desire." Bucknell Review 46.2 (2003): 33-57.
• "'Land enough in the World': Locke's Golden Age and the Infinite Extensions of 'Use'." South Atlantic Quarterly 98 (1999): 817-37.
• "Foucault, Modernity, and the Cultural Study of Science." Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 7 (1999): 153-175.
• "Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History." Camera Obscura 40-41 (1997): 77-103.
• "Falling into Theory: Simulation, Terraformation, and Eco-economics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian Trilogy." Modern Fiction Studies 43 (1997): 773-799.
• "Boundaries: Mathematics, Alienation, and the Metaphysics of Cyberspace." Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 3 (1994): 485-507.