Books

• Markley, Robert . The Far East and the English Imagination 1600-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Markley, Robert . Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
• Edition: John Dryden, Amphitryon. Coedited with Jeannie Dalporto. In The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. Ed. J. Douglas Canfield. . Ed. Robert Markley. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001.
• Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Ed. Robert Markley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• Markley, Robert . Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
• Markley, Robert . Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
• From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama. Ed. Robert Markley. Cleveland: Bellflower Press, Case Western Reserve University, 1984.
• Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism. Ed. Robert Markley. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.

Book Contributions

• ""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.
• ""Summer's Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age."." Early Modern Ecostudies: From Shakespeare to the Florentine Codex. Ed. Tom Hallock, Ivo Kamps, and Karen Raber. New York: Palgrave, 2008. 131-142.
• "“The Nightmare of Evolution: H. G. Wells, Percival Lowell, and the Legacies of Frankenstein’s Science.”." Frankenstein’s Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830. Ed. Jane Goodall and Christa Knellwolf. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 183-99.
• ""Geek/Goth: Filmic Nostalgia in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood."." Goth: Undead Subculture. Ed. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 277-92.
• "“Global Analogies: Cosmology, Geosymmetry and Skepticism in Some Works of Aphra Behn.”." Science, Literature, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England. Ed. David Burchell . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 189-212.
• ""Resisting Richardson: Student Skepticism and Teaching Strategies for Pamela." ." Approaches to Teaching Samuel Richardson. Ed. Jocelyn Harris and Lisa Zunshine. New York: MLA, 2006. 82-88.
• ""Teaching the Crusoe Trilogy."." Approaches to Teaching Robinson Crusoe. Ed. Carl Fisher and Max Novak. New York: MLA, 2005. 96-104.
• ""Harriett Hawkins and the Criticism of the 1970s: Interpretation, Theory, and Iconoclasm."." Style: Essays on Renaissance and Restoration Literature and Culture in Memory of Harriett Hawkins. Ed. Allen Michie . Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 45-54.
• ""'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.
• Burgess, Helen, and Jeanne Hamming. ""The Dialogics of New Media: Video, Visualization, and Narrative in Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars."." Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Ed. Michelle Kendrick. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. 61-85.
• ""'Still on the Criminal's Side, against the Innocent': Libertines and Legacies in the Plays of Etherege and Wycherley." ." Blackwell Companion to Restoration Drama. Ed. Sue Owen. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 326-39.
• ""Literature, Science, and Technology.." Encyclopedia of American Studies. Ed. Johnella Butler, George Kurian, Jay Mechling, and Miles Orvell. Danbury: Grolier, 2001.
• ""Civility, Ceremony, and Desire at Beijing: Sensibility and the European Quest for 'Free Trade' with China in the Late Seventeenth Century." ." Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility. Ed. Anne Mellor and Maximilian Novak. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000. 60-88.
• ""The Canon and Its Critics."." The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Ed. Deborah Payne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 226-42.
• ""After the Science Wars: From Old Battles to New Directions in the Cultural Study of Science."." After the Disciplines: The Emergence of Cultural Studies. Ed. Michael Peters. London: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. 47-70.
• ""The destin'd Walls/ Of Cambalu: Milton, China, and the Ambiguities of the Far East."." Milton and the Imperial Vision. Ed. Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer. Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 1999. 191-213.
• ""Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History."." Newton and Religion. Ed. James E. Force and Richard Popkin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1999. 121-43.
• ""'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.
• ""Introduction: History, Theory, Virtual Reality." [Revised version of Introduction to 1994 special issue of Configurations.] In Virtual Realities and Their Discontents." Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Ed. Robert Markley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 1-10. *Reprinted as “History, Theory, Virtual Reality” in Reading Digital Culture. Ed. David Trend. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, 297-304..
• ""'Be impudent, be saucy, forward, bold, touzing and leud': The Politics of Masculine Sexuality and Feminine Desire in Behn's Tory Comedies." ." Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theatre. Ed. J. D. Canfield . Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. 114-140.
• ""British Theory and Criticism: Early Eighteenth Century."." Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. 105-108.
• Rothenberg, Molly. ""The Contestations of Nature: Aphra Behn's 'The Golden Age' and the Sexualizing of Politics."." Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism.. Ed. Heidi Hutner. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993. 301-21.
• ""Robert Boyle, Peter Shaw, and the Reinscription of Technology: Inventing and Reinventing the Air Pump."." Literature and Technology. Ed. Mark Greenberg and Lance Schachterle. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1992. 125-53.
• ""Representing Order: Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Theology in the Newtonian Revolution."." Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. Ed. N K. Hayles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 125-48.
• ""History, Criticism, and Literature."." Critical Texts: Literary Theory from the Greeks through the Present. Ed. Con Davis and Laurie Finkie. New York: Longmans, 1989. 877-94. [One of four guide essays in an anthology of the history of criticism.].
• ""Sentimentality as Polemic: Shaftesbury, Sterne, and The Theatrics of Virtue."." The New Eighteenth Century: Theory * Politics * English Literature. Ed. Laura Brown and Felicity Nussbaum. London and New York: Methuen, 1987. 210-230. * Reprinted in Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne. Ed. Melvyn New. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1998, 270-91..
• ""Style as Philosophical Structure: The Contexts of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks." ." The Philosopher as Writer: The Eighteenth Century. Ed. Robert Ginsberg. London: Associated University Press, 1987. 140-54.
• ""Seventeenth-Century Drama: History, Change, and Interpretation." Coauthored with Laurie Finke.." From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama. Ed. Laurie Finkie and Robert Markley. Cleveland: Bellflower Press, Case Western Reserve University, 1984. 1-14.
• ""'Shakespeare to Thee was Dull': The Phenomenon of Fletcher's Influence." ." From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama. Ed. Laurie Finkie and Robert Markley. Cleveland: Bellflower Press, Case Western Reserve University, 1984. 89-125.
• ""Writing without Authority and the Reading of Kierkegaard." Coauthored with Ronald Schleifer.." Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism. Ed. Robert Markley and Ronald Schleifer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. 3-22.
• ""Drama Character, and Irony: Kierkegaard and Wycherley's The Plain Dealer."." Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism. Ed. Robert Markley and Ronald Schleifer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. 138-163.

Journal Articles

• ""Aesthetico-Constructivism: Farther Adventures in Criticism." ." Philological Quarterly forthcoming (2009):
• ""'Casualties and Disasters': Defoe and the Interpretation of Climactic Instability."." Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 8 (2008): 102-24.
• "“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.
• "“Monsoon Cultures: Climate and Acculturation in Alexander Hamilton's A New Account of the East-Indies.”." New Literary History 38 (2007): 527-50.
• "“Transgression and Irrelevance: A Reply to Geoffrey Harpham.” ." American Literary History 18 (2006): 262-66.
• ""Gulliver and the Japanese: The Limits of the Postcolonial Past."." Modern Language Quarterly. 65 (2004): 457-479. * Reprinted as "Those People Far Surpass Us: Gulliver, The Japanese, and the Dutch." Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900. Ed. Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer. New York: Palgrave, 2004, 53-71.
• ""New Media and the Natural World: The Dialectics of Desire."." Bucknell Review 46.2 (2003): 33-57.
• ""Riches, Power, Trade, and Religion: The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1720."." Renaissance Studies 17 (2003): 433-55. * Reprinted in Asian Travel in the Renaissance. Ed. Daniel Carey. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 169-191..
• ""The Ten-Minute Introduction: A Short History of GEMCS."." Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 1 (2001): v-x.
• ""Nothing was Moribund, Nothing was Dark: Time and Its Narratives in the Early Modern Period."." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 41 (2000): 179-84.
• ""Foucault, Modernity, and the Cultural Study of Science." ." Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 7 (1999): 153-175.
• ""'Land enough in the World': Locke's Golden Age and the Infinite Extensions of 'Use'." ." South Atlantic Quarterly 98 (1999): 817-37.
• ""Violence and Profits on the Restoration Stage: Trade, Nationalism, and Insecurity in Dryden's Amboyna." ." Eighteenth-Century Life 22 (1998): 2-17.
• ""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. * Reprinted Mapping the Unimagineable: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Critics. Ed. William Burling. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2008, forthcoming..
• ""Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century." ." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 37 (1997): 637-72.
• ""Exterminate the Brutes: Cultural Studies and the Public Sphere." ." Electronic Book Review 2 (1996): http://www.altx.com.ebr.
• ""'Credit Exhausted': Satire and Scarcity in the 1690s."." Tennessee Studies in Literature 37 (1995): 110-126.
• ""Boundaries: Mathematics, Alienation, and the Metaphysics of Cyberspace."." Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 3 (1994): 485-507. *Reprinted in Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Ed. Robert Markley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 55-77. Translated into Swedish and reprinted in Montage (1998)..
• ""Introduction. Shreds and Patches: The Morphogenesis of Cyberspace." ." Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 3 (1994): 433-39.
• ""Robert Boyle In and Out of His Time."." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 35 (1994): 280-286.
• ""'So Inexhaustible a Treasure of Gold': Defoe, Credit, and the Romance of the South Seas."." Eighteenth-Century Life 18 (1994): 148-167.
• ""The Irrelevance of Reality: Science, Ideology, and the Postmodern Universe."." Genre 25 (1992): 249-76.
• ""Complex Dynamics: Literature, Science, and Postdisciplinarity."." Poetics Today 12 (1991): 337-46.
• ""What Now? An Introduction to Interphysics."." New Orleans Review 18 (1991): 5-8.
• ""The Rise of Nothing: Revisionist Historiography and the Narrative Structure of Eighteenth-Century Studies." ." Genre 23 (1990): 77-101.
• ""Isaac Newton's Theological Writings: Problems and Prospects."." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700 13 (1989): 35-48. *Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 35. Ed. Cary Barterian and Jelena Krstovic. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998..
• ""What Isn't History: The Snares of Demystifying Ideological Criticism."." Critical Inquiry 15 (1989): 647-57.
• ""Beyond Consensus: The Rape of the Lock and the Fate of Reading Eighteenth-Century Literature."." New Orleans Review 15.4 (1988): 68-77. *Reprinted in Critical Essays on Alexander Pope. Ed. Wallace Jackson and R. Paul Yoder. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1993, 69-83..
• ""Stop the Presses: A Modest Proposal for Sa(l)vaging Literary Scholarship." ." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 29 (1988): 71-9.
• "Robert Boyle on Language: Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures."." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 14 (1985): 159-171.
• ""Language, Power, and Sexuality in Cleland's Fanny Hill."." Philological Quarterly 63 (1984): 343-56.
• ""Tristram Shandy and 'Narrative Middles': J. Hillis Miller and the Style of Deconstructive Criticism." ." Genre 17 (1984): 179-90. *Reprinted in Rhetoric and Form: Deconstruction at Yale. Ed. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985, 179-90. .
• ""Introduction: History, Ideology, and the Study of Restoration Drama." ." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 24 (1983): 91-102.
• ""Objectivity as Ideology: Boyle, Newton, and the Languages of Science."." Genre 16 (1983): 355-72.

Websites

• Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars. 6 Jun. 2001. University of Pennsylvania.

Encyclopedia Entries

• ""Alexander Pope"." Literature and Science: An Encyclopedic Companion. Ed. Pamela Gossinth ed. New York: Garland, 2002.
• ""Ecomachia"." Literature and Science: An Encyclopedic Companion. Ed. Pamela Gossinth ed. New York: Garland, 2002.
• ""Information Superhighway"." Literature and Science: An Encyclopedic Companion. Ed. Pamela Gossinth ed. New York: Garland, 2002.
• ""Natural Philosophy"." Literature and Science: An Encyclopedic Companion. Ed. Pamela Gossinth ed. New York: Garland, 2002.
• ""Newtonianism" ." Literature and Science: An Encyclopedic Companion. Ed. Pamela Gossinth ed. New York: Garland, 2002.
• ""Objectivity"." Literature and Science: An Encyclopedic Companion. Ed. Pamela Gossinth ed. New York: Garland, 2002.