Professor Aileen Douglas

• Aileen Douglas, Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, 1 - 256ppBook, 2017
• Time and the Child: The Case of Maria Edgeworth's 'Early Lessons' in, editor(s)Keith O'Sullivan and Pádraic Whyte , Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research, London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp91 - 106, [Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2017
• The Province of Poetry: Women Poets in early eighteenth-century Ireland in, editor(s)Moyra Haslett , Irish Literature in Transition 1700-1780, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp227 - 243, [Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2020
• 'Emeline', April London, Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, [Aileen Douglas]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2018
• The Triumph of Prudence over Passion, April London, Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, [Aileen Douglas]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2018
• Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Ian Campbell Ross, Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, 1-Book, 1998
• Maria Edgeworth: Conversations in the 'New World' of Children in, editor(s)Fiorenzo Fantaccini and Raffaella Leproni , 'Still Blundering into Sense': Maria Edgeworth, her Context, her Legacy., Florence, Firenze University Press, 2019, pp205 - 222, [Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2019
• Aileen Douglas, Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld: Print, Canons, and Female Literary Authority, European Romantic Review, 31, (6), 2020, p699 - 713Journal Article, 2020
• Aileen Douglas, Borders: Reading Gulliver's Travels in 2020, Journal of Irish Studies, 35, 2021, p3 - 14Journal Article, 2021
• 'Gender and Sexuality: From the contuses to the English Governess in, editor(s)Anne E. Duggan , A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century, Lonon, Bloomsbury, 2021, pp61 - 82, [Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2021
• Aileen Douglas, Uneasy Sensations: Smollett and the Body, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1995, 1 - 200ppBook, 1995
• 'The Eighteenth Century Novel' in, editor(s)John Wilson Foster , The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp21 - 38, [Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2006
• Aileen Douglas, Maria Edgeworth's Writing Classes, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 14, (3-4), 2002, p371 - 390Journal Article, 2002
• 'Rule Britannia and the It-Narrator' in, editor(s)Mark Blackwell , The Secret Life of Things, Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University Press, 2007, pp147 - 161, [Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2007
• Aileen Douglas, 'Making their Mark: : Eighteenth-Century Writing-Masters and their Copy-Books'., British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 24, (2), 2001, p145 - 159Journal Article, 2001
• '"In a glass, darkly": Swift, Gulliver and the Human Shape.' in, editor(s)Daniel Carey et François Boulaire , Les Voyages de Gulliver: Mondes Lointains ou Mondes Proches, Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2002, pp125 - 138, [Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2002
• Aileen Douglas, 'Austen's Enclave: Virtue and Modernity', Romanticism, 5, (2), 1999, p147 - 160Journal Article, 1999
• 'Singularity and the Syllabus: The Teaching of Swift in Trinity College, Dublin' in, editor(s)Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Ian Campbell Ross , Locating Swift: Papers from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp167 - 179, [Aileen Douglas, Ian Ross]Book Chapter, 1998
• 'Introduction: Locating Swift in, editor(s)Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Ian Campbell Ross , Locating Swift: Papers from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp9 - 27, [Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Ian Ross]Book Chapter, 1998
• Aileen Douglas, 'Mrs. Dingley's Spectacles: Swift, Print and Desire.', Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 10, 1995, p69 - 77Journal Article, 1995
• Aileen Douglas, 'Science and the Eighteenth-Century English Woman.' , Eighteenth-Century Life, 18, 1994, p1 - 14Journal Article, 1994
• Aileen Douglas, 'Rule Britannia and the It-Narrator.', Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 6, 1993, p65 - 82Journal Article, 1993
• Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, & Anne Markey (eds), Sarah Butler, Irish Tales, Early Irish Fiction, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, 121ppBook, 2010
• Dublin in the fiction of the later eighteenth century in, editor(s)Gilllian O'Brien and Finola O'Kane , Georgian Dublin, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2008, pp135 - 144, [Aileen Douglas]Book Chapter, 2008
• Early Irish Fiction, Four Courts Press, [General editor]Editorial Board
• Aileen Douglas and Ian Campbell Ross (eds), Elizabeth Sheridan, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2011, 200ppBook, 2011
• Irish University Review, 41, 1, (2011), Aileen Douglas, Moyra Haslett and Ian Campbell Ross, Guest Editors, [eds.]Journal, 2011
• Aileen Douglas, Moyra Haslett and Ian Campbell Ross, Introduction: Irish Fiction 1660-1830, Irish University Review, 41, (1), 2011, pxv - xviiJournal Article, 2011
• Aileen Douglas, 'Whom gentler stars unite': Fiction and Union in the Irish Novel, Irish University Review, 41, (1), 2011, p183 - 195Journal Article, 2011
• "Elizabeth Sheridan", Literary Encyclopedia, First published 16 July, 2013, [Aileen Douglas]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013, URL
• "The Triumph of Prudence over Passion", Literary Encyclopedia, First published 16 July, 2013, [Aileen Douglas]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013, URL
• Aileen Douglas, '"Tobias Smollett"', Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature, New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, -Bibliography, filmography, etc., 2013
• Aileen Douglas, Women, Enlightenment and the Literary Fairy Tale in English, Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, 38, (2), 2015, p181-94Journal Article, 2015, URL

• Aileen Douglas, The Author's Hand, Manuscript and Print, Sheffield, May 2012, 2012Oral Presentation
• Aileen Douglas, Edgeworth as Global Writer, Global Nations? Irish and Scottish Expansion since the 16th Century, University of Aberdeen, October, 2009Invited Talk
• Aileen Douglas, Being Graphic: An account of Eighteenth-Century Script in Print, 20th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Trinity College Dublin, June , 2012Oral Presentation
• Aileen Douglas, Review of Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence, by Conrad Brunstom , Eighteenth-Century Studies, 45, (3), 2012, p453-54Review
• Aileen Douglas, Review of A Revolution almost beyond Expression: Jane Austen's 'Persuasion', by Joclyn Harris , Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2011Review
• Aileen Douglas, Review of Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845, by Jill Marie Bradbury and David A. Valone (eds) , Scriblerian, 2008Review
• Aileen Douglas, Review of Tobias Smollett: Scotland's First Novelist, by OM Brack, ed. , Review of English Studies, 58, 2007, p581-3Review
• Aileen Douglas, Review of Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland, by Tom Keymer and Peter Sabor , Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 21, 2006, p156-8Review
• Aileen Douglas, Review of Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, by April London , Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 13, (1), 2000Review
• Aileen Douglas, Teaching and Learning in Maria Edgeworth's Works for Children, Edgeworth Teaching: Teaching Edgeworth, Fordham University, New York, 18 September, 2018Invited Talk
• Aileen Douglas, Plenary: Self, Other, and Corporeal Limits in the Writings of Jonathan Swift, IASIL Japan 36th International Conference, Kobe, 12 October , 2019Invited Talk
• Aileen Douglas, Jonathan Swift and Women, Doshisha University, Kyoto, 14 October , 2019Invited Talk
• Aileen Douglas, Review of Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print, by Hilary Havens , Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 34, (2), 2022, p250-2Review

Aileen Douglas has a number of interrelated research interests. Most recently her concern with issues of materiality, embodiment, and representation has focused on eighteenth-century print culture. Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840 (OUP 2017) argues that between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries manual writing was a dynamic technology. It examines script in relation to becoming a writer; in constructions of the author; and in emerging ideas of the human. Research for the book involved consideration of eighteenth-century writing masters, and of pedagogy in the Irish Charter Schools and in the monitorial system devised by Andrew Bell in India. Literary figures discussed include Samuel Johnson, William Blake, and Isaac D'Israeli. Conceptually, this research is connected to earlier work on it-narrators, and on the body in eighteenth-century writing, especially in the fiction of the Scottish novelist Tobias Smollett. She has a general interest in disciplinary and canon formation, particularly in relation to Irish writing, and has published a range of articles and book chapters on Jonathan Swift and Maria Edgeworth. She contributed a chapter on 'The Novel before 1800' to the 'Cambridge Companion to the Irish novel' (2006) and her exploration of Irish fiction in the long eighteenth century continues in her work for the 'Early Irish Fiction Series' (Four Courts Press, ongoing). In this regard, she has become very interested in making available and popularizing the work of Elizabeth Sheridan, whose novel The Triumph of Prudence over Passion she has co-edited. At the moment she is working on an edition of Sheridan's Emeline (1782). Her developing research project brings together print culture and a long-standing concern with gender. It is especially interested in how writing for, or about, children enabled eighteenth and early-nineteenth century women to become published authors. A forthcoming book chapter on the poet Mary Barber for 'Irish Literature in Transition (Cambridge, 2018) deals with these issues, as does a forthcoming book chapter on Maria Edgeworth's representation of the child's awareness of time (Palgrave, 2017).

• Title

  Early Irish Fiction, 1680-1820
  Summary

  A series of critical editions of early Irish prose fiction. To date, seven volumes have appeared.
  Funding Agency

  IRCHSS
  Date From

  2008
  Date To

  2010

Languages and literature,

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women's Caucus Prize for Editing and Translation 2015
• FTCD 2000
• William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowship, UCLA, Los Angeles (1996)

• General Editor, 'Early Irish Fiction, 1690-1820' (2008-Present)
• Board Member, Ulster-Scots Agency 2007-9
• Committee Member Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society 1998-2014
• Co-organizer Swift350 Academic Conference, TCD 7-9 June 2017
• Editorial Board University of Georgia Press Edition of the Works of Tobias Smollet