Julie Park
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About Me
A scholar of material and visual culture, book history, and the history of selfhood in eighteenth-century England, Julie Park is the author of My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford University Press, 2010).
Her current book project, Writing's Maker, examines the materiality of self-inscription formats (commonplace books, pocket diaries, extra-illustrated books and penmanship copy books) as intermedial channels of documenting, making, and marking the lives of writers in the long eighteenth century.
She is editor of the Penn State History of the Book Series at Penn State University Press.
To find out more about Julie Park's research, go to her Penn State English Department website page, and her personal website.
Subject Expertise
- Comparative Literature
- English Literature
Publications
Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books, Eighteenth-Century Life, 2024
Mirror, box, print, novel: optical fictions of the eighteenth-century zograscope, Word and Image, 2021
The poetics of enclosure in sense and sensibility, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, 2013
Introduction: The drift of fiction, Eighteenth Century, 2011
Unheimlich maneuvers: Enlightenment dolls and repetitions in freud, Eighteenth Century, 2003
Other Publications
Chapters
"A small house in the country": Cottage dreams and desires in the eighteenth-century english imagination, 2021
Heritage, 2019
The life of Burney's clockwork characters, 2011
Editorials
“All that we see is seen in perspective”: point of view as word and image, Word and Image, 2021
Moving parts: The life of eighteenth-century interiors, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2008
Preface, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2006
Others
Writing with pen and dildo: Libertine techniques of eighteenth-century narrative, JNT-Journal of Narrative Theory, 2020
Detachable pockets and letter folds: Spatial formalism and the portable interiors of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel, 2017
What the eye cannot see: Interior landscapes in Mansfield Park, Eighteenth Century, 2013
Pains and pleasures of the automaton: Frances Burney's mechanics of coming out, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006
I shall enter her heart: Fetishizing feeling in Clarissa, Studies in the Novel, 2005