Jason Solinger teaches literature and culture of the 18th century at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
- 18th Century Literature
- 18th Century Culture
- Early Novel
- 18th Century Journalism
- Jane Austen
- Masculinity
- History of Criticism
Biography
Jason Solinger specializes in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. His research interests include the early novel, the politics of taste, masculinity studies and the history of criticism. He has published articles on such topics as eighteenth-century journalism, the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism, and the afterlives of Jane Austen. His book, Becoming the Gentleman, part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Global Masculinities series, explains why men and women in the eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. He is currently working on a book about the entangled histories of reading Jane Austen and the discipline of literary studies.
—Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815 (New York: Palgrave, 2012)
—“Thomas Paine’s Continental Mind,” Early American Literature 45 (2010): 593-617
—“Eighteenth-Century Journalism,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Ed. David Scott Kastan, Oxford UP, 2006
“Jane Austen and the Gentrification of Commerce,” NOVEL 38 (2005): 272-90 --“The Politics of Alexander Pope’s Urbanity,” Genre 36.1-2 (2003): 47-79
Courses Taught
- Eng 330 Studies in 18th Century Literature
- Eng 332 18th Century Genres and Forms
- Eng 380 Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
- Eng 431 Special Topics in 18th Century Literature
Education
B.S. Labor Relations, Cornell University-NYS Statutory College (1993)
M.A. English, San Diego State University (1996)
M.A. English, Brown University (1999)
Ph.D. English, Brown University (2004)