Associate Professor Lisa O'Connell
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Communication and Arts
Books
O'Connell, Lisa (2019). The origins of the English marriage plot : literature, politics and religion in the eighteenth century. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108757706
Cryle, Peter and O'Connell, Lisa (2003). Libertine enlightenment: sex liberty and licence in the eighteenth century. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230522817
Book Chapters
O’Connell, Lisa (2021). Sensible distances: the colonial projections of Therese Huber and E. G. Wakefield. Matters of engagement: emotions, identity, and cultural contact in the premodern world. (pp. 216-230) edited by Daniela Hacke, Claudia Jarzebowski and Hannes Ziegler. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429488689-14
O'Connell, Lisa (2017). Nationalism. Samuel Richardson in context. (pp. 319-326) edited by Peter Sabor and Betty A. Schellenberg. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316576755.039
O'Connell, Lisa (2014). The libertine, the rake, and the dandy: personae, styles, and affects. The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature. (pp. 218-238) edited by E. L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CHO9781139547376.015
O'Connell, Lisa (2008). Settler colonialism, utility, romance: E. G. Wakefield’s letter from Sydney. Burden or benefit? The legacies of benevolence. (pp. 49-60) edited by H. Gilbert and C. Tiffin. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
O'Connell, Lisa M. (2006). Gretna Green Novels. Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. (pp. 477-481) edited by David Scott Kastan. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
O'Connell, Lisa M. (2004). Gender, Sexuality and the Family: Women's Writing, Language and Readership in The Lady's Magazine, 1770-1832. Defining gender, 1450-1910 : five centuries of advice literature online. (pp. Online-Online) edited by Sara Mendelson, Claire Walsh, Jeremy Black and Erika Rappaport. Online: Adam Matthew Publications.
O'Connell, Lisa (2004). Authorship and libertine celebrity: Harriette Wilson’s regency memoirs. Libertine enlightenment: Sex, liberty and licence in the eighteenth century. (pp. 161-181) edited by P. Cryle. London: Palgrave. doi: 10.1057/9780230522817
Cryle, P. M. and O'Connell, L. M. (2003). Sex, liberty and licence in the eighteenth century. Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century. (pp. 1-14) edited by Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell. Basingstoke, England ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230522817
O'Connell, Lisa (2003). Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed: Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism. Exoticism and the Culture of Exploration. (pp. 98-116) edited by Robert Maccubbin and Christa Knellwolf. Durham: Duke University Press.
O'Connell, L. M. (2002). Scotland 1800: A Tourist's Matrimonial Guide. In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. (pp. 21-44) edited by H Gilbert and A Johnston. New York: Peter Lang.
Journal Articles
Denney, Peter and O'Connell, Lisa (2021). Spaces of enlightenment: from domestic scenes to global visions. Eighteenth-Century Life, 45 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1215/00982601-9272978
O'Connell, Lisa and Wawrzinek, Jennifer (2020). Catalysts of change: colonial transformations of Anglo-European literary culture in the long eighteenth century. Postcolonial Studies, 23 (3), 257-267. doi: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1809068
O'Connell, Lisa (2020). Before Frankenstein: Therese Huber and the antipodean emergence of political fiction. Postcolonial Studies, 23 (3), 348-359. doi: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1802113
During, Simon and O’Connell, Lisa (2018). Mansfield Park and political theology. Political Theology, 19 (7), 1-6. doi: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1513201
O'Connell, Lisa (2017). 'Mum budget': Henry Fielding and the articulations of audibility. Republics of Letters, 5 (2)
During, Simon and O'Connell, Lisa (2017). Coleridge and the lay sermon. English Studies, 98 (7), 747-757. doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2017.1339992
O'Connell, Lisa (2017). Literary sentimentalism and post-secular virtue. Eighteenth-Century Life, 41 (2), 28-42. doi: 10.1215/00982601-3841348
O'Connell, Lisa (2012). Sir Charles Grandison, natural law and the fictionalisation of the 18th-Century English gentleman. Intellectual History Review, 23 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/17496977.2012.723339
O'Connell, Lisa (2011). Vicars and squires: religion and the rise of the English marriage plot. The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, 52 (3-4), 383-402. doi: 10.1353/ecy.2011.0022
O'Connell, Lisa (2011). 'By ordinance of nature': Marriage, religion, and the modern English state. Parergon, 28 (2), 149-166. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2011.0101
O'Connell, Lisa (2010). The Theo-political origins of the English marriage plot. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 43 (1), 31-37. doi: 10.1215/00295132-2009-059
O'Connell, L (2009). Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 22 (2), 379-381. doi: 10.1353/ecf.0.0120
O'Connell, Lisa M. (2006). The Character effect. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 39 (3), 443-446.
O'Connell, Lisa M. (2005). Incest, sexuality, and modernity: Incest and the English novel. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 8 (2/3), 298-301.
O'Connell, Lisa (2002). "Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed": Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism. Eighteenth-Century Life, 26 (3), 98-116. doi: 10.1215/00982601-26-3-98
O'Connell, L. M. (2001). Dislocating Literature: The Novel and the Gretna Green Romance, 1770-1850. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 35 (1), 5-23. doi: 10.2307/1346041
O'Connell, L. M. (2001). Review Essay on Andrew Elfenbein's Romantic Genius. AUMLA, 95 (May), 118-119.
O'Connell, Lisa Marie (1999). Marriage Acts: Stages in the Transformation of Modern Nuptial Culture. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 11 (1), 68-111.
Conference Paper
O'Connell, Lisa (2010). Ethnographical humanism and the English marriage plot. Thinking the Human in the Era of Enlightenment, Canberra, Australia, 7-9 July 2010. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University.