The University of Iowa Department of English

Lori Branch

Selected Publications

bookcoverScholarly Monograph

Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth. Baylor University Press, 2006. ( read Introduction )

Articles—Refereed

Forthcoming: “‘As blood is forced out of flesh': Spontaneity and the Wounds of Exchange in Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress ,” in ELH ( English Literary History ) 2007

Forthcoming: “Bishop Butler,” in The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology . Edited by David Jasper, Elizabeth Jay and Andrew Hass. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.   6,500-7,500 words.

“The Rejection of Liturgy, the Rise of Free Prayer, and Modern Religious Subjectivity.” Restoration 29 (2005): 1-28.

“The Desert in the Desert: Faith and the Aporias of Law and Knowledge in Derrida and The Sayings of the Desert Fathers .” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 71 (2003): 811-33.

“Plain Style, or the High Fashion of Empire: Colonialism, Resistance and Assimilation in Adam Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres .”   Studies in Scottish Literature 33 (2002 [2004]): 435-53.

“The Benefit of Doubt: The Ethics of Rereading.” In Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility .   Eds. Dominic Rainsford and Tim Woods.   London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1999.   187-202.

 

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