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Steven Stryer received his D. Phil. from the University of Oxford. His research interests include the intersections among political ideology, historical thought, and literary style in the eighteenth century.
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"The Style of Discontinuity: Prose Patterning and Historical Change in Paul de Rapin de Thoyras and Thomas Salmon." Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 42: 2 (2013): 137-60.
"Burke's Vehemence and the Rhetoric of Historical Exaggeration." Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 30: 2 (2012): 176-98.
"Allegiance, Sympathy, and History: The Catholic Loyalties of Alexander Pope." Religion in the Age of Enlightenment 2 (2010): 103-29.
"'A loftier tone': 'Laodamia,' The Aeneid, and Wordsworth's Vergilian Imagination." Forthcoming in Studies in Philology.
"The Trouble with Nostalgia." Essays in Criticism 58: 3 (2008): 273-80.
"Imagining War." Essays in Criticism 55: 2 (2005): 178-84.Works in Progress
"A Covert Narrative of British History: Pope's An Essay on Man, Epistle III."
A book manuscript based on my doctoral dissertation, "The Past/Present Topos in Eighteenth-Century English Literature: A Pattern of Historical Thought and its Stylistic Implications in Historiography, Poetry, and Polemic" (2007).