Additional Campus Affiliations
Head, English
W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor, English
Professor, English
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Highlighted Publications
Markley, R. (2006). The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600–1730. Cambridge University Press.
Markley, R. (2005). Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822387275
Markley, R. (1994). Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501744624
Markley, R. (1988). Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. Clarendon Press.
Markley, R. (2019). Kim Stanley Robinson. (Modern Masters of Science Fiction). University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvscxrzw
Recent Publications
Markley, R. (2022). The Novel and the Environment: Nature, Cultivation, and Alien Ecologies. In Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century (pp. 123-138). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650440-007
Markley, R. (2021). Defoe and the Problem of the East India Company. In S. Clark, & Y. Yoshihara (Eds.), Robinson Crusoe in Asia (pp. 23-46). (Palgrave Asia-Pacific and Literature in English). Palgrave.
Markley, R. (2021). 'Where the climate is unkind, and the ground penurious': Johnson and the Alien Ecologies of the Highlands. Philological Quarterly, 100(3-4), 493-513.
Markley, R. (2020). 'That full complement of riches': China and the Problems of Political Economy in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. In W. Christie, A. Dunstan, & Q. S. Tong (Eds.), Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity, 1784-1935 (pp. 23-52). Sydney University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pntkh.5
Markley, R. (Ed.) (2019). Ecological Footprints: Crusoe's Island and Other Alien Environments. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 32(1), 1-244.