SEAN MOORE
Assistant Professor of English,
University of New Hampshire
Office Location: Hamilton Smith 12B
Office Phone: 603-862-3827
Email: sean@unh.edu
Sean Moore (Ph.D. Duke 2003, M.A. Georgetown 1995, B.A. UMass 1991) is Assistant Professor for Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Studies, teaching British Literature, Critical Theory, and Irish Studies. Committed to Postcolonial approaches to the culture of the early modern era, his scholarship explores the connections between the period’s emerging literary critique of imperialism and the “Financial Revolution” – the rise of bourgeois mechanisms for funding England’s Atlantic empire. He has pursued this “New Economic Criticism” in an essay forthcoming in PMLA and in articles in Atlantic Studies (April 2005), The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Summer 2004), Eighteenth Century Ireland (2002), and the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (Spring 2000). Having served as a Congressional Aide and assistant editor of a legal periodical, he is especially interested in how canonical authors often earned their reputations through government patronage, engaging their period’s problems in law, public policy, and political economy. Currently, he is working on a book analyzing the links between problems in sovereignty, public finance, and “spin-doctoring” in early eighteenth century satire. In addition, he is editing Critical Receptions: Jonathan Swift, a reprint of responses to Swift’s Irish publications. A Fulbright Scholar to Ireland as a student and a former Resident Scholar with the UNH Cambridge Summer Program, he has an ongoing international engagement with the cultures of the U.K. and European Union.
Representative Publications:
“Devouring Posterity: A Modest Proposal, Empire, and Ireland's “Debt of the Nation’“ (forthcoming, PMLA).
“’Vested’ Interests and Debt Bondage: Credit as Confessional Coercion in Eighteenth Century Ireland.” The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1700-1800. Eds. Daniel Carey and Christopher Finlay (forthcoming, Irish Academic Press).
“‘Our Irish Copper-Farthen Dean’”: Swift’s Drapier’s Letters, the “Forging” of a Modernist Anglo-Irish Literature, and the Atlantic World of Paper Credit.” Atlantic Studies 2.1 (April 2005).
“The Culture of Paper Credit: the New Economic Criticism and the Postcolonial Eighteenth Century.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. (Summer 2004).
“Satiric Norms, Swift’s Financial Satires, and the Bank of Ireland Controversy of 1720-1721.” Eighteenth Century Ireland 17 (2002).
“‘Anglo-Irish’ Hybridity: Problems in Miscegenation, Representation, and Postcolonialism in Irish Studies.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 7.1 (Spring 2000).
“Taking the Bull by the Horns: the Edgeworths’ Essay on Irish Bulls and the Historicizing of Irish ‘Sly Civility.” New Voices in Irish Criticism 3. Ed. Karen Vandevelde ( Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002).