Book: Enlightenment and Political Fiction: The Everyday Intellectual (New York/London: Routledge, 2016; paperback in 2018).
Book: Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge (London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press, 1993).
Review: “From Homer to the Urban Poor,” Barbara Ann Naddeo, Vico and Naples: The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory (Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 2012), AND David L. Marshall, Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5705 (August 3, 2012) 24.
Review: “Defenders of the Truth,” Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5205 (January 3, 2003) 29.
Review: Naples in the Eighteenth Century: The Birth and Death of a Nation State, Girolamo Imbruglia, ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), in the Canadian Journal of History, 37, No. 2 (August 2002) 345-347.
Review: “Ancient and Modern,” Giuseppe Mazzotta, The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5045 (December 10, 1999) 30.
Article: “Interpretations and Misinterpretations of Vico,” in a special issue of Historical Reflections, 22, No. 3 (1996) 619-639.
Review: Leon Pompa, Vico: A Study of the “New Science” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975, 1990), in History and Theory, 34, No. 1(1995) 132-138.
For a list of her publications and selected citations of her publications, see: Google Books, Google Scholar, and philpapers.
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