University of California Davis
Christopher F. Loar is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis. His essays on James Boswell and on Daniel Defoe have appeared in SEL: Studies in English Literature and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. He is completing a book manuscript entitled Political Magic: British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650-1750; his essay “The Exceptional Eliza Haywood: Women and Extralegality in Eovaai” is forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Studies.