If you don’t have an institutional affiliation that gives you access to the following publications, please contact me at mary.nyquist[at]utoronto.ca

You may also find some of the following publications on my ResearchGate and academia.edu pages.

Academic Books:

Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

Milton and Questions of History: Essays Past and Present by Canadians, eds. Feisal Mohammad and Mary Nyquist (University of Toronto Press, 2012)

Re-Membering Milton: New Essays on the Texts and Traditions, ed. Margaret Ferguson and Mary Nyquist (Routledge, Kegan and Paul, 1987) [To be republished by Routledge, 2019]

Refereed Chapters in Books:

“Hobbes on Despotic Power, Tyranny, and Resistance,” Le Prince, le tyran, le despote: figures du souverain en Europe de la Renaissance aux Lumières, eds. Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq et Laila Ghermani (Honoré Champion, dir. Antony McKenna (Paris, 2018)

“The Liberty of Naming,” Revisiting Slavery and AntiSlavery: Towards a Critical Analysis, eds. Laura Brace and Julia O’Connell Davidson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 65-96.

“Base Slavery and Roman Yoke,” Oxford Handbook to Law and Literature, 1500-1700, ed. Lorna Hutson (Oxford, 2017), 624-645.

“Friday as Fit Help,” Milton and the Long Restoration, ed. Blair Hoxby and Ann Coiro (Oxford University Press, 2016), 335-359

“Equiano, Satanism, and Slavery,” Milton Now, ed. Erin Murphy and Catharine Gray (Palgrave, 2014), 215-246

“Sovereignty and Conquest,” The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes, ed. S. A. Lloyd (Bloomsbury Publishing: London, 2012), 313-19.

“Slavery, Resistance and Nation in Milton and Locke,” Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England, ed. David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 356-397

“Determining Influences: Mentorship and Resistance in the Anglo-American Realist Novel,” New Essays on Edith Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth,’ ed. Deborah Esch (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), 63-129

“Wanting Protection: ‘Fair Ladies’, Sensibility and Romance,” Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms, ed. Eileen Yeo (London and New York: Rivers Oram Press, 1997), 61-85.

“Romance in the Forbidden Zone,” ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture, ed. Shirley Neuman and Glennis Stephenson (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1993), 160-81.

“The Genesis of Gendered Subjectivity in the Divorce Tracts and Paradise Lost,” Re-membering Milton (Routledge, 1987), 99-127

“Fallen Differences, Phallogocentric Discourses: Losing Paradise Lost to History,” Post-Structuralism and the Question of History, ed. Derek Attridge, Geoff Bennington, and Robert Young (Cambridge University Press, 1987), 212-43

“Gynesis, Genesis, Exegesis: The Formation of Milton’s Eve,” Witches, Cannibals, Divorce, ed. Marjorie Garber (Johns Hopkins, 1986), 147-208

“Textual Overlapping and Dalilah’s Harlot-Lap,” in Renaissance Texts and Literary Theory, ed. Patricia Parker and David Quint (Johns Hopkins, 1986), 140-72

“Musing on Susanna’s Music,” Lyric Poetry After the New Criticism, ed. Chaviva Hosek and Patricia Parker (Cornell, 1985), 310-27

Refereed Academic Journal Publications:

“Hobbes, Slavery and Despotical Rule,” Representations, no. 106 (Summer, 2009), 1-33

“The Plight of Buchanan’s Jephtha: Sacrifice, Sovereignty and Paternal Power,” Comparative Literature, Vol. 60.4 (Fall 2008), 331-354

“Contemporary Ancestors of de Bry, Hobbes, and Milton,” University of Toronto Quarterly, Special Issue: Milton in America, Vol. 77.3, ed. Paul Stevens (Summer, 2008), 837-875