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Work in Progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century (<\/span><\/em>Edinburgh:<\/span> University of Edinburgh Press, forthcoming April 2025).<\/span><\/div>\n
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“An Indian\u2019s Europe: Integration and Exclusion in The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan<\/em>.” Special issue of European Romantic Review, <\/em>edited by Simon Swift, Patrick Vincent and Simon Duff (accepted; forthcoming).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

Latest Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Cultures of Sensibility”. The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature<\/em>. Ed. Patrick Vincent (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 2023), 135-161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epope Intime<\/a>. Roman\/ <\/em>A novel. Tirana: Pegi, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After the fall of the Berlin Wall \u2014 the scar that ran through Germany \u2014 many left Eastern Europe for the \u201cWest\u201d and many contemplated departure. How to tell the stories governed by this persisting and almost mythical desire for the \u201cWest\u201d? How to narrate what it meant for Albanians, a people who persevered during 500 years of Ottoman imperialism, a brief and brittle independence in 1912, two World Wars and nearly half a century of a communist regime? Our Threshing Floor Lies in the West<\/i>\u00a0(Alb<\/i>. Epope intime<\/i>) approaches this story through the lives of two cousins, both adolescents, trying to strike out on their own in the bewildering West. \u201cSever the roots you\u2019ve grown in this tragic land. Build a new life out there in the West\u201d is their parents\u2019 advice. The narration follows the cousins during the 18 years they spend away from Albania and each other. When they meet again, the time for a reckoning has arrived.<\/div>\n
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“E. Karafili Steiner masters the art of wording and wields a masterly pen. She is made of the writer\u2019s stuff and this comes to her naturally; which is why the reading of her novel is a beautiful peregrination, humanly and literarily speaking.” – Beti Njuma, September 2024.<\/div>\n
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“This is a very well-written novel, truly a book, and no one can bury their head in the sand. And the reader who takes it up will encounter a very good style, with a fanstastic written Albanian, that is, an Albanian contemporary yet quite fluid; the reader must ready themselves not to hold prejudices against its author or events.” — Enkel Demi, October 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“An Albanian (hi)story, a tale of two times: of the yesterday isolated within boundaries that only birds could cross over, burdened with absurd pains and punishments, and of the today with its permeable boundaries, yet weighed down by old pains and new equally absurd ones.”– Arta Marku, November 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n

Authored and Edited Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Co-editor with Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Olga Timofeva. Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century<\/em>:<\/a> Essays for Allen Reddick (Amsterdam: John Benjamins<\/span>, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n

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The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick\u2019s scholarship on Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary<\/em> (1755).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editor. Cosmopolitan Endeavours<\/em>. Special issue of Women’s Writing<\/em>. 27. 2 (2020).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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This special issues explores the concept of world citizenship, often conveyed by the titulary appellation \u201ccitizen of the world\u201d, in works by European Enlightenment and Romantic women writers, such as Sophie von La Roche, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Hamilton, Germaine de Sta\u00ebl and in the anonymous novel Woman of<\/em> Colour<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author. Jane Austen:<\/em> Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. <\/em>London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Northanger Abbey<\/em> was one of Jane Austen’s earliest manuscripts; Persuasion<\/em> was her last. Published together in a single volume after her death, the two books differ widely. Northanger Abbey<\/em> is a spirited, Gothic parody, while Persuasion has increasingly been seen as a new direction for the Austen canon. The two texts have been widely analysed and debated since publication, and continue to be so today. This Readers’ Guide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 delineates a clear trajectory through the books’ many interpretations over two centuries, mapping these out thematically and chronologically
\u2022 contextualises and brings into dialogue influential approaches such as psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism, and feminism
\u2022 discusses film adaptations of the novels and their relation to literary criticism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Enit Steiner’s magisterial overview of the criticism on Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey<\/em> and Persuasion<\/em> will be of enormous value to every reader of these novels. With clarity, perception and deep insight, she tracks the response to these two novels from Austen’s contemporaries up to the present moment. The range and sophistication of her summaries of this criticism is superb.”
– Anne Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA<\/strong>
“Steiner’s singular achievement is her identification of readers’ critical concerns and preoccupations with the novels that ebb and flow, transform and develop, through the ages to the present, providing threads of inquiry both useful and fascinating.”
– Allen Reddick, University of Zurich, Switzerland<\/strong>
“This timely and insightful guide is an invaluable source for teaching the history of criticism of Northanger Abbey<\/em> and Persuasion<\/em>.”
– Annika Bautz, University of Plymouth, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor. Called to Civil Existence: Mary Wollstonecrafts\u2019 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. <\/i>New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman<\/i> (1792), a continuation of her earlier Vindication of the Rights of Men<\/i> (1790), was the first feminist treatise to emerge within a broader context of liberationist human rights theory. Rights of Woman<\/i> remains, however,  relevant and instructive.The essays included here show that Wollstonecraft\u2019s legacy is still with us today as the balancing act between a society where sexual distinction translates into gender prejudice and a utopian order where sexual difference ceases to be a structuring element of social, economic and political bias. Engaging Wollstonecraft’s famous argument from a variety of critical perspectives, a range of contemporary scholars offer new trajectories in this volume for the study of Wollstonecraft’s  historic work and its relevance to our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Reviews:
Kaley Kramer (York St John University), in Women’s Writing<\/em><\/a>,<\/span> October 2014, pp. 1-3: \u201cSteiner’s careful selection and thorough familiarity with each of the essays is evident in her discussion of each in her own introductory chapter. As well as setting out the key arguments of each contributor, Steiner brings them into dialogue, noting similarities and divergences across the collection. While this is the work of an editor, Steiner accomplishes this extremely well, resulting in a collection of 10 essays that preserves diverse research and individual voices, while maintaining a focused and unified direction. [\u2026]The Dialogue series intends to bring emerging critical voices into discussion with established literary scholars, and this collection provides a lively and rigorous forum for both established scholars and emerging critics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandrine Berges (Bilkent University) in Keats-Shelley Journal<\/em> 64<\/span> <\/a>2015, p. 159: “Enit Karafili Steiner tells us that \u201cwomen are summoned emphatically in times of crisis\u201d (p. ix). One such current crisis besets academic philosophy, where the relative dearth of women prevents philosophy departments from achieving the sort of gender parity other disciplines take more or less for granted. (Indeed, the only other academic disciplines with fewer women than philosophy are computer science, physics, and engineering). Steiner envisions this collection of essays as part of the solution offered by the Recovery Project, which recuperates women philosophers of the past for present use by scholars of history, literature, gender, and cultural studies, as well as philosophy. […] these essays definitely cast some needed light on her immediate influence. This volume helps us understand Wollstonecraft\u2019s arguments more fully, as context often does. But perhaps just as importantly, this collection helpfully shows the rich, untapped collection of writings by Wollstonecraft\u2019s female contemporaries.”]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor. The History of Lady Julia Mandeville. <\/em>By Frances Brooke. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Published in 1763, The History of Lady Julia Mandeville<\/i> was Frances Brooke\u2019s first and most successful novel. Prior to the publication of her own work, Brooke was well known as the translator of Marie Jeanne Riccoboni\u2019s Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby \u00e0 Milady Henriette Campley <\/i>(1760). Engaging with several political and aesthetic issues of the day, Julia Mandeville<\/i> considers forms of education, prescriptive gender roles and the institution of marriage. This epistolary novel contains seventy-seven letters, written predominantly by the witty widow, Lady Anne Wilmot and by the hero of the novel, Harry Mandeville. Although generally considered as a specimen of the sentimental novel, Julia Mandeville<\/em> responds to and critiques the genre, displaying the influence of Rousseau\u2019s Emile<\/i> (1762) and Julie<\/i> (1761) as well as Richardson\u2019s Clarissa<\/i> (1748). This modern critical edition offers an introductory essay on the text, endnotes, textual variants and appendices containing contemporary reviews and some of Brooke\u2019s other writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author. Jane Austen\u2019s Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process. <\/i>London and New York: Routledge, 2012.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Jane Austen\u2019s six complete novels and her juvenilia<\/i> are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner\u2019s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen\u2019s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process and postmodern feminist positions on moral development and interpersonal relations. Austen is presented as a writer who not only participated in late eighteenth-century debates, but who is able to address twenty-first-century concerns of a theoretical and practical nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Reviews: Wendy O\u2019Brien, Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone<\/em>, 2013; Paul J. deGategno, \u201cWomen as Serious Agents,\u201d Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)<\/em>, (Summer 2013); Gillian Dow, British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS) Review<\/span><\/em> 44 (Autumn 2014)<\/span><\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dhun\u00eb e Dhunti<\/em> (Of Gifts and Violence<\/em>). Tirana: Botime Pegi, 2017.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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A crime must have been committed in the artist\u2019s house on Hermosa Beach, California. There must have been, there could have been. The wife could have done it. This doubt haunts the philosophy professor Miljan Toska, the twin brother of the man found dead in the house on the beach. Arriving in Los Angeles for the reading of his brother\u2019s testament, Toska revisits the house where the alleged crime occurred and, where years ago, he fell for Tesa, his brother\u2019s wife, now widow. The scramble for the truth sends the living on a backward journey that must traverse their past as migrants from a little speck of land named Albania to the turbid \u201cnew world\u201d of the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Keeper of Lost Things<\/span><\/em> (Original Title: Tok\u00ebmjalta<\/em>). Tirana: Botime Pegi, 2015.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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<\/span>\u201cThis novel by Enit Karafili Steiner rises as a dramatic pronouncement against the flow, setting out from the utterly unexpected premise that the good is as omnipresent as the soil; hence, we need not strive to import it, but rather pledge to shelter and nourish it; while evil cannot resist reformation, on the condition that we, like the novel\u2019s characters, remain faithful to each other without compromise until the end.\u201d \u2013 Ardian Vehbiu<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Krenari d<\/i><\/a><\/span>he Paragjykim.<\/i> By Jane Austen. A translation with critical introduction and notes. Tirana: Toena, 2008.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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This translation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice <\/em>is the first critical edition of the novel in Albanian, offering an introduction and explanatory notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles, Book Chapters and Reviews<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Islam”. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era<\/em><\/a>. Ed. Natasha Duquette et al. (2022).<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of: Jane Austen’s Men: Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era<\/em> by Sarah Ailwood. <\/span>Eighteenth-Century Fiction<\/span><\/em> 34<\/span>.1<\/span> (2022): 266-8<\/span>.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Autonomy Will Set You Free, or Will it?  Autonomy, Precarity, and Survival.” <\/span> Jane Austen and Critical Theory<\/span><\/em>. Ed. Michael Kramp. London: Routledge, 2021).  108-124.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Lessons of Skin: Solidary Cosmopolitanism.” Cosmopolitan Endeavours<\/em>. Special issue of Women’s Writing<\/em>. 27. 2 ( 2020): 46-62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Introduction: Cosmopolitanism as a Practicable Orientation.” Cosmopolitan Endeavours<\/em>. Special issue of Women’s Writing<\/em>. 27. 2 ( 2020):  <\/span>1-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mary Wollstonecraft\u2019s \u2018Love of Mankind\u2019 and Cosmopolitan Suffering”. Studies in Romanticism <\/em>(2019): 3-26<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMood, Provisionality, and Planetarity in Mary Wollstonecraft\u2019s <\/span>A Short
Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark<\/span><\/em>.\u201d Criticism<\/em> 61.1 ( 2019): 27-50.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u2018Not to Abandon the Whole\u2019: Cosmopolitanism and Management in <\/a>The Travels of Abu Taleb Khan.”<\/em> European Romantic Review<\/em> 29.5 (2018): 657-680.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of: Brant, Clare. Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786.<\/em> Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms<\/em> 7<\/a> (2018): 169-171.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExpanded, Changed, but Not Weakened: Post-Human Prometheanism and Race in Octavia Butler\u2019s Xenogenesis<\/em>.\u201d The Challenge of Change: Swiss Papers<\/em> <\/a>in English Literature and Linguistics.<\/em> 2018: 123-142.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2019Till He Began to Stagger Her\u2019: Melancholia and Literary Men.\u201d Jane<\/em> Austen and Masculinity<\/em><\/a>.<\/span> Ed. Michael Kramp. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2017. 113-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Overcoming Perpetual Estrangement in Persuasion<\/em>\u2019s Heterotopia.” Anglia: Journal of English Philology<\/em><\/span> 134. 3 (2016)<\/a>: 373-390.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRomantic Education, Concealment and Orchestrated Desire in Rousseau’s Emile<\/em> and Frances Brooke’s Julia Mandeville<\/em>.\u201d Rousseau, Switzerland, and Romanticism<\/span><\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/em>Ed. Angela Esterhammer, Patrick Vincent and Diane Piccitto. New York and London: Palgrave, 2015. 21-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBetween Cohesion and Reform in Sense and Sensibility<\/em>.<\/a>\u201d Women\u2019s Writing <\/span><\/em>22.4 (2015): 455-471<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExuberant Energies: Affectivity in Vathek<\/em>, Zofloya<\/em> and The<\/em> Giaour<\/em>.\u201d Emotion, Affect, Sentiment: Swiss Paper in English Literature and Linguistics<\/em> (2014)<\/a>: 125-142.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntroduction.\u201d Called to Civil Existence: Mary Wollstonecrafts\u2019 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman<\/em>. Ed. Enit Karafili Steiner. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, January 2014. ix-xxiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntroduction.\u201d The History of Lady Julia Mandeville<\/em>, by Frances Brooke. Ed. Enit Karafili Steiner. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xi-xxiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImages of Masculinities and the Feminist Inflection.\u201d M\u00e4nnlichkeiten denken<\/em>. Ed. M. Laubli and S. Sali. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011. 219-38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBodies Playing on the Boundaries in Austen\u2019s Juvenilia.\u201d Figurationen: <\/em>K\u00f6rpergrenzen\/Body Boundaries<\/em>. Ed. Therese. F. Steffen. Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: B\u00f6hlau Press, 2011. 61-72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cByron and the Albanians: Unearthing Identities.\u201d Studia Albanica<\/em> 2. Tirana: Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences Sociales (2010): 137-147.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of: Karen O\u2019Brien, Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain<\/em>. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Variations<\/em> (2010): 160-161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJane Austen: A Woman\u2019s Place in the Civilizing Process.\u201d Clark Memorial Library Newsletter<\/em> 45 (2007): 5-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cXhejn Osten: Prozatorja britanike q\u00eb barazohej me Shejkspirin.\u201d (Jane Austen \u2013 the Shakespeare of prose) Telegraf.<\/em> 5 Februar. Tirana (2007): 15-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarmoni dhe Zgjim.\u201d (Harmony and Awakening) Telegraf<\/em>. 26 M\u00e4rz. Tirana (2007):16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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