Portrait of Dr. James B Reeves

Dr. James B Reeves

  • Associate Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Reeves, J. B. (2025). “Decide This Doubt for Me”: William Cowper’s Olney Hymns (1779). Religions, 16(3).

2022

  • Reeves, J. B. (2022). “What is the historical role of atheism in literature and the arts?” In Atheism in 5 Minutes. Sheffield, United Kingdom: Equinox Publishing.

2021

  • Reeves, J. B. (2021, October). Studies in the Novel. Johns Hopkins University Press.

2020

  • Reeves, J. B. (2020). Antislavery Literature and the Decline of Hell. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 53, 571–587.
  • Reeves, J. B. (2020). Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century: A Literary History of Atheism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Reeves, J. B. (2020, September 14). Race and Religious Joy. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. Philadelphia, PA, United States: University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved from https://ecti.english.illinois.edu/cfp/

2016

  • Reeves, J. B. (2016). Unbelief and Sympathy in Shelley and Hogg’s Letters to Ralph Wedgwood. Keats-Shelley Journal, 65, 41–52.

2015

  • Reeves, J. B. (2015). Untimely Old Age and Deformity in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 27(2), 229–256.

2013

  • Reeves, J. B. (2013). Posthumous Presence in Richardson’s Clarissa. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, 53(3), 601–621.