My Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters (1993), investigates the ways in which letters in the Romantic period become the vehicle for a political, disruptive force, and how women writers managed that force. War at a Distance; Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime (2009) explores the origin of our modern experience of wartime. A study of affect, media, temporality and literature, it asks how it feels for citizens to go about their daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed around the globe.