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Her monograph <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781611474954\/Novel-Histories-British-Women-Writing-History-1760%E2%80%931830\"><em>Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830<\/em><\/a> examines women\u2019s political engagement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the shifting forms of historiography. Her edited collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Traumatic-Tales-British-Nationhood-and-National-Trauma-in-Nineteenth-Century\/Kasmer\/p\/book\/9781138103566\"><em>Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature<\/em><\/a> explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature and cultural artifacts. Her current book project \u201cTraumatic Failure in Romanticism\u201d examines the way in which Romantic aesthetics shape narratives concerning oppression and social inequity. 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Her monograph <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781611474954\/Novel-Histories-British-Women-Writing-History-1760%E2%80%931830\"><em>Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830<\/em><\/a> examines women\u2019s political engagement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the shifting forms of historiography. Her edited collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Traumatic-Tales-British-Nationhood-and-National-Trauma-in-Nineteenth-Century\/Kasmer\/p\/book\/9781138103566\"><em>Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature<\/em><\/a> explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature and cultural artifacts. Her current book project \u201cTraumatic Failure in Romanticism\u201d examines the way in which Romantic aesthetics shape narratives concerning oppression and social inequity. 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