Janis Ernest Svilpis

• 18th-century literature
• bibliography and the history of printing
• comedy and satire
• popular literature
• Renaissance literature
• Samuel Johnson
• stylistics and discourse analysis

Book Chapter

• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Orientalism, Fantasy and Vathek " Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations Ed. Graham, Kenneth W. New York: AMS, 1990. 49-72. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "The Mad Scientist and Domestic Affections in Gothic Fiction " Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/Transgression Ed. Graham, Kenneth W. New York: AMS, 1989. 63-87. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Coupling and Transgression in The Castle of Otranto and The Monk " Transactions of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest Ed. Carnie, R.H. SJSNW, 1985. 101-6. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Johnson, Humanism, and ‘The Last Great Revolution of the Intellectual World " Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Ed. Payne, Harry C. Madison: U of Wisconsin P for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1982. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Fantasy and Aesthetic Deformity in The Castle of Otranto " Transactions of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest Ed. Carnie, R.H. SJSNW, 1982. 72-81. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Chance, Discipline, and Dynamism in Johnson's Biographies of Boerhaave and Savage " Transactions of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest Ed. Carnie, R.H. and Sabor, P.R. SJSNW, 1980. 15-30. Print.

Journal Article

• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "The Science-Fiction Prehistory of the Turing Test ". , (2008). Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "The Production and Reproduction of Pulp Fiction: The Case of Ace ". 25. (1999): 325-45. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Bourgeois Solitude in Robinson Crusoe ". 22. (1996): 35-43. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Orientalism, Kinship, and Will in Restoration Drama ". 303. (1992): 435-9. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Science-Fiction Magazine Illustration: A Semiotic Analysis ". 10. (1983): 278-91. Print.
• Svilpis, Janis Ernest. "Authority, Autonomy, and Adventure in Juvenile Science Fiction ". 8.3 (1983): 22-6. Print.