Scholars of eighteenth-century literature, natural philosophy, and early thought concerning enchantment will find Eighteenth- Century Fiction & the Reinvention of Wonder provocative, informative, and astutely argued.
Sarah Tindal Kareem was born in London to an Indian father and a Scottish mother. After reading English at Girton College, Cambridge, she received her PhD from Harvard University's Department of English in 2003. Postdoctoral fellowships took her to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, to UCLA's Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, and to the University of Chicago's Society of Fellows. In 2007 she returned to UCLA and is
now Associate Professor in the Department of English where she specializes in literature from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder is her first book. She lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband and their two
children.