Zwicker is an expert on
Restoration-era
English literature and politics and is the author of Dryden's Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation (1972), Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (1984), and Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689 (1993). He has edited six volumes and published more than two dozen essays in journals and volumes in the United States and abroad.
Dryden's Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1972.
Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.
As editor or contributor
Politics of Discourse: The Literature and History of Seventeenth-Century England. Edited by
Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740. Edited by Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution. Edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.
John Dryden: A Tercentenary Miscellany. Edited by Susan Green and Steven N. Zwicker. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2001.
Reading, Society, and Politics in Early Modern England. Edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden. Edited by Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.