Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art (2023)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M., & Couch, D. D. (in press). Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art. In The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art. Bucknell University Press

A Periodical Masquerade: The History Of The Book in Nineteenth-Century America, Unbound (2023)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (in press). A Periodical Masquerade: The History Of The Book in Nineteenth-Century America, Unbound. In The New Nineteenth Century American Literary Studies. Cambridge University Press

Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee (2023)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2023). Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee. ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 54(1),

James Kim has argued that "despite long noting the links between animalisation and racialisation, critical animal studies have yet to consider their relationship to Asian American studies." Relating to this wider scholarly gap, studies of the South A... Read More about Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee.

The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel (2023)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (in press). The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel. J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists,

From Jacob Riis to Michael Harrington, observers of American poverty have often focused, in literal and metaphorical ways, on the faces of the economically dispossessed, finding in them a means to generate emotional responses that are more personaliz... Read More about The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel.

Media Visibility of Femininity and Care: UK Women’s Magazines’ Representation of Female ‘Keyworkers’ During Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Orgad, S., & Rottenberg, C. (2022). Media Visibility of Femininity and Care: UK Women’s Magazines’ Representation of Female ‘Keyworkers’ During Covid-19. International Journal of Communication, 16,

This article explores the media visibility of female keyworkers—workers deemed essential for society’s functioning, including medical staff, transport workers, and social care workers—during COVID-19. Focusing on UK women’s magazines as an important... Read More about Media Visibility of Femininity and Care: UK Women’s Magazines’ Representation of Female ‘Keyworkers’ During Covid-19.

“Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan (2022)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2022). “Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan. Postcolonial Text, 17(4),

Bharati Mukherjee is principally known for her best-selling 1989 novel Jasmine. But much of Mukherjee's early work, especially her unpublished creative and academic writing from the 1960s, has been overlooked by critics and scholars. My essay address... Read More about “Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan.

Melville and Periodical Culture (2022)
Book Chapter
Thompson, G. (2022). Melville and Periodical Culture. In W. Kelley, & C. Ohge (Eds.), A New Companion to Herman Melville (261-271). Wiley

Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon (2022)
Journal Article
Pethers, M., & von Morzé, L. (2022). Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon. Early American Literature, 57(2), 555-562. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2022.0042

This contribution to a symposium on The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown discusses Brown's late eighteenth-century magazine writing and the questions they raise around authorial attribution, literary anonymity and pseudonymity, and period... Read More about Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon.

The New Melville Studies, ed. Cody Marrs (2022)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2022). The New Melville Studies, ed. Cody Marrs. American Literary History, 34(3), 1136-1139. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac100

Serialization and the Narrative Scales of the Literary Magazine (2021)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2022). Serialization and the Narrative Scales of the Literary Magazine. In Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

“The serial … is essential to every periodical,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazineobserved in its May 1866 issue. “Every magazine has its serial, and it is generally very good” (HNMM 1866, 32: 803). The truth in this statement is one increasingly recogni... Read More about Serialization and the Narrative Scales of the Literary Magazine.