A Manual Job in a Machine Age: The Long Wait for Mechanized Typesetting
(2024)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (in press). A Manual Job in a Machine Age: The Long Wait for Mechanized Typesetting. Book History,
Outputs (22)
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
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
Nineteenth Century Transnationalism and the Literary Magazine (2021)
Book Chapter
Thompson, G. (2021). Nineteenth Century Transnationalism and the Literary Magazine. In T. Lanzendörfer (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine (36-44). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274244-5
Routes into American Realism (2021)
Book Chapter
Thompson, G. (2021). Routes into American Realism. In Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism(s) in Global Comparative Perspective (213–230). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxii.07thoRealism is usually associated with American literature written after the Civil War. This essay argues that realism was also a significant force during the late-eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The argument proceeds in three parts. First, the... Read More about Routes into American Realism.
William Dean Howells's Periodical Time (2019)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2019). William Dean Howells's Periodical Time. Arizona Quarterly, 75(4), 77-106. https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2019.0021© 2019 by Arizona Board of Regents. This essay uses the example of William Dean Howells to redefine periodical time and suggest new ways in which extraliterary time manifests itself in literary form and content. Howells spent his early life typesetti... Read More about William Dean Howells's Periodical Time.
Realism and the Profession of Authorship (2019)
Book Chapter
Thompson, G. (2019). Realism and the Profession of Authorship. In K. Newlin (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism (301-320). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190642891.013.16This chapter examines tensions between authorship and publishing in the era of American literary realism. The publishing industry changed with the emergence of literary agents, the growing financial significance of magazines and syndication, and the... Read More about Realism and the Profession of Authorship.
Susan Ryan. The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace (2018)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2019). Susan Ryan. The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace. Review of English Studies, 70(294), 380-382. doi:10.1093/res/hgy109
The seriality dividend of American magazines (2018)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2018). The seriality dividend of American magazines. American Periodicals, 28(1),This essay argues that the preconsumption cycle of material creation and supply exerted powerful effects as periodicals journeyed from paper mill to reader. So powerful were these effects that they generated a “seriality dividend,” or a return on fin... Read More about The seriality dividend of American magazines.
Herman Melville: among the magazines (2018)
Book
Thompson, G. (2018). Herman Melville: among the magazines. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press