Outputs (12)

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.

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

The Periodical Text Network, Serialized Genres, and the Making of “Literature” in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2021)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2021). The Periodical Text Network, Serialized Genres, and the Making of “Literature” in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Nineteenth Century Studies, 33(1), 19-45. https://doi.org/10.5325/ninecentstud.33.0019

This article intervenes into current debates around genre and textual production in nineteenth-century American periodical culture by expanding our understanding of magazine serialization beyond its typical focus on fiction. Drawing on various theori... Read More about The Periodical Text Network, Serialized Genres, and the Making of “Literature” in the Nineteenth-Century United States.

Special Issue Introduction: Early American Fictionality (2021)
Journal Article
Pethers, M., & Koenigs, T. (2021). Special Issue Introduction: Early American Fictionality. Early American Literature, 56(3), 669-698. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2021.0063

This introduction to the special issue “Early American Fictionality” provides a detailed overview of the concept of fictionality and a concise history of its scholarly uses and outlines a vision of what greater attention to it in early American liter... Read More about Special Issue Introduction: Early American Fictionality.

Portrait Miniatures: Fictionality, Visual Culture, and the Scene of Recognition in Early National America (2021)
Journal Article
Pethers, M., & Koenigs, T. (2021). Portrait Miniatures: Fictionality, Visual Culture, and the Scene of Recognition in Early National America. Early American Literature, 56(3), 755-807. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2021.0066

This essay seeks to expand the geographical and formal scope of the concept of fictionality by examining the self-conscious presentation of fictional beings’ nonreferentiality in early American visual culture. Its principal case study is a portrait o... Read More about Portrait Miniatures: Fictionality, Visual Culture, and the Scene of Recognition in Early National America.

Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism (2021)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2021). Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism. Modern American History, 4(2), 131-158. https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2021.11

What prompted New York City teachers to form a union in the Progressive Era? The founding of the journal American Teacher in 1912 led to creation of the Teachers' League in 1913 and then the Teachers Union in 1916, facilitating formation of the Ameri... Read More about Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism.

Integrated and Indivisible: The Sustainable Development Agenda of Modern Slavery Survivor Narratives (2021)
Book Chapter
Trodd, Z., & Nicholson, A. (2021). Integrated and Indivisible: The Sustainable Development Agenda of Modern Slavery Survivor Narratives. In Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108902519

An appeal to supersede the slave trade triangle in English museums (2021)
Journal Article
Campbell, S. (2023). An appeal to supersede the slave trade triangle in English museums. Atlantic Studies, 20(1), 33-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1913969

In 2007 several permanent museum galleries were created in England that discuss the subject of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. This article critiques one recurring image within many of these sites: the diagrams of the slave trade triangle.... Read More about An appeal to supersede the slave trade triangle in English museums.

Defending the indefensible?: The pro-confederate lobby in Britain in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation (2021)
Journal Article
O'Connor, P. (2021). Defending the indefensible?: The pro-confederate lobby in Britain in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 19, 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42738-021-00070-5

The purpose of this article is to provide the first dedicated examination of the pro-Confederate movement in Britain in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation. By analysing the ideas and activities of pro-Confederates after emancipation the articl... Read More about Defending the indefensible?: The pro-confederate lobby in Britain in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation.

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.07tho

Realism 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.