Outputs (16)

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.

Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America (2017)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2017). Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America. In N. Coles, & P. Lauter (Eds.), A History of American-Working Class Literature (7-24). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316216439.002

Poverty, providence and the state of welfare: plotting parabolic social mobility in the early nineteenth-century American novel (2014)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2014). Poverty, providence and the state of welfare: plotting parabolic social mobility in the early nineteenth-century American novel. Early American Literature, 49(3), https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2014.0047

The secret witness: thinking, and not thinking, about servants in the Early American novel (2014)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2014). The secret witness: thinking, and not thinking, about servants in the Early American novel. In A. Lawson (Ed.), Class and the making of American literature : created unequal (40-55). Routledge

The Early American Novel in Fragments: Reading and Writing Serial Fiction in the Post-Revolutionary United States (2014)
Book Chapter
PETHERS, M. (2014). The Early American Novel in Fragments: Reading and Writing Serial Fiction in the Post-Revolutionary United States. In P. Parrinder, A. Nash, & N. Wilson (Eds.), New Directions in the History of the Novel (63-75). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026989_4

Following the trend towards authoritative ‘collected works’ and definitive ‘libraries of classics’ inaugurated in both Britain and the United States in the 1860s, publishers today tend to package old novels in a seamless, self-contained, visually uni... Read More about The Early American Novel in Fragments: Reading and Writing Serial Fiction in the Post-Revolutionary United States.

"Balloon madness": politics, public entertainment, the transatlantic science of flight, and late eighteenth-century America (2010)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2010). "Balloon madness": politics, public entertainment, the transatlantic science of flight, and late eighteenth-century America. History of Science, 48(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/007327531004800203