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
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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.
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. 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.
From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens and the Materiality of Letter Writing (2016)
Book Chapter
Thompson, G. (2016). From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens and the Materiality of Letter Writing. In The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
“Bartleby” and the magazine fiction (2013)
Book Chapter
Thompson, G. (2013). “Bartleby” and the magazine fiction. In R. S. Levine (Ed.), The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (99-12). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139149952.009