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,
All Outputs (12)
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
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.
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. https://doi.org/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.
Roundtable: Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Realism (London: Verso, 2013, £20.00). Pp. 432. ISBN: 978 1 7816 8133 6 (2014)
Journal Article
Bennett, B., Bowlby, R., Lawson, A., Storey, M., Thompson, G., & Jameson, F. (2014). Roundtable: Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Realism (London: Verso, 2013, £20.00). Pp. 432. ISBN: 978 1 7816 8133 6. Journal of American Studies, 48(4), 1069-1089. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814001376
The “Plain facts” of fine paper in “The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids” (2012)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2012). The “Plain facts” of fine paper in “The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids”. American Literature, 84(3), https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664701This essay intervenes in conversations about mid-nineteenth-century authorship and print culture by distinguishing between the economy of paper and the economy of print. He argues that critical treatments of Melville’s work, and particularly “The Par... Read More about The “Plain facts” of fine paper in “The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids”.
“Through consumptive pallors of this blank, raggy life”: Melville's not quite white working bodies (2012)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2012). “Through consumptive pallors of this blank, raggy life”: Melville's not quite white working bodies. Leviathan, 12(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01486.x
“Frank Lloyd Oop”: microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the nineties (2011)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (in press). “Frank Lloyd Oop”: microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the nineties. Canadian Review of American Studies, 31(3), https://doi.org/10.3138/CRAS-s031-03-02If the early development of the computing industry in America was marked by a preoccupation with hardware, as companies like UNIVAC, DEC, and IBM filled the nation’s corporate and government offices with mainframes, then a similar preoccupation has... Read More about “Frank Lloyd Oop”: microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the nineties.
Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine (2011)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2011). Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2011.0048This essay examines how Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine shifts engagement with the details of the material world consistently onto the axis of temporality and how, in so doing, it fashions a theory of periodization in which historical and social tren... Read More about Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine.
'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’ (2000)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2000). 'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’. Journal of American Studies, 34(3), 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875851006449Although a good deal of recent critical attention to Melville's writing has followed the lead of Robert K. Martin in addressing the issue of sexuality, the predominant themes in discussions of “Bartleby” remain changes in the nature of the workplace... Read More about 'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’.
"And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into": the business of sexuality in the rise of Silas Lapham (2000)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2000). "And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into": the business of sexuality in the rise of Silas Lapham. American Literary Realism, 33(1),