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William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969) (2024)
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This article takes the distinctive publishing history of William Williams's Robinsonade novel Mr. Penrose as a prompt to challenge conventional assumptions about the temporal logic of textual recovery. Scholars typically make a case for the value of... Read More about William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969).

Encyclopaedias, Information Overload, and the Intellectual Division of Labor in Early America (2023)
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The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel (2023)
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From Jacob Riis to Michael Harrington, observers of American poverty have often focused, in literal and metaphorical ways, on the faces of the economically dispossessed, finding in them a means to generate emotional responses that are more personaliz... Read More about The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel.

Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon (2022)
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This contribution to a symposium on The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown discusses Brown's late eighteenth-century magazine writing and the questions they raise around authorial attribution, literary anonymity and pseudonymity, and period... Read More about Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon.

The Periodical Text Network, Serialized Genres, and the Making of “Literature” in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2021)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Poverty, providence and the state of welfare: plotting parabolic social mobility in the early nineteenth-century American novel (2014)
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"Balloon madness": politics, public entertainment, the transatlantic science of flight, and late eighteenth-century America (2010)
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