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
All Outputs (3)
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. Taylor & Francis (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_4Following 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.