All Outputs (33)
From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens and the Materiality of Letter Writing (2016)
Book Chapter
The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture (2016)
Book Chapter
By the time of his death in 1895, Frederick Douglass had sat for approximately 160 different photographs. This makes him the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, rather than Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman or General Custer (all previo... Read More about The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture.
Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh (2015)
Book Chapter
Acts of violence: the World War II veteran private-eye movie as an ideological crime series (2015)
Book Chapter
According to Gramsci, serial tales are ‘a powerful factor in the formation of the mentality and morality of the people’. ‘The serial novel’, he suggests, ‘is a real way of day-dreaming’ whose heroes ‘enter into the intellectual life of the people […]... Read More about Acts of violence: the World War II veteran private-eye movie as an ideological crime series.
“A perfect hell of misery”: real and imagined prison lives in an “American Siberia” (2014)
Book Chapter
This chapter provides a brief overview of George Kennan's critique of prison conditions in late nineteenth-century Siberia, examines the nascent leasing system in Florida in the 1870s and 1880s described by Powell, of vermin-infested convicts in comm... Read More about “A perfect hell of misery”: real and imagined prison lives in an “American Siberia”.
The Early American Novel in Fragments: Reading and Writing Serial Fiction in the Post-Revolutionary United States (2014)
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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.
“Bartleby” and the magazine fiction (2013)
Book Chapter
La ventriloquia y el otro in El hablador de Vargas Llosa (1998)
Book Chapter
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James Buchanan and the secession crisis
Book Chapter
An account of the actions, motives, successes and failure of President James Buchanan as he confronted the collapse of the American nation in 1860-1861