Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
(2024)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M., & Couch, D. D. (2024). Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art. In The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art. Bucknell University Press
All Outputs (33)
Positioning Bharati Mukherjee's Short Stories (2023)
Book Chapter
MAXEY, R. (2023). Positioning Bharati Mukherjee's Short Stories. In R. Maxey (Ed.), The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee (xiii-xxix). Temple University Press
A Periodical Masquerade: The History Of The Book in Nineteenth-Century America, Unbound (2023)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (in press). A Periodical Masquerade: The History Of The Book in Nineteenth-Century America, Unbound. In The New Nineteenth Century American Literary Studies. Cambridge University Press
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
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
Serialization and the Narrative Scales of the Literary Magazine (2021)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2022). Serialization and the Narrative Scales of the Literary Magazine. In Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)“The serial … is essential to every periodical,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazineobserved in its May 1866 issue. “Every magazine has its serial, and it is generally very good” (HNMM 1866, 32: 803). The truth in this statement is one increasingly recogni... Read More about Serialization and the Narrative Scales of the Literary Magazine.
Integrated and Indivisible: The Sustainable Development Agenda of Modern Slavery Survivor Narratives (2021)
Book Chapter
Trodd, Z., & Nicholson, A. (2021). Integrated and Indivisible: The Sustainable Development Agenda of Modern Slavery Survivor Narratives. In Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108902519
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.
"Berlin of the East": India and the Politics of Cold War Asylum (2020)
Book Chapter
McGarr, P. (2020). "Berlin of the East": India and the Politics of Cold War Asylum. In Neutral Countries as Clandestine Battlegrounds, 1939–1968: Between Two Fires. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
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 (OUP). 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.
Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodriguez (2019)
Book Chapter
Lewthwaite, S. (2019). Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodriguez. In D. Göttsche (Ed.), Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions (187-213). Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14024
Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South (2019)
Book Chapter
Miller, V. (2019). Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South. In A. L. Wood, & N. J. Ring (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South. University of Illinois PressThis chapter focuses on the transition from hanging to electrical execution in Florida and the changing role of the sheriff as executioner in the 1920s.
Introduction--Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel: Negotiating Material Citizenship (2018)
Book Chapter
Roberts, G. (2018). Introduction--Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel: Negotiating Material Citizenship. In G. Roberts (Ed.), Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel, 3-37. McGill-Queen's Unversity Press
Cross-Border Film Adaptation and Life of Pi (2018)
Book Chapter
Roberts, G. (2018). Cross-Border Film Adaptation and Life of Pi. In Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel, 225-242. McGill-Queen's University Press
The Communist Party (2018)
Book Chapter
Phelps, C. (2018). The Communist Party. In I. Takayoshi (Ed.), American Literature in Transition: The 1930s (421-435). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563895.023In the Great Depression, numerous American writers and intellectuals were attracted to the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). This chapter provides an institutional analysis of that political-literary experience, arguing that i... Read More about The Communist Party.
Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America (2017)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2017). Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America. In N. Coles, & P. Lauter (Eds.), A History of American-Working Class Literature, 7-24. Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/9781316216439.002
Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned? (2017)
Book Chapter
Ling, P. (2017). Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned?. In J. Street, & H. K. Lozano (Eds.), The Shadow of SelmaUniversity of Florida Press
Character and charismatic authority in Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men and Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah (2017)
Book Chapter
Hutchison, A. (2017). Character and charismatic authority in Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men and Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah. In M. Griffin, & C. Hebert (Eds.), Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press
The 'war on terror' and the new periphery (2017)
Book Chapter
Ryan, M. (2017). The 'war on terror' and the new periphery. In B. Sewell, & M. Ryan (Eds.), Foreign policy at the periphery: the shifting margins of international relations since World War II. University Press of KentuckyThis chapter exmaines the emergence of 'peripheral' fronts in the Bush administration's 'war on terror.' Since this 'war' was conceived from its inception as global in scope, it permitted the development of both 'core' and 'peripheral' fronts - the l... Read More about The 'war on terror' and the new periphery.
The United States, Britain and the Sino-Indian Border War (2016)
Book Chapter
McGarr, P. (2016). The United States, Britain and the Sino-Indian Border War. In L. M. Lüthi, & A. Das Gupta (Eds.), The Sino-Indian War of 1962: new perspectives (105-123). Routledge