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A Periodical Masquerade: The History of the Book in Nineteenth Century America, Unbound (2025)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2025). A Periodical Masquerade: The History of the Book in Nineteenth Century America, Unbound. In The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (186-202). Cambridge University Press

This essay uses concepts drawn from the field of New Materialism, which posits that material objects possess forms of agency that shape human culture rather than just being passively acted upon, to move the history of the book beyond common assumptio... Read More about A Periodical Masquerade: The History of the Book in Nineteenth Century America, Unbound.

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

Punishment in America: Innovation, Continuity, Recycling, and Technological Transformations (2024)
Book Chapter
Miller, V. (2024). Punishment in America: Innovation, Continuity, Recycling, and Technological Transformations. In J. Campbell, & V. Miller (Eds.), The Routledge History of Crime in America. Routledge

This chapter examines the historical transformations and contemporary uses of three groups of punishments: non-custodial sanctions, imprisonment, and the death penalty. It begins with a contemporary overview of mass incarceration but crosses differen... Read More about Punishment in America: Innovation, Continuity, Recycling, and Technological Transformations.

A Manual Job in a Machine Age: The Long Wait for Mechanized Typesetting (2024)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2024). A Manual Job in a Machine Age: The Long Wait for Mechanized Typesetting. Book History, 27(2), 309-345. https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2024.a947330

The core technological processes of the nineteenth-century print industry—papermaking, printing, and typesetting—evolved at conspicuously different rates. While papermaking and printing mechanized in the first half of the century, commentators even t... Read More about A Manual Job in a Machine Age: The Long Wait for Mechanized Typesetting.

Encyclopaedias, Information Overload, and the Intellectual Division of Labor in Early America (2024)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2024). Encyclopaedias, Information Overload, and the Intellectual Division of Labor in Early America. Early American Studies, 22(4), 562-612. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2024.a942215

This article examines the history of encyclopedias in North America and Britain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to foreground wider shifts in knowledge formation and organization caused by a growing perception of information overload.... Read More about Encyclopaedias, Information Overload, and the Intellectual Division of Labor in Early America.

Visualizing the Canada-US Border: Comic Adaptations of Wayde Compton’s “The Blue Road” and Thomas King’s “Borders” (2024)
Journal Article
Roberts, G. (2024). Visualizing the Canada-US Border: Comic Adaptations of Wayde Compton’s “The Blue Road” and Thomas King’s “Borders”. Studies in Canadian Literature, 48(1), 131-151

The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei (2024)
Journal Article
Ryan, M., & Burman, S. (2024). The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei. Global Policy, 15(2), 355-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13352

This paper offers an analysis of US strategy in the unfolding US-China ‘tech war’ and its consequences. We argue that a tech war is now underway, and that Washington is the driving force behind it. Here we focus on the most impactful policy so far: t... Read More about The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei.

William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969) (2024)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2024). William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969). American Literary History, 36(1), 16-50. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad230

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).

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

The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel (2023)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2023). The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel. J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists, 11(1), 91-119. https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2023.a909297

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.

A Periodical Masquerade: The History Of The Book in Nineteenth-Century America, Unbound (2023)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. A Periodical Masquerade: The History Of The Book in Nineteenth-Century America, Unbound. In The New Nineteenth Century American Literary Studies. Cambridge University Press

Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee (2023)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2023). Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee. ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 54(1),

James Kim has argued that "despite long noting the links between animalisation and racialisation, critical animal studies have yet to consider their relationship to Asian American studies." Relating to this wider scholarly gap, studies of the South A... Read More about Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee.

“Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan (2022)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2022). “Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan. Postcolonial Text, 17(4),

Bharati Mukherjee is principally known for her best-selling 1989 novel Jasmine. But much of Mukherjee's early work, especially her unpublished creative and academic writing from the 1960s, has been overlooked by critics and scholars. My essay address... Read More about “Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan.

Media Visibility of Femininity and Care: UK Women’s Magazines’ Representation of Female ‘Keyworkers’ During Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Orgad, S., & Rottenberg, C. (2022). Media Visibility of Femininity and Care: UK Women’s Magazines’ Representation of Female ‘Keyworkers’ During Covid-19. International Journal of Communication, 16,

This article explores the media visibility of female keyworkers—workers deemed essential for society’s functioning, including medical staff, transport workers, and social care workers—during COVID-19. Focusing on UK women’s magazines as an important... Read More about Media Visibility of Femininity and Care: UK Women’s Magazines’ Representation of Female ‘Keyworkers’ During Covid-19.

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

Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon (2022)
Journal Article
Pethers, M., & von Morzé, L. (2022). Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon. Early American Literature, 57(2), 555-562. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2022.0042

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 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

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.

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

The Periodical Text Network, Serialized Genres, and the Making of “Literature” in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2021)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2021). The Periodical Text Network, Serialized Genres, and the Making of “Literature” in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Nineteenth Century Studies, 33(1), 19-45. https://doi.org/10.5325/ninecentstud.33.0019

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.