All Outputs (7)

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

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

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.

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

Dead letters and the secret life of the state in nineteenth century America (2016)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2016). Dead letters and the secret life of the state in nineteenth century America. In C. Bernier, . J. Newman, & M. Pethers (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing, 136-151. Edinburgh University Press

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_4

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.