IN MSS/Book
“Reverent Form: Natural History, the Theology of Nature, and the
Novel in Britain 1789-1865.”
Book
Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English
Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003,
2007.
Editions
Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters.
Introduction and Notes. Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005.
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure. Introduction and
Notes. Barnes and Noble Classics, 2003.
Articles & Reviews:
“Victorian Natural Science.” Oxford Handbook of Victorian
Literary Culture. Oxford UP, forthcoming 2013.
“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose: Friday Night
Lights and Victorian Fictions of Provincial Life.” Special
Issue of RAVON (Romanticism and Victorianism Online), Television
and the Victorian, ed Caroline Levine. Forthcoming 2013.
“Victorian Tidepools.” Special issue: Victorian
Ecologies. Victorian Review, Spring
2011.
“Dilatory Description and the Pleasures of Accumulation: Toward a
History of Novelistic Length,”
Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century
Novel , eds. Caroline Levine and
Mario
Ortiz-Robles. Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
2011.
“Natural History and the Novel: Dilatoriness and Length in the
Nineteenth-Century Novel of Everyday Life.”Novel: A Forum on
Fiction. 42.1/2 (Fall 2009)
“Toward a History of Novelistic Length: Dilatory Description and
the Pleasures of Accumulation in White and
Mitford,” Narrative Middles: Navigating the
Nineteenth-Century Novel, eds. Caroline Levine and Mario
Ortiz-Robles. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Forthcoming 2009.
“Stillness: Alternative Temporalities in Nineteenth-Century
Narrative,” ELN (English-Language Notes), Special
Issue, “Time and the Arts,” 46.1, Spring/Summer 2008.
Norton Edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, ed. Thomas
Recchio. Reprint of
“Taxonomical Cures: The Politics of Natural History and Herbalist
Medicine in Gaskell’s Mary Barton.” New York: Norton,
2008.
“Searching Out Science and Literature: Hybrid Narratives, New
Methodological Directions, and Mary Russell Mitford’s Our
Village,” Blackwell’s Literature Compass: Victorian. Vol.
4: 2007.
“Reorienting the Scientific Frontier: Victorian Tide Pools and
Literary Realism,” Victorian Studies 47.2 (Winter
2005): 153-163.
Taxonomical Cures: The Politics of Natural History and Herbalist
Medicine in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton,”Romantic Science:
The Literary Forms of Natural History, ed. Noah
Heringman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003: 255-270.
“Linnæus’s Blooms: Botany and the Novel of
Courtship,” Eighteenth-Century Novel 1 (2001): 127
160.
Reviews:
Review, [Peter W. Graham, Jane Austen & Charles Darwin:
Naturalists and Novelists], in Victorian Studies,
forthcoming, Spring 2009.
Review, [Mary Ellen Bellanca, Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries
in Britain, 1770-1870], in Victorian Studies, 50:2,
Winter 2008.
Review, [Colonial Botany: Science, Literature, and Politics in the
Early Modern World, eds. Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan],
in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early
Modern Era, Winter: 2006.
Review, [Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the
Nineteenth Century], eds. John Kucich and Dianne Sadoff], in
South Central Review 19.4 (2002).