Publications

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).