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
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.” Forthcoming 2008.
“Searching Out Science and Literature: Hybrid Narraties, New
Methodological Directions, and Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village,”
Literature Compass, forthcoming Fall 2007.
“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 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.
“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
Review, [Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites
the Nineteenth Century, eds. John Kucich and Dianne Sadoff]
South Central Review 19.4 (2002): 158-161.
“Linnæus’s Blooms: Botany and the Novel of Courtship,”
Eighteenth-Century Novel 1 (2001): 127-160.