Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Book Projects

• Narratives, Numbers, and Pictures: From Poe to Dos Passos

Books

• Introduction to the Oxford Classical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
• The Concise Companion to American Literature, 1900-1950, co-edited and co-written introduction with Peter Stoneley (Blackwell Press, 2008), 1-16.
• Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Cambridge University Press (December 2004).
• The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe, editor. Cambridge University Press (2004).
• The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in NineteenthCentury American Fiction, Cambridge University Press (1995).

Articles and Essays

• "The Slave Narrative and Sentimental Literature," in The Cambridge Companion to Slave Narratives, ed. Audrey Fisch (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), 115-134.
• "Artist at Work: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre," in Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, ed. Wyn Kelley (Blackwell, 2006), 378-392.
• "Crane and the Body Count," in What Democracy Looks Like: A New Realism for a Post-Seattle World, ed. Cecelia Tichi and Amy Lang (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006), 53-67.
• "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "The Birth-mark," essays for American History through Literature, ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer (New York: Scribner?s, 2006).
• "From True Woman to New Woman to Virgin," in Henry Adams and the Need to Know, ed. William Merrill Decker and Earl N. Harbert (University of Virginia Press, 2005), 300-314.
• "We are Family: Melville?s Pierre," Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 7, no. 1 (March, 2005): 19-40.
• The Norton Critical Edition of The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings, ed. Leland Person (2005). Reprint from The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, 82-86.
• "Labor and Fiction," Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, ed. Shirley Samuels, Blackwell's (October 2004).
• "Uncle Tom's Cabin and the South," in The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cambridge University Press (June 2004).
• "How Many Others are there in the Other Half? Jacob Riis and the Tenement Population," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2002 Vol. 24 (2): 195-216.
• "`A Sort of Adopted Daughter': Family Relations in The Lamplighter," ELH 68 (2001): 1023-1047.
• "Melville, Labor, and the Discourses of Reception," The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, ed. Robert S. Levine, Cambridge University Press (1998): 202--223.
• "From True Woman to New Woman: Henry Adams and Women," Henry Adams Newsletter 5, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 110.
• "Melville at the Machine of Allegory," Praxis, (1990): 109127.
• The Calm Before the Storm: Laboring through Mardi. American Literature 65 (1993): 239--253.
• "The Invisible Hand Made Visible -- 'The Birth-mark,'" Nineteenth-Century Literature 48, no. 1 (1993): 44-73.
• "Sentimentalism" in The Cambridge History of the American Novel, ed. Leonard Cassuto (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
• "1854" in A New Literary History of American, ed. Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus (forthcoming, Harvard University Press).