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“The Private Life of Victorians.” Review of Therese Oneill, Unmentionable
The New York Times Book Review
(December 1, 2016)
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“Books on the Move”
PMLA, Vol. 130, No. 3
(May 2015), pp. 690–696
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Review of Alexander McCall Smith, Emma: A Modern Retelling
The New York Times Book Review
(May 29, 2015)
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“Shelf Lives.” Review of Naomi Baron, Words Onscreen and Reinier Gerritzen, The Last Book
Times Literary Supplement
(July 1, 2015)
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“The Medium is Not the Message”
Times Literary Supplement
(January 2, 2014)
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Review of Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud, The Novel Cure
Times Literary Supplement
(February 14, 2014)
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“Hold or Fold.” Review of Nicholas Basbanes, On Paper
Times Literary Supplement
(March 19, 2014)
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“Response”
Representations, Vol. 127, No. 1
(Summer 2014), pp. 93–97
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“Last Offices.” Review of Dave Eggers, The Circle and Nikil Saval, Cubed
Public Books
(September 1, 2014)
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Review of A.N. Wilson, Victoria: A Life
The New York Times Book Review
(December 12, 2014)
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“Books on Books”
Public Books
(June 5, 2013)
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Review of Ian Sansom, Paper: An Elegy
San Francisco Chronicle
(May 24, 2013)
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“When Doctors Prescribe Books to Heal the Mind”
Boston Globe
(December 22, 2013)
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“The Help and the Helped.” Review of Lucy Lethbridge, Servants
The New York Times Book Review
(November 29, 2013)
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“You Can’t Check Email.” Review of Andrew Piper, Book Was There, and Anouk Lang, From Codex to Hypertext
Times Literary Supplement
(April 19, 2013)
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“Scissors-and-Paste Revolution”
Times Literary Supplement
(May 24, 2013)
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“Victorian reading”
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
(2012), pp. 34–55
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“Reading in Place”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
(October 15, 2012)
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“Dead Again”
The New York Times Book Review
(August 10, 2012)
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“A Bad Month for Books”
West 86th: Journal of material culture and design history
(September 10, 2012)
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“The Subconscious Shelf”
The New York Times Book Review
(November 10, 2011)
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“Unpacking my Library”
Financial Times
(November 2011)
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“Bent Spines”
The New York Times Book Review
(February 25, 2011)
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“Trollope and the Book as Prop”
The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature
(2010)
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“American Girl”
The New York Times Book Review
(December 10, 2010)
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“Getting the Reading Out of It: Paper Recycling in Mayhew’s London”
Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900
(2009)
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“From The History of a Book to a ‘History of the Book’”
Representations, Vol. 108 No. 1
(Fall 2009), pp. 120–138
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“Reading As If For Life”
Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 48, No. 4
(Fall 2009)
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“Read a Book, Get out of Jail”
The New York Times Book Review
(February 26, 2009)
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“Lives of Johnson”
The New York Times Book Review
(January 30, 2009)
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“Diary”
London Review of Books, Vol. 30, No. 23
(December 4, 2008), p. 43
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“The Nanny.” Review of Susan Morgan, Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the “King and I” Governess
The New York Times Book Review
(October 10, 2008)
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“When to Read Was to Write.” Review of William Sherman, Used Books
London Review of Books, Vol. 30, No. 19
(October 9, 2008), pp. 35–36
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Review of Charles Acland, ed., Residual Media
Modernism/Modernity, Vol. 15, No. 2
(April 2008), pp. 418–419
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Reading and Reception
The Oxford Companion to the Book
(2008)
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“You Are What You Read”
The New York Times Book Review
(December 23, 2007)
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Review of Garrett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text
Victorian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3
(Spring 2007), pp. 531–532
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Review of Franco Moretti, ed., The Novel
Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 41, No. 1
(Fall 2007), pp. 145–148
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The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature. Special issue of PMLA, Vol. 121, No. 1
(January 2006)
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“Introduction: Reading Matter”
PMLA, Vol. 121, No. 1
(January 2006), pp. 9–16
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“Grant Allen and the Division of Literary Labor”
Grant Allen and Cultural Politics at Fin de Siècle
(2005)
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“Stenographic Masculinity”
Literary Secretaries / Secretarial Culture
(2005), pp. 32–47
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“Sweatin’ to the Classics”
Boston Globe
(June 26, 2005)
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“Reading: The State of the Discipline”
Book History, Vol. 7
(2004), pp. 303–320
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“Reader’s Block: Response”
Victorian Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2
(Winter 2004), pp. 231–242
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“From Ghostwriter to Typewriter”
The Faces of Anonymity
(2003)
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Review of Priya Joshi, In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India
Victorian Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2
(Winter 2003), pp. 333–334
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“The Tangible Page”
London Review of Books, Vol. 24, No. 21
(October 3, 2002), pp. 36–39
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“‘Très vrai!’” Review of H.J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
London Review of Books, Vol. 23, No. 20
(October 18, 2001), pp. 31–32
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“Reading (and Not Reading) Richardson, 1765-1868”
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 29
(2000), pp. 87–103
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“The Poetics of Pedantry from Thomas Bowdler to Susan Ferrier”
Women’s Writing, Vol. 7, No. 1
(2000), pp. 75–88
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“One Chapter More.” Review of Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: A Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
London Review of Books, Vol. 22, No. 13
(July 6, 2000), pp. 25–26
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“Elegant Extracts”
London Review of Books, Vol. 22, No. 3
(February 3, 2000), pp. 26–28
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Review of Margaret Ezell, Social Authorship and the Advent of Print
SHARP News, Vol. 9 No. 2
(Spring 2000), pp. 8–9
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“A Classroom of One’s Own?” Review essay: two collections on women’s poetry
Women, Vol. 11
(2000), pp. 171–174
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Alexander Main
Oxford Reader’s Companion to George Eliot
(2000)
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“Pudding or Poison?” Review of Patrick Brantlinger, The Reading Lesson
Novel, Vol. 32, No. 3
(Summer 1999), pp. 431–433
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Margaret Oliphant. Frances Trollope.
Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
(1999)
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“George Eliot and the Production of Consumers”
Novel, Vol. 30
(Winter 1997), pp. 145–169
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“‘Truths without Proofs’: Fournel, Genlis, and the Fiction of Calumny”
Romance Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 1
(1997), pp. 25–37
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“Sir Charles Grandison and the Executor’s Hand”
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 8, No. 3
(April 1996), pp. 329–342
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“The Life of Charlotte Brontë and the Death of Miss Eyre”
Studies in English Literature, Vol. 35, No. 4
(Autumn 1995), pp. 757–768
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“Vies privées et scandaleuses: Marie-Antoinette and the Public Interest”
The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 33, No. 2
(Summer 1992), pp. 176–192
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