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:
“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).