Publications
Books
Charles Dickens’s Networks: Public Transport and the Novel. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
(
Oxford,
Amazon) Paperback, 2013.
The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2002. (
Hopkins,
Amazon)
Peer-reviewed articles
“Passing Cash from Bank Notes to Bitcoin: Standardizing Money.” Journal of Cultural Economy 12:4 (2019): 299–316.
“Standardization (standardization).”
Critical Inquiry 44 (Spring 2018): 447–478.
“Two Cities Networked: The Historical Novel and Form in French Revolutionary Politics.”
Novel 50:2 (2017).
“Living the Global Transport Network in
Great Expectations.”
Victorian Studies 57 (2015): 225–250.
“The Character of a Global Transport Infrastructure: Jules Verne’s
Around the World in Eighty Days.”
History and Technology 29 (2013): 247–61. (
EBSCO)
“Alibis.” R
aritan 24 (Summer, 2004): 133–150. (
LION)
“The Labor of the Leisured in
Emma: Class, Manners, and Austen.”
Nineteenth-Century Literature 54 (1999): 143–164. (
JSTOR)
“Representing Pickwick: The Novel and the Law Courts.”
Nineteenth-Century Literature 52 (1997): 171–197. (
JSTOR)
“The Mythic Svengali: Anti-Aestheticism in
Trilby.”
Studies in the Novel 28 (1996): 525–542. (
LION)
“The Absent Jew in Dickens: Narrators in
Oliver Twist,
Our Mutual Friend, and
A Christmas Carol.”
Dickens Studies Annual 24 (1996): 37–57. (
pdf)
Short essays, journalism
“Dickens on the Move,”
BBC History Magazine (February 2012): 34–9. Reprinted
BBC Knowledge Magazine (May/June 2012): 40–4.
“Five Myths about Dickens,” Washington Post (7 February 2012); reprinted widely.
“Transport.” In
Dickens in Context edited by Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux, 334–342. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. (
Amazon)
“Edward Bulwer Lytton.”
Oxford Encyclopedia of English Literature Vol. 1 edited by David Scott Kastan and Nancy Armstrong, 308–12. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
“Anne Elliot Bound Up in Northanger Abbey: The History of the Joint Publication of Jane Austen’s First and Last Complete Novels.”
Persuasions 27 (2005): 195–207.
Reprints
“Trial, Alibi, and the Novel as Witness.” In
Mary Barton: A Norton Critical Edition edited by Thomas Recchio, 604–15. New York: Norton, 2008. From chapter five of
The Art of Alibi. (
Amazon)
“Manners in
Emma.” In
Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Emma edited by Marcia Folsom, 78–87. New York: Modern Language Association, 2004. Revised reprint of “The Labor of the Leisured.” (
Amazon)
“In the Courtroom of Bulwer’s Newgate Novels: Narrative Perspective and Crime Fiction.” In
The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary Reflections edited by Allan Christensen, 68–77. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. Revised reprint of chapter six of
The Art of Alibi. (
Amazon)