Books
Fashioning the Victorians: A Critical Sourcebook. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference. Ohio State University Press, 2011.
Articles & Book Chapters
‘Oscar Wilde’s French Fragments’. Oscar Wilde’s Paris, Paris’s Oscar Wilde: City, Modernity, and Myth, ed. Colette Colligan and Greg Mackie. Toronto University Press, 2023 (forthcoming).
‘Victorian Faddishness: The Dolly Varden from Dickens to Patience’. Journal of Victorian Culture 26, no 2 (April 2021):153-171. ‘Editor’s Choice’ article in the issue. Honorable Mention, Stein Article Prize, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, 2022. OA doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcab006
“An Unpublished Letter by Oscar Wilde,” Notes & Queries 67 (2020). Advance access January 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa164.
“George Meredith (and Margaret Oliphant) Among the Pre-Raphaelites” and “Introduction,” Yearbook of English Studies 49 (September 2019): 1-10, 82-102.
“The Ethical Turn.” Invited contribution to Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature, ed. Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer. London: Routledge (2019): 226-236.
“George Meredith’s The Egoist.” Handbook of the English Novel, 1830-1900, ed. by Martin Middeke and Monike Pietrzak-Franger, 415-429. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
“Herbert Horne’s Scholarly Air.” Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism 3 (Autumn 2018): 95-112.
“Oscar Wilde’s ‘cultivated blindness’: Reassessing the Textual and Intellectual History of ‘The Decay of Lying’” and “The Fair Copy of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Decay of Lying’: A Critical Edition.” Co-authored with Joseph Bristow. Review of English Studies 69 (2018): 94-156. Advance access September 2017: doi: 10.1093/res/hgx066
“Rediscovering Celia Anna Levetus.” Burlington Magazine 160, no. 1378 (January 2018): 31-37.
“The Century Guild Hobby Horse: Crafting Generic Networks in Fin-de-siècle England.” Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 112 (2018): 75-104.
“The Provenance of Oscar Wilde’s “Decay of Lying.” Co-authored with Joseph Bristow. Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 11, no. 2 (2017): 221-40.
“Before and After: Punch, Steampunk, and Victorian Graphic Narrativity” (single authored) and “Introduction: Reading the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Palimpsest’ (co-authored with A. M. Jones). In Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts, ed. by Anna Maria Jones and Rebecca N. Mitchell, 237-268, 1-38. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (2016).
“The Rise and Fall of the Cage Crinoline, 15 August 1862.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History (August 2016). http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=rebecca-n-mitchell-15-august-1862-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-cage-crinoline
“Francis Galton’s Hereditary Genius, 1869 & 1892.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History (August 2016). http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=rebecca-n-mitchell-francis-galtons-hereditary-genius-1869-1892
“‘Cultivated Idleness’: Carlyle, Wilde, and Victorian Representations of Creative Labor.” Word and Image 32, no. 1(March 2016): 104-115. doi: 10.1080/02666286.2015.1136871
“The Victorian Fancy Dress Ball, 1870-1900.” Fashion Theory 21, no. 3 (2017): 291-315. Published online May 2016. doi: 10.1080/1362704X.2016.1172817
“T. W. H. Crosland and the Royal Literary Fund: An Addition to the Biography.” Notes & Queries 63, no. 2 (June 2016): 284-86. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjw043
“Oscar Wilde and the French Press, 1880-1891.” Victorian Periodicals Review 46, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 123-148. doi: 10.1353/vpr.2016.0007
“Robert Herrick, Victorian Poet: Christina Rossetti, George Meredith, and the Victorian Recovery of Hesperides.” Modern Philology 113, no. 1 (August 2015): 88-115. doi: 10.1086/681024
“Fair Copy Manuscript of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue.’” Co-authored with Joseph Bristow. Notes & Queries 61, no. 4 (November 2014): 573-75. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gju129
“Picturing the ‘English Roadside’: George Meredith’s Poetry and Once a Week.” Victorian Periodicals Review 47, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 234-254. doi: 10.1353/vpr.2014.0023
“Empathy and the Unlikeable Character: On Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Zola’s Thérèse Raquin.” In Rethinking Empathy through Literature, edited by Sue J. Kim and Meghan Hammond, 184-207. London: Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 978-0415736237.
“Death Becomes Her: On the Progressive Potential of Victorian Mourning.” Victorian Literature and Culture 41, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 595–620. doi:10.1017/S1060150313000132
“The Rosamond Plots: Alterity and the Unknown in Jane Eyre and Middlemarch.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 66, no. 3 (December 2011): 307–327. doi:10.1525/ncl.2011.66.3.307
“George Meredith’s Poetry and the Critical Imagination.” Literature Compass 8, no. 3 (March 2011): 142–150. doi:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00774.x
“It was the Worst of Times: A Visit to Dickens World.” Invited review essay. Co-authored with Marty Gould. Victorian Literature and Culture 38, no. 1 (2010): 287–293. doi: 10.1017/S1060150309990465
“Understanding the Literary Theme Park: Dickens World as Adaptation.” Co-authored with Marty Gould. Neo-Victorian Studies 3, no. 2 (Winter 2010): 145–171.
“Acute Chinamania: Pathologizing Aesthetic Dress.” Fashion Theory 14, no. 1 (March 2010): 45–64. doi: 10.2752/175174110X12544983515277
“‘Simply a Girl in a Village’: A Precedent for Hetty Merton.” The Wildean 36 (January 2010): 61–68.
“Learning to Read: Interpersonal Literacy in Adam Bede.” Papers on Language and Literature 44, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 145–167. Reprinted in Novels for Students, edited by Sara Constantakis and Anne Devereaux Jordan. Vol. 34. Detroit: Gale, 2010. ISBN: 978-1414441719.
“‘Now a Major Motion Picture’: The Delicate Business of Selling Classic Literature through Contemporary Cinema.” In Judging a Book by its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers, and the Marketing of Fiction, edited by Nicole Matthews and Nickianne Moody, 107–116. London: Ashgate, 2007. ISBN: 978-0754657316.
“Ambrose Bierce and Dorothy Parker: A Sardonic Tradition.” Ambrose Bierce Project Journal 1, no. 2 (Fall 2006): n.p.
Reviews
“Nicholas Frankel’s Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years and Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity, ed. Kathleen Riley, Alastair J. L. Blanshard, and Iarla Manny.” Victorian Studies (2019).
“Dominic Janes’s Oscar Wilde Prefigured.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 28 (May 2019): 303-4.
“Rebecca Rainof’s Victorian Novel of Adulthood: Plot and Purgatory in Fictions of Maturity.” Review 19, 17 July 2016. http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=447
“Rae Greiner’s Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction.” Studies in the Novel 46, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 129–30.
“David Goodman’s The Demanded Self: Levinasian Ethics and Identify in Psychology.” Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society 18, no. 4 (December 2013): 434–437. doi: 10.1057/pcs.2013.16
“Peter Brooks’s Realist Vision.” The George Eliot Review 37 (2006): 59–61.
“Marina van Zuylan’s Monomania.” The George Eliot Review 36 (2005): 83–84.
“Bernard Paris’s Rereading George Eliot.” George Eliot & George Henry Lewes Studies 46 (2004): 104-106.
Short Works, Encyclopedia Entries, & Other Media
“Selwyn Image.” Invited entry, Yellow Nineties Online. March 2021. https://beta.1890s.ca/image_bio/
“A Wildean Daphnis and Chloe.” Invited post, Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, ed. Paul van Capelleveen. March 2019 http://charlesricketts.blogspot.com/2019/03/400-wildean-daphnis-and-chloe.html
“John Ruskin, the Wildes, and Imagination’s Reign.” Invited post. Blog of the Ruskin Centre, Lancaster University. March 2019. http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/the-ruskin/2019/03/14/john-ruskin-the-wildes-and-imaginations-reign/
“Drawn to Books: Augmenting Brick-and-Mortar Exhibitions with COVE.” COVE Teaching Section article (Summer 2018). https://editions.covecollective.org/teaching/drawn-books-augmenting-brick-and-mortar-exhibitions-cove
“Victorian Fashion” and “Snapshot: Victorian Mourning.” Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (Summer 2016) http://www.bergfashionlibrary.com/page/encyclopedia/
“On Oscar Wilde’s Plagiarism.” Co-authored with Joseph Bristow. Public Domain Review (January 2016) http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/01/13/on-oscar-wilde-and-plagiarism/ Reprinted in The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. IV (2017)
“Victorian Fashion: A Lesson Plan.” Berg Fashion Library. London: Bloomberg Publishing. Autumn 2015. http://bergfashionlibrary.com/page/Victorian$0020Fashion/victorian-fashion
“On ‘The Decay of Lying.’” Invited guest post. Rosenblog: The Blog of the Rosenbach Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia. 23 January 2015. http://rosenbach.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-decay-of-lying.html
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