Books and articles : n.d. Reading for Life (on the rise of "bibliotherapy" in twenty-first century America). 2011 Reader's Block: The Uses of Books in Nineteenth-Century Britain (under contract with Princeton UP). 2011 (Ed.) Unpacking my library: novelists and their books. Yale UP. 2011 "Reading and Literary Criticism" (9,000 words). Cambridge History of English Literature: The Victorian Period, ed. Kate Flint. 2010 "Trollope and the Book as Prop." In Reading Victorian Feeling, ed. Rachel Ablow and David Kurnick (U Michigan P): 47-68. 2009 "From The History of a Book to a "history of the book"." Representations 108 (fall 2009): 120-138. –Reprinted in Introduction to Book History, ed. Michelle Levy and Thomas Mole (Broadview, 2011). 2009 "Reading As If For Life." Michigan Quarterly Review (48): 483-498. 2009 "‘Getting the Reading Out of It’: Recycling and Repetition in London Labor and the London Poor." In Bookish Histories, ed. Ina Ferris and Paul Keen (Palgrave, 2009), 148-168. –. Reprinted in Repetition, ed. Michael Moon (U Minnesota P, 2010). 2006 The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature. Special issue of PMLA, co-edited with Seth Lerer. 2006 "Introduction: Reading Matter" (single-authored), in PMLA, above. 2005 Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture. Essay collection co-edited with Pamela Thurschwell. Aldershot: Ashgate. Reviews in London Review of Books and Victorian Studies. 2005 "Stenographic Masculinity." In Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture, 32-47. 2004 "Grant Allen and the Division of Literary Labor." In Grant Allen and Cultural Politics at Fin de Siècle, ed. William Greenslade and Terence Rodgers. London: Ashgate. 2004 " Reading: The State of the Discipline. " Book History 7: 303-320.   Translated in Guillermo Compte Cathcart, Las nuevas invasiones bárbaras (Buenos Aires, 2009) . 2004 "Reader's Block." Victorian Studies 46.2: 231-42. 2002 "From Ghostwriter to Typewriter." In The Faces of Anonymity , ed. Robert Griffin. London: Palgrave. 2000 The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel . Cambridge University Press. (Paperback reprint 2003.) Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2000 Chapter 2 reprinted in The Book History Reader (Routledge, 2006). Chapter 3 translated in Nouvelles questions féministes (2003). Subject of the 2002 symposium at the Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University. Reviews in London Review of Books, Novel, Nineteenth Century Literature, Eighteenth Century Studies, Wordsworth Circle,  Review of English Studies, Women, Choice, SHARP News, Etudes Anglaises, Modernism/ Modernity, Studies in Romanticism, British Association for Romantic Studies, 1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Victorians Institute Journal [ p.1 , p.2 ], British association for Romantic studies, Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography [ p.1 , p.2 ]. Buy from Amazon.com View sample chapter 2000 "Reading (and Not Reading) Richardson, 1765-1868." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 29:87-104. 2000 "Susan Ferrier's Poetics of Pedantry." Women's Writing 7: 75-88 1997 "George Eliot and the Production of Consumers."  Novel 30: 145-169. 1997 "'Truths without Proofs': Fournel, Genlis, and the Fiction of Calumny." Romance Quarterly 44: 25-37. 1996 "The Executor's Hand in Sir Charles Grandison ." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8: 331-342. 1995 "The Life of Charlotte Brontë and the Death of Miss Eyre." Studies in English Literature 35: 757-768. 1992 "Vies privées et scandaleuses: Marie-Antoinette and the Public Interest." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 33: 176-192. Journalism: 2010 “American Girl.” " New York Times Book Review, 12 December. (1500-word review essay on the Alcott family). 2009 "Read a Book, Get out of Jail." New York Times Book Review, 1 March 2009. 2009 "Lives of Johnson." New York Times Book Review, 30 January 2009. 2008 "Shorthand Diary." London Review of Books, 4 December 2008.. 2008 "The Nanny." New York Times Book Review, 10 October 2008. (Review of Susan Morgan, Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the "King and I" Governess.) 2008 "When to Read Was to Write."  London Review of Books (9 October 2008): 35-37. (Review of William Sherman, Used Books.) 2007 "You Are What You Read." 1500-word essay, New York Times Book Review, 23 December. "Sweatin' to the Classics." Essay on audiobooks and the history of silent reading. Boston Globe , Sunday 26 June 2005. 2002 "The Tangible Page." Review essay on the history of the book. London Review of Books 24 (31 October 2002): 36-39. 2001 "Très vrai!."  Review of H.J. Jackson, Marginalia.  London Review of Books (18 October 2001): 28-31. 2000 "One Chapter More." Review of Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: A Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. London Review of Books (30 June 2000): 25-26. 2000 "Elegant Extracts." Review essay: seven literary anthologies. London Review of Books (3 February 2000): 26-28. Scholarly reviews and short articles: 2008 Review of Charles Acland, ed., Residual Media. Modernism/Modernity 15 (2): 418-419. 2008 Review of The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti. Novel 41 (Fall 2007): 145-148. 2008 "Reading and Reception" (1,000 words). Oxford Companion to the Book. 2007 Review of Garrett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text. Victorian Studies 49 (3): 531-532. 2003 Review of Priya Joshi, In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India.  Victorian Studies 45.2 (2003): 333-334 2000 "Pudding or Poison?" Review of Patrick Brantlinger, The Reading Lesson. Novel 32 (Summer 1999 [i.e., 2000]): 431-33. 2000 Review of Margaret Ezell, Social Authorship and the Advent of Print . SHARP News (Summer 2000): 8-9 2000 "A Classroom of One's Own?" Review essay: two collections on women's poetry. Women 11 (2000):171-74. 2000 "Alexander Main." Oxford Companion to George Eliot. Oxford University Press. 1999 "Margaret Oliphant," "Frances Trollope." Cambridge Guide to Women's Literature in English. Cambridge University Press.