
Selected Publications
- Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, & Whitman (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016)
- “Interpreting the Survey,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Vol 4.1 (Spring 2016): 160-64
- “Hawthorne’s Rage: On Form and the Dharma,” in American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron, ed. Branka Arsiç (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014).
- “Critical History I: 1890-1955,” in Emily Dickinson in Context, ed. Eliza Richards (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013).
- “Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing,” Review Essay, Legacy: A Journal of Women Writers 30.1 (Spring 2013): 204-206.
- “Opening Up Close Reading: Melville and Decorative Aesthetics,” in Melville and Aesthetics, ed. Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
- “Harriet Jacobs’s ‘Excrescences’: Aesthetics and Politics in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Theory & Event 13: 4 (2010): n.p.
- “‘Just Apply a Weight’: Thoreau and the Aesthetics of Ornament,” ELH 77 (Fall 2010): 561-87.
- Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
- “‘Out of the Medium in Which Books Breathe’: Tactile Abstraction in The Golden Bowl,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 34:3 (Summer 2001): 411-33.