Books

Editor, Thomas Carlyle. Past and Present: An Annotated Critical Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Editor, Thomas Carlyle. Historical Essays: An Annotated Critical Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Carlyle and the Search for Authority. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1991.

Selected Articles

“Mary Barton, Social Agency and the Representation of Chartism.” Victorians Institute Journal 38 (2010): 171-88.

“Chartism, Class Discourse, and the Captain of Industry: Social Agency in Chartism and Past and Present.” Thomas Carlyle Resartus: Reappraising Carlyle's Contribution to the Philosophy of History, Political Theory, and Cultural Criticism. Ed. Paul Kerry and Marylu Hill. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. 30-48.

“The Carlyles and Victorianism.” The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Ed. Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning, and Murray Pittock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

“What Did Jane Eyre Do? Ideology, Agency, Class and the Novel.” Narrative 13 (2005): 46-66.

“Class Discourse and Popular Agency in Bleak House.” Victorian Studies 47 (2004): 7-31.

“Cedric the Saxon and the Haiti Duke of Marmalade: Race in Past and Present.” The Carlyles at Home and Abroad: Essays on Their Influence in England, Scotland, and Europe. Ed. David R. Sorenson and Rodger L. Tarr. Ashgate Press, 2004.

“Passages of Life: Moving Out.” Blackwell Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 82-96.

Co-author with Laura Haigwood. “Revising The Prelude: Aurora Leigh as Laureate.” Studies in Browning and His Circle 22 (1999): 29-42.

“The Value of Literature: Representations of Print Culture in the Copyright Debate of 1837-1842.” Victorian Studies 38 (1994), 41-68.

“The Queen in the Garden / The Woman of the Streets: The Separate Spheres and the Inscription of Gender.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies new ser. 1:1 (1992): 1-15.

“The Year in Dickens Studies.” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 21. Ed. Michael Timko, Fred Kaplan, and Edward Guiliano. New York: AMS Press, 1992, pp. 253-79.

“Culture and Economy in Ivanhoe.”Nineteenth Century Literature 42 (1987), 46-72. Reprinted in Denise Evans and Daniel G. Marowski, eds., Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 69. Detroit: Gale, 1998, pp. 348-59.

“Fictive Text and Transcendental Self: Carlyle's Art of Biography.” Biography 10 (1987), 116-28.

“Cookery, not Rookery: Family and Class in David Copperfield.” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 15. Ed. Michael Timko, Fred Kaplan, and Edward Guiliano. New York: AMS Press, 1986, pp. 87-109. Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., David Copperfield (Major Literary Characters series). New York: Chelsea House, 1992, pp. 173-91. Reprinted in John Peck, ed., David Copperfield and Hard Times (New Casebooks series). New York: St Martin's, 1995, pp. 31-57.

“Realism versus Romance: The War of Cultural Codes in Tennyson's Maud.” Victorian Poetry 24 (1986), 69-82.

“Desire and Deferral of Closure in Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution.” Journal of Narrative Technique 16 (1986), 72-78.

“Carlyle, Career, and Genre.” The Arnoldian 13 (1985), 28-43.

“Revolution and Authority: The Metaphors of Language and Carlyle's Style.” Prose Studies 6 (1983), 274-289.

“Prophetic Closure and Narrative Disclosure in The French Revolution and A Tale of Two Cities.” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 12. Ed. Michael Timko, Fred Kaplan, and Edward Guiliano. New York: AMS Press, 1983.