Selected Publications to 2007 Books Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing (2016) Chapters rpt. in "Dreiser, London, Crane, and the Iron Madonna." American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2004. Reprinted from Resisting Regionalism. "Frank Norris's 'Drama in a Broken Teacup': The Old Grannis-Miss Baker Plot in McTeague." McTeague. Ed. Donald Pizer. Norton Critical Edition (2 nd Edition). New York: Norton, 1997. (reprint) Articles and Book Chapters (to 2007) “Fiction: 1900-1930.” American Literary Scholarship 2005, ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007 289-322. “More than a Family Resemblance? Agnes Crane’s “A Victorious Defeat” and Stephen Crane’s The Third Violet.” Stephen Crane Studies 16.1 (Spring 2007): 14-23. “Reflections on Stephen Crane.” Special Issue: Great Moments in Crane’s Work.Stephen Crane Studies 15.2 (Spring 2006): 13-16. “’Where are the ladies?’ Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and American Women Naturalists.” Studies in American Naturalism 1.1 & 2 (2006):152-169. “Fiction: 1900-1930.” American Literary Scholarship 2004, ed. David Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 295-333. "Howells's Untrustworthy Realist: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." American Literary Realism 38.2 (Winter 2006): 115-131. Special issue on W. D. Howells. "Regionalism and Local Color Fiction. " American History through Literature, 1870-1920, ed. Gary Scharnhorst and Thomas Quirk. Twayne/Gale, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 971-976 “Fiction: 1900-1930.” American Literary Scholarship 2003, ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 309-347. "“Fiction: 1900-1930.” American Literary Scholarship 2002, ed. David Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 269-307. "Taking Tips and Losing Class: Challenging the Service Economy in James M. Cain’s Mildred Pierce." The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction. Ed. Janet Casey. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. 1-15. "The 'bitter taste' of Naturalism: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox ." Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary Papke. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. 237-259. "'Written with a hard and ruthless purpose': Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction." Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s. Ed. Meredith Goldsmith and Lisa Botshon. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. 25-44. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 177. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2007. “Fiction: 1900-1930.” American Literary Scholarship 2001, ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 305-342. “Realism and Regionalism.” A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. Ed. Charles Crow. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003. 92-110. "'The (American) Muse's Tragedy': Edith Wharton, Henry James, and The Little Lady of the Big House." Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer. Ed. Jeanne Campbell Reesman and Sara S. Hodson. San Marino: Huntington Library Press, 2002. 189-212. “Fiction: 1900-1930.” American Literary Scholarship 2000, ed. David Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 273-306. “Jack London’s Allegorical Landscapes.” Literature and Belief 21.1-2 (2001): 59-75. "'Wild Men' and Dissenting Voices: Narrative Disruption in Little House on the Prairie." Great Plains Quarterly 20.2 (Spring 2000): 111-22. Introduction. The Fruit of the Tree. By Edith Wharton. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. v-l. "'In Search of Local Color': Context, Controversy, and The Country of the Pointed Firs." Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon. Ed. Karen Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards. Tallahassee: University of Florida Press, 1999. 63-76. "'One Spot of Color': Frank Norris's Apprenticeship Writings." Frank Norris Studies 25 (Spring 1998): 3-5. "Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915." Excavatio: Emile Zola and Naturalism 11 (1998): 225-233. "Domesticating Trilby: Frank Norris and the Naturalistic Art Novel." Excavatio: Emile Zola and Naturalism 11 (1998): 129-136. "Rewriting the 'rose and lavender pages': Edith Wharton and Women's Local Color Fiction." Speaking the Other Self: New Essays on American Women Writers, edited by Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. 263-277 "Edith Wharton and the 'Authoresses': The Critique of Local Color in Wharton's Early Fiction." Studies in American Fiction 22 (Fall 1994): 169-183. Special issue on gender and naturalism. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism 2006. "Edith Wharton: Critical Extracts." American Women Fiction Writers: 1900-1960. Vol. 3. Women Writers of English and Their Works. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998. (reprint) "Frank Norris's 'Drama of a Broken Teacup': The Old Grannis-Miss Baker Plot in McTeague." American Literary Realism 26.1 (Fall 1993): 40-49. "Sentimental Conventions and Self-Protection: Little Women and The Wide, Wide World." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 11.2 (Fall 1994): 118-129. Book Reviews Lee, Hermione. Edith Wharton. Studies in American Naturalism 2.2 (Winter 2007): 179-183. (Appeared in 2008) Lehan, Richard. Realism and Naturalism: The Novel in an Age of Transition. Dreiser Studies 36.2 (Winter 2005): 57-59. (Dated 2005 but appeared in Spring 2006) Boeckmann, Cathy. A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912. Stephen Crane Studies 14.1 (Spring 2005): 28-29. (Dated 2005 but appeared in Spring 2006) Nissen, Axel. Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000. Resources for American Literary Study 29 (2005): 371-373. Phillips, Kate. Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life. Pacific Historical Review 73.3 (August 2004): 510-511. Fetterley, Judith, and Marjorie Pryse. Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture. Legacy 27.1 (2004): 96-97. Rohrbach, Augusta. Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U. S. Literary Marketplace. Edith Wharton Review 19.2 (Fall 2003): 4, 21. McCullough, Kate. Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women’s Fiction, 1885-1914. American Literary Realism 36.1 (Fall 2003): 88-91. Williams, Deborah. Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Western American Literature 38.2 (Summer 2003): 213-214. Hoeller, Hildegard. Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction. Edith Wharton Review 18.1 (Spring 2002): 2, 24. Tjader, Marguerite. Love That Will Not Let Me Go: My Time with Theodore Dreiser (New York: Peter Lang, 1998). Dreiser Studies 30.1 (Spring 1999): 49-51. Bender, Bert. The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). American Literary Realism 31.3 (Spring 1999): 92-93. Romines, Ann. Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997). Western American Literature 33.4 (Winter 1999): 441-442. Auerbach, Jonathan. Male Call: Becoming Jack London (Durham: Duke U P, 1996). Modern Fiction Studies 43 (Winter 1997): 1001-1003. Wilson, Christopher P. White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925 (Athens: U of Georgia P, 1992). 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