Other Publications
Monograph
Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America (Palgrave 2017: Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture series, 300pp) [
link]. Reviewed in
Science Fiction Studies (46.2) and
Victorian Studies (forthcoming).
Forthcoming / in press
‘“Strangely Inorganic Patriotism”: Serializing Invasion Fiction at the Turn of the Century’ forthcoming (contract signed), in
English Literary History (
ELH) (c.8,000 words), 2021
‘“The Cash-Nexus”: Realism and Conspiracy in Balzac and Dickens’ (forthcoming), in
Plots: Literary Form and Cultures of Conspiracy (Routledge, eds. Dana Crăciun, Todor Hristov, and Ben Carver), forthcoming 2021, contract signd (c.8,000 words)
Published essays, articles, & chapters
‘Genres of conspiracy in nineteenth-century British writing’, in Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories, Ed. Michael Butter, 2020 (c.6,500 words)
‘An Entangled Forest: Evolutionary Theory and Speculative Fiction’,
Urbanomic online, May 2018
‘“All good earthly things are in Utopia also”: Familiarity and Irony in
News from Nowhere and
A Modern Utopia’. In
Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space, ed. Emelyne Godfrey (Palgrave, 2016)
‘“A Gleaming and Glorious Star”: Rethinking History in the Plurality-of-Worlds Debate’,
Journal of Victorian Culture 18.4 (December 2013) [open access
link]
Reviews
Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity, and the End of Culture (Simon James, 2012) for
Victoriographies 4.1 (2014)
The Spectre of Utopia (Matthew Beaumont, 2012) for
Literature & History: 21.2
Another Earth (dir. Mike Cahill, 2011) for the
New York Review of Science Fiction: May 2012
