Graham Thompson

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• workUniversity Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• graham.thompson@nottingham.ac.uk

Selected Publications

• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2024. A Manual Job in a Machine Age: The Long Wait for Mechanized Typesetting Book History. 27(2), 309–345
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2022. Nineteenth-Century Transnationalism and the Literary Magazine. In: TIM LANZENDÖRFER, ed., The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine Routledge. 36-44
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2022. Melville and Periodical Culture. In: WYN KELLEY and CHRISTOPHER OHGE, eds., A New Companion to Herman Melville Wiley. 261-271
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2021. Routes into American Realism. In: DIRK GÖTTSCHE, ROSA MUCIGNAT and ROBERT WENINGER, eds., Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism(s) in Global Comparative Perspective John Benjamins Publishing. 213–230

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• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2026. Melville and Magazine Fiction. In: CODY MARRS & BRIAN YOTHERS, ed., The Routledge Companion to Herman Melville (In Press.)
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2026. Transnational Media Machines. In: RUTH MAXEY & DANIEL KING, ed., North American Narratives: Gender, Race, Form (In Press.)
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2024. A Manual Job in a Machine Age: The Long Wait for Mechanized Typesetting Book History. 27(2), 309–345
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2022. Melville and Periodical Culture. In: WYN KELLEY and CHRISTOPHER OHGE, eds., A New Companion to Herman Melville Wiley. 261-271
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2022. Nineteenth-Century Transnationalism and the Literary Magazine. In: TIM LANZENDÖRFER, ed., The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine Routledge. 36-44
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2021. Routes into American Realism. In: DIRK GÖTTSCHE, ROSA MUCIGNAT and ROBERT WENINGER, eds., Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism(s) in Global Comparative Perspective John Benjamins Publishing. 213–230
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2019. Realism and the Profession of Authorship. In: KEITH NEWLIN, ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism Oxford University Press. 303–320
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2019. William Dean Howells's Periodical Time Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, & Theory. 74(4), 77-106
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2018. Herman Melville: Among the Magazines Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2018. The Seriality Dividend of American Magazines American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism. 28(1), 1–20
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2016. From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens and the Materiality of Letter Writing. In: BERNIER, CELESTE-MARIE, JUDIE NEWMAN and MATTHEW PETHERS, eds., The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing Edinburgh University Press.
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, BRIDGET BENNETT, RACHEL BOWLBY, ANDREW LAWSON, MARK STOREY and FREDRIC JAMESON, 2014. Roundtable Review of Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Realism Journal of American Studies. 48(4), 1069-1089
• THOMPSON, G., 2013. "Bartleby" and the magazine fiction. In: LEVINE, R.S., ed., The new Cambridge companion to Herman Melville Cambridge University Press.
• THOMPSON, G., 2012. The "plain facts" of fine paper in "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" American Literature: A Journal of Literary History. Criticism, and Bibliography. 84(3), 505-532
• THOMPSON, G., 2012. “Through consumptive pallors of this blank, raggy life”:: Melville’s not quite white working bodies Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 14(2), 25-43
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, MATTHEW PETHERS, PHILLIP H. ROUND, JOHN FAGG and EVAN BRIER, 2012. Online Roundtable: A History of the Book in America Journal of American Studies. 46(2), E22
• THOMPSON, G., 2011. Periodizing the '80s: the "differential of history" in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine Modern Fiction Studies. 57(2), 300-317
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2007. American Culture in the 1980s Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2004. The Business of America: the Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation London: Pluto Press.
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2003. Male Sexuality under Surveillance: the office in American literature Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press.
• RUTH HOLLIDAY and GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2001. A body of work. In: RUTH HOLLIDAY and JOHN HASSARD, eds., Contested Bodies London: Routledge. 117-33
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2001. "Frank Lloyd Oop": Microserfs, Modern Migration, and the Architecture of the Nineties Canadian Review of American Studies. 31(3), 119-136
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2000. "Dead Letters … Dead Men": The Rhetoric of the Office in Melville’s "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Journal of American Studies. 34(3), 395-411
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 2000. "And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into": The Business of Sexuality in The Rise of Silas Lapham American Literary Realism. 34(1), 1-20
• GRAHAM THOMPSON, 1998. Shoelaces and Social Energy: Surveilling the Man's World of Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine OVERhere: A European Journal of American Culture. 18(2), 36-53