She is the author of Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (Duke, 1997) and of recent articles in American Literary History, American Literature, and a number of recent literary histories and companions (including The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature and The Cambridge History of the American Novel) about ethics, literature, print culture, and literary culture. Her manuscript, Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, will be published by Oxford University Press in the Studies in American Literary History series.