Publications:

Book:

• The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence (Cornell UP, 2003).

Articles and book chapters:

• “Moral Authority as Literary Property in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Culture.” The Cambridge History of American Women Writers, ed. Dale Bauer (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011). 333-72.

• "Stowe, Byron, and the Art of Scandal," American Literature 83 (March 2011): 59-91.
• “Douglass, Melville, and the Moral Economies of American Authorship.” Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, ed. Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2008. 88-109.
• “Blood and Treasure: A Response to Eric Lott.”  American Literary History.  20 (spring/summer 2008): 124-31.  
• “Reform.”  Keywords for American Cultural Studies, ed. Glenn Hendler and Bruce Burgett.  New York: New York University Press, 2007.  196-99.
• “The Bostonians and the Civil War.”  Henry James Review 26 (2005): 265-72.
• “Charity Begins at Home: Stowe’s Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship.”American Literature 72 (2000): 751-82.  .
• "Misgivings: Melville, Race, and the Ambiguities of Benevolence."  American Literary History 12 (2000): 685-712.
• "Acquiring Minds: Commodified Knowledge and the Positioning of the Reader in McClure's Magazine, 1893-1903."  Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 22 (1997): 211-38.
• "'Rough Ways and Rough Work':  Jacob Riis, Social Reform, and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Violence."  ATQ: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 11 (Sept. 1997): 191-212.  Special issue: "Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century America."
• "Errand into Africa: Colonization and Nation Building in Sarah J. Hale's Liberia."  New England Quarterly 68 (Dec. 1995): 558-83.