Bitter tastes: literary naturalism and early cinema in American women's writing

Grim realism and the culture of feeling: Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Lillie Chace Wyman

The Darwinists: borderlands, evolution, and trauma

Bohemian time: Glasgow, Austin, and Cather

Red kimonos and white slavery: the fallen woman in film and print

Where are my children? race, citizenship, and the stolen child

"Manure widows" and middlebrow fiction: rural naturalism in the 1920s

Waste, hoarding, and secrets: modernist naturalism and the servant's body.