- Julia McNair Wright, Priest and Nun (Western Tract Society, n.d.). A nativist anti-Catholic novel, first published in 1869. Wright's fiction had a small transatlantic following.
- Frances M. Noble, Gertrude Mannering: A Tale of Sacrifice (Thomas B. Noonan & Co., 1883). A pure young Catholic woman manages to convert her infidel lover.
- Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction (Ecco, 2003). Frances (a.k.a. "Fanny") Trollope meditates on her experiences in America while writing a biography of her friend Frances (a.k.a. "Fanny") Wright.
- Thomas Hardy, The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900 (Penguin, 2003). A new collection of Hardy's short stories.
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- English Professors vs. Cats: A Serious Evaluation
- If Social Media Counted Toward Tenure
- LP in the House
- "I never see those things"
- A Booke of Proofreading Magick
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- How to Write a CoHE "First Person" Essay: A Handy Multiple-Choice Guide
- I worked so hard
- If reader's reports looked like wine reviews
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- Kaleidoscopic and domestic
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- No Sex Please, We're Victorian: A Handy-Dandy Guide to Code Words
- On a slightly different literary note: Dick Delver
- Rules for Writing Neo-Victorian Novels
- Scholars & Students: A Compendium of Professorial Magic
- Star Trek XII: The Wrath of the Search for the Voyage of Finals Week
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- The Little Professor: Victorian religious novel liveblogging, snowstorm edition: Truth without Fiction, and Religion without Disguise
- The Little Professor: Victorian religious novel liveblogging: Truth without Fiction, and Religion without Disguise
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- The Practical Applications of Gothic Fiction
- The prostitute's progress
- The Syllabus of the (Very Far) Future
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