PUBLICATIONS

Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel: Imitation, Parody, Aftertext

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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PRESS:
REVIEW in TLS (John Sutherland).
​REVIEW in Review of English Studies (Monica F. Cohen).
REVIEW in Reception (Carrie Sickmann).
​REVIEW in Dickens Quarterly (Elly McCausland).
​REVIEW in Nineteenth-Century Contexts (Erica Haugtvedt).

Attack of the Monster Musical:
​A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors

    Published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, September 2022.

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  Upcoming events:

~ Wednesday 21 September. A talkback after the 2pm matinee of Little Shop of Horrors, Westside Theatre, New York. GET TICKETS.
​~ Wednesday 28 September at 6pm. A Q&A and book signing at the Lambs, New York.  RSVP REQUIRED.
~ Monday 3 October at 5:30pm. A book reading and signing at the Drama Book Shop, New York. RSVP REQUIRED.

"The Man Who Would Be Dickens: Thomas Peckett Prest, Plagiarist"

In Edward Lloyd and His World
Edited by Sarah Louise Lill and Rohan McWilliam
​Routledge, 2019.

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​"New York in Slices:
The Victorian Origins of
The Bonfire of the Vanities"​

In English: Journal of the
English Association (2022)
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When Magoo Flew:
​The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA

Published by Wesleyan University Press, 2012. Selected as Outstanding Academic Title by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.

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Wall Street Journal REVIEW.

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UPA: The Jolly Frolics DVD.

Mr. Magoo Theatrical Films DVD.
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"Dickens, 'Dickensian,' and the Pseudo-Dickens Industry"

Published in SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 57, no. 4 (Autumn 2017).

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"Before New Grub Street: Thomas Miller and the Contingencies of Authorship"

In Victorian Fiction beyond the Canon
Edited by Daragh Downes and Trish Ferguson
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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"Plagiarizing Pickwick: Imitations of Immortality"

Published in Dickens Quarterly 32, no. 1 (March 2015).

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The Art of Pixar Short Films

By Amid Amidi, foreword by John Lassester
Research Associate
Chronicle Books, 2009.

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 REVIEWS by Adam Abraham

Dickens after Dickens, edited by Emily Bell.  Nineteenth-Century Prose (Spring-Fall 2021).

Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern Musical, by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman.  Dickens Quarterly (March 2021).
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Serials to Graphic Novels: The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book, by Catherine J. Golden.  Dickens Quarterly (March 2018).

Dickens and the Myth of the Reader, by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton.  The Review of English Studies (February 2018).

Death and Mr. Pickwick, by Stephen Jarvis.  Dickens Quarterly (March 2016).