Jillmarie Murphy

Publications

(Books)

• Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century, with Dewey W. Hall (Clemson University Press, 2020).

• Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth Century American Literature: New Materialist Representations (Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2018, reprinted 2020).

• Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Novel (University of Delaware Press, 2011).

• Hawthorne in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections,Interviews, and Memoirs by His Family, Friends, and Associates, with Ronald A. Bosco. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008).

(Current Book Projects)

• Women and the Environment in the Long-Nineteenth Century, 4 Volumes. Under contract with Routledge/Taylor & Francis, forthcoming.
  • Volume I: The Environment of War and Rebellion
  • Volume II: Creativity and Entangled Environments
  • Volume III: Social Justice and Marginalized Environments
  • Volume IV: Science, Medicine, and Natural History

• The Politics of Human-Nonhuman Animal Attachments in Trans-Atlantic Literary Naturalism.

• Loss Aversion and Neuroplasticity in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown

(Peer-reviewed Journal Articles)

• “Analeptic Sublime: Recuperative Forces in Joel Tyler Headley’s Adirondack; or Life in the Woods (1849),” in Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies(AJES) 22 (Spring 2018).
• “The Humming Bird; or Herald of Taste (1798): Periodical Culture and Female Editorship in the Early American Republic,” in American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism (Spring 2016): 44-69.
• “Maternal Fathers; or, the Power of Sympathy: Phillis Wheatley’s Poem to “His Excellency General Washington.’” Literature in the Early American Republic(LEAR) 6 (2014).
• “Chains of Emancipation: Place Attachment and the Great Northern Migration in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Sport of the Gods,” Studies in American Naturalism 8.2 (winter 2013)

(Book Chapters)

• "Beyond the Binary: Transforming Ecologies in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours and Celia Thaxter’s Among the Isles of Shoals,” in Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Eds. Jillmarie Murphy & Dewey W. Hall, Clemson University Press, 2020, 139-155.
• “The Politics of Place Attachment and the Laboring Body in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” in Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice. Ed. Dewey Hall, Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield Books, (2017).
• “Emerson as a National Icon,” in Emerson in Context, edited by Wesley T. Mott, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• “New England Poetry,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature, edited by Kevin J. Hayes, Oxford University Press, 2008, with Ronald A. Bosco.

(Book Review)

• Ashley Barnes, Love and Depth in the American Novel: From Stowe to James, in Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, vol. 47, no. 1, 2021.