Tabitha Sparks

Books

Victorian Metafiction (University of Virginia Press, 2022)
Reviews: Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Victorians Institute Journal

A City Girl: A Realistic Story (1887) by Margaret Harkness. Ed (Broadview Press, 2017)

Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture, co-edited with Louise Penner (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices (Routledge, 2009)

The Brontës in Context: Harold Bloom's Classic Authors Series (2008)

Articles and Book Chapters

"Sensational Metafictions: Collins to Haggard.” Invited submission. The Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction. Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald, eds. Routledge. Forthcoming 2024. 

“George MacDonald’s Experimental Realism: The English Novels.” Invited submission. Cambridge Companion to George MacDonald. John Pazdziora and Daniel Gabelmen, eds. Cambridge UP. Forthcoming 2024. 

“Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance.” Invited submission.  Journal of Victorian Popular Fiction. Spring, 2023. 

“Realism.” Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Ed. Lesa Scholl. 2020.

“Narrating sociality: Helen C. Black’s Notable Women Authors of the Day.” Journal of Victorian Popular Fiction, December 2019.

“Absent Character: from Margaret Harkness to John Law.” Authorship and Activism: Margaret Harkness and Writing Social Engagement, 1880-1921. Lisa Robertson and Flore Jansen, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press (forthcoming 2018).

“Working-Class Subjectivity in Margaret Harkness’s A City Girl (1887)”, Victorian Literature and Culture (forthcoming 2017).

“Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor,” Blackwell's A Companion to The Brontës (2016).

“Introduction.” Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture. Co-written with Louise Penner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2015).

“Illness is Metaphor in the Victorian Novel: Reading Popular Fiction against Medical History.” Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture. Co-Editor with Louise Penner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2015) 22 pages.

"Literature in Medical School: why, how, and if," Hektoan Internation: A Journal of Medical Humanities (May 2014)

“Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady and Feminine Reason: ‘Quite Impossible, and nevertheless quite true!’” Clues 31.2 (Winter 2014).

“Kate Marsden’s Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with a Missionary Nurse.” Picturing Women’s Health, 1790-1914, ed. Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth, and Ji Won Chung. London: Pickering & Chatto (Winter 2014).

“Dinah Mulock Craik’s Olive: Deformity, Gender, and Female Destiny.” Women’s Writing 20.3 (2013).

“Sensation Intervention: M.C. Houstoun’s Recommended to Mercy (1862) and the Novel of Experience.” Women’s Writing 20.2 (2013).

“To the Madhouse Born: the Ethics of Exteriority in Lady Audley’s Secret.” New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Ed. Jessica Cox. Amsterdam/New York: Rodolpi, 2012.

“Lineage as Destiny in Catherine Cookson’s Our Kate: Reprising the Victorian Orphan Tale” and “Introduction” (with Julie Anne Taddeo), Catherine Cookson Country: On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction, and History. Ed. Julie Anne Taddeo. (Ashgate, 2012).

“Realism after Sensation: Hardy, Gissing, Meredith,” Blackwell's Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011).

"AIDS in Africa, Cultural Studies in Georgia," Cultural Studies vol. 19. No.4 (July 2005).

“Medical Gothic and the Return of the Contagious Diseases Acts in Stoker and Machen,” Nineteenth-Century Feminisms (Fall 2003).

“Narrative Injury and Surgical Cure: Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch and Heart and Science,” Journal of Narrative Theory (Winter 2002).

“Fiction Becomes Her: Representations of Female Character in Mary Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife,” Mary Braddon in Context, eds. Marlene Tromp, Aerin Haynie, and Pamela K. Gilbert. State University of New York Press (2000).