Past Publications
& Presentations
Doctoral thesis
'Mystery
and Uncertainty in Modern Fiction: A Study of the
Relations between Popular Mystery Forms & Non-Classical
Fiction'
D.Phil. dissertation, U. of Sussex
(January 1986)
Monographs
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Serializing
Fiction in the Victorian Press.
Palgrave (Macmillan/St Martin's Press),
London/New York. October 2000.
Google Books: <http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=dOuhyJIJkUMC>
Go to Reviews
and Comments on Serializing Fiction
Indexes to
Fiction in the 'Illustrated London News' (1842-1901) and
'Graphic' (1869-1901).
Victorian Fiction Research Guides #29,
Department of English, University of Queensland, 2001.
Online edition: <victorianfictionresearchguides.org/the-illustrated-london-news-and-the-graphic/>
Go to Reviews
and Comments on Indexes to Fiction
Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life
(with Andrew Maunder).
Palgrave Macmillan, London/New
York, 2008.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life
Charlotte M. Brame (1836-1884):
Towards a Primary Bibliography (with Greg Drozdz
and Debby McNally).
Victorian Fiction Research Guides #36,
Department of Media, Canterbury Christchurch University, 2011.
Online edition: <victorianfictionresearchguides.org/charlotte-may-brame/>
Go to Reviews and Comments on Charlotte
M. Brame: Towards a Primary Bibliography
"Routledge Research in Journalism" Series #46.
Routledge, London, 2023.
Google Books: <https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=yvnZEAAAQBAJ>
RSVP Colby Book Prize for 2024: "Honourable Mention (Runner Up)"
Go to: https://rs4vp.org/awards/colby-prize/
"The award committee praised The Periodical Press Revolution for offering 'a bold and ambitious argument centred on E. S. Dallas's influential 1859 essays for Blackwood's Magazine. Based on an intertwined methodology of quantitative data and qualitative argument, this is an impressive book about press transformations underpinned by a media theory approach. Graham Law gives fresh and valuable perspectives in particular on structural change and developments in the British nineteenth-century press through Dallas as an organizing figure.'"
Academic Articles in Books
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'College Entrance Exams and Team Teaching in High School
English Classrooms.'
In Studies in Team Teaching ed.
Minoru Wada & Antony Cominos.
Kenkyusha, Tokyo, 1994.
'Industrial Designs: Form and Function in the
"Condition-of-England" Novel.'
In Corresponding Powers: Studies in Honour of Professor Hisaaki
Yamanouchi ed. George Hughes. Boydell
& Brewer, London, 1997.
'"Our Author": Braddon in the
Provincial Weeklies' (with Jennifer Carnell).
In Beyond Sensation: Mary Braddon in Context, ed. Marlene
Tromp, Pamela Gilbert, & Aeron Haynie.
SUNY Press, New York, 2000.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on Beyond
Sensation
'Yesterday's Sensations: Modes of Publication and Narrative
Form In Collins's Late Novels.'
In Reality's Dark Light: The
Sensational Wilkie Collins, ed. Maria K. Bachman and Don
Richard Cox, Univ. of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN., 2003.
Go to Reviews and
Comments on Reality's Dark Light
'"Nothing but a Newspaper": Serializing Fiction in the Press
in the 1840s.'
In Encounters in the Victorian Press:
Editors, Authors, Readers, ed. Laurel Brake & Julie
F. Codell, Palgrave Macmillan,
2004.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on Encounters
in
the Victorian Press
'Imagined Local Communities: Three Victorian Newspaper
Novelists.'
In Printing Places: Locations
of Book Production & Distribution since 1500, ed.
John Hinks & Catherine
Armstrong, London: British Library/Newcastle, DEL: Oak Knoll
Press, 2005.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on Printing
Places
'Collins on International Copyright: From "A National Wrong"
(1870) to "Considerations" (1880).'
In Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary
Essays, ed Andrew Mangham,
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on Wilkie
Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays
'Le pouvoir a la peripherie: ver
un atlas du roman-feuilleton europeen'
(trans. M-F. Cachin)
In Au bonheur
du feuilleton: naissance et mutations d'un genre, ed, M-F. Cachin
et al, Paris: Creaphis, 2007.
'"A Vile Way of Publishing": Gissing and Serials.' (in
Japanese)
In Gissing and Later Victorian Society and
Culture (On the 150th Anniversary of His Birth),
ed Mitsuharu
Matuoka, Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2007.
'Reynolds's "Memoirs" series and "the literature of the
kitchen".'
In G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century
Fiction, Politics, and the Press, eds
Louis James & Anne Humpherys,
Aldershot: Ashgate,
2008.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on G.W.M. Reynolds
'Again the Zelig Effect: Israel
Zangwill and the Modern Short Story.'
In Studies in Victorian and Modern
Literature: A Tribute to John Sutherland, ed. William Baker, Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2015.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature
'Neither Tales nor Short Stories?: Issues of Authorship,
Readership and Publishing in A Group of Noble Dames.'
In Thomas Hardy's Short Stories: New
Perspectives, ed. Juliette
Berning Schaefer & Siobhan Brownson, London/New York: Routledge,
2017.
Go to Reviews and Comments on Thomas Hardy's Short Stories
'Wilkie Collins and "the discovery of an Unknown Public".'
In Journalism and the
Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. Joanne Shattock, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2017.
Go to Reviews and Comments on Journalism and the Periodical Press
'Shorter Fiction.'
In Wilkie Collins in
Context, ed. William Baker
& Richard Nemesvari,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
In Wilkie Collins in Context, ed. William Baker & Richard Nemesvari, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
'Periodicals, Popular Fiction and the Affordances of Digital Collections.'
In Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1860s, ed. Pamela Gilbert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
'"One of the greatest nuisances of the day"? The canvassing of British number books over the nineteenth century.'
In Where the Victorians Got Their Reading, ed. Frederick Nesta. Brighton: Edward Everett Root, 2024.
Academic Articles in Journals
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'Reading the Signs: Poe, Doyle, and Freud' (Parts 1 & 2).
In PSELL Journal 7 & 8
(November 1983/1984), Society for the Psychoanalytical Study
of English Language and Literature, Japan.
'Variations on the Theme of Popular and Serious: Borges and
Ellery Queen',
In Journal of the Faculty of Humanities
18 (March 1984), Shinshu U., Fac. of Humanities.
Available from: <soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/1099/files/Humanities_18-07.pdf>.
'"The Question is Which is to be Master": Freud and Nabokov',
In Journal of the Faculty of Humanities
19 (March 1985), Shinshu U., Fac. of Humanities.
Available from: <soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/1085/files/Humanities_19-06.pdf>.
'Holmes is Where One Starts from?',
In Bulletin of the Department of
Foreign Languages 33:3 (February 1986), Tokyo U., Fac.
of General Education.
'Imperial Themes: Joseph Conrad and John Buchan',
In Bulletin of the Department of
Foreign Languages 35:3 (March 1988), Tokyo U., Fac. of
General Education.
'"Il s'agissait peut-être d'un roman policier": Leblanc,
MacDonald, Robbe-Grillet.'
In Comparative Literature 40:4
(November 1988), Oregon U.
'First Reading: Second Thoughts on English
Studies in the Japanese College Curriculum' (with Sheila
Hones).
In Keisen Jogakuen College Bulletin
1 (March 1989), Keisen Jogakuen College.
Available from: <keisen.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=228&file_id=18&file_no=1>.
'In a Manner of Speaking: Class,Voice, and Change in Three
Post-War British Films.'
In Keisen Jogakuen College
Bulletin 4 (January 1992), Keisen Jogakuen College.
Available from: <keisen.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=267&file_id=18&file_no=1>.
'The Romance of
Empire: John Buchan's Early Writings.' [34K PDF file]
In Humanitas
31 (February 1993), Waseda
University Law Society.
'The Serial
Publication in Britain of the Novels of Wilkie Collins.' [42K
PDF file]
In Humanitas
33 (February 1995), Waseda
University Law Society.
'Ideologies of English Language Education in Japan.'
In JALT Journal 17:2 (November
1995), Japan Association for Language Teaching.
Available from: <https://jalt-publications.org/sites/default/files/pdf-article/jj-17.2-art4.pdf>.
'Industrial
Relations: Carlyle's Influence on Hard Times.' [58K
PDF file]
In Humanitas
34 (February 1996), Waseda
University Law Society.
'Wilkie in the Weeklies: The Serialization and Syndication of
Collins's Late Novels.'
In Victorian Periodicals Review
30:3 (Fall 1997).
'Last Things: Materials Relating to Collins in the Watt
Collection at Chapel Hill.'
In Wilkie Collins Society Journal
NS 1 (November 1998).
Available from: <https://wilkiecollinssociety.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1998-New-Series-Vol-1.pdf>.
'"Engaged to Messrs. Tillotson
and Son": Letters from John Maxwell, 1882-8.'
In Humanitas
37 (February 1999), Waseda
University Law Society.
'Before Tillotsons: Novels in
British Provincial Newspapers, 1855-1873.'
In Victorian Periodicals Review
32:1 (Spring 1999).
'"Belt and Braces" Serialization: The Case of Heart and
Science' (with Steve Farmer).
In Wilkie Collins Society Journal
NS 2 (November 1999).
Available from: <https://wilkiecollinssociety.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1999-New-Series-Vol-2.pdf>.
'International Perspectives on the Newspaper Novel.'
In Humanitas
38 (February 2000), Waseda
University Law Society.
'The Newspaper Novel: Towards an International History' (with
Norimasa Morita).
In Media History 6:1 (June 2000).
'"Poor Fargus": On Wilkie Collins
and Hugh Conway'.
In Wilkie Collins Society Journal
NS 3 (November 2000).
Available from: <https://wilkiecollinssociety.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2000-New-Series-Vol-3.pdf>.
'Above the Common Herd? Bulwer Lytton and Serialization.'
In Humanitas
39 (February 2001), Waseda
University Law Society.
'New Woman Novels in Newspapers'.
In Media History 7:1 (June 2001,
'The New Woman and the Periodical Press' Special Issue).
'A World Elsewhere: National Identity and the British New
Wave',
In Humanitas
40 (March 2002), Waseda
University Law Society.
'Slimming or Slumming?: Dickens and the Shift from Monthly to
Weekly Serialization',
In The Dickens Fellowship Japan Branch
Bulletin 25 (October 2002).
'Collins and Chattos: The Reading
Papers.'
In Wilkie Collins Society Journal
NS 5 (November 2002).
Available from: <https://wilkiecollinssociety.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2002-New-Series-Vol-5.pdf>.
'Towards an International History of the Newspaper Novel' (in
Japanese, with Norimasa Morita).
In Bungaku
4:1/2 (January 2003), Iwanami Shoten.
'More Light on the Serial Publication of Tess of the
D'Urbervilles ' (with John Stock Clarke).
In Review of English Studies 54:213
(February 2003), Oxford University Press. Reprinted in The
Thomas Hardy Journal 20:2 (June 2004).
'Trollope and the Newspapers.'
In Media History 9:1 (April 2003)
'Japan and the Internationalization of the Serial Fiction
Market' (with Norimasa Morita).
In Book History 6 (November 2003),
Pennsylvania State University Press.
'Women's Sensation Narrative and Newspaper Fiction: On Dora
Russell's Beneath the Wave'
In Humanitas
42 (February 2004), Waseda
University Law Society.
'"Savouring of the Australian
Soil"?: On the Sources and Affiliations of Colonial Newspaper
Fiction.'
In Victorian Periodicals Review
37:4 (Special Issue, edited by Rosemary VanArsdel,
on periodicals of Australia, New Zealand, and South
Africa; Winter 2004).
'Modes of Publication of Women's Sensation Fiction:
Commodities and Communities.'
In Waseda
Global Forum 1 (March 2005), SILS.
Available from: <https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=24700&file_id=162&file_no=1>.
'The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda and
Corrigenda (1)' (with William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Paul
Lewis).
In Wilkie Collins Society Journal NS 8
(November 2005).
Available from: <https://wilkiecollinssociety.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2005-New-Series-Vol-8.pdf>.
'A Tale of Two Authors: On the shorter fiction of Gaskell and
Collins.'
In Gaskell Studies (Japan Gaskell
Society) 16 (October 2006). Revised version in Wilkie
Collins Society Journal NS 9 (December 2006).
Available from: <http://www.gaskell.jp/ronshu/16/16_01-14LAW.pdf>.
'The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda and
Corrigenda (2)' (with William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Paul
Lewis).
In Wilkie Collins Society Journal NS 9
(December 2006).
Available from: <https://wilkiecollinssociety.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2006-New-Series-Vol-9.pdf>.
'"A Vile Way of Publishing": Gissing and Serials.'
In Victorian Review (Victorian Studies
Association of Western Canada) 33:1 (April 2007).
'Sympathy for the Devil: or, When was the ending of A
Life's Morning rewritten?'
In Australasian
Journal of Victorian Studies 12:1 (December 2007).
'The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda and
Corrigenda (3)' (with William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Paul
Lewis).
In Wilkie Collins Society Journal NS 10
(December 2007).
Available from: <https://wilkiecollinssociety.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2007-New-Series-Vol-10.pdf>.
'The Serial Revolution at the Periphery'
In Angles on the English Speaking
World NS10: Moveable Type, Mobile Notions: Transactions
in Book History (July 2010).
'Out of Her Hands: On the Charlotte M. Brame
Manuscripts in the O'Neill Collection (MSS 0141)'
In Waseda
Global Forum 8 (March 2012), SILS.
Available from: <https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=25184&file_id=162&file_no=1>
'Old vs. New Journalism and the Public Sphere; or, Habermas Encounters Dallas and Stead'
(with Matthew Sterenberg)
In 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the
Long Nineteenth Century (U. of London, Birkbeck College) 16 (March 2013).
Available from: <https://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1749/>.
'On the Provenance of Two Late "American Stories" Attributed
to Wilkie Collins'
In Waseda
Global Forum 10 (March 2014), SILS,
Waseda University.
Available from: <http://glaw.w.waseda.jp/arts/WasedaGlobalForum_10_Law.pdf>
'The "realm of
the dead" and Modern Media: The Strange Case of W.T. Stead'
In Transcommunication 7-1 (Spring 2020), GSICCS,
Waseda University.
Available from: <https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=52117&file_id=162&file_no=1>
In Transcommunication 7-2 (Fall 2020),
GSICCS, Waseda University.
Available from: <https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=58125&file_id=162&file_no=1>
'Being Alone: Experiences of Isolation in the Imaginary
Worlds of His Dark Materials.'
In Literary Geographies 6:2
('Literary Geographies in Isolation', Dec. 2020).
Available from: <https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/download/283/pdf>
In George Eliot—George Henry Lewes
Studies 75:1 (Nov. 2023).
Contributions to Academic Reference Works
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'Periodicals and Syndication.'
In A Companion to the Victorian Novel,
ed. William Baker & Kenneth Womack. Greenwood Press,
Westport CT., 2002.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on A Companion to the Victorian Novel
Biographical Entries on Victorian novelists: F.J.
Fargus (vol. 19), K.S. Macquoid (vol. 36), and J. Saunders
(with two co-subjects, vol. 49).
In Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, 60 vols, Oxford
University Press. September 2004.
'The Professional Writer and the Literary
Market Place.'
In The Cambridge Companion to
Wilkie Collins, ed Jenny
Bourne Taylor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Go to Reviews
and Comments on The
Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins
Approx. 25 entries, including 'Copyright', 'Anonymity and
Signature', and 'Serials and the 19th-century Publishing
Industry' (500 words each).
In Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century
Journalism, eds. Laurel Brake & Marysa Demoor,
Academia Press, Ghent / The British Library, 2009.
***RSVP
(Research Society for Victorian Periodicals) Colby Book Prize
for 2010***
'The Serial Revolution' (with Robert L. Patten) (10,000
words).
Chapter 3 of The Cambridge Histor