Maia McAleavey is an associate professor in the Department of English at Boston College. She is the author of The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel (Cambridge University Press), as well as essays in NOVEL, Representations, Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and elsewhere. Her current book project, The Chronicle and the Narrative of the Group, distinguishes the “chronicle” from the novel as a form that foregrounds collectivity over individualism.











