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Department Bookshelf: Featured Publications

Bookshelf

Featuring works from Department of English faculty.

Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction

How do novels travel through time? How might they endure in a changing world and reach the readers of an unknowable future? Modernist writers were eager to think of their...

Michaela Bronstein

Assistant Professor

Michaela Bronstein studies the history of the novel, focusing on the experience of reading---both the intimate...

Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities

Alice Staveley

Milton in the Long Restoration

Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics....

Blair Hoxby

Blair Hoxby writes on the literature and culture of England, France, Italy, and Spain from 1500 to 1800. His recent...

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building The Transcontinental

The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The railroad made...

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Joseph S. Atha Professor of the Humanities

Shelley Fisher Fishkin's broad, interdisciplinary research interests have led her to focus on topics including the...

Faculty Publications

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building The Transcontinental

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2019)

Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction

Michaela Bronstein

(2018)

In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2017)

Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities

Alice Staveley

(2017)

Milton in the Long Restoration

Blair Hoxby

(2016)

Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Marjorie Perloff

(2016)

Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

Vaughn Rasberry

(2016)

Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism

Alex Woloch

(2016)

The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin

Michele Elam

(2015)

Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2015)

American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word

Albert Gelpi

(2015)

What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon

Blair Hoxby

(2015)

Fortune Smiles: Stories

Adam Johnson

(2015)

The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism

Paula Moya

(2015)

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