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Department Bookshelf: Featured Publications

Department Bookshelf

Featuring works from Department of English faculty.

Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in...

Roland Greene

The Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences

Roland Greene's research and teaching are concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the...

The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn

The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn

The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the...

Ramón Saldívar

The Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences

Ramón Saldívar, professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and...

Dostoevsky's Democracy

Dostoevsky's Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period...

Nancy Ruttenburg

The William Robertson Coe Professor in American Literature

Nancy Ruttenburg is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature in the English Department at Stanford.

Failure and the American Writer

If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers -...

Gavin Jones

Department Chair

Gavin Jones is department Chair. He is the author of Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age...

Faculty Publications

The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin

Michele Elam

(2015)

A Woman Without a Country: Poems

Eavan Boland

(2014)

Tombo

Simone Di Piero

(2014)

Failure and the American Writer

Gavin Jones

(2014)

John L'Heureux

(2014)

(2014)

Scotland the Brave

Bliss Carnochan

(2013)

Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Roland Greene

(2013)

One Family's Shoah

Herbert Lindenberger

(2013)

Prose of the World

Saikat Majumdar

(2013)

Distant Reading

Franco Moretti

(2013)

The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature

Franco Moretti

(2013)

The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn

Ramón Saldívar

(2013)

Ends of Enlightenment

John Bender

(2012)

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