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Department Bookshelf: Featured Publications

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Featuring works from Department of English faculty.

Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens'

-Explores the range and vitality of the Romantic imagination by uncovering the scientific structures which inspired poetic, religious and philosophical thinking -New...

Tom Owens

Assistant Professor

Subjects of Advice: Drama and Counsel from More to Shakespeare (Hardback)

In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupić considers a variety of Renaissance dramatic texts, from the canonical plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare to the anonymous moral interludes and...

Ivan Lupić

Assistant Professor

Ivan Lupić specializes in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary...

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...

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

Director of Undergraduate Studies

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

Faculty Publications

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building The Transcontinental

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2019)

Subjects of Advice: Drama and Counsel from More to Shakespeare (Hardback)

Ivan Lupić

(2019)

Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens'

Tom Owens

(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)

The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, ed.

Ato Quayson

(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)

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