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Department Bookshelf: Featured Publications

Bookshelf

Featuring works from Department of English faculty.

Text Technologies: A History

The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable...

Elaine Treharne

Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities

I am an early medievalist with specializations in the handwritten book and the uses of digital technologies for textual...

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

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 principal concern throughout her career has been literature and social justice. Much of her...

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)

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

Tom Owens

(2019)

Text Technologies: A History

Elaine Treharne

(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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