American Literature

Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750

(1990)

Narrating Discovery: The Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1855

(1992)

Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era

(1993)

The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South 1861-1865

(2000)

Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America

(2006)

Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York

(2006)

Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics

(2012)

The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

(2012)

Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America

(2013)

Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel

(2013)

Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story

(2013)

The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture

(2014)

Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America

(2014)

Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands

(2015)

James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years

(2017)

The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times

(2017)

Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America

(2018)
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