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Michael T. Gilmore
Professor Ph.D., Harvard University Rabb 141 office hours: gilmore @ brandeis.edu 781-736-2140 |
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Research Interests
18th-& 19th-Century American Literature, American History and Political Thought, 20th-Century American Fiction, American Cinema, American Puritanism.
Selected Publications
Surface & Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
Oxford University Press, 2003.
Differences in the Dark, American Movies and English Theater
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
"Letters of the Early Republic" in The Cambridge History of American Literature
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Co-edited with Wai Chee Dimock.
American Romanticism and the Marketplace.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Early American Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1980.
The Middle Way: Puritanism and Ideology in American Romantic Fiction.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1977.
Articles and reviews in ELH, American Literature, Early American Literature, New England Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, The Nation, and other periodicals
Current Projects
"Words/Deeds: A Reinterpretation of the American Renaissance" The work argues that all the major prose writers of the antebellum period, from Emerson to Hawthorne to Douglass to Stowe, were haunted by the memory of performative utterance, the union of word and deed that had characterized American "literature" in previous centuries (i.e. sermons, revolutionary pamphlets, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, etc.) and that was revived in the cauldron of the slavery crisis.
Selected Courses Taught
American Literature from 1832 to 1900 (ENG 6a)
Surface & Depth: Explorations in American Legibility ENG 206b)
Literature, Culture, and Society: American Novels from the Revolution to the 20th Century (ENG 266a)
American Fins de Siecles (ENG 208a)
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