A Passion for Getting It Right: Essays and Appreciations in Honor of Michael J. Colacurcio's 50 Years of Teaching (Hardcover)

Contents: Carol M. Bensick: Two Puritans You May Not Know But Hawthorne Thinks You Should ? Inna Blyakhman/Kevin C. Moore: Hawthorne’s Doctor Experiments: Medicine, Risk Culture, and the Development of Psychological Realism ? Luke Bresky: Pro-Americans, Proto-Americans, and Un-Americans in Melville’s Israel Potter ? Emily Budick: The Vanitas of Holocaust Painting: Audrey Flack’s World War II ? Michael J. Colacurcio: Remembering the Puritans: Hawthorne and the Scene of History ? Robert Daly: ≪Singularly Connected≫ in Septimius: Multiple Perspectives in Hawthorne’s Late Work ? Robert Daly: What is the Custom-House? ? Andrew Delbanco: Introduction to The Marble Faun ? R. C. De Prospo: Michael J. Colacurcio’s (Un)Godly Letters ? James Duban: Monoaxiate Tyranny in Koestler’s Darkness at Noon ? Allan M. Emery: Melville’s Bachelors: Templars No More ? John Gatta: The Beecher Trials ? Lisa Gordis: Office Hours ? Adam Gordon: The Critic on Main Street: Hawthorne and Critical Allegory ? T. Austin Graham: Experience ? Martin Griffin: Cassandra, Bartleby, and the Direction of Time: Some Thoughts on Unknowability ? Alice Henton: Melville’s Comedy of Gender: The Battle for Domesticity in ≪I and My Chimney≫ ? Allison Johnson: ≪ Every Great and Small Thing≫: Emerson and the Divine Particular ? B. W. Jorgensen: ≪Awakened≫ by ≪the Sacred Whispers≫ in James Salter’s ≪Akhnilo≫ ? Martin Kevorkian: Bartleby and the Prophet of Reality ? Lawrence Krikorian: ≪I Have Stolen His Books≫: Teaching the Colacurcio Syllabus in Community College ? Maurice Lee: Notes on Aphoristic Genius ? Phillip L. Marcus: Sea Changes in the American Crisis Poem from Walt Whitman to Campbell McGrath ? John P. McWilliams: In Tribute ? Richard Middleton-Kaplan: Deceptive Appearances: Anti-Romance and Anti-Travelogue Beneath the Surface in Melville’s Typee ? Richard Middleton-Kaplan: Puritan Riffs: The Jazz Aesthetic in Michael J. Colacurcio’s Pedagogy ? Andrew Rosenblum: The Gnomic Pronouncements of Michael J. Colacurcio ? Mikayo Sakuma: Colacurcio, Teacher and Lecturer: A Transoceanic Perspective ? Daniel R. Schwarz: Reconfiguring Nature After Darwin: Skepticism and Sexuality in Modern British and Irish Literature ? Eric J. Sundquist: ≪A Song without Words≫: Black Thunder ? Gary Williams: Julia Ward Howe, the Travel Book, and the Public Lectern ? Michael J. Colacurcio: Autobiography ? Michael J. Colacurcio: Appendix: The Affect of Puritanism ? Michael J. Colacurcio: Limerick.