Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 1962
  • M.A., Harvard University 1954
  • B.A., Earlham College 1953
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Associate Professor with Tenure, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1968 - 2011
  • Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1964 - 1968
  • Instructor, University, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1962 - 1964
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • United States of America (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Jones, B. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Bibliographical History of Criticism; Vol. IV, 1906-1965, The Era of Freud and New Criticism. forthcoming from Greenwood Press, 1992.
    • Jones, B. A Checklist of Hawthorne Criticism: 1951-1966. Transcendental Books, 1967.
    • Jones, B. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Bibliographical History of Criticism; Vol. 1, 1821-1860, To the Civil War. forthcoming from Greenwood Press, n.d.
    • Jones, B. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Bibliographical History of Criticism; Vol. II, 1861-1885, Forming the School of Hawthorne. forthcoming from Greenwood Press, n.d.
    • Jones, B. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Bibliographical History of Criticism; Vol. III, 1886-1904, Enshrining a Classical American Author. forthcoming from Greenwood Press, n.d.
    • Jones, B. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Bibliographical History of Criticism; Vol. V, 1966-1995, The Modern and Postmodern Reputations. forthcoming from Greenwood Press, n.d.

  • Academic Articles

    • Jones, B. “William S. Robinson on Griswold, Poe’s ’Literary Executioner’.” Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism 28 (June 1995): 7–8.
    • Jones, B. “What the Permanent Inspector Thought of His Portrait.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 16 (1990): 16–17.
    • Jones, B. “Models for the Pyncheon Mansion.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 15 (1989): 13–14.
    • Ljungquist, Kent, and Buford Jones. “The Identity of "Outis": A Further Chapter in the Poe-Longfellow War.” American Literature 60, no. 3 (October 1988): 402–402. https://doi.org/10.2307/2926957.
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    • Jones, B. “Decies Repetita Placebit: The Critical Reception of Twice-Told Tales, 1837-1842.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 14 (1988): 1–6.
    • Jones, B. “Review of Rita K. Gollin’s Portraits of Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Iconography.” American Literature 57 (May 1985): 334–35.
    • Jones, B. “Review of Alfred Rosa’s Salem, Transcendentalism, and Hawthorne.” American Literature 57 (May 1985): 360–360.
    • Jones, B. “The Manuscript of the Blithedale Romance.” Hawthorne Society Newsletter 11 (1985): 12–13.
    • Jones, B. “Chiefly About Political Matters: Washington City and the Campaign Biographies of 1852.” Abstract of Paper Read at the Library of Congress on 28 December 1984, Hawthorne Society Newsletter 11 (1985): 22–22.
    • Jones, B. “Review of Jonathan Arac’s Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne.” American Literature 57 (1985): 360–360.
    • Jones, B. “Legends Experimental But Not Ideal.” Hawthorne Society Newsletter 10 (1984): 7–8.
    • Jones, B. “Poe, Mrs. Osgood, and ’Annabel Lee’.” Edited by Joel Myerson, 1983, 275–80.
    • Jones, B. “The Publication Date and First Editorial Notice of Fanshawe.” Hawthorne Society Newsletter 8 (1982): 4–4.
    • Jones, B. “Some ’Mosses’ from the Literary World: Critical and Bibliographical Survey of the Hawthorne-Melville Relationship.” Edited by G. R. Thompson and Virgil L. Lokke, 1981, 173–203.
    • Jones, B. “Hawthorne at Duke University.” Hawthorne Society Newsletter 5 (1979): 9–9.
    • Jones, B. “George H. Holden and Hawthorne.” Hawthorne Society Newsletter 3 (1977): 6–6.
    • Jones, B. “Monsieur Dupin: Further Details on the Reality Behind the Legend.” Southern Literary Journal, 1976, 70–77.
    • Jones, B. “Hawthorne and Spenser: From Allusion to Allegory.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal, 1975.
    • Jones, B. “Current Hawthorne Bibliography.” Hawthorne Society Newsletter, 1975.
    • Jones, B. “Secondary Bibliography.” Hawthorne Society Newsletter 1 (1974): 2–2.
    • Jones, B. “After Long Apprenticeship: Hawthorne’s Mature Romances.” Emerson Society Quarterly 19 (1973): 1–7.
    • Jones, B. “’The Man of Adamant’ and the Moral Picturesque.” American Transcendental Quarterly, 1972, 33–41.
    • Jones, B. “Hawthorne Studies: The 1970s.” Studies in the Novel 2 (1970): 504–18.
    • Jones, B. “The ’Hall of Fantasy’ and the Early Hawthorne-Thoreau Relationship.” Publications of the Modern Language Association 83 (1968): 1429–38.
    • “Hawthorne’s Coverdale and Spenser’s Allegory of Mutability.” American Literature 39 (May 1967): 215–19.
    • Jones, B. “The Faery Land of Hawthorne’s Romances.” Emerson Society Quarterly, 1967, 106–24.
    • Jones, B. “A Thoreauvian Wordplay and Paradise Lost.” Emerson Society Quarterly, 1967, 65–66.
    • Jones, B. “Melville’s Buccaneers and Crebillon’s Sofa.” English Language Notes 2 (December 1964): 122–26.
    • Jones, B. “Spenser and Shakespeare in The Encantadas, Sketch VI.” Emerson Society Quarterly, 1964, 68–73.
    • Jones, B. “A Checklist of Hawthorne Criticism: 1951-1966.” Emerson Society Quarterly, n.d., 1–91.

  • Other Articles

    • Jones, B. “The Two Peaks of Parnassus,” 2003.
    • Idol, J. L., and B. Jones. “Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Contemporary Reviews,” 1994.
    • Jones, B. “Building Poe Bibliography: American Criticism 1850-1870.” Worcester, Baltimore, Maryland: American Literature Association, 1993.
    • Jones, B. “Hawthorne’s Concord Critic: Charles Creighton Hazewood.” Nathanial Hawthorne Society (pamphlet), 1992.
    • Jones, B. “The Dead Letter Office and the Popular Press: A Bibiliography of Nineteenth-Century Sources and a Selection of Texts.” San Diego: American Literature Association (pamphlet), 1992.
    • Jones, B., and B. ed. “Hawthorne’s Maturity: A Symposium on the Romances.” Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1973.
    • Jones, B., and B. ed. “Hawthorne’s Maturity: A Symposium on the Romances.” Emerson Society Quarterly, n.d.

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