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Richard Brodhead

Richard Brodhead

William Preston Few Distinguished Professor Emeritus
English
richard.brodhead@duke.edu
Box 90001, Durham, NC 27708-0001
207 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Prophets in America circa 1830: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith

Chapter · January 1, 2009 This chapter finds that by contextualizing Smith's history as prophetic autobiography alongside Nat Turner's, uncannily similar aspects emerge. As a result, what the chapter calls a history of prophetism takes shape that delineates some of the forms and tr ... Full text Cite

The Cambridge History of American Literature

Chapter · 2005 Introduction. The American Literary field, 1860–1890 ... Cite

Taking democracy to school

Chapter · December 1, 2004 Cite

Thank you, science, for focusing [1]

Journal Article Science · October 19, 2001 Cite

Innovation and inspiration in education.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · October 2001 Full text Cite

New Century Views

Book · 1998 Collections of critical essays on major authors - 14 volumes in print African-American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays by William L. Andrews Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays by Judith Farr Henry James: A Collection of ... Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 1993 Cite

The Office of “The Scarlet Letter”

Journal Article Modern Language Quarterly · December 1, 1992 Full text Cite

INTRODUCTION, CLUSTER ON MODERN FICTION

Journal Article PMLA-PUBLICATIONS OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA · 1991 Cite

The Marble Faun

Book · 1990 Cite

Veiled ladies: Toward a history of antebellum entertainment

Journal Article American Literary History · June 1, 1989 Full text Cite

The School of Hawthorne

Book · 1989 In The School of Hawthorne, Brodhead uses Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born. ... Cite

HAWTHORNE AND THE FATE OF POLITICS

Journal Article ESSAYS IN LITERATURE · 1984 Cite

The 'New' Sister Carrie

Journal Article Yale Review · 1982 Cite

Flannery O'Connor: A Life in Letters

Journal Article Yale review · 1980 Cite