English Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Transforming Captivity Narratives in Kevin Willmott’s The Only Good Indian (2009)
(Mid-america American Studies Association, 2016)In this essay, I closely examine Kevin Willmott's The Only Good Indian (2009), a post-modern filmic reflection on the Native boarding school experience, to think about how narrative forms associated with captivity of white ... -
Review Essay - New Genealogies of Performance
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Sassoon’s Fox-Hunting Man: The Sporting Character in The Memoirs of George Sherston
(East Tennessee State University, 2017) -
Review of Ray Parlour, The Romford Pelé
(Sport Literature Association, 2017-02-09) -
Transported to Botany Bay: Imagining Australia in Nineteenth-Century Convict Broadsides
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-02)The speaker of this ballad (circa 1828) laments the fact that, though he was born of “honest parents,” he became “a roving blade” and has been convicted of an unspecified crime for which he has been sentenced to “Botany ... -
Crossing the Threshold: Zora Neale Hurston, Racial Performance, and Seraph on the Suwanee
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)This essay explores Zora Neale Hurston’s evolving discourse on interracial cultural exchanges in her various representations of a black female child artist. It examines her treatment of race, performance, and audience in ... -
Pastoral Paradigms and Displacements, with some Proposals
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979) -
"Une Exploration des Deserts de Ma Memoire": Pastoral Aspects of Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979) -
Some Version of the Primitive and the Pastoral on the Great Plains of America
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979) -
Truth and the Pastor's Vision in George Crabbe, William Barnes and R.S. Thomas
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979) -
Collins and the End of the Shepherd Pastoral
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The Pastoral Moment
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979) -
"The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession": Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work
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New Light on Jonson and Roman Comedy: Volpone and Eunuchus, Magnetic Lady and Truculentus
(Edinburgh University Press, 2013)Behind the practice of imitation in Renaissance literature lay the knowledge that the ancients themselves had imitated. Roman followed Greek comedy as Virgil followed Homer. Terence readily countered the charge that he ... -
Robert Wild's The Benefice as "Country" Dramatic Satire
(Edinburgh University Press, 2012)One motive for writing a commentary on a play no one has read is to encourage reading it. Another may be to unearth its contemporary relevance, especially if it represents the viewpoint of a group of angry white males ... -
Apocalypse Then: TAMBURLAINE and the Pleasures of Religious Fear
(Baylor University Theatre, 2006)Well before the rise of the public playhouses religion provided an irresistible current of imaginative material for the ordinary person in sixteenth-century England. It is worthwhile to inquire into the ways in which this ... -
Annihilated Space: American Literature and American Society
(Main and Fulton, 2016)Annihilated Space uses American literature to understand our social history. Flexible and inclusive, it shows multiple ways in which national fiction, drama, journals and poetry reveal us. The study builds upon a lifetime ... -
Convention and Design in Drayton's Heroicall Epistles
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"Ritual" in Recent Criticism: The Elusive Sense of Community
(Modern Language Association, 1983-10) -
Review of Joe D. Schrag, The Kansas Relays
(Sport Literature Association, 2014-08-04)