A Passion for Getting It Right

Carol M. Bensick received her PhD in American literature to 1914 at Cornell University. She is the author of La Nouvelle Beatrice: Renaissance and Romance in «Rappaccini’s Daughter.» Her essays appear in New Essays on The Scarlet Letter, New Essays on Hawthorne’s Major Tales, and Hawthorne and Women. She has also published numerous articles in journals and reference publications. She has taught at the University of Denver, Cornell University, the University of Oregon, and the University of California – Riverside. For five years, Bensick was a research associate of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Her present focus is the status of women in nineteenth-century American philosophy, on which she has given papers at the Summer Institute for American Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association. Her current book-length project is on Julia Ward Howe.

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.