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Department Bookshelf: Featured Publications

Department Bookshelf

Featuring works from Department of English faculty.

The Reader in the Book, A Study of Spaces and Traces

A study of early modern marginalia: what did Renaissance readers write in their books, and how can we as literary scholars and historians take it into account?

Stephen Orgel

Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities

Stephen Orgel has published widely on the political and historical aspects of Renaissance literature, theater, art...

What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon

Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before...

Blair Hoxby

Associate Professor

Blair Hoxby writes on the literature and culture of England, France, Italy, and Spain from 1500 to 1800. His recent...

Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)

American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places...

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Joseph S. Atha Professor in the Humanities

Shelley Fisher Fishkin's broad, interdisciplinary research interests have led her to focus on topics including the ways...

Fortune Smiles: Stories

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea,The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson is one of America’s most provocative and powerful authors....

Adam Johnson

Phil and Penny Knight Professor in Creative Writing

Adam Johnson is a Professor of English with emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University. Winner of a Whiting...

Faculty Publications

Aesthetics of Discomfort

Herbert Lindenberger

(2016)

The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin

Michele Elam

(2015)

Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2015)

American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word

Albert Gelpi

(2015)

What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon

Blair Hoxby

(2015)

Fortune Smiles: Stories

Adam Johnson

(2015)

The Reader in the Book, A Study of Spaces and Traces

Stephen Orgel

(2015)

Mendocino Fire: Stories

Elizabeth Tallent

(2015)

A Woman Without a Country: Poems

Eavan Boland

(2014)

Tombo

Simone Di Piero

(2014)

Failure and the American Writer

Gavin Jones

(2014)

John L'Heureux

(2014)

Scotland the Brave

Bliss Carnochan

(2013)

Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Roland Greene

(2013)

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