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James A. W. Heffernan

Heffernan

Professor of English, Emeritus
Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing

PhD Princeton University, 1964

jamesheff@dartmouth.edu

Having originally specialized in English Romanticism, I have published studies of all six major Romantic poets, on the cultural impact of the French Revolution, and on the relations between English Romantic poetry and landscape painting. The latter topic has led me to examine more generally the relation between visual art and language in my latest book, Cultivating Picturacy.  Also, having taught for many years a seminar on James Joyce’s Ulysses, I have recorded a set of lectures on it and published an article on the final chapter.  Presently I am working on a study of hospitality and treachery in Western literature.

Courses

  • English Romantic Poetry
  • Seminar on James Joyce
  • European Romanticism (for Comparative Literature)
  • Nineteenth-Century English Novel
  • Epic and Mock Epic (Special Topics course)

Selected Publications

  • Wordsworth's Theory of Poetry: The Transforming Imagination. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969.
  • The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1985.
  • [Editor]. Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiography and Art. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1992.
  • Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • [Co-author]. Writing: A College Handbook. Fifth edition. New York: Norton, 2001.
  • Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006)
  • "Adonais: Shelley's Consumption of Keats," Studies in Romanticism 23 (1984): 295-315. Reprinted in Romanticism: A Critical Reader, ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994): 173-91.
  • "The Presence of the Absent Mother in Wordsworth's Prelude," Studies in Romanticism 27 (1988) 253-72.
  • "Blake's Oothoon: The Dilemmas of Marginality," Studies in Romanticism 30 (1991) 3-18.
  • "Painting Against Poetry: Reynolds' Discourses and the Discourse of Turner's Art," Word and Image 7 (1991): 275-99. Reprinted in So Rich a Tapestry: The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies, ed. Ann Hurley and Kate Greenspan (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1995): 151-77.
  • "History and Autobiography: The French Revolution in Wordsworth's Prelude." Representing the French Revolution (see above): 41-62.
  • "Alberti on Apelles: Word and Image in De Pictura." International Journal of the Classical Tradition 2.3 (1996): 345-59.
  • "Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film." Critical Inquiry 24 (1997): 133-58.
  • "Wordsworth's London: The Imperial Monster." Studies in Romanticism 37 (Fall 1998): 421-443.
  • "Wordsworth's 'Leveling' Muse in 1798," 1798: The Year of the LYRICAL BALLADS, ed. Richard Cronin (London: Macmillan, 1998): 231-53.
  • "Speaking for Pictures: The Rhetoric of Art Criticism." Word   Image 14 (July-September 1998): 1-15.
  •  “Literacy and Picturacy: How Do We Learn to Read Pictures?” Prisms: Essays in Romanticism 7 (1999): 17-49.  Revised version appears in Cultural Functions of Intermedial Expoloration, ed. Erik Hedling and Ulla-Britta Lagerroth (Amsterdam: Rodopi,  2002): 35-66.
  • "Hockney Rewrites Hogarth: A Gay Rake Progresses to America." Art on Paper 4.2 (Nov.-Dec. 1999): 56-61, 103.
  • "Peter Milton's Turn: An American Printmaker Marks the End of the Millennium." Word   Image 16 (April-June 2000): 177-96.
  • "Love, Death, and Grotesquerie: Beardsley's Illustrations of Wilde and Pope." Book Illustrated: Text, Image, and Culture 1770-1730, ed. Catherine J. Golden (New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000): 195-240.
  • Twenty-four lectures on James Joyce’s Ulysses taped by the Teaching Company of Chantilly, Virginia (www.teach12.com) in March 2001. Available on video, audio CD, and DVD.
  • “James Joyce,” British Writers: Retrospective Supplement (New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002): 169-182.
  • “Joyce’s Merrimanic Heroine: Molly vs. Bloom in Midnight Court,” James Joyce Quarterly  41.4 (Summer 2004): 745-65.
  •  “ ‘Cruel Persuasion’:  Seduction, Temptation, and Agency in Hardy’s Tess. " The Thomas Hardy Year Book 35 (2005): 5-18.  Link to the digitized article
  • Twenty-four lectures on Great Authors from Wordsworth to Beckett (Parts 6 and 7 of Great Authors Series) taped by the Teaching Company in May 2004.  Available on video, audio CD, and DVD.

 

Last Updated: 2/26/08