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Professor
University of California, Irvine, 1972
16 Sanborn
louis.a.renza@dartmouth.edu
Primary fields of study and teaching: 19th and early-20th-century American literature. I prefer to think through literary-cultural issues by concentrating on the works of single authors.
Courses
American Prose (English 41), Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (English 42); Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction (English 54); seminar and/or discussion-size courses on Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and Bob Dylan.
Selected Publications
- Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy. Baton Rouge: LSUP, 2002.
- "Poe's King: Playing It Close to the Pest," The Edgar Allan Poe Review, II:2 (Fall, 2001): 3-18.
- "Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Jack London: A Private Correspondence." boundary 2, 27:2 (Summer, 2000): 83-111.
- "Ut Pictura Poe: Poetic Politics in 'The Island of the Fay' and 'Morning on the Wissahiccon.'" The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Shawn J. Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 305-29.
- "The Importance of Being Ernest." Hemingway: Seven Decades of Criticism, ed. Linda Wagner-Martin (Michigan State UP, 1998): 213-38.
- "Influence." Critical Terms for Literary Study, ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (University of Chicago Press, 1990): 186-202.
- "Killing Time with Mark Twain's Autobiographies," ELH, 54 (Spring 1987): 257-70.
- "A White Heron" and the Question of Minor Literature (UP Wisconsin, 1984).
- "The Veto of the Imagination: A Theory of Autobiography." Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, ed. James Olney. (Princeton UP, 1980): 268-95.
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