Richard M Brodhead

The Marble Faun

The School of Hawthorne

The School of Hawthorne

Cultures of Letters Scenes of Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth-Century America

Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel

Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel

Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel

Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America

Richard H. Brodhead

Richard Halleck Brodhead (born 1947) currently serves as the ninth president of Duke University and is a scholar of 19th-century American literature. ...

The School of Hawthorne

In The School of Hawthorne, Brodhead uses Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born. Under Brodhead's scrutiny, the Hawthorne tradition opens out onto a wide array of subjects, many of which have received little previous attention. He offers a detailed account of Haw...

The Good of This Place

This eloquent collection of essays and speeches by Richard H. Brodhead addresses issues of importance to institutes of higher learning and to those who participate in them. As the popular Dean of Yale College from 1993 to 2004, Brodhead was involved in every aspect of undergraduate education-curricu...

The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni (Penguin Classics)

Hawthorne’s final novel is a provocative look at American artists abroad and a groundbreaking exploration of the influence of European thought on American morality that anticipates the work of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. The story of the mysterious, tormente...

The Good of This Place: Values and Challenges in College Education

This eloquent collection of essays and speeches by Richard H. Brodhead addresses issues of importance to institutes of higher learning and to those who participate in them. As the popular Dean of Yale College from 1993 to 2004, Brodhead was involved in every aspect of undergraduate education - curri...

The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt

Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, Chesn...

The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance. Lesser known, thou...

Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America

Using a variety of historical sources, Richard H. Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of post-emanc...

Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views)

A collection of critical essays.