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Immigration, Irony, And Vision In Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter Of Maladies, Brian Yothers Oct 2015

Immigration, Irony, And Vision In Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter Of Maladies, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Melville's Reconstructions: "The Swamp Angel," "Formerly A Slave," And The Moorish Maid In "Lee In The Capitol", Brian Yothers Sep 2015

Melville's Reconstructions: "The Swamp Angel," "Formerly A Slave," And The Moorish Maid In "Lee In The Capitol", Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Kesey's Transcendental Gothic: Traces Of American Romanticism In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Brian Yothers Aug 2015

Kesey's Transcendental Gothic: Traces Of American Romanticism In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Rev. Of Principle And Propensity, By Kelsey L. Bennett, In Review 19, Brian Yothers Jul 2015

Rev. Of Principle And Propensity, By Kelsey L. Bennett, In Review 19, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Rev. Of The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel, By Jerome Mcgann, In Review 19, Brian Yothers Jun 2015

Rev. Of The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel, By Jerome Mcgann, In Review 19, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Melville's Sexualities, Brian Yothers May 2015

Melville's Sexualities, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Sacred Uncertainty: Religious Difference And The Shape Of Melville's Career, Brian Yothers Mar 2015

Sacred Uncertainty: Religious Difference And The Shape Of Melville's Career, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Sacred Uncertainty (published April 2015) explores Herman Melville's engagement with a wide range of religious traditions across his entire career.


Review In Translation And Literature Of Jeffrey Einboden, Nineteenth-Century Us Literature In Middle Eastern Languages, Brian Yothers Feb 2015

Review In Translation And Literature Of Jeffrey Einboden, Nineteenth-Century Us Literature In Middle Eastern Languages, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Speaking Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian Yothers Feb 2015

Speaking Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


The Stray Greatness Of Vikram Seth: Sexuality And Form In The Golden Gate And Beyond, Brian Yothers Dec 2014

The Stray Greatness Of Vikram Seth: Sexuality And Form In The Golden Gate And Beyond, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Melville And Americanness: A Special Issue, Brian Yothers Oct 2014

Introduction: Melville And Americanness: A Special Issue, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


The Critics And The Whale, Brian Yothers Sep 2014

The Critics And The Whale, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Ishmael's Doubts And Intuitions, Brian Yothers Sep 2014

Ishmael's Doubts And Intuitions, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Arabs, Arabesques, And America: The Place Of Poe In Studies Of Literary Orientalism, Brian Yothers Dec 2013

Arabs, Arabesques, And America: The Place Of Poe In Studies Of Literary Orientalism, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Associate Editor, Brian Yothers Aug 2013

Associate Editor, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

As of September 1, 2013, I will be associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies (published by Johns Hopkins University Press).


Alternative Atlantics: Anglo-American And German American Literary Transnationalism In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Brian Yothers Apr 2013

Alternative Atlantics: Anglo-American And German American Literary Transnationalism In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Review Of Alfred Bendixen (Ed) A Companion To The American Novel In Review 19, Brian Yothers Apr 2013

Review Of Alfred Bendixen (Ed) A Companion To The American Novel In Review 19, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Betting On Fiction: Nation, Diaspora, Technology, And Anglophone Literary Networks In Shehan Karunatilaka's The Legend Of Pradeep Mathew, Brian Yothers Dec 2012

Betting On Fiction: Nation, Diaspora, Technology, And Anglophone Literary Networks In Shehan Karunatilaka's The Legend Of Pradeep Mathew, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Reading "The Indies": Transnational Ventures In Early American Literature, Brian Yothers Sep 2012

Reading "The Indies": Transnational Ventures In Early American Literature, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Rev. Of Roberson, Susan L. Antebellum American Women Writers And The Road: American Mobilities. (2010) In Journeys: The International Journal Of Travel And Travel Writing, Brian Yothers Dec 2011

Rev. Of Roberson, Susan L. Antebellum American Women Writers And The Road: American Mobilities. (2010) In Journeys: The International Journal Of Travel And Travel Writing, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Rev. Of Arapoglou, Eleftheria. A Bridge Over The Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown And The Tradition Of “Women’S Orients.” (2011) In Journeys: The International Journal Of Travel And Travel Writing, Brian Yothers Dec 2011

Rev. Of Arapoglou, Eleftheria. A Bridge Over The Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown And The Tradition Of “Women’S Orients.” (2011) In Journeys: The International Journal Of Travel And Travel Writing, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Metrical Melville: The Career Of An Obscure Poet, Brian Yothers Dec 2011

Metrical Melville: The Career Of An Obscure Poet, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Rev. Of Early Modern Poetics In Melville And Poe: Memory, Melancholy, And The Emblematic Tradition, By William E. Engel In Review 19, Brian Yothers Dec 2011

Rev. Of Early Modern Poetics In Melville And Poe: Memory, Melancholy, And The Emblematic Tradition, By William E. Engel In Review 19, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


South Asia In The Margins Of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Missionaries, Transcendentalists, And Indian Travelers In America, Brian Yothers Dec 2011

South Asia In The Margins Of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Missionaries, Transcendentalists, And Indian Travelers In America, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

This essay discusses the broad presence of representations of South Asia in nineteenth-century American literature, from little-known missionary narratives to canonical work by Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Fuller.


Melville's Mirrors: Literary Criticism And America's Most Elusive Author, Brian Yothers Oct 2011

Melville's Mirrors: Literary Criticism And America's Most Elusive Author, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. There is, however, no standard volume on the history of Melville criticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is shown by the number of introductions and companions to Melville's work that have been published during the last few years (none of which focuses on the critical reception of Melville's works), as well as the steady stream of critical monographs and scholarly biographies that have been published on Melville since the 1920s. Melville's Mirrors …


Diasporic Realisms, Hybrid Genres: The Social Texture Of Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, Brian Yothers Jan 2011

Diasporic Realisms, Hybrid Genres: The Social Texture Of Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Abstract published in the South Asian Literary Association Newseletter, Winter 2010


Associate Editor, Brian Yothers Dec 2010

Associate Editor, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

I have been an Associate Editor at Melville's Marginalia Online since 2011. I have been a contributing scholar to MMO since 2006.


Introduction To Melville's Marginalia In The New Testament And The Book Of Psalms, Brian Yothers Dec 2010

Introduction To Melville's Marginalia In The New Testament And The Book Of Psalms, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.


Series Editor, Brian Yothers Dec 2010

Series Editor, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

I have been series editor for Camden House Press's Literary Criticism in Perspective series since December 2011.


Co-Editor Of The Travel Section, With Wyn Kelley, Brian Yothers Dec 2010

Co-Editor Of The Travel Section, With Wyn Kelley, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

I have been co-editor of the travel section of the Melville Electronic Library since 2011.