Professor Emeritus
academic interests
SPECIALTY
19th/20th cent. American, Romanticism, 19th cent. British & European Literature
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Aestheticism: The Religion of Art in Post-Romantic Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
- The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
• "Life and Death in Paris: Medical & Life Sciences in the Romantic Era," The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism, ed. Paul Hamilton (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016), pp. 711-29.
• "Romantic Questions, Victorian Answers: Cultural Possibilities for Melville at Midcentury." A Historical Guide to Herman Melville. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 61-82. <http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/AmericanLiterature/19thC/?view=usa&ci=9780195142822>.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- "Prospects for Idealism." Modern Philology 104.1 (2006): 96-104. <http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/510264>.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
- "Edith Wharton." Dictionnaire des littératures de langue anglaise . 845-47th ed. Paris: Encylopaedia Universalis/Albin Michel, 1997.
PERSONAL WEBSITE
www.leonchai.net