Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
American Literature
Romanticism
19th cent. British & European Literature
Modernism
Critical theory
Education
BA, Princeton Univ.
MA + PhD, Univ. of Virginia
Awards and Honors
NEH Senior Fellowship
Visiting Professor, Peking University (Beijing University) fall 2012
Highlighted Publications
Romantic Theory. Johns Hopkins UP, 2006
Jonathan Edwards & the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy. Oxford UP, 1998
Aestheticism: The Religion of Art in Post-Romantic Literature. Columbia UP, 1990
The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance. Cornell UP, 1987
Recent Publications
The Rise and Fall of Theory. Peking Univ. Press, 2022