Robert Abrams

Professor
PDL B-427
543-4076
Email: rabrams@u.washington.edu

Degrees

B.A., Dartmouth College, 1965
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1973

Areas of Specialization

American literature and culture

Selected Scholarly Publications/Current Research

In addition to the works listed below, numerous articles on American literature and culture are published in such journals as ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, American Literature, Texas Studies and Literature and Language, Arizona Quarterly, and Philological Quarterly. Research interests include cultural constructions of landscape in the antebellum US, nineteenth-century American visual culture, the American Renaissance, American post-Romanticism, psychoanalysis, Gothicism, cartography and architecture.

Selected Publications

"Borders." American History through Literature, 1820-1870. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), pp. 154-162.
"Critiquing Colonial American Geography: Hawthorne's Landscape of Bewilderment." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 36 (Winter 1994), 357-379.
"Image, Object, and Perception in Thoreau's Landscapes: The Development of Anti-Geography." Nineteenth-Century Literature 46 (September 1991), 245-262.
Landscape and Ideology in American Reaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism. Cambridge University Press. 2004.

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