A Passion for Getting It Right
Essays and Appreciations in Honor of Michael J. Colacurcio’s 50 Years of Teaching
Edited By Carol M. Bensick
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- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2016. 510 pp., num. b/w ill.
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- Title
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- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- Praise for A Passion for Getting It Right
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Two Puritans You May Not Know But Hawthorne Thinks You Should
- Hawthorne’s Doctor Experiments: Medicine, Risk Culture, and the Development of Psychological Realism
- Pro-Americans, Proto-Americans, and Un-Americans in Melville’s Israel Potter
- The Vanitas of Holocaust Painting: Audrey Flack’s World War II
- Remembering the Puritans: Hawthorne and the Scene of History89
- “Singularly Connected” in Septimius: Multiple Perspectives in Hawthorne’s Late Work
- What Is the Custom-House?
- Introduction to The Marble Faun
- Michael J. Colacurcio’s (Un)Godly Letters
- Monoaxiate Tyranny in Koestler’s Darkness at Noon
- Melville’s Bachelors: Templars No More
- The Beecher Trials
- Office Hours
- The Critic on Main Street: Hawthorne and Critical Allegory
- Experience
- Cassandra, Bartleby, and the Direction of Time: Some Thoughts on Unknowability
- Melville’s Comedy of Gender: The Battle for Domesticity in “I and My Chimney”
- “Every Great and Small Thing”: Emerson and the Divine Particular
- “Awakened” by “the Sacred Whispers” in James Salter’s “Akhnilo”
- Bartleby and the Prophet of Reality
- “I Have Stolen His Books”: Teaching the Colacurcio Syllabus in Community College
- Notes on Aphoristic Genius
- Sea Changes in the American Crisis Poem from Walt Whitman to Campbell McGrath
- In Tribute
- Deceptive Appearances: Anti-Romance and Anti-Travelogue Beneath the Surface in Melville’s Typee
- Puritan Riffs: The Jazz Aesthetic in Michael J. Colacurcio’s Pedagogy
- The Gnomic Pronouncements of Michael J. Colacurcio
- Colacurcio, Teacher and Lecturer: A Transoceanic Perspective
- Reconfiguring Nature After Darwin: Skepticism and Sexuality in Modern British and Irish Literature
- “A Song without Words”: Black Thunder
- Julia Ward Howe, the Travel Book, and the Public Lectern
- Autobiography
- Appendix: The Affect of Puritanism
- Contributors
- Limerick
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- Praise for A Passion for Getting It Right
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Two Puritans You May Not Know But Hawthorne Thinks You Should
- Hawthorne’s Doctor Experiments: Medicine, Risk Culture, and the Development of Psychological Realism
- Pro-Americans, Proto-Americans, and Un-Americans in Melville’s Israel Potter
- The Vanitas of Holocaust Painting: Audrey Flack’s World War II
- Remembering the Puritans: Hawthorne and the Scene of History89
- “Singularly Connected” in Septimius: Multiple Perspectives in Hawthorne’s Late Work
- What Is the Custom-House?
- Introduction to The Marble Faun
- Michael J. Colacurcio’s (Un)Godly Letters
- Monoaxiate Tyranny in Koestler’s Darkness at Noon
- Melville’s Bachelors: Templars No More
- The Beecher Trials
- Office Hours
- The Critic on Main Street: Hawthorne and Critical Allegory
- Experience
- Cassandra, Bartleby, and the Direction of Time: Some Thoughts on Unknowability
- Melville’s Comedy of Gender: The Battle for Domesticity in “I and My Chimney”
- “Every Great and Small Thing”: Emerson and the Divine Particular
- “Awakened” by “the Sacred Whispers” in James Salter’s “Akhnilo”
- Bartleby and the Prophet of Reality
- “I Have Stolen His Books”: Teaching the Colacurcio Syllabus in Community College
- Notes on Aphoristic Genius
- Sea Changes in the American Crisis Poem from Walt Whitman to Campbell McGrath
- In Tribute
- Deceptive Appearances: Anti-Romance and Anti-Travelogue Beneath the Surface in Melville’s Typee
- Puritan Riffs: The Jazz Aesthetic in Michael J. Colacurcio’s Pedagogy
- The Gnomic Pronouncements of Michael J. Colacurcio
- Colacurcio, Teacher and Lecturer: A Transoceanic Perspective
- Reconfiguring Nature After Darwin: Skepticism and Sexuality in Modern British and Irish Literature
- “A Song without Words”: Black Thunder
- Julia Ward Howe, the Travel Book, and the Public Lectern
- Autobiography
- Appendix: The Affect of Puritanism
- Contributors
- Limerick
Pro-Americans, Proto-Americans, and Un-Americans in Melville’s Israel Potter
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LUKE BRESKY
As an historical novel of the American Revolution set predominantly in the European theatre of that conflict, Melville’s Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855) offered unusual gratifications for antebellum audiences interested in what Henry James would later describe as a symptomatic national preoccupation, namely “the question of Americans appearing ‘to advantage’ or otherwise in Europe.”1 Through the hero’s eyes, with some elucidation by the narrator, readers may observe Benjamin Franklin receiving Dukes and Counts in his Paris apartment, for example, or John Paul Jones commanding the Bon Homme Richard in a sublime engagement with the Serapis “in view of thousands of distant spectators crowding the high cliffs of Yorkshire,”2 or Ethan Allen demanding his rights as a prisoner of “honorable war” and provoking sighs from “a bright squadron of fair ladies” at the gates of Pendennis Castle (145). And of course, overshadowed as he comes to be by these three better-known figures, Israel Potter himself accepts transatlantic compliments, first from a humane English baronet, then from a magnanimous George III, then from “Secret Friends of America,” whose obscurely and inconclusively conspiratorial communications with Franklin launch Israel on his ill-fated foreign service career. If lumping the feudal and monarchic instances together with the vaguely Masonic episode that follows them allows no differentiation between the kinds of recognition offered by gracious enemies and secret friends, that may well be Melville’s point. On the grounds that the Americans in this novel all make...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- Praise for A Passion for Getting It Right
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Two Puritans You May Not Know But Hawthorne Thinks You Should
- Hawthorne’s Doctor Experiments: Medicine, Risk Culture, and the Development of Psychological Realism
- Pro-Americans, Proto-Americans, and Un-Americans in Melville’s Israel Potter
- The Vanitas of Holocaust Painting: Audrey Flack’s World War II
- Remembering the Puritans: Hawthorne and the Scene of History89
- “Singularly Connected” in Septimius: Multiple Perspectives in Hawthorne’s Late Work
- What Is the Custom-House?
- Introduction to The Marble Faun
- Michael J. Colacurcio’s (Un)Godly Letters
- Monoaxiate Tyranny in Koestler’s Darkness at Noon
- Melville’s Bachelors: Templars No More
- The Beecher Trials
- Office Hours
- The Critic on Main Street: Hawthorne and Critical Allegory
- Experience
- Cassandra, Bartleby, and the Direction of Time: Some Thoughts on Unknowability
- Melville’s Comedy of Gender: The Battle for Domesticity in “I and My Chimney”
- “Every Great and Small Thing”: Emerson and the Divine Particular
- “Awakened” by “the Sacred Whispers” in James Salter’s “Akhnilo”
- Bartleby and the Prophet of Reality
- “I Have Stolen His Books”: Teaching the Colacurcio Syllabus in Community College
- Notes on Aphoristic Genius
- Sea Changes in the American Crisis Poem from Walt Whitman to Campbell McGrath
- In Tribute
- Deceptive Appearances: Anti-Romance and Anti-Travelogue Beneath the Surface in Melville’s Typee
- Puritan Riffs: The Jazz Aesthetic in Michael J. Colacurcio’s Pedagogy
- The Gnomic Pronouncements of Michael J. Colacurcio
- Colacurcio, Teacher and Lecturer: A Transoceanic Perspective
- Reconfiguring Nature After Darwin: Skepticism and Sexuality in Modern British and Irish Literature
- “A Song without Words”: Black Thunder
- Julia Ward Howe, the Travel Book, and the Public Lectern
- Autobiography
- Appendix: The Affect of Puritanism
- Contributors
- Limerick
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- Praise for A Passion for Getting It Right
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Two Puritans You May Not Know But Hawthorne Thinks You Should
- Hawthorne’s Doctor Experiments: Medicine, Risk Culture, and the Development of Psychological Realism
- Pro-Americans, Proto-Americans, and Un-Americans in Melville’s Israel Potter
- The Vanitas of Holocaust Painting: Audrey Flack’s World War II
- Remembering the Puritans: Hawthorne and the Scene of History89
- “Singularly Connected” in Septimius: Multiple Perspectives in Hawthorne’s Late Work
- What Is the Custom-House?
- Introduction to The Marble Faun
- Michael J. Colacurcio’s (Un)Godly Letters
- Monoaxiate Tyranny in Koestler’s Darkness at Noon
- Melville’s Bachelors: Templars No More
- The Beecher Trials
- Office Hours
- The Critic on Main Street: Hawthorne and Critical Allegory
- Experience
- Cassandra, Bartleby, and the Direction of Time: Some Thoughts on Unknowability
- Melville’s Comedy of Gender: The Battle for Domesticity in “I and My Chimney”
- “Every Great and Small Thing”: Emerson and the Divine Particular
- “Awakened” by “the Sacred Whispers” in James Salter’s “Akhnilo”
- Bartleby and the Prophet of Reality
- “I Have Stolen His Books”: Teaching the Colacurcio Syllabus in Community College
- Notes on Aphoristic Genius
- Sea Changes in the American Crisis Poem from Walt Whitman to Campbell McGrath
- In Tribute
- Deceptive Appearances: Anti-Romance and Anti-Travelogue Beneath the Surface in Melville’s Typee
- Puritan Riffs: The Jazz Aesthetic in Michael J. Colacurcio’s Pedagogy
- The Gnomic Pronouncements of Michael J. Colacurcio
- Colacurcio, Teacher and Lecturer: A Transoceanic Perspective
- Reconfiguring Nature After Darwin: Skepticism and Sexuality in Modern British and Irish Literature
- “A Song without Words”: Black Thunder
- Julia Ward Howe, the Travel Book, and the Public Lectern
- Autobiography
- Appendix: The Affect of Puritanism
- Contributors
- Limerick