Publications

Books:

Horatio Alger, Jr. (Boston: Twayne, 1980). 170 pp.

Horatio Alger, Jr.: An Annotated Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1981). 192 pp. [With Jack Bales]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Boston: Twayne, 1985). 143 pp.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1985); paperback edition, 2003. 219 pp.

Selected by the editors of Choice as one of the Outstanding Academic Books for 1985-86.

The Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr. (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1985; paperback edition, 1992). 224 pp. [With Jack Bales]

Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism Before 1900 (Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1988). 404 pp.

A Literary Biography of William Rounseville Alger (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990). 247 pp.

Bret Harte (New York: Twayne, 1992). 151 pp.

Henry David Thoreau: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism Before 1900 (New York: Garland, 1992). 386 pp.

Thoreau: A Case Study in Canonization (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993). 149 pp.

Bret Harte: A Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow, 1995). 252 pp.

Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000). 256 pp.

Selected by the Western Literature Association as the Outstanding Book in Western American Literary Criticism published during 2000.

The Many Lives of Kate Field (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, forthcoming). Under contract.

Edited Books Include:

Editor, with introduction, The Critical Response to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992). 268 pp.

Editor, with introduction, Critical Essays on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (New York: G. K. Hall, 1993). 246 pp.

Co-editor, with introduction, Staging Howells: Plays and Correspondence with Lawrence Barrett (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994). 338 pp. [With George Arms and Mary Bess Whidden]

Nominated for the 1993-94 Morton N. Cohen Award of the Modern Language Association, the 1995 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, and the 1996 Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre.

Co-editor, with introduction, American Realism and the Canon (Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1994). 214 pp. [With Tom Quirk]

Selected by the editors of Choice as one of the Outstanding Academic Books for 1994-95.

Editor, with introduction and annotations, Selected Letters of Bret Harte (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997; paperback edition, 2002). 464 pp.

American Literary Scholarship 1993 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995). 452 pp.

American Literary Scholarship 1995 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997). 550 pp.

American Literary Scholarship 1997 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). 553 pp.

Editor, with introduction and notes, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty by John W. De Forest (New York: Penguin, 2000). 497 pp.

Editor, with introduction and notes, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings by Bret Harte (New York: Penguin, 2001). 302 pp.

American Literary Scholarship 1999 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001). 573 pp.

Editor, with introduction and notes, The Virginian (New York: Pocket Books / Scribner Classics, 2002). 452 pp.

American Literary Scholarship 2001 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003). 588 pp.

Editor, with introduction and notes, The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck (New York: Penguin, forthcoming under contract).

Editor, with introduction and notes, The Luck of Roaring Camp: A Play by Bret Harte, (UNM Press, forthcoming).

American Literary Scholarship 2003 (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2005).

Recent Articles Include:

"'Ways That Are Dark': Appropriations of Bret Harte's 'Plain Language from Truthful James,'" Nineteenth-Century Literature, 51 (December 1996), 377-399.

Selected by the Western Literature Association as the Best Essay in Western American Literary Studies published in 1996.

"Hawthorne, Howells, and the Genre of Campaign Biography," in The American Dream: Festschrift for Peter Fresse, ed. Carin Freywald and Michael Porsche (Essen, Germany: Die Blaue Eule, 1999), pp. 465-474.

"In Defense of Western Literary Biography," Western American Literature, 33 (Winter 1999), 345-353.

"'The Growth of a Dozen Tendrils': The Polyglot Satire of Chesnutt's The Colonel's Dream," in Critical Essays on Charles W. Chesnutt, ed. Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. (New York: G. K. Hall, 1999), pp. 271-280.

"Historicizing Gilman: A Bibliographer's View," in The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ed. Catherine J. Golden and Joanna Zangrando (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2000), pp. 65-73.

"Kate Field and the American West," Platte Valley Review, 28 (Fall 2000), 35-49.

"Bret Harte's Letters to His Sister, 1871-1893," Resources for American Literary Study, 26 (2000), 200-222.

"A Coda to the Twain-Harte Feud," Western American Literature, 36 (Spring 2001), 81-87.

"James and Kate Field,"Henry James Review, 22 (2001), 200-206.

"Who Killed Mark Twain? Long Live Samuel Clemens," Reconstructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship, ed. Laura Skandera-Trombley and Michael Kiskis (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2001), 218-25. [With Laura Skandera-Trombley.]

"Thoreau and Kate Field," Concord Saunterer, ns 9 (Fall 2001), 140-45.

"Western American Literary Scholarship 2001: The Year in Review," Western American Literature, 37 (Spring 2002), 96-110.

"Bret Harte, Unitarianism, and the Efficacy of Western Humor," Literature and Belief, 21 (2002), 93-102.

"'He is Amusing but Not Inherently a Gentleman': The Vexed Relations of Kate Field and Samuel Clemens," Legacy, 18 (Spring 2002), 193-204.

"The Two Faces of Mattie Silver,"The New Riverside Edition of Ethan Frome, ed. Denise D. Knight (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), pp. 262-271.

"The Intellectual Context of Herland: The Social Theories of Lester Ward," in MLA Approaches to Teaching "The Yellow Wall-Paper and Herland", ed. Denise D. Knight and Cynthia J. Davis (New York: MLA, 2003), pp. 118-24.

"Wister and the Great Railway Strike of 1894," in Reading The Virginian in the New West, ed. Melody Graulich and Stephen Tatum and Melody Graulich (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), pp. 113-25.

"Kate Field in Newport,"Newport History, 72 (Spring 2003), 19-31.

"The Resurrection of the Author: Why Biography Still Matters," forthcoming in Lives Out of Letters: Essays in American LiteraryBiography and Documentation, ed. Robert Habich (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2004) pp. 236-52.

"Moodie, My Dad, Allan Ginsberg, and Me," Midwest Quarterly, 45 (Summer 2004) pp. 369-80.

"'It has served the truth without fear and without favor': Kate Field and Kate Field's Washington," forthcoming in Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910, ed. Sharon M.Harris (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004), pp. 248-63.

"Kate Field: A Primary Bibliography," forthcoming in Resources for American Literary Scholarship.

"Kate Field's 'An Evening with Dickens': A Reconstructed Lecture," forthcoming in Dickens Quarterly.

"Impaired Faculties: An Autobiographical Fragment," in circulation.

"Hamlin Garland's 1895 Tour of Colorado: Four Recovered Essays," in circulation. [With Virgil Mathes]

"Kate Field's Correspondence for the New York Tribune," American Periodicals, forthcoming.

"Kate Field and the Telephone," in preparation.

"Kate Field and the Brownings," in preparation.

Reviews Include:

Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 5, 1872-1873, ed. Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith; and Mark Twain by Peter Messent, Western American Literature, 33 (Winter 1999), 429-432.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" and the History of Its Publication and Reception, ed. Julie Bates Dock, American Literary Realism, 32 (Winter 2000), 183.

The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce by John Clendenning, American Literary Realism, 32 (Spring 2000), 277.

The Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred, ed. Nancy Owen Nelson, South Dakota History, 30 (Fall 2000), 326-27.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimistic Reformer, ed. Jill Rudd and Val Gough, Legacy, 18 (2001), 115-116.

A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography by Ambrose Bierce, ed. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, California History, 80 (Summer-Fall 2001), 147-148.

At Fault: A Scholarly Edition with Background Readings by Kate Chopin, ed. Suzanne Disheroon Green and David J. Caudle; and The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, ed. David E. Schultz and St. T. Joshi, forthcoming in American Literary Realism.

Tough Times in Rough Places: Personal Narratives of Adventure, Death, and Survival on the Western Frontier. Ed. Neil Carmony and David E. Brown, forthcoming in New Mexico Historical Review.

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