Title: A passion for getting it right : essays and appreciations in honor of Michael J. Colacurcio's 50 years of teaching /
Authors: Colacurcio, Michael J.; Bensick, Carol Marie, 1956-
Year: 2016
Subjects: American literature History and criticism; American literature.
Contents: 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 history -- "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 of 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.