Learning and Research with Students: The Example of the Tilton/Beecher Scandal

To read any number of Jeremiads on lithe death of literature or on literature lost lately might make most anyone believe that liberal learning is dead in English departments across the country. The twin evils of feminist scholarship (whose practitioners insist upon social readings of texts) and deconstruction (whose practitioners debunk timeless truths ) have, according to such authors as Alvin Kernan or John Ellis, cheated students out of having a meaningful liberal arts education with old fashioned teachers who love their subject and impart it to their students

UNCONSCIOUS SEXUAL STEREOTYPING IN UTOPIAN THOUGHT: A STUDY OF THE AMERICAN OWENITE COMMUNITIES, 1825-1829.

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Reading Toni Morrison Critically

This article offers an overview of the contemporary novelist Toni Morrison's literary career and of the critical response to her fiction. It also considers recent shifts in American and African American studies that allow for intersections with postcolonial studies and transatlanticist approaches. Finally, questions are raised regarding future directions in our reading of black U.S. literature