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Profile: Kerry Larson

Title: Professor
Degree:
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins  1982
Larson

Contact Info

Office:

3263AH

Phone:

763-5532

Uniqname:

klarson

email:

klarson@umich.edu

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American: Colonial and Early American, Nineteenth-Century American, Twentieth-Century American; Novel and Narrative; Poetry and Poetics; Romanticism—American and British

Research Interests

Primary Interests

American literature; contemporary American poetry.

Publications

"Individualism and the Place of Understanding in Emerson's Essays," ELH (2001); "Justice to Emerson," Raritan (2002); "Sentimental Legacies," Review (2003); "Emerson's Strange Quality," Nineteenth-Century Literature (2004); "Illiberal Emerson," Nineteenth-Century Prose, (2005); "Whitman's Interactive Reader," A Companion to the Poetry of Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2006).
Whitman’s Drama of Consensus (University of Chicago Press, 1988); Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2008; paper, 2011); ed., The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Recent Publications
  • The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
  • Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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