Diplomas / DegreesPh.D., Emory University (2001)
Recent CoursesInterpretive Theories And Methods
Literature In English II
Literature In English III
Nineteeth Century American Literature
S/T: Urban Literature
S/T: The Literature Of Slavery
Seminar: The American Renaissance
Teaching Specializations / InterestsNineteenth-Century American Literature
Long Island in Literature and Film
Research InterestsNineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
The Moving Panorama in Nineteenth-Century America
BooksPeter West. (2008). The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press.
Recent ArticlesPeter West. (2008, 12). Review of Danger on the Doorstep (by Justin Nordstrom) and the Pilgrim and the Bee (by Matthew P. Brown). American Literature, 80, 4
Peter West. (2007, 12). Review of Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays (ed. Millicent Bell). Resources for American Literary Study, 31, 340-343
Peter West. (2002, 12). Frames More Valuable Than Pictures Themselves: Fiction and Journalism in Hawthorne's The Story-Teller. ATQ: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 16, 4, 277-290
Other Scholarly / Artistic WorkI am currently working on an article exploring the tourist culture at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, during the antebellum era. In addition, I am working with a group of co-editors on a multi-volume collection of texts relating to the panorama in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and the United States.
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