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Textual Editing:
A Concordance to Edward Taylor's Major Poetry. Following
the editorial principles developed for the Concordance to the
Minor Poetry of Edward Taylor, this concordance includes cross-referencing
of variants and distinguishing of homographs. This 4-volume
concordance has just been published by Edwin Mellen Press (August
2008).
Anne
Bradstreet's Several Poems. A scholarly edition of
the 1678 Several Poems and unpublished poems and prose. This
edition provides students and scholars with an edition respectful
of the text of the 1678 publication. Under contract with the
U of Tennessee P.
Critical Work:
Singing
Spiritual Songs: Poetics in Puritan America. Book-length
study of Puritan poetic practices, featuring the poetry of
Bradstreet, Wigglesworth, Taylor, and a number of lesser known
poets.
"Carping Tongues and Censorious Poets: Two Women Poets and Their
Readers." An article-length study of Anne Bradstreet and
An Collins and their construction of the reader.
The Rhetoric of War
in Early America: Discourse and Social Practice in the Literature
of Conflict. A new project, this study employs critical
discourse analysis to discover
how colonists constructed histories and narratives of conflict, how genres
and social practices changed across time, and how cultural
conflict is articulated in narratives of that conflict. The
focus is on documents of the several "French & Indian Wars"
as well as earlier conflicts in 17th century New England.
Metaphors of Fear. A CDA study of Department of Homeland
Security documents.
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