Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville and the Diffusion of Estrangement
Critiquing colonial American geography: Hawthorne's landscape of bewilderment
Thoreau and the interminable journey of vision 'nearer and nearer here'
Herman Melville's home cosmography: voyaging into the inscrutable interior of the American republic
Historicizing the American Vanishing Point: Indian Removal, Slavery and Class
The cultural politics of American literary ambiguity
Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes and 'Chief Seattle's Speech': the obliquities of the geographic in-between
The power of negative space in Douglass's autobiographies and in Davis's 'Life in Iron Mills'.
