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Faculty & Staff

Kristin Boudreau

Publications

Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal Articles

• “The Greatest Philosophy on Earth: William James’s Lowell Lectures and the Idiom of Showmanship.” William James Studies 2 (2007). No pagination.

• “Elegies for the Haymarket Anarchists,” American Literature 77 (June 2005): 319-347.

• “The Scarlet Letter and the 1833 Murder Trial of the Reverend Ephraim Avery,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 47.2 (2001): 89-112.

• “Is The World Then So Narrow?” Cinematic Adaptations of Hawthorne and James.”  The Henry James Review 21.1 (Winter 2000): 43-53.

• “Henry James’s Inward Aches,” The Henry James Review 20.1 (Winter 1999): 69-80.

• “Pain and the Unmaking of Self in Morrison’s Beloved,” Contemporary Literature 36 (Fall 1995): 447-465; reprinted in Understanding Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sula: Selected Essays and Criticisms of the Works by the Nobel Prize-Winning Author.  Ed. Solomon and Marla Iyasere, Whitsone Press, 1999.

• “Early American Criminal Narratives and the Problem of Public Sentiments,” Early American Literature 32.3 (Fall 1997): 249-69.

• “Narrative Sympathy in The Bostonians,” Henry James Review (Spring 1993): 17-33.

• “’A Barnum Monstrosity’: Alice James and the Spectacle of Sympathy,” American Literature (March 1993): 53-67.

• “’The Woman’s Flesh of Me’:  Rebecca Harding Davis’s Response to Self-Reliance,” American Transcendentalist Quarterly (June 1992): 131-140.

Book Chapters

• Henry James’s Narrative Technique:  Consciousness, Perception, and Cognition.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

• “Immensities of Perception and Yearning: The Haunting of James’s Heroes,” in Designed Horror: The Ghosts of Henry James, edited by Kimberly Reed.  University of Missouri Press, forthcoming.

• “Early Nineteenth-Century Literature,” in American Literary Scholarship 2007 Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming.

• “Friendship.”   In American History Through Literature, 1820-1870. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert  Sattelmeyer.  Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006, 445-50.

• “Early Nineteenth-Century Literature,” in American Literary Scholarship 2006 Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming.

• “Early Nineteenth-Century Literature,” in American Literary Scholarship 2005 Durham: Duke University Press, 2007, pp. 233-62.

• “The Difficulty of Plain Answers: Introducing Modernism by Way of Henry James.” In Approaches to Teaching Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” and “The Turn of the Screw".  Ed. Peter Beidler and Kimberley Reed.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 2005: 18-27.

• “Hawthorne’s Model of Christian Charity,” in The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings, Norton Critical Edition, edited by Leland S. Person, 2004.

• “’A Connection More Charming than in Life’:  The Refusal of Consolation in Henry James’s ‘The Altar of the Dead.’”  In The Finer Weave, the Tighter Thread: Essays on the Short Fiction of Henry James.   Ed. Brooke Horvath and Joseph Dewey.  West LaFeyette: Purdue University Press, 2001: 200-216.

• “Alice James.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Women Prose Writers, 1879-1920.  Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc, 2000: 211-218.

• “Divided Loyalties in Alcott’s Hospital Sketches,” Femmes de Conscience: Aspects du Feminisme Americaine, 1848-1875, ed. Daniel Royot and Susan Goodman (Sorbonne: 1994): 169-184.

Books (including edited volumes and textbooks)

• The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases,  Prometheus Books, April 2006.

• Sympathy in American Literature: American Sentiment from Jefferson to the Jameses, University Press of Florida, 2002.

Book Reviews

• Linda Simon, The Critical Reception of Henry James.  The Henry James Review, forthcoming.

• Lisa A. Long, Rehabilitating Bodies:  Health, History, and the American Civil War and K. Patrick Ober, Mark Twain and Medicine: “Any Mummery Will Cure.” American Literature 76 (December 2004): 889-891.

• Jill M. Kress, The Figure of Consciousness:  William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, The Henry James Review 25 (fall 2004) 304-306.

• “Recontextualizing Henry James,” review essay of Edwin Sill Fussell, The Catholic Side of Henry James; Merle  A. Williams, Henry James and the Philosophical Novel; and Susan Winnett, Terrible Sociability:  The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and James, in Studies in the Novel (26.3, Fall 1994): 301-308.

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