Rob S. Friedman
Books
Most of my books, three of which are described below, have academics as their audience, but that shouldn’t dissuade those curious about Hawthorne, metaphor, representations of ecology, or even how a mediocre student ended up spending a life in school from dipping in.
2023 · Purple Breeze Press
The Road Taken: An Academic Memoir
How does an aimless hippie find his way into the CUNY Graduate Center and end up leading four different Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences faculty?
2013 · Scarecrow Press
Toward a Literary Ecology of Place: Studies in American Literature
Edited with Karen E. Waldron, this collection of essays studies the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. These accessible essays will appeal to readers interested in literary representations of human geography and other humanistic theories and disciplines.
2000 · Harwood Academic Publishers
Hawthorne’s Romances: Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry
This book is an early foray into interdisciplinary research, melding American literature with cultural anthropology. When it first came out, a couple of critics thought it banal, but over the last quarter century about 20 scholars from around the world have found it helpful to their own research.
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