Randall Fuller

Books

The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, Viking Press, January 2017.

Reviewed in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Science, Nature, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Journal of Books, Christian Science Monitor, Financial Times, The Humanist, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and others.

From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, Oxford

University Press, 2011. Reviewed in American Literary History, Journal of American Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Journal of American History, New England Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Civil War History, Social History, The Boston Globe, Christianity & Literature, Library Journal, The Weekly Standard, and others.

The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks, co-edited with Robert Milder,

Ohio State University Press, 2009. Reviewed in Nineteenth-Century Literature, NBOL-19.

Emerson’s Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists, Oxford

University Press, 2007; paperback, 2010. Reviewed in New England Quarterly, Studies in the Novel. 

Essays and Book Chapters

“The Poetics of Civil War Sacrifice,” Sacrifice and War Literature, ed. Alex Houen and Jan-Melissa Shramm, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017.

“The ‘American Renaissance’ After the Civil War,” Cambridge History of American Civil War Literature, ed. Coleman Hutchison, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2015.

“Critics: 1945-2012,” in Emerson in Context, ed. Wesley T. Mott, Cambridge University Press, December 2013.

“Hawthorne and War,” New England Quarterly, December 2007.

“Politics, Aesthetics, Homosexuality: F. O. Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar,” June 2007, American Literature.

“Errand into the Wilderness:  Perry Miller as American Scholar,” American Literary History 18 (Spring 2006), pp.102-128.

“Teaching Don DeLillo’s White Noise,” in MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Don DeLillo White Noise, ed. by Tim Engles and John N. Duvall (New York: MLA, 2006), pp 19-26.

“Emerson in the Gilded Age,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 45:2 (1999), pp. 97-129.

“Theaters of the American Revolution: The Valley Forge Cato and the Meschianza in Their Transcultural Contexts,” Early American Literature, 34:2 (1999), pp.126-46.