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James Perrin Warren
S. Blount Mason, Jr., Professor of English
(on leave fall 2008)


Department of English
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8761
Payne Hall 25

email: warrenj@wlu.edu

Click here to go to Prof. Warren's personal home page. 


Education


B.A., Auburn University 1976
Ph.D., Yale University 1982


Research Interests


Nineteenth-century literature and culture; literature of the environment; Walt Whitman.


Teaching


English 362—American Romanticism
English 367—19th-Century American Novel
English 370—Literary Theory
English 105—Composition and Literature
English 101—Expository Writing

Seminar and Capstone Topics

American Environmental Writing

Ecocriticism
Technology and Culture in 19th-Century America
Whitman

  Books

John Burroughs and the Place of Nature
. University of Georgia Press, 2006.

The Culture of Eloquence
.   Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.


Walt Whitman's Language Experiment.
  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.


Recent Articles and Talks

"Hunting House Mountain"  (1999)

"Deep South to Deep North" (2007)

"John Burroughs and the Scientific Imagination"
           (forthcoming in ATQ)

"John Burroughs's Writing Retreats"
          (delivered at Roxbury, NY, June 2007)

Work in Progress
Mary Austin's Road to the Spring


 

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