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University
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601 S. College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403 |
Department of English
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Keith Newlin
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Morton Hall 158 |
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(910) 962-3615 |
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newlink@uncw.edu |
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- Ph. D., Indiana University
- M.A., Colorado State University
- B.A., Colorado State University
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Teaching Interests
I teach courses in
19th and 20th century American literature, American drama, and
early modernism. I tend to emphasize cultural and historical
approaches in my courses and usually include both canonical and
non-canonical works. I rarely lecture; instead I ask questions
designed to enable students to read a work closely and carefully
to uncover the craft involved in the composition of a work.
My courses usually require students to write papers based on
library research. I often ask students to do presentations of some
sort--from reading about a work and presenting the ideas to the
class, to leading discussion, to working collaboratively with
others. In recent years, I have taught American literature courses
during the summer at Nanjing University of Science and Technology,
in addition to lecturing widely in China.
Research
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American
literary naturalism and realism: writers such as Hamlin
Garland, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser,
Frank Norris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Stephen Crane, Kate
Chopin, and so forth.
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American drama,
especially melodrama and early twentieth-century little
theaters: Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Miller,
Tennessee Williams, and lots of now-forgotten theatrical
troupes and even more forgotten playwrights who wrote plays
hardly anyone remembers.
Recent work
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Jack London.
My most recent scholarly efforts have concerned Jack London's
voyage to the South Pacific aboard his 55-foot ketch, the Snark.
In addition to lecturing widely about this voyage in China,
i've begun to dribble out articles that may evenrually become
a book-length study. Here is a link to a popular magazine
piece about the first month of the voyage, entitled "Jack
London, Sailor."
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Hamlin
Garland. I've had a several-year obsession with
realist and literary/cultural chronicler Hamlin Garland, whose
best-known works are Main-Travelled Roads (1891) and
his autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border
(1917). In 1998 I published the Selected Letters of
Hamlin Garland (University of Nebraska Press, 1998),
co-edited with Joseph B. McCullough, and in 2005 an edition of
his stories about the American Indian entitled The Book of
the American Indian, with 35 illustrations by Frederic
Remington, as well as an edition of his New Woman novel, Rose
of Dutcher's Coolly. In 2008 I completed a new
biography of this once world-famous writer, Hamlin Garland,
A Life, and in 2013 a collection of reminiscences, Garland
in His Own Time. For those
who want to know more about Garland, visit my Hamlin
Garland site.
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Theodore
Dreiser. I became interested in this pioneering
naturalist (Sister Carrie, 1900; An American Tragedy,
1925) through his little known plays, a new edition of which
was published in May 2000 as The Collected Plays of
Theodore Dreiser, co-edited with Frederic E. Rusch; and in
2003 I completed A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. The
International Theodore Dreiser Society sponsors Studies in American
Naturalism, an international scholarly journal devoted to American literary
naturalism, broadly conceived. At present, I am editor of the journal. Learn
more about Studies in American Naturalism
For further information:
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Books
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The
Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism.
Edited by Keith Newlin.
New York: Oxford University Press,
2019
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Prairie Visions
Writings by Hamlin Garland
Photography by Jon Morris
Edited by Keith Newlin
Foreword by Kurt Meyer
Des Moines, IA: Iowan
Books, 2015
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Critical Insights: The
American Dream.
Edited by Keith Newlin.
Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013
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Garland in His Own Time:
A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from
Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends,
and Associates
Edited by Keith Newlin.
Iowa City, IA: Univesity of Iowa
Press, 2013 |
The
Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.
Edited by Keith Newlin.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 |
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A
Summer to Be, a Memoir by the Daughter of Hamlin Garland,
by Isabel Garland Lord.
Edited and Introduction by Keith Newlin.
Foreword by Victoria Doyle-Jones.
Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2010.
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Critical
Insights: The Grapes of Wrath.
Edited by Keith Newlin.
Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010
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Critical
Insights: The Sun Also Rises.
Edited by Keith Newlin.
Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010
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Hamlin
Garland, A Life
By Keith Newlin.
Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2008. |
Rose
of Dutcher's Coolly
By Hamlin Garland
Introduced and edited by Keith Newlin
Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2005 |
The
Book of the American Indian
Written by Hamlin Garland
Pictured by Frederic Remington
Edited and Introduction by Keith Newlin
Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2005 |
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A
Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia
Edited by Keith Newlin
Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 2003 |
The
Collected Plays of Theodore Dreiser
Edited by Keith Newlin and Frederic E. Rusch
Troy, NY: Whitston
Publishing, 2000 |
American
Plays of the New Woman
Edited and Introduction by Keith Newlin
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000 |
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Selected
Letters of Hamlin Garland
Edited by Keith Newlin and Joseph B. McCullough
Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1998 |
Hamlin
Garland: A Bibliography, with a Checklist of Unpublished
Letters
By Keith Newlin
Albany, NY: Whitston
Publishing, 1998 |
Hardboiled
Burlesque: Raymond Chandler's Comic Style
By Keith Newlin
Madison, IN: Brownstone
Books, 1984; rpt. Borgo Press, 1985 |
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Selected
Articles
“Jack London's 'Mauki' and the Colonial Pacific.” American Literary Realism
54.3 (2022): 255-74
“Among
Cannibals and Headhunters: Jack London in Melanesia.” Journeys
19.1 (2018): 1-26
“Recent
Trends in American Literary Realism and Naturalism and the
Example of Jack London.” Revisionist Approaches to American
Realism and Naturalism. Ed. Jutta Ernst, Sabina
Matter-Seibel, and Klaus H. Schmidt. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag
Winter, 2018. 251-78
“The
Lost Paradise of Ernest Darling, Jack London’s Nature Man.” The
Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture
8 (2017): 7-22.
“Teaching
the Ideas in The Sea-Wolf.” Approaches to Teaching
the Works of Jack London. Ed. Kenneth K. Brandt and Jeanne
C. Reesman. New York: MLA, 2015. 36-43.
“American
Naturalism and Dramatic Adaptation.” Re-Reading Zola and
Worldwide Naturalism: Miscellanies in Honour of Anna
Gural-Migdal. Ed. Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Marie-Sophie
Armstrong, and Riikka Rossi. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2013. 381-98.
“Hamlin
Garland.” Oxford Bibliographies Online: American Literature.
Ed. Jackson Bryer. New York: Oxford University Press, 4 Sept.
2012. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0038.xml
“The
Documentary Strategies of Naturalism.” The Oxford Handbook
of American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Keith Newlin. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 104-17.
“Unwitting
Provocateur: Mary Wilkins Freeman and the American Academy of
Arts and Letters.” Resources for American Literary
Study 32 (2007): 141-61. [published 2009]
Introduction.
A Son of the Middle Border. By Hamlin
Garland. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press,
2007. vii-xvii.
Introduction.
A Daughter of the Middle Border. By Hamlin
Garland. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press,
2007. ix-xix.
"Why
Hamlin Garland Left the Main-Travelled Road." Studies
in American Naturalism 1 (2006): 70-89.
"'I
am as ever your disciple': The Friendship of Hamlin Garland and
W. D. Howells." Papers on Language and Literature
42 (2006): 264-90.
"Clouted
by Reviewers: The Texts of Garland's Rose of Dutcher's Coolly."
Documentary Editing 27.2 (2005): 71-81.
"Prospecting
for Health: Hamlin Garland’s Klondike Adventures." American
Literary Realism 35.1 (2002): 72-92.
"Hamlin
Garland: A Bibliography (1896-1940)." Bulletin of
Bibliography 54 (1997): 11-20.
"Hamlin
Garland and the 'Illegitimacy Bill' of 1913." American
Literary Realism 29:1 (1996): 78-88.
"Uplifting
the Stage: Hamlin Garland and the Chicago Theater Society."
Journal of American Drama and Theatre 8:1 (1996): 1-17.
"Dreiser's
'The Girl in the Coffin' in the Little Theater." Dreiser
Studies 21:1 (1994): 31-50.
"Melodramatist
of the Middle Border: Hamlin Garland's Early Work
Reconsidered." Studies in American Fiction 21
(1993): 153-69.
"Expressionism
Takes the Stage: Dreiser's 'Laughing Gas.'" Journal of
American Drama and Theatre 4:1 (1992): 5-22.
"Portrait
of a Professional: The Plays of Jack London." American
Literary Realism 20:2 (1988): 65-84.
"Georgia
Scenes: The Satiric Artistry of Augustus Baldwin
Longstreet." Mississippi Quarterly 41:1 (1987-1988):
21-37.
"Raymond
Chandler: A Critical and Biographical Bibliography." Clues:
A Journal of Detection 6:2 (1985): 61-72.
"C.
W. Sughrue's Whiskey Visions." Modern Fiction Studies
29 (1983): 545-55.
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