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University of North Carolina Wilmington
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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Photo by Kathy
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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. Classes tend to run on a Socratic discussion
model. 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.
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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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.
I have recently completed a new biography of this once world-famous writer. 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. The UNCW English Department publishes Studies in American
Naturalism, an international scholarly journal sponsored by the
Dreiser Society and devoted to American literary naturalism, broadly conceived. At present, I am co-editor of the journal. Learn more about
Studies in American Naturalism
For further information:
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Books
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Hamlin Garland, A Life
By Keith Newlin.
Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2008.
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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.
Albany, NY: Whitston Publishing, 2008.
**New edition forthcoming in 2010 from
the University of Nebraska Press. |
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Rose
of Dutcher's Coolly
By Hamlin Garland
Introduced and edited by Keith Newlin
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
2005 |
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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 |
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The
Collected Plays of Theodore Dreiser
Edited by Keith Newlin and Frederic E. Rusch
Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 2000 |
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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 |
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Hamlin
Garland: A Bibliography, with a Checklist of Unpublished Letters
By Keith Newlin
Albany, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1998 |
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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
“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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