Ian Finseth

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Finseth, I. (2018). The Civil War Dead and American Modernity. New York, Oxford University Press.
• Aljoe, N., Finseth, I. (2014). Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press.
• Finseth, I. (2013). The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology. (2) New York, Routledge.
• Finseth, I. (2009). Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860. 320. Athens, University of Georgia Press.
• Finseth, I. (2007). The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts. 304. Mineola, NY, Dover Publications.
• Finseth, I. (2006). The American Civil War: An Anthology of Essential Writings. 628. New York and London, Routledge.

Book Chapter

• Finseth, I. "Union Literature".
• Finseth, I. “Frederick Douglass, the Irish Famine, and the Lessons of Environmental History”. African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850, ed. Benjamin Fagan (Cambridge UP, 2019). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
• Finseth, I. (2016). “The Civil War and Literary Realism”. Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War, ed. Colleen Boggs (MLA, 2017). New York, Modern Language Association.
• Finseth, I., Hutchison, C. (2015). "The Realists' Civil War". A History of American Civil War Literature. Cambridge University Press.
• Finseth, I., Brückner, M., Hsu, H. (2007). "Geographic Consciousness in the American Slave Narrative,". American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900. Newark, University of Delaware Press.

Book Review

• Hutchison, C., Finseth, I. Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (University of Georgia Press, 2012).
• Curran, A., Finseth, I. (2012). The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011). 19 (3) ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
• Outka, P., Finseth, I. (2008). Race and Nature: From Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
• Japtok, M., Finseth, I. (2007). Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and The Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish.
• Erkkila, B., Finseth, I. (2007). Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Cultural Wars (University of Pennsylvania, 2004). 78 2. American Literature.
• Contributing Co-Editor. (2003). North Carolina Slave Narratives. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
• Bell, M.D., Finseth, I. (2002). Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation (University of Chicago, 2001).. 74 (1) 194-196. American Literature.
• Von Frank, A.J., Finseth, I. (1999). The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston (Harvard, 1998); and Gary Collison, Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen (Harvard, 1997).. 22 (1) 121-29. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.

Journal Article

• Finseth, I. (2013). "The Civil War Dead: Realism and the Problem of Anonymity.". Other. 25 (3) 535-562.
• Finseth, I. (2013). "Irony and Modernity in the Early Slave Narrative: Bonds of Duty, Contracts of Meaning.". Early American Literature. 48 (1) 29-60.
• Finseth, I. (2010). "On _Battle-Pieces_: The Ethics of Aesthetics in Melville's War Poetry". Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 12 3.
• Finseth, I. (2005).   "Evolution, Cosmopolitanism, and Emerson's Antislavery Politics." . American Literature. 77 (4) 729-760.
• Finseth, I. (2002). "In Essaka Once: Time and History in Olaudah Equiano's Autobiography." . Arizona Quarterly. 58 (1) 1-35.
• Finseth, I. (2001). "A 'Melancholy Tale': Rhetoric, Fiction, and Passion in _The Coquette_." . Studies in the Novel. 33 (2) 125-159.
• Finseth, I. (2001). "David Walker, Nature's Nation, and Early African American Separatism." . Mississippi Quarterly. 54 (3) 337-362.
• Finseth, I. (1999).   "How Shall the Truth Be Told?  Language and Race in _The Marrow of Tradition_." . American Literary Realism. 31 (1) 1-20.

Popular Press Article

• Op-Ed.. (2006). "Frederick Douglass and the Legacy of Mount Misery.". Baltimore Sun.
• "Olaudah Equiano.". (2001). Encyclopedia of Life Writing. London, Fitzroy Dearborn.