JOHN R. COOLEY

Publications:

• (Book-Edition) Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press. I wrote the introductory and concluding chapters, an essay on Peter Matthiessen, and commissioned and edited the other essays.
• (Review Essay) "Peter Matthiessen's Recent Work: Silence and Uncertainty,"in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Spring 1994.

• (Articles) "Childhood," "The Angelfish," in The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, James Wilson, ed., Garland Press.
• (Article) "Sound and Light" in The American Nature Writers Newsletter.

• (Article) "Editing the Mark Twain--Angelfish Correspondence," The Mark Twain Journal.

• (Book-Edition) Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens--Angel Fish Correspondence, The University of Georgia Press.
  This book was selected by the editors of the book-review journal Choice as an "outstanding scholarly book for 1992," and it was nominated by the Southern University Presses for the Morton N. Cohen Award for the best scholarly edition of 1992. It was reviewed by at least thirty-five newspapers and journals, including The New York Review of Books, American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, and the wire service United Press International. A feature story about the book was produced by Scott Simon for National Public Radio and aired on Weekend Edition, June 1991.
• (Article) "Sam Fathers and Doom," (on Faulkner's Go Down, Moses) Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The McCaslin Family, ed. Arthur Kinney. New York: G. K. Hall, 1991.

• (Article) "White Writers and the Harlem Renaissance" in Rethinking the Harlem Renaissance, Arno Press.
• (Review) Henderson, George, Kenneth Burke: Language and Literature as Symbolic Action, in American Literature (March 1990).

• (Book-Edition) The Great Unknown: The Journals of the Historic First Expedition Down the Colorado River. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press.

• (Article) "Eugene O'Neill and the Village Bohemians" in Harlem Renaissance Reconsidered, New York: AMS Press.
• (Article) "Waves of Change: Peter Mattheissen's Caribbean," The Environmental Review.

• (Review) Houston Baker, Blues, Ideology and Tradition, American Literature.

• (Article) "Mark Twain's Angel Fish: Innocence at Home?", The Mississippi Quarterly.

• (Article) "The Lure of the Primitive: The Village Bohemians and the Harlem Renaissance," in Over Here: Journal of American Studies (Spring 1984).

• (Article) "Norman Dubie," Contemporary Poets, New York: St. Martin's Press.
• (Article) "Leonard Nathan," Contemporary Poets.

• (Book) Savages and Naturals: Black Portraits by White Writers in Modern American Literature, Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press.
• (Article) "Norman Dubie," Contemporary Poets.
• (Article) "Leonard Nathan," Contemporary Poets.

• (Article) "The Garden in the Machine: Three Postmodern Pastorals," Michigan Academician XIII, No. 4.
• (Article) "Hayden Carruth," Contemporary Poets.

• (Article) "Nick Adams and 'The Good Place'," Southern Humanities Review, (Winter 1980), 57-68.

• (Story) "Above this World Methinks I Fly," Celery VI, (1979), pp. 4-19.

• (Review) Buchanan, George, Inside Traffic, London: Carcanet, 1977. Choice, XV.
• (Review) Rich, Adrienne, The Dream of a Common Language, New York: Norton, 1978. Choice, XV (November 1978), 1219-1220.

• (Review) Edson, Russell, The Intuitive Journey and Other Works, New York: Harper and Row, 1976. Choice, XIV (May 1977), 370.

• (Article) "'The Monster'--Stephen Crane's 'Invisible Man'," The Markham Review, V (Fall 1975), 10-14.
• (Article) "Leonard Nathan," in Contemporary Poets.
• (Review) Snyder, Gary. Turtle Island, Choice, XII (August 1975), 396.
• (Review) Lowell, Robert. The Dolphin; For Lizzie and Harriet, History, all by New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Choice, XII (August 1975), 601. 1974
• (Article) "The Emperor Jones and the Harlem Renaissance," Studies in the Literary Imagination, VII (Fall 1974), 73-84.
• (Review article) "Tough Scarskins: Laurence Lieberman's The Osprey Suicides," Modern Poetry Studies, V (Winter 1974-75), 295-97. 1973
• (Article) "Blacks as Primitives in Eudora Welty's Fiction," Ball State University Forum, XIV (Summer 1973), 20-28.
• (Review article) Woods, John. Turning to Look Back, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1972, Modern Poetry Studies, IV (Autumn 1973), 221-25.

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