Prentiss Clark

Prentiss Clark is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. She is author of Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Companion (McFarland 2022) and her recent essays appear in The Henry James Review and The James Baldwin Review. She is currently working on a monograph titled Measures of Intimacy: Emerson to Du Bois to Baldwin.

U.S. literature and culture (especially nineteenth and early-twentieth century); literature and philosophy; literature and civic living; aesthetics. Recent graduate courses include "'Perception at the pitch of passion': Henry James & James Baldwin," "Writing the 'American Renaissance' from the 19th Century to Now," "Investigating the Ethical Life in Literature," and "Aesthetics." Recent undergraduate courses include "American Literature I," "Introduction to Criticism," and "Honors English."

U.S. literature (especially the long nineteenth century); literature and philosophy; literature and civic life; aesthetics; Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Henry and William James, the poetries of Whitman, Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens, and the craft of writing.

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Clark, Prentiss. Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Literary Companion . McFarland Publishers, 2022.
Clark, Prentiss. "intricate, overlapped, interweaved, and endless": Emerson, Henry James, and the Nature of Moral Life. In The Henry James Review, 265-271. Vol. 42, Iss. 3 The Henry James Review, 2021.
Clark, Prentiss. Ordinary Intimacies in Emerson, Du Bois, and Baldwin, 23-47. Vol. 5, Iss. 1 James Baldwin Review, 2019.
Clark, Prentiss. Book Review -- "The Keys of Power: The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism." By Nathan Crick. (South Carolina UP, 2017.), 216-220. Vol. 46, Iss. 1 Nineteenth-Century Prose, 2019.
Clark, Prentiss. Book Review -- Mr. Emerson's Revolution, edited by Jean McClure Mudge, Open Book Publishers, 2015., pp. 202-207. Vol. 44, Iss. 1 Nineteenth Century Prose, 2017.
Clark, Prentiss. Book Review -- The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer, Penguin Classics, 2014.. Vol. 27, Iss. 2 The Emerson Society Papers, 2016.
Clark, Prentiss. Book Review -- Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau. By Branca Arsić. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 1, 455. $49.95.). In The New England Quarterly, vol. 89, no. 3, September 2016, pp. 520-523., 520-523. Vol. LXXXIX, Iss. 3 New England Quarterly, 2016.
Clark, Prentiss. "Pulse for Pulse in Harmony with the Universal Whole": Hearing 'Self-Reliance' Anew", 319-341. Vol. 69, Iss. 3 Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2014.
Clark, Prentiss. "After Acknowledgement: Theodore Parker as Representative Man." Arizona Quarterly 66.3 (Fall 2010): 1-22..
Clark, Prentiss. "Allied to all": Emerson and Ethics Beyond Self-Reliance. In The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (forthcoming).
Clark, Prentiss. "The arch abolitionist": Emerson, Love, and Social Justice. In The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson (forthcoming). Oxford University Press.

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