(A Selection of My) Unpublished Essays

SCIENCE & THE HUMANITIES

► Michael Faraday's Electrogravity
* When I originally wrote this essay, I appended the following article: Lawrence K. Altman, "A Positive View of Negative
Results."

► Proposal on Reader Theory, Autobiography, & Cognitive Science

► Science, Poetry, & Higher Wisdom in John Donne's "The Anniversaries"
* Read an excerpt from the poem

► Before writing about Donne, I'd composed another essay analyzing star imagery and science in a different poem, George
Meredith's "Lucifer in Starlight."
* Read the poem

JUST PLAIN LITERATURE

► "So Here Restraint Holds Up Delight": Convention & Fantasy in Suckling's Love Lyrics
* Read Sonnet I, Sonnet II, & Against Fruition I

EXASPERATION WITH LITERARY THEORY

► Fredric Jameson's Ideological "Rip Van Winkle"
* Read the short story

► The Aspern Papers: Conjuring Ghosts
* Read the short story

► "Solve it, you!" — A Transactive Confrontation with Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
* Read the poem

► A "Stranger Cause, Yet Unexplored": Belinda's Imagination in "The Rape of the Lock"
* Read the poem  

► A Critique of Roland Barthes' "To Write: An Intransitive Verb?"
* Read the essay
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