(A Selection of My) Unpublished Essays

SCIENCE & THE HUMANITIES

► Michael Faraday's Electrogravity (1986)
* When I originally wrote this essay, I appended the following article: Lawrence K. Altman, "A Positive View of Negative
Results," N.Y. Times, Apr. 29, 1986.

► Proposal on Reader Theory, Autobiography, & Cognitive Science (1996)

► Science, Poetry, & Higher Wisdom in John Donne's "The Anniversaries" (1996)
* Read an excerpt from the poem

► Before writing about Donne, I'd composed another essay (1989) 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 (1995)
* Read Sonnet I, Sonnet II, & Against Fruition I

EXASPERATION WITH LITERARY THEORY

► Fredric Jameson's Ideological "Rip Van Winkle" (1998)
* Read the short story

► The Aspern Papers: Conjuring Ghosts (1996)
* Read the short story

► "Solve it, you!" — A Transactive Confrontation with Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (1996)
* Read the poem

► A "Stranger Cause, Yet Unexplored": Belinda's Imagination in "The Rape of the Lock" (1989)
* Read the poem  
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