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Packer, Barbara L. Professor Humanities 276 Tel: 310.825.1438 Fax: 310.267.4339 Send E-mail
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Education Professor. B.A. Stanford University, Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (1989-90). M. Phil and Ph.D. Yale Univ., 1973. Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Selected Publications Emerson's Fall: A New Interpretation of the Major Essays. New York: Continuum Books, 1982.
"Emerson." In The Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Greenwood Press, forthcoming.
"Turning to Emerson." Common Knowledge 3 (1996), 51-60.
"The Transcendentalists." In The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 2. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
"A Garden of Verses." (Review of John Hollander's American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, 2 vols.) Yale Review, 82 (1994), 146-156.
"Browsing Happiness." ADE Bulletin, no. 100 (1991), 26-30. Reprinted in Profession, 92 (1992), 49-53.
"Mania and Depression from the Writer's Point of View: The Case of William Cowper." Analise Psicologica, Special Issue: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Psychology and Literature (1991), 223-228.
"'Man Hath No Part in All This Glorious Work' : American Romantic Landscapes." In Romantic Revolutions. Ed. Kenneth Johnston. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1990, pp. 250-268.
"Dickinson and the Contract of Taste," and "Poem 1581 ('The Farthest Thunder That I Heard')." Women's Studies, 16, (1989), 91-94, 155-158.
"Emerson." In The Columbia History of American Literature. Ed. Emory Elliott. New York: Columbia Univ. Press., 1988, pp. 381-398.
"Origin and Authority: Emerson and the Higher Criticism." In Reconstructing American Literary History. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Harvard English Studies, 13. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1986, pp. 67-92.
"The Instructed Eye: Emerson's Cosmogony in 'Prospects.'" In Emerson's "Nature": Origin, Growth, Meaning. 2nd. ed. Eds. Merton Sealts and Alfred Ferguson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1979, pp. 209-221.
Additional Information Dr. Packer has taught at Yale and at UCLA. Over her teaching career, she has recieved numerous awards including the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, Eby Award and Friends of English Award (1994). Her field of specialization is within 19th century American literature. She is the author of "The Transcendentalists" in Vol. II of the Cambridge History of American Literature and is currently completing a history of American poetry 1800-1855 for the same series. Dr. Packer is also an Editorial Board Member of Emerson Society Quarterly, American Literary History.
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