Dorri Beam
Biographic Data
| ID | 8832112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorri Beam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorri |
| FAMILY NAME | Beam |
| SIGNATURE | BEAM D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
God's Scrivener: The Meaning and Madness of Jones Very . By Clark Davis
“He affects me like a specter. His looks, tones, words, are all sepulchral,” said Bronson Alcott of the Transcendentalist poet Jones Very, the subject of a new biography by Clark Davis. Ralph Waldo Emerson found Very remarkable in his clarity of purpose—“a brave saint”—when they first met (239). But on Very's second visit, Emerson found it was like having “a corpse in the apartment,” making the natural flow of activity and conversation feel awkwa…
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies …
Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
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Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies …
God's Scrivener: The Meaning and Madness of Jones Very . By Clark Davis
“He affects me like a specter. His looks, tones, words, are all sepulchral,” said Bronson Alcott of the Transcendentalist poet Jones Very, the subject of a new biography by Clark Davis. Ralph Waldo Emerson found Very remarkable in his clarity of purpose—“a brave saint”—when they first met (239). But on Very's second visit, Emerson found it was like having “a corpse in the apartment,” making the natural flow of activity and conversation feel awkwa…
History (2 works) · 19th century (1 works) · American Essays (1 works) · American essays, history and criticism (1 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · American literature (1 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies (1 works) · European history and politics (1 works)