Nina Baym
Emeritus Professor of English
Research Interests
Nineteenth Century American Literature, American women's writing
Emeritus
Yes
Selected Publications
Books
- Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927. University of Illinois Press, 2011.
- Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th edition. W.W. Norton, 2007.
- Amercan Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences. Rutgers, 2002.
- American Women Writers and the Work of History. Rutgers, 1995.
- Feminism and American Liteary History: Essaus. Rutgers, 1992.
- Woman's Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1978.
- Shape of Hawthorne's Career. Cornell University Press, 1976.
Website Articles
- Baym, Nina. "E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand." Originally published as the introduction to Oxford Popular Fiction Series edition of The Hidden Hand (1997),. 1 Jan. 1997. 1 Jan. 1997.
- Baym, Nina. "Delia Bacon, History's Odd Woman Out." Originally published in NEQ 69 (1996): 223-49.. 1 Jan. 1996. 1 Jan. 1996.
- "The Agony of Feminism: Why Feminist Theory Is Necessary After All." Originally published in The Emperor ReDressed: Critiquing Critical Theory, ed Dwight Eddins. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995, pp. 101-117. . 1 Jan. 1995. 1 Jan. 1995.
- Baym, Nina. "Delia Bacon: Hawthorne's Last Heroine." Originally published in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 20.2 (Fall 1994): 1-10.. 1 Jan. 1994. 1 Jan. 1994.
- Baym, Nina. "Juliette M. Kinzie’s Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the North-West." Originally published as the introduction to Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the North-West by Juliette M. Kinzie (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992). . 1 Jan. 1992. 1 Jan. 1992.
- Baym, Nina. "Introduction to Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner." Schenectady, NY: Union College P, 1992. iii-xx.. 1 Jan. 1992. 1 Jan. 1992.
- Baym, Nina. "Mercy Otis Warren's Gendered Melodrama of Revolution." Slightly revised from original publication in the South Atlantic Quarterly, 90 (1991): 531-54.. 1 Jan. 1991. 1 Jan. 1991.
- Baym, Nina. "Melville's Quarrel with Fiction." Slightly revised from its original publication in PMLA 34 (1979): 909-23.. 1 Jan. 1979. 1 Jan. 1979.
- Baym, Nina. "The Erotic Motif in Melville's Clarel." reprinted from Texas Studies in Literature and Language 16 (1974): 315-28.. 1 Jan. 1974. 1 Jan. 1974.
- Baym, Nina. "The Women of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales." Originally published in American Quarterly, (23) (1971): 698-709.. 1 Jan. 1971. 1 Jan. 1974.
- Baym, Nina. "The Women of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales." Originally published in American Quarterly, (23) (1971): 698-709.. 1 Jan. 1971. 1 Jan. 1974.
- Baym, Nina. "Thoreau's View of Science." Slightly revised from original publication in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 26 (1963): 221-34.. 1 Jan. 1963. 1 Jan. 1963.
Works in Progress
- A book on American Women's western writing