Alan Liu

“The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism.” Conference on “Romanticism, Politics, and the New Historicism.” University of California, Los Angeles. 14 November 1986.

“The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism.” Conference on “Recent Trends in Romanticism.” Northwestern University. 10 October 1986.

Citation: “Christopher Smart’s ‘Uncommunicated Letters’: Translation and the Ethics of Literary History.” Boundary 2, 14.1-2 (1985-86): 115-46.

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“The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism.” University of Wisconsin, Madison. 16 February 1986.

“John Martin’s The Deluge: Meaning and the Spectacular.” Yale Center for British Art. Yale University. 19 November 1985.

Citation: “Wordsworth: The History in ‘Imagination.'” ELH 51 (1984): 505-48.

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Citation: “On the Autobiographical Present: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals.” Criticism 26 (1984): 115-37.

Citation: “Toward a Theory of Common Sense: Beckford’s Vathek and Johnson’s Rasselas.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 26 (1984): 183-217.

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“Wordsworth: The History in Imagination.” Modern Language Association convention. New York City. 28 December 1983.

Citation: “‘Shapeless Eagerness’: The Genre of Revolution in Books 9-10 of The Prelude.” Modern Language Quarterly 43 (1982): 3-28.

“John Martin’s The Deluge: Meaning and the Spectacular.” Yale Center for British Art. Yale University. 17 November 1981.

“From River to Dewdrop: Wordsworth’s ‘Westminster Bridge,’ the Calais Trip of 1802, and Evaporated History.” Yale Center for British Art. Yale University. 2 March 1981.

Citation: Alan Liu, “On the Hill,” The Little Magazine (Dragon Press / B. DeBoer) 10.3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1976): 13-24

Short story published in 1976 and included in my thesis for the M.A. in Creative Writing, Stanford University, 1979.  (Full text as PDF)