Harold Fromm: Bibliography of
Writings
2008
BOOKS:
The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to
Consciousness, forthcoming in 2008 from
The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, coedited with Cheryll Glotfelty. Athens, GA &
London: University of Georgia
Press, 1996.
(The Ecocriticism Reader has also been published in a Japanese
edition.)
Academic Capitalism and Literary Value. Athens, GA.: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Bernard Shaw and the Theater in the Nineties: A Study of Shaw's Dramatic Criticism. Lawrence,
Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1967.
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS OF SCIENCE, EVOLUTION,
CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES:
“Pinker and Johnson on Human Nature,”
in
“J. S. Bach in the Twenty-first Century,” Hudson Review 60 (Winter 2008): 543-63.
“Science Wars and Beyond,” Philosophy and Literature 2006,30:
580-89.
“Selfish
genes: Fit at thirty.” A review of Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley,
eds.: Richard Dawkins: How
a Scientist Changed the Way We Think.
“Daniel Dennett and the Brick Wall of
Consciousness,”
“Reading
With Selection in Mind,” a review of The
Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative, eds. Jonathan
Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson. Northwestern University Press, 2006. in SCIENCE ,
“Back
to Bacteria: Richard Dawkins’ Fabulous Bestiary,”
[“John
Searle and His Ghosts”] Georgia
Review 59 (Fall 2005): 716-20.
“Muses,
Spooks, Neurons and the Rhetoric of ‘Freedom,’” New Literary History 36 (Spring 2005): 147-59.
“Overcoming
the Oversoul: Emerson’s Evolutionary Existentialism,” Hudson Review 57 (Spring 2004): 71-95.
“The
New Darwinism in the Humanities, Part One: From Plato to Pinker,” Hudson Review 56 (Spring 2003): 89-99.
Part Two: “Back to Nature, Again,”
"My Science Wars,"
"Evolution,
Aesthetics, Ecology: The Game Plan of Frederick Turner" (essay-review of
Frederick Turner's Rebirth of Value), Virginia
Quarterly Review 68 (Summer
1992): 596-604.
ECOLOGICAL
WRITINGS:
Review of Gary
Nabhan’s Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity in ISLE 13.1 (Winter 2006): 257-8.
“Full Stomach Wilderness and the Suburban
Esthetic” in Holding Common Ground:
The Individual and Public Lands in the American West, ed. Paul Lindholdt
& Derrick Knowles, Eastern Washington UP, 2005.
“Ecocriticism’s
Big Bang,” LOGOS (Summer 2004): http://www.logosjournal.com/fromm.htm
"A Crucifix for Dracula: Wendell Berry Meets
Edward. O. Wilson." Hudson Review
53 (Winter 2001): 657-64.
"Coetzee's Postmodern Animals."
"The
'Environment is Us,'" (Review of: Steve Kroll-Smith & H. Hugh Floyd, Bodies In Protest: Environmental Illness and
the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge, New York University Press, 1997;
Marian R. Chertow & Daniel C. Esty, editors, Thinking Ecologically The Next Generation Of Environmental Policy,
Yale, 1997; Peter C. van Wyck, Primitives
In the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject, State
University of New York Press, 1997)
in electronic book review 8.
(http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr8/index.html)
Ecology and Ecstasy on Interstate 80."
“Telling Stories About the Bartrams."(Review
of The Natures of John and Wm. Bartram,
by Thomas P.
Slaughter)
"The
Rhetoric and Politics of Environmentalism." (Review of Green Culture, ed. Herndl & Brown; Voices in the Wilderness by Daniel G.
Payne). College English (Dec., 1997):
946-950.
"Postmodern
Ecologizing: Circumference Without a Center." (Review of
"Aldo Leopold: Aesthetic 'Anthropocentrist'" ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies
in Literature
and Environment] 1 (Spring 1993).
"Ecology and
Ideology."
Review of
Robert C. Paehlke's Environmentalism and
the Future of Progressive Politics. Environmental
Ethics 14 (Spring 1992): 81-5.
"Air and Being: The Psychedelics of
Pollution."
"From Transcendence to
Obsolescence: A Route Map." Georgia
Review 32 (Fall 1978): 543-52.
"Life in a Vacuum
Cleaner Bag." New York Times.
Nov. 7, 1976, Section 4: 17.
"On Being
Polluted." Yale Review 65
(Summer 1976): 614-29.
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS OF LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY,
AND THE ARTS:
“Toscanini,
Then and Now” (review of The
Letters of Arturo Toscanini, ed. Harvey Sachs). Hudson Review (Winter 2003) 663-70
"Wrestling With Heidegger,"
"Andrew
Ross, Democritus Junior, and the Curse of Postmodernism," Hudson Review 49 (Summer 1996): 323-330.
(Overview of Ross's writings.)
"O, Paglia Mia!"
"Establishing
a Way in a World of Conflicts,"
in Teaching the Conflicts: Gerald Graff,
Curricular Reform, and the Culture Wars. Ed. William E. Cain. 67-77. New York & London: Garland
Publishing, Inc., 1994.
"Scholarship As Opera: Foucault's Woodnotes
Wilde,"
"Genius
or Fudge? The Clouded Alembics of Magister Poe (review of Kenneth Silverman's Edgar A. Poe), Hudson Review 45
(Summer 1992): 301-09.
Reply to
Michael Awkward's "Negotiations of Power," American Literary History 4 (Summer 1992): 365-6.
"Ford Madox Ford Unmuddled?"
"Myths
and Mishegaas: Robert Graves and Laura Riding,"
"Sylvia Plath, Hunger
Artist," Hudson Review 43
(Summer 1990): 245-56.
"Holroyd/Strachey/Shaw:
Art and Archives in Literary Biography," Hudson Review 52 (Summer 1989): 201-21.
"Cultural
Power," (An essay-review of
Lawrence Levine's Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence
of Cultural Hierarchy in America and Mark Crispin Miller's Boxed In: The Culture of TV.) Georgia Review 43 (Spring 1989): 179-88.
"Real
Life, Literary Criticism, and the Perils of Bourgeoisification," New Literary History 20 (Autumn 1988):
49-64.
"Where
are We Going, Walt Whitman?" (An essay-review of Paul Breslin's The Psycho-Political Muse: American Poetry
Since the Fifties.) Poetry 152
(June 1988): 229-38.
"The
Hegemony of 'Hegemony.'" (An essay-review of Jim Merod's The Political Responsibility of the Critic
and Richard Ohmann's Politics of Letters.)
Georgia Review 42 (Spring 1988):
183-93.
"If a
Poem is Like a Picture, What's a History of Poetry Like?" (An essay-review
of David Perkins' A History of Modern
Poetry.) Poetry 151 (December 1987):
296- 310.
"Ethical,
Rational, Political, Poetical: What the Essay is Doing Now." (An
essay-review of Frederick Turner's Natural
Classicism, Frederick Crews' Skeptical
Engagements, and Joseph Brodsky's Less
Than One.) Georgia Review 41
(Summer 1987): 426-36.
"The
Lives and Deaths of Charlotte Brontë: A Case of Literary Politics." Hudson Review. 40 (Summer 1987):
233-50.
"Public
Worlds/Private Muses: Criticism, Professionalism, and the Audience for the
Arts."
"Qu'est-ce
que C'est qu'un Man of Letters?" (An essay-review of V.S. Pritchett's A Man of Letters: Selected Essays.)
"Literary
Companions." (An essay-review of The
Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble.) The American Scholar 55 (Summer 1986):
410-418.
"The
Hegemonic Form of Othering; or, The Academic's Burden." Critical Inquiry 13 (Autumn 1986):
197-200.
"Leonard Woolf and His
Virgins."
"Recycled
Lives: Portraits of the Woolfs as Sitting Ducks." Virginia Quarterly Review 61 (Summer 1985): 396-417.
"Between the Acts: The Demiurge Made
Flesh." Southern Humanities Review
15 (Summer 1981): 209-17.
"Literary Professionalism's Pyrrhic Defense of
Poesy." Centennial Review 25
(Fall 1981): 435-47.
"Virginia Woolf: Art
and Sexuality." Virginia Quarterly
Review 55 (Summer 1979): 441-59.
"Sparrows
and Scholars: Literary Criticism and the Sanctification of Data." Georgia Review 33 (Summer 1979):
255-76.
"Vowing Academic
Poverty," Chronicle of Higher
Education 16 (June 19, 1978): 64.
"Literature as
Religion." Chronicle of Higher
Education 14 (
"Emerson
and Kierkegaard: The Problem of Historical Christianity."
"To the Lighthouse: Music and Sympathy." English Miscellany 19 (1968): 181-95.
"Spenserian Jazz and
the Aphrodisiac of Virtue." English
Miscellany 17 (1966): 49-68.
OTHER REVIEWS:
“Eternity
Now! Wayne Booth as Musical Amateur” (review of For the Love of It). Hudson
Review (Spring 2000): 167-74.
"Peter
Conrad: Modernist Rhetor" (review of
Modern Times, Modern Places). Hudson Review (Autumn 1999) 521-27.
What’s Happened to
the Humanities?, ed. By Alvin Kernan. Academic Questions (Fall 1998): 86-9.
“David
Gelernter, Aesthetic Misfit?” (review of Drawing Life by David Gelernter). Hudson Review (Summer 1998): 417-424.
“The
Mindless Cunning of Dreams” (review of Seeing in the Dark by Bert O. States). Hudson Review (Autumn 1997): 515-518.
"Out of
This World" (review of Petrushka and
the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939, ed. Morine
Krissdottir) The American Scholar 65
(Summer 1996): 475-77.
"Reason
or Volksgeist ? (review of Alain Finkielkraut's
The Defeat of the Mind.)
"Cracked
Thinking" (review of Russell Jacoby's Dogmatic
Wisdom.)
Review of Assembling
Review of The Battleground of the Curriculum by W.
B. Carnochan. English Literature in
Transition 1880-1920, 37, 1 (1994): 548-552.
"Himmelfarb,
Mill, and the Dodges of
“Scholarship,
Politics, and the MLA” (review of Introduction
to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures by Joseph Gibaldi) Hudson Review 46 (Spring 1993): 157-68.
"Aesthetic Subversions" (review of Wild Orchids and Trotsky, ed. Mark
Edmunson,
"Deconstructing
Literary History" (review of David Perkins' Is Literary History Possible?), Hudson
Review 45 (Autumn 1992):
499-504.
"The
Demons of Deconstruction" (review of David Lehman's Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man), Hudson Review 44 (Autumn 1991):485-90.
Review of George Steiner's Real Presences, Georgia Review 45
(Summer 1991): 398-403.
"Stephen
Toulmin's Postmodernism" (Review of Stephen Toulmin's Cosmopolis),
"One
Type of Ambiguity," (Review of Frank Kermode's An Appetite for Poetry.) The
American Scholar 59 (Autumn
1990): 622-25.
"Service,
Not Power" (Review of The Letters of
Leonard Woolf.),
Review of Quentin Bell's Bad
"Anthony
Storr: Redrawing the Circle of Illness and Health" (Review of Storr's Solitude and Churchill's Black Dog.),
"Too
Few, Miss Mew." (A review of Penelope FitzGerald's Charlotte Mew and her Friends.) The
American Scholar 57 (Summer
1988): 632-36.
"Nervous
Rapprochements." (A review of Gertrude Himmelfarb's The New History and the Old.)
"Muscular
Anti-Christianity." (A review of Noel Annan's Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian.) The Arnoldian 14
(Summer 1987): 47-51.
Review of Mark
Goldman's The Reader's Art: Virginia
Woolf as Literary Critic. Criticism 20 (Winter 1978): 92-4.
Review of The Story of Rock. Stereo Review 24 (June
1970): 103.
"Eyes of Blue, Ears of
Tin." The New Republic 159 (
REPRINTS:
Review of George
Steiner’s Real Presences (from Georgia Review, Summer 1991) in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol.
221, Thomson Gale 2006.
“Oppositional Opposition,”
from Academic Capitalism & Literary
Value in Theory’s Empire: An
Anthology of Dissent, eds Daphne Patai & Will H. Corral, Columbia UP,
2005.
“The
Psychedelics of Pollution,” an edited version of “Air and Being:
The Psychedelics of Pollution,” in Writing
on Air, ed. David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor, MIT Press, 2003.
“Aldo
Leopold: Aesthetic ‘Anthropocentrist’” In The
"The
Hegemonic Form of Othering; or, The Academic's Burden." In "Race," Writing, and Difference.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
"From
Transcendence to Obsolescence: A Route Map." In The Norton Reader, sixth edition. W.W. Norton: N.Y., 1984. Also in The Ecocriticism Reader, 1996.
Excerpts from
Bernard Shaw and the Theater in the
Nineties. In Twentieth Century Views
of Major Barbara, ed. Rose Zimbardo. Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
1970.
EDITING:
Completion of
Gloria G. Fromm's Windows on Modernism: Selected
Letters of Dorothy Richardson, University of Georgia Press, 1995.