Jonathan Arac
American literary scholar
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Jonathan Arac is an American literary scholar. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh,[1] visiting professor at Columbia University and Director of Pitt's Humanities Center.[2] He is also an editor of the literary journal Boundary 2.
Selected writings
- Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J.
- Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies
- "Huckleberry Finn" as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time[3]
- The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860[4]
- Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel[5]
