Articles

 “The Raven” and Melville’s Pierre

 Poe as “A Critical Jack Ass”

John Neal on Hawthorne and Poe in the New England Galaxy of 1835

"The Sweet Spot," FABS Journal, Volume 27, Number 1 (2023): 24-28.

“Evenings at Home: A Neglected Book of Poe’s Childhood,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Volume 21, Number 1 (2020): 64-70.

“Adventures with Poe and Hawthorne,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Volume 14, Number 1 (2013): 16-35.  Translated into Japanese by Tadashi Miyagawa for Takayuki Nishitani and Masahiko Narita, eds, The American Renaissance: Criticism Regenerated (Tokyo: Kainbunsha, 2013).

“Poe at Blithedale,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Volume 10, Number 3 (2009): 53-59.

“Poe’s Taking of Pelham One Two Three Four Five Six,” Poe Studies, Volume 41 (2008): 109-16.

“A Contemporary Narrative Response to Hawthorne’s ‘The White Old Maid,’” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review Volume 32, Number 1 (2006): 63-70.

“Periodicals as Key to Poe and Hawthorne,” Poe Studies Volume 37 (2004): 28-30.

 “Chiasmus in Walden,” The New England Quarterly, Volume 77, Number 1 (2004): 115-21.            

“The Rhetoric of Walden in Rhetoric and Composition,” Thoreau Society Bulletin, Number 249 (2004) 3-5.

“Readers Write: Nineteenth-Century Annotations in Copies of the First American Edition of Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, Volume 55, Number 3 (2000): 399-408.

   “Thomas Cottrell Clarke’s Poe Collection: New Documents” (written with Michael Singer), Poe Studies, Volume 25, Numbers 1 and 2 (1992): 1-5; reprinted in Perspectives on Poe, ed. D. Ramakrishna (New Delhi: Associated Publishing Company, 1996): 191-202.

  “Hawthorne’s Transplanting and Transforming ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’” Studies in American Fiction, Volume 23, Number 2 (1995), 231-41.

“The Circle and Its Center in ‘Bartleby the Scrivener,’” American Transcendental Quarterly, ns Volume 2, Number 3 (1988): 191-206.

 “The ‘Very Profound Under-current’ of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Studies in the American Renaissance (1987): 143-75; reprinted in The Poe Messenger, Special Issue (1992), with author’s preface.

“The Hidden Journey of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Studies in the American Renaissance (1982): 29-51; reprinted in The Poe Messenger, Volume 15, Number 1 (1985): 15-25.

“The Secret of Arthur Gordon Pym: The Text and the Source,” Studies in American Fiction, Volume 8, Number 2 (1980): 203-18.