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Research Interests for Buford Jones

Research Interests: American Literature; 19th Century Literature

Buford Jones is the bibliographer for the Hawthorne Society and supplements annually his basic checklist of Hawthorne scholarship. He has also published articles on Melville, Thoreau, and Poe as well as special studies of Hawthorne. He is currently completing The Great Romances: Hawthorne's Reputation in the Nineteenth Century.

Areas of Interest:

American Literature
19th Century
Emerson
Hawthorne

Recent Publications
  1. The Two Peaks of Parnassus (forthcoming) (A pamphlet studying the Hawthorne-Poe relationship; to be published by the Baltimore Poe Society.)
  2. William S. Robinson on Griswold, Poe's 'Literary Executioner', Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, vol. 28 no. 1 & 2 (June/Dec. 1995), pp. 7-8
  3. J.L. Idol, B. Jones, eds., Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Contemporary Reviews, in Cambridge: Cambridge UP (1994)
  4. Building Poe Bibliography: American Criticism 1850-1870 (1993), Worcester, Baltimore, Maryland: American Literature Association (This pamphlet, with a critical introduction, will also be published in 1994 with the imprint of the Poe Studies Association Newsletter.)
  5. Hawthorne's Concord Critic: Charles Creighton Hazewood, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, vol. 18 no. 2 (Fall 1992), pp. 28 (Abstract of paper.)

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