Publications of Cathy N. Davidson :chronological combined bibtex listing:
search .Books
- C.N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. 2009.
- "Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself". Novel.forthcoming forthcoming.
- Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory. W. W. Norton, 1997. (With photographs by Bill Bamberger)
- Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan. Dutton-Signet (Penguin USA), 1993. (Plume paperback, Oct. 1994; Quality Paperback edition, 1993; Japanese translation, DHC Publishing, 1995; German translation, Knesebeck Verlag, 1996)
- The Book of Love: Writers and their Love Letters. Pocket/Simon and Schuster, 1992. (Plume/Penguin paperback, 1995; Seoul, Korea: Dongnyok Publishers, 1993; Tokyo, Japan: DHC Publishers, 1994; Barcelona, Spain: Circulo de Lectores, 1994; Beijing, China: Xinhua Publishers, 1996)
- Ideology and Genre: The Rise of the Novel in America. Fourth Annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture, Worcester, Mass: American Antiquarian Society, 1987. (Reprinted in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 96 (Oct. 1986))
- Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Oxford UP, 1986.
- The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable. U of Nebraska P, 1984.
Edited
- C. N. Davidson and Michael Moon, eds.. Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from "Oroonoko" to Anita Hill. Duke UP, 1995.
- C. N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin, eds.. Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States. Oxford UP, 1995.
- C. N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin, eds.. Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Oxford UP, 1995.
- Emory Elliott, ed., with assoc. ed. C. N. Davidson. Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia UP, 1991.
- C. N. Davidson, ed.. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.
- C.N. Davidson, ed.. Reading America. Special issue on the history of literacy and the history of books in America, guest edited by C.N. Davidson, American Quarterly 40.1 (Apr. 1988).
- C.N. Davidson, gen. ed.. Early American Women Writers Series. Oxford UP, 1987. [abs]
- C. N. Davidson, ed. (with a critical introduction and bibliography). Critical Essays on Ambrose Bierce. G. K. Hall Publishing, 1982.
- C.N. Davidson, guest ed.. Canada's Women Writers. Special issue, Journal of Popular Culture 15 (Winter 1981).
- C. N. Davidson and Arnold E. Davidson, eds.. The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism. Anansi Press/ U of Toronto P, 1981.
- C. N. Davidson and E. M. Broner, eds.. The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature. Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1980.
- E.M. Broner and C.N. Davidson, guest eds.. Mothers and Daughters in Literature. Women's Studies (special issue) 6.2 (1979).
Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books
- "Critical Fictions." PMLA (Sept. 1996)
- "Preface." A New England Tale by Catherine Maria Sedgwick. Oxford UP, 1995.
- "The Question of Accuracy: Or, Why Women's Studies?." The European English Messenger (1995)
- "Loose Change: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association." American Quarterly 46 (June, 1994): 123-38.
- "Tatami Room." Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism. Ed. Marianna Torgovnick. Duke UP, 1994.
- "Preface." Kelroy by Rebecca Rush. Oxford UP, 1993.
- "The Novel as Subversive Activity: Women Reading, Women Writing." After the Revolution: Further Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. Ed. Alfred F. Young. Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1993.
- "Love Letters for My Grandmother." The Women's Review of Books 10.2 (Nov. 1992): 12 and 13.
- "PH Stands for Political Hypocrisy." Academe: The AAUP magazine (Sept. 1991)
- "Photographs of the Dead: Cindy Sherman, L.J.M. Daguerre, Nathanial Hawthorne." SAQ 89 (Fall 1990): 667-701.
- C.N. Davidson (Co-author). "Decoding the Hemingway Hero in The Sun Also Rises." The Sun Also Rises. Ed. Linda Wagner. New York: Cambridge UP, 1987.
- "The Book in the 'Good Old Days': A Portrait of the Early American Book Industry." (adapted from Chapter Two of Revolution and the Word), Book Research Quarterly 2 (Winter 1986-87): 33-64.
- "Female Authorship and Authority: The Case of Sukey Vickery." Early American Literature 21 (1986): 4-28.
- "Education, Literacy, and the Politics of Sentimental Fiction." Women's Studies International Forum (Great Britain) 9 (1986): 5-8.
- "The Reprint Phenomenon." (review essay), Women's Review of Books 4.1 (1986): 7-9.
- "Crossing Boundaries: Hubert Aquin's L'Antiphonaire and Robert Kroetsch's Gone Indian as Fictions of the Avant-Garde." 54
- "To Bee or Not to Bee: Ann Rosenberg's Critique of Levi-Strauss." Canadian Literature 105 (1985): 197-200.
- "The Resisting Critic and the Politics of Literary Reception." (review essay), American Quarterly 37 (1985): 286-291.
- "Flirting with Destiny: Ambivalence and Form in the Early American Sentimental Novel." Studies in American Fiction. 10 Spring 1982. 17-39.
- C.N. Davidson (Co-authored). "Vernissage: Ray Smith's Lord Nelson Tavern and the Fine Art of Glossing Over." Canadian Literature 92 (1982): 58-70.
- "Isaac Mitchell's The Asylum; or, Gothic Castles in the New Republic." Prospects: The Annual of American Cultural Studies 8 (1982): 281-300.
- "The Matter and Manner of Charles Brockdon Brown's Alcuin." Critical Essays on Charles Brockdon Brown. Ed. Bernard Rosenthal. Boston: G.K. Hall Publishing, 1981. 71-86.
- "The Popular Roots of Major American Novels." Kansai American Literature (Japan) 27 (Fall 1980): 16-43.
- "Kept Women in the House of Mirth." The Markham Review 9 (Fall 1979): 10-14.
- C.N. Davidson (Co-author). "Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle: The Artist as Escapist and Seer." Studies in Canadian Literature 3 (Winter 1978)
- "Courting God and Mammon: The Biographer's Impasse in Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener'." special Melville number of Delta (France) 6 (Apr. 1978): 47-60.
- "Oedipa as Androgyne in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49." Contemporary Literature 18 (Winter 1977): 38-50.
- "'Circumsexualocution' in Henry James's Daisy Miller." Arizona Quarterly 32 (Winter 1977): 335-55.
- C.N. Davidson (Co-author). "Carrie's Sisters: The Popular Prototypes for Dreiser's Heroine." Modern Fiction Studies 23 (Fall 1977): 385-407.
- "Canadian Wry: Comic Vision in Atwood's Lady Oracle and Laurence's The Diviners." Regionalism 3 (1977)
- "The Power of Sympathy Reconsidered: William Hill Brown as Literacy Craftsman." Early American Literature 10 (Spring 1975): 14-29.
Other
- "The Future of Thinking." (2008). [abs]

