Books

1. C.N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. 2009.
2.  "Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself". forthcoming.
3.  Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory.  W. W. Norton, 1997. (With photographs by Bill Bamberger)
4.  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)
5.  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)
6.  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))
7.  Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America.  Oxford UP, 1986.
8.  The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable.  U of Nebraska P, 1984.

Papers Published

1. "Critical Fictions." PMLA  (September, Sept. 1996).
2. "Preface." A New England Tale by Catherine Maria Sedgwick  (1995).
3. "The Question of Accuracy: Or, Why Women's Studies?." The European English Messenger  (1995).
4. "Loose Change: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association." American Quarterly 46 (June, 1994): 123-38.
5. "Tatami Room." Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism  (1994).
6. "Preface." Kelroy by Rebecca Rush  (1993).
7. "The Novel as Subversive Activity: Women Reading, Women Writing." After the Revolution: Further Explorations in the History of American Radicalism  (1993).
8. "Love Letters for My Grandmother." The Women's Review of Books 10:2 (November, Nov. 1992): 12 and 13.
9. "PH Stands for Political Hypocrisy." Academe: The AAUP magazine  (September, Sept. 1991).
10. "Photographs of the Dead: Cindy Sherman, L.J.M. Daguerre, Nathanial Hawthorne." SAQ 89 (Fall, Fall 1990): 667-701.
11. C.N. Davidson (Co-author). "Decoding the Hemingway Hero in The Sun Also Rises." The Sun Also Rises  (1987).
12. "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, Winter 1986-87): 33-64.
13. "Female Authorship and Authority: The Case of Sukey Vickery." Early American Literature 21 (1986): 4-28.
14. "Education, Literacy, and the Politics of Sentimental Fiction." Women's Studies International Forum (Great Britain) 9 (1986): 5-8.
15. "The Reprint Phenomenon." (review essay), Women's Review of Books 4:1 (1986): 7-9.
16. "Crossing Boundaries: Hubert Aquin's L'Antiphonaire and Robert Kroetsch's Gone Indian as Fictions of the Avant-Garde."  54 (1985): 163-77.
17. "To Bee or Not to Bee: Ann Rosenberg's Critique of Levi-Strauss." Canadian Literature 105 (1985): 197-200.
18. "The Resisting Critic and the Politics of Literary Reception." (review essay), American Quarterly 37 (1985): 286-291.
19. "Flirting with Destiny: Ambivalence and Form in the Early American Sentimental Novel." Studies in American Fiction 10 (Spring 1982): 17-39.
20. 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.
21. "Isaac Mitchell's The Asylum; or, Gothic Castles in the New Republic." Prospects: The Annual of American Cultural Studies 8 (1982): 281-300.
22. "The Matter and Manner of Charles Brockdon Brown's Alcuin." Critical Essays on Charles Brockdon Brown  (1981): 71-86.
23. "The Popular Roots of Major American Novels." Kansai American Literature (Japan) 27 (Fall 1980): 16-43.
24. "Kept Women in the House of Mirth." The Markham Review 9 (Fall 1979): 10-14.
25. C.N. Davidson (Co-author). "Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle: The Artist as Escapist and Seer." Studies in Canadian Literature 3 (Winter, Winter 1978).
26. "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.
27. "Oedipa as Androgyne in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49." Contemporary Literature 18 (Winter, Winter 1977): 38-50.
28. "'Circumsexualocution' in Henry James's Daisy Miller." Arizona Quarterly 32 (Winter, Winter 1977): 335-55.
29. C.N. Davidson (Co-author). "Carrie's Sisters: The Popular Prototypes for Dreiser's Heroine." Modern Fiction Studies 23 (Fall, Fall 1977): 385-407.
30. "Canadian Wry: Comic Vision in Atwood's Lady Oracle and Laurence's The Diviners." Regionalism 3 (1977).
31. "The Power of Sympathy Reconsidered: William Hill Brown as Literacy Craftsman." Early American Literature 10 (Spring, Spring 1975): 14-29.

Other

1. "The Future of Thinking."   (2008).  [abs]

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