Kenneth Womack—Selected Publications
I. Books, Edited Volumes, and Special Journal Issues
The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles. [Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press].
Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Celebration (co-edited with Mark Bernhard and Jerry Zolten). [Forthcoming, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory].
The Mammoth Book of Movies. [Forthcoming, Mammoth Books].
Reading in America Today: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Contemporary Popular American Literature. 4 volumes. [Forthcoming, Greenwood Press].
The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 86 (co-edited with William Baker). [Forthcoming, Oxford University Press].
Popular Textualities. College Literature: A Journal of Scholarly Criticism and Pedagogy 34.3 (2007): 92-182.
Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. New York: Continuum, 2007.
The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 85. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006 (co-edited with William Baker).
Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2006 (with Todd F. Davis).
Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006 (co-edited with Todd F. Davis).
The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 84. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (co-edited with William Baker).
The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 83. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 (co-edited with William Baker).
The Critical Response to John Irving. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004 (co-edited with Todd F. Davis).
Titanica. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 5.1 (2003): 1-116 (co-edited with Tim Bergfelder).
The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 82. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 (co-edited with William Baker).
Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003 (co-edited with John V. Knapp).
The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 81. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 (co-edited with William Baker).
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion, by Ford Madox Ford. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003 (co-edited with William Baker).
Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2002 (with Todd F. Davis).
The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 80. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (co-edited with William Baker).
A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002 (co-edited with William Baker).
Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
Key Concepts in Literary Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001; New York: Columbia University Press, 2002 (with Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys).
Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001 (co-edited with Todd F. Davis).
Twentieth-Century Bibliography and Textual Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000 (with William Baker; Foreword by T. H. Howard-Hill).
Felix Holt, The Radical, by George Eliot. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2000 (co-edited with William Baker).
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 213: Pre-Nineteenth-Century British Book-Collectors and Bibliographers. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999 (co-edited with William Baker).
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 201: Twentieth-Century British Book-Collectors and Bibliographers, First Series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999 (co-edited with William Baker).
Literature and Ethical Criticism. Style 32.2 (1998): 181-380 (co-edited with Todd F. Davis).
Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism. Style 31.2 (1997): 223-369 (co-edited with John V. Knapp).
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 184: Nineteenth-Century British Book-Collectors and Bibliographers. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997 (co-edited with William Baker).
Recent Work in Critical Theory, 1989-1995: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996 (with William Baker).
II. Articles and Book Chapters
“‘Why don’t you just leave it up to nature?’: An Adaptationist Reading of the Novels of Jeffrey Eugenides.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 40.3 (2007): 157-73 (with Amy Mallory-Kani).
“Authorship and the Beatles.” College Literature: A Journal of Scholarly Criticism and Pedagogy 34.3 (2007): 161-182.
“Introduction: Popular Textualities.” College Literature: A Journal of Scholarly Criticism and Pedagogy 34.3 (2007): 93-100.
“The Beatles as Modernists.” Music and Literary Modernism: Critical Essays and Comparative Studies. Ed. Robert McParland. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 222-38, 270-72.
“Ten Great Beatles Moments.” Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter. Ed. June Skinner Sawyers. New York: Penguin, 2006. 185-90.
“Introduction: Dear Sir or Madam, Will You Read My Book?” Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four. Ed. Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 1-6 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Mythology, Remythology, and Demythology: The Beatles on Film.” Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four. Ed. Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 97-110 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Pink Floyd’s Levinasian Ethics: Reading Dark Side of the Moon’s Philosophical Architecture.” Speak to Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Ed. Russell Reising. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 177-86.
“Reconsidering Performative Autobiography: Life-Writing and the Beatles.” Life Writing 2.2 (2005): 31-54.
“David Mamet’s Altered Ethics: Finding Forgiveness, or Something Like It, in House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, and State and Main.” Textual Ethos Studies—Or Locating Ethics. Ed. Anna Fåhraeus and AnnKatrin Johnson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 281-96 (with Todd F. Davis).
“An Interview with Joey Pants.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 6.2 (2005): 92-111 (with Dinty W. Moore).
“‘My name was Salmon, like the fish’: Understanding Death, Grief, and Redemption in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.” Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers. Vol. 193. Ed. Tom Burns and Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Gale Research, 2004. 277-84.
“Reading the Titanic: Contemporary Literary Representations of the Ship of Dreams.” The Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representations in Visual and Literary Culture. Ed. Tim Bergfelder and Sarah Street. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004. 85-93.
“Dying for Love: Reading the Ethics of Grief in A Widow for One Year.” The Critical Response to John Irving. Ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. 176-87 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Lumbering through Illyria: John Irving’s ‘Literary Debate’ with Ford Madox Ford and John Hawkes.” The Critical Response to John Irving. Ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. 58-67.
“Reading (and Writing) the Ethics of Authorship: Shakespeare in Love as Postmodern Metanarrative.” Literature/Film Quarterly 32.2 (2004): 153-62 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Spiral Form and Henry Miller’s Altered Ethics: Tropic of Capricorn Revisited.” Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal 1.1 (2004): 163-74.
“Reading the Ethics of Mourning in the Poetry of Donald Hall.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature 30.1 (2003): 161-78 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Reading the Titanic: Contemporary Literary Representations of the Ship of Dreams.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 5.1 (2003): 34-44.
“Titanica: An Introduction.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 5.1 (2003): 1-3 (with Tim Bergfelder).
“Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project: Ethical Criticism and Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring.” Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers. Vol. 174. Ed. Janet Witalec. Detroit: Gale Research, 2003. 291-300.
“Embracing the Fall: Reconfiguring Redemption in Jim Harrison’s The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Dalva, and The Road Home.” Western American Literature 38.2 (2003): 133-52 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Forget the Alamo: Reading the Ethics of Style in John Sayles’s Lone Star.” Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities. Ed. Eva Rueschmann. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. 211-26 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Lawrence Durrell’s Mediterranean Dream: Reading The Alexandria Quartet and the Ethical Voice of the Sea.” English: The Journal of the English Association 52.202 (2003): 37-52 (with James M. Decker).
“Lucy Honeychurch’s Rage for Selfhood: Family Systems Therapy, Ethics, and E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View.” Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study. Ed. John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 29-45.
“‘Only Connecting’ with the Family: Class, Culture, and Narrative Therapy in E. M. Forster’s Howards End.” Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Lived between 1900 and 1999, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Vol. 125. Ed. Janet Witalec. Detroit: Gale Research, 2002. 154-61.
“‘It is all a darkness’: Death, Narrative Therapy, and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.” Papers on Language and Literature 38.3 (2002): 316-33.
“Ethical Criticism.” Introducing Criticism at the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Julian Wolfreys. New York: Columbia University Press; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002. 106-25.
“‘O my brothers’: Reading the Anti-Ethics of the Pseudo-Family in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange.” College Literature: A Journal of Scholarly Criticism and Pedagogy 29.2 (2002): 19-36 (with Todd F. Davis).
“In Defense of an Ethical Criticism.” Pennsylvania English 24.1-2 (2001-2002): 39-53 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project: Ethical Criticism and Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring.” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 26.4 (2001): 223-43.
“The List Is Life: Schindler’s List as Ethical Construct.” Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory. Ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. 151-64 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Preface: Reading Literature and the Ethics of Criticism.” Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory. Ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. ix-xiv (with Todd F. Davis).
“Theorizing Culture, Reading Ourselves: Cultural Studies.” Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and Glossary. Ed. Julian Wolfreys. New York: Columbia University Press; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001. 243-60.
“Narrating the Ship of Dreams: The Ethics of Sentimentality in James Cameron’s Titanic.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 29.1 (2001): 42-48 (with Todd F. Davis).
“‘Haunted by Waters’: Narrative Reconciliation in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs through It.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 42.2 (2001): 192-204 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Saints, Sinners, and the Dickensian Novel: The Ethics of Storytelling in John Irving’s The Cider House Rules.” John Irving: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2001. 121-37 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Misreading ‘Little Limp Lo’ and ‘Humbert the Terrible’: The Obfuscation of Child Abuse in Adrian Lyne’s Lolita.” Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 19.3 (2000): 58-66 (with Lee Ann De Reus).
“‘Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage’: Reading the Ethics of the Soul and the Late-Victorian Gothic in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 168-81.
“A Passage to Italy: Narrating the Family in Crisis in E. M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 33.3 (2000): 129-44.
“Settling into the Light: The Ethics of Grace in the Poetry of Jane Kenyon.” Bright Unequivocal Eye: Poems, Papers, and Remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference. Ed. Bert G. Hornback. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 87-97 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Shepherding the Weak: The Ethics of Redemption in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.” Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers. Vol. 125. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Gale Research, 2000. 379-83 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Reclaiming the Particular: The Ethics of Self and Sexuality in Wide Sargasso Sea.” Jean Rhys Review: An International Review of Rhys and Related Studies 11.1 (1999): 63-78 (with Todd F. Davis).
“‘Ashes under Uricon’: Historicizing A. E. Housman, Reifying T. H. Huxley, Embracing Lucretius.” A. E. Housman: A Reassessment. Ed. Alan W. Holden and J. Roy Birch. New York: St. Martin’s Press; London: Macmillan Press, 1999. 76-86.
“Introduction: Theorizing Culture, Reading Ourselves.” Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide. Ed. Julian Wolfreys. New York: New York University Press; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999. 593-603, 642-45.
“Forget the Alamo: Reading the Ethics of Style in John Sayles’s Lone Star.” Style 32.3 (1998): 471-85 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Searching for Ethics in the Celluloid Graveyard: Waugh, O’Flaherty, and the Hollywood Novel.” Studies in the Humanities 25.1-2 (1998): 53-65 (with James M. Decker).
“Introduction: Reading Literature and the Ethics of Criticism.” Style 32.2 (1998): 184-93 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Saints, Sinners, and the Dickensian Novel: The Ethics of Storytelling in John Irving’s The Cider House Rules.” Style 32.2 (1998): 298-317 (with Todd F. Davis).
“Editing the Beatles: Addressing the Roles of Authority and Editorial Theory in the Creation of Popular Music’s Most Valuable Canon.” TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 11 (1998): 189-205.
“Shepherding the Weak: The Ethics of Redemption in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.” Literature/Film Quarterly 26.1 (1998): 60-66 (with Todd F. Davis).
“‘Only Connecting’ with the Family: Class, Culture, and Narrative Therapy in E. M. Forster’s Howards End.” Style 31.2 (1997): 255-69.
“A Calendar of the Letters of Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882-1974).” Bulletin of Bibliography 54.4 (1997): 303-16.
“Forbidden Love and Victorian Restraint in Geraldine Jewsbury’s Zoë.” Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens 45 (1997): 15-25 (with Mary B. Werner).
“Lumbering through Illyria: John Irving’s ‘Literary Debate’ with Ford Madox Ford and John Hawkes.” International Fiction Review 23 (1996): 50-58.
“Derrida, the ‘Sacred Text,’ and the Soviet Translation of Ulysses.” Imprimatur: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 1.2-3 (1996): 122-25.
“Unmasking Another Villain in Conrad Aiken’s Autobiographical Dream.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 19.2 (1996): 137-57.
“‘Б as in Byron’: Addressing the Need for a Standardized System of Russian Transliteration in the Humanities.” Editors’ Notes 13.1 (1994): 31-36.
“Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882-1974): A Primary and Secondary Bibliography.” Bulletin of Bibliography 51.1 (1994): 69-73.
“Assessing the Rhetoric of Performance Criticism in Three Variant Soviet Texts of King Lear.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 41 (1993): 149-59.
“Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong: A Life in Letters.” The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 23.1 (1993): 98-117.