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Samantha Harvey

Professor

Samantha Harvey, English Literature, Boise State

Dr. Harvey’s teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century British poetry and prose, transatlantic Romanticism, and the environmental humanities. In 2012 she started an annual public lecture series called “Interdisciplinary Explorations: The Idea of Nature” which brings three internationally known lecturers to Boise State every spring.

Education

  • Ph.D. in English Literature, Cambridge University
  • B.A., Harvard College

Interests

Nineteenth-century British poetry and prose, transatlantic Romanticism, and literature and the environment

Recent Publications

Books

  • Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson, and Nature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
  • Coleridge’s Responses: Coleridge on Nature and Vision. London: Continuum, 2008.

Articles and Chapters

  • “Romanticism and the Anthropocene: Mirrors and Inversions in S. T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, R. W. Emerson, and Herman Melville.” Nature and Its Unnatural Relations: Points of Access. Eds. Alan Beauclair and Josh Toth. Lanham: Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2024: 163-177.
  • “Toward a Transatlantic Philosophy of Nature.” Cambridge Critical Concepts: Nature and Literary Studies. Ed. Peter C. Remien. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022: 177-193.
  • “Romanticism.” Henry David Thoreau in Context. Ed. James Finley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017: 89-99.
  • “Emerson, the Hunterian Museum and Transatlantic Science.” The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies. Eds. Leslie Eckel and Clare Elliott. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016: 325-339.
  • “Reading the ‘Book of Nature’: Thomas Cole and the British Romantics.” Transatlantic Literary Ecologies: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World. Eds. Kevin Hutchings and John Miller. New York, London: Routledge, 2016.

Courses

  • English 424 Wordsworth and Coleridge
  • English 424 The Idea of Nature
  • English 385 Studies in Poetry
  • English 360 Romantic Literature
  • English 365 Victorian Literature
  • English 268 British Literature Survey: Romanticism to Modernism

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