D. Berton Emerson teaches American literature and culture at Whitworth University. He has written essays that have appeared in American Literature, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Avidly. He is working on a book titled Local Rules: Antebellum Misfits and their Alternative Democracies.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Dark Side of Nice
D. Berton Emerson on Carrie Tirado Bramen’s “American Niceness: A Cultural History”...
A Terraqueous Counter-Narrative in US History
Michele Currie Navakas’s “Liquid Landscape” convincingly demonstrates that Florida has always compromised master narratives of US nationalism....
Lights Out
Imagining Huck after his reluctant coming-of-age and his decision to risk hell in stealing Jim out of slavery has been both fruitful and fraught-filled....
Imitatio Americana
"Against Self-Reliance" amends the popular story of a US that gives primary importance to the "sacred self."...
