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    Robert S. Levine

    Robert S. Levine (Ph.D. Stanford; General Editor and Editor, 1820–1865) is Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism; The Lives of Frederick Douglas; Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies; and (upcoming from Norton) The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He has edited a number of books, including The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Norton Critical Editions of Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables and Melville’s Pierre. Levine has received fellowships from the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 the American Literature Section of the MLA awarded him the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.

    Robert S. Levine

    Robert S. Levine (Ph.D. Stanford; General Editor and Editor, 1820–1865) is Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism; The Lives of Frederick Douglas; Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies; and (upcoming from Norton) The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He has edited a number of books, including The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Norton Critical Editions of Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables and Melville’s Pierre. Levine has received fellowships from the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 the American Literature Section of the MLA awarded him the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.

    Books by Robert S. Levine

    • The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Post-1865

      Robert S. Levine, Michael A. Elliott, Lisa Siraganian, Amy Hungerford, GerShun Avilez

      E Book, 2022

    • The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Pre-1865

      Robert S. Levine, Sandra M. Gustafson

      Tenth Edition, Paperback, 2022

      A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.

    • The House of the Seven Gables

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

      First Edition, Paperback, 2005

      This all-new edition of Hawthorne’s celebrated 1851 novel is based on The Ohio State University Press’s Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

    • Pierre Or, The Ambiguities: A Norton Critical Edition

      Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine, Cindy Weinstein

      First Edition, Paperback, 2017

      Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melville’s own life.

    • The House of the Seven Gables: A Norton Critical Edition

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

      Second Edition, Paperback, 2020

      “The notes and the annotations in this and other Norton volumes most influence my decision in choosing this text. I thought the volume excellent. My students commented that it was very helpful.” —...

    • Pierre Or, The Ambiguities: A Norton Critical Edition

      Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine, Cindy Weinstein

      First Edition, E Book, 2021

      When Pierre was published one year after Moby-Dick, expectations were high. Readers expected—and Melville delivered—adventure, humor, and brilliance. Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly...

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