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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

    Robert S. Levine, Sandra M. Gustafson

    Shorter Tenth Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2022

    A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.
  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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

    Shorter Tenth Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2022

    A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.
  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature

    Robert S. Levine, Sandra M. Gustafson

    Tenth Edition, Package 1: Volumes A And B, Paperback, 2022

    A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.
  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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

    Tenth Edition, Package 2: Volumes C, D, E, Paperback, 2022

    A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.
  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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

    Shorter Tenth Edition, Combined Volume, Paperback, 2022

    A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.
  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature

    Robert S. Levine, Sandra M. Gustafson

    Tenth Edition, Package 1: Volumes A And B, E Book, 2022

    A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.
  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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

    Tenth Edition, Package 2: Volumes C, D, E, E Book, 2022

    A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.
  • The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    Robert S. Levine

    Paperback, 2024

    Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson

  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Pre-1865

    Robert S. Levine, Sandra M. Gustafson

    Paperback, 2022

    A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.
  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Post-1865

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

    E Book, 2022

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