Professor
gdcrane@umich.eduOffice Information:
3151 Angell Hall
hours: zoom meetings by appointment
Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; Ecocriticism; Romanticism American and British; American; Colonial and Early American; Poetry and Poetics; Law and Literature; English; Nineteenth Century America; Theory; African American
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., UC-Berkeley 1995 JD, University of California, San Francisco, Hastings College of the Law, 1986
Current Courses
ENGLISH 150-001
The Art of the Story
ENGLISH 313-002
Topics in Literary Studies
Highlighted Work and Publications
The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
Gregg Crane
Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in American identity, growth, expansion and the Civil War. Gregg Crane tells the story of the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many less well-known works, Crane discusses the genre's major figures, themes and developments. He analyses... See More