1976 - 1980

“Change, Science Fiction, and Marxism: Open or Closed Universes?,” Science-Fiction Studies, 2 (Part 2, 1973), 90-92. (Reprinted in Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles [Boston: Gregg Press, 1976].)

The Tarry Hand of Herman Melville,” in Weapons of Criticism. San Francisco: Ramparts Press, 1976, 287-309.

Review essay on Edward Grejda, The Common Continent of Men: Racial Equality in the Writings of Herman Melville; Charles Nnolim, Melville’s “Benito Cereno”; Pearl Chester Solomon, Dickens and Melville in Their Time; Paul-Gerhard Buchloh and Hartmut Krüger, Herman Melville; Merton Sealts, Jr., The Early Lives of Melville, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 30 (March 1976), 547-553.

“Crime and Punishment: A Literary Memoir,” Book World, The Washington Post, May 2, 1976.

“A Radical Redefiniton of American Literature,” Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the College English Association, April 9, 1976.

“Science Fiction as an Historical Phenomenon,” Eastern Science Fiction Association, March 7, 1976.

“Marxist Literary History and Literary Criticism,” Graduate School Colloquium, Drew University, April 16, 1976.

“New Jersey Writing Today,” Moderator, Panel Discussion, Bicentennial Conference on New Jersey’s Literary Heritage, Kean College, April 17, 1976.

“The Literature of the American Prison,” Unitarian Church of Summit, May 30, 1976

“Is the World Really Coming to an End: Science Fiction and the Doomsday Imagination,” Kean College, December 2, 1976.

“The Sociology of Science Fiction,” Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1976.

“The Most Iconoclastic Tradition of All: Frederick Douglass and the Origin of American Literature, Division Meeting, American Literature of the Nineteenth Century, Modern Language Association Convention, December 27, 1976.

“Malcolm Braly: Novelist of the American Prison,” Contemporary Literature, 18 (Spring 1977), 217-240.

“Animal Farm Unbound; Or, What the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Reveals about American Literature,” New Letters, 43 (Spring 1977), 25-46.

“The Literature of the American Prison,” Massachusetts Review, 18 (Spring 1977), 50-78.

“Science Fiction before Gernsback,” Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction, edited by Damon Knight. New York: Harper & Row, 1977, pp. 96-99. (Revised from Future Perfect.)

Columbia Cablevision, December, 1977.

FUTURE PERFECT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1966. xiii+401 pages. Second (revised) edition, 1968. Paperback edition (Galaxy Books, Oxford University Press), 1968. Expanded and revised edition (hardback and paperback), Oxford University Press, 1978. xiii+404 pages. 4th edition, expanded and revised, Rutgers University Press, 1995. 400 pages.

“Literature from Prisons,” New York Times (Op-Ed), February 11, 1978.

“Herman Melville–Kunstler der Arbeiterwelt,” Amerikanische literaturkritik im engagement. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1978, pp. 161-184. (Translation of “The Tarry Hand of Herman Melville.”)

“America’s Convict Writers–Talent, Torment and Rage,” Parade, May 7, 1978.

“The History of Science Fiction,” The Arts in New Jersey: UA-Columbia Cablevision, January, 1978.

“Writings from Inside,” Heywood Hale Braun Audio Cassette (with Nathan Huggins), Jeffrey Norton Publishers, New York City, 1978.

“Literature from the American Prison,” Series of Lectures in prisons in New York State sponsored by Art Without Walls and the New York Council for the Humanities, March 13-24, 1978

Programs on Prison Literature, 1978: WOR (N.Y.); WNYC (N.Y.); WABC
(N.Y.); WRVR (N.Y.); WJLA-TV (Washington, D.C.); National Public Radio; WECB (Boston); WWDC-FM (Maryland); WBZ (Boston); WGBH-FM (Boston).

Program Director, Melville Society, 1978-1979

“New Discoveries in Nineteenth-Century American Science Fiction,” Special Session #58, Modern Language Association Convention, December 27, 1978.

“The Criminal and the Novel,” Special Session, The Criminal Hero: An Enigmatic Protagonist in ]9th- and 20th-Century Fiction, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1978.

Distinguished Lecturer, University of Arkansas, October 11-13, 1978.

“What Are We To Make of J. G. Ballard’s Apocalypse?,” Voices for the Future, Volume II. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1979, pp. 82-105.

“Songs of an Imprisoned People,” (revised from The Victim As Criminal and Artist), Melus; Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States, Summer, 1979, pp. 6-22.

“Nathaniel Hawthorne,” The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. London: Roxby Press, 1979. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979.

“Rehabilitating Prison Education,” Change: The Magazine of Learning, 11 (November-December, 1979), pp. 18-21.

“English as an Institution: The Role of Class,” English Literature–Opening Up the Canon: Selected Papers From the English Institute, 1979. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, pp. 92-106.

“English as an Institution: the Role of Class,” The English Institute, September 2, 1979.

“Literature from the American Prison,” Lecture presented by the Maryland Department of Education, Baltimore Penitentiary, October 29, 1979.

“From Empire to Empire: BILLY BUDD and the Modern Reader,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 19, 1979.

“The Novel of Revolution in the Third World: Ngugi’s PETALS OF BLOOD,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1979.

THE VICTIM AS CRIMINAL AND ARTIST: LITERATURE FROM THE AMERICAN PRISON. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1978. xxvi+337 pages. Paperback (revised and expanded) edition published as PRISON LITERATURE IN AMERICA: THE VICTIM AS CRIMINAL AND ARTIST. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1982. xxx+303 pages. [Annotated bibliography published as companion volume.] Third edition, revised and expanded, including “Annotated Bibliography of Literature by American Prisoners, 1798-1988,” New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. xxxvi+341 pages.

“Literature from Prisons,” New York Times (Op-Ed), February 11, 1978.

“Herman Melville–Kunstler der Arbeiterwelt,” Amerikanische literaturkritik im engagement. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1978, pp. 161-184. (Translation of “The Tarry Hand of Herman Melville.”)

“America’s Convict Writers–Talent, Torment and Rage,” Parade, May 7, 1978.

“The History of Science Fiction,” The Arts in New Jersey: UA-Columbia Cablevision, January, 1978.

“Writings from Inside,” Heywood Hale Braun Audio Cassette (with Nathan Huggins), Jeffrey Norton Publishers, New York City, 1978.

“Literature from the American Prison,” Series of Lectures in prisons in New York State sponsored by Art Without Walls and the New York Council for the Humanities, March 13-24, 1978.

Programs on Prison Literature, 1978: WOR (N.Y.); WNYC (N.Y.); WABC (N.Y.); WRVR (N.Y.); WJLA-TV (Washington, D.C.); National Public Radio; WECB (Boston); WWDC-FM (Maryland); WBZ (Boston); WGBH-FM (Boston).

Program Director, Melville Society, 1978-1979.

“New Discoveries in Nineteenth-Century American Science Fiction,” Special Session #58, Modern Language Association Convention, December 27, 1978.

“The Criminal and the Novel,” Special Session, The Criminal Hero: An Enigmatic Protagonist in ]9th- and 20th-Century Fiction, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1978.

Distinguished Lecturer, University of Arkansas, October 11-13, 1978.

“What Are We To Make of J. G. Ballard’s Apocalypse?,” Voices for the Future, Volume II. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1979, pp. 82-105.

“Songs of an Imprisoned People,” (revised from The Victim As Criminal and Artist), Melus; Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States, Summer, 1979, pp. 6-22.

“Nathaniel Hawthorne,” The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. London: Roxby Press, 1979. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979.

“Rehabilitating Prison Education,” Change: The Magazine of Learning, 11 (November-December, 1979), pp. 18-21.

“English as an Institution: The Role of Class,” English Literature–Opening Up the Canon: Selected Papers From the English Institute, 1979. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, pp. 92-106.

Program Director, Melville Society, 1978-1979.

“English as an Institution: the Role of Class,” The English Institute, September 2, 1979.

“Literature from the American Prison,” Lecture presented by the Maryland Department of Education, Baltimore Penitentiary, October 29, 1979.

“From Empire to Empire: BILLY BUDD and the Modern Reader,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 19, 1979.

“The Novel of Revolution in the Third World: Ngugi’s PETALS OF BLOOD,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1979.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN: AMERICA AS SCIENCE FICTION. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1980. xvi+232 pages.

Introduction to Poems in One/Part Harmony by T. J. Reddy. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carolina Wren Press, 1980.

“Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1980s,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 1981. Reprinted in the Chicago Tribune, November 7, 1981. Unauthorized abridged version published in Vietnam: Anthology and Guide to a Television History, Edited by Steven Cohen. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1983, 1st and 2nd printings, pp. 444-447. Subsequent printings contain full authorized text.

“The Manifest Destiny of the Lone Genius: Science Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America,” Nineteenth-Century American Literature Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, February 26, 1980.

“The Manifest Destiny of the Lone Genius: Science Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America,” Nineteenth-Century American Literature Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, February 26, 1980.

“Classics? Does That Have Something To Do with Classes?”, “Humanists Rediscover the Classics,” New Jersey College English Association Conference, Drew University, March 28, 1980.

“Daydreams of the Past, Nightmares of the Future,” Contemporary Versions of the American Dream, William Paterson College, April 25, 1980.

“Science Fiction and Us,” Newark Museum, May 13, 1980.

“Convicts as Political Leaders,” Lecture presented by the Maryland Department of Education, Baltimore Penitentiary, June 9, 1980.