Michael Collins

Contact

• workRoom B 74 Trent Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• M.Collins@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

My main areas of expertise relate to nineteenth century American literature. In particular, I am interested in the short story, print culture, the American Renaissance, transatlanticism, and theories of ritual and performance in antebellum literature. I also maintain a research and teaching interest in New York in the nineteenth century.

Research Summary

I am currently researching a new project entitled "Reluctant Cosmopolitans: Solidarity and Realism in The Gilded Age" as part of my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. I am looking at how the… read more

Selected Publications

• MICHAEL J. COLLINS, 2013. Master Betty, “The Master-Key of Our Theme": Decoding the Politics of Theatricality in Herman Melville’s “The Fiddler” (Forthcoming) Journal of American Studies. (In Press.)
• MICHAEL J. COLLINS, 2012. The Rule of Men Entirely Great: Ritual, Republicanism and Richelieu in Melville's The Two Temples (Forthcoming) Comparative American Studies: An International Journal. (In Press.)
• MICHAEL COLLINS, 2008. Republicanism and the Masonic Imagination in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. 12(2),
• MICHAEL COLLINS, 2010. The Knickerbocker Atlantic: Ritual and the Federalist Tradition in Washington Irving’s Sketch Book US Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal.

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Current Research

I am currently researching a new project entitled "Reluctant Cosmopolitans: Solidarity and Realism in The Gilded Age" as part of my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. I am looking at how the emergence of new theories of cultural pluralism affected representations of class difference in realist fiction and journalism of the late nineteenth century. In particular, I will be looking at the work of William Dean Howells, Jose Marti and Stephen Crane,

• MICHAEL J. COLLINS, 2013. Master Betty, “The Master-Key of Our Theme": Decoding the Politics of Theatricality in Herman Melville’s “The Fiddler” (Forthcoming) Journal of American Studies. (In Press.)
• MICHAEL J. COLLINS, 2012. The Rule of Men Entirely Great: Ritual, Republicanism and Richelieu in Melville's The Two Temples (Forthcoming) Comparative American Studies: An International Journal. (In Press.)
• MICHAEL COLLINS, 2010. The Knickerbocker Atlantic: Ritual and the Federalist Tradition in Washington Irving’s Sketch Book US Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal.
• MICHAEL COLLINS, 2008. Republicanism and the Masonic Imagination in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. 12(2),
• MICHAEL COLLINS, 2007. Sloughing off the Old Skin: Ideology, Folklore and the Invention of Tradition in the Tales of Washington Irving US Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal.