Eric Gardner: Selected Works
Books
Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. Oxford University Press, 2015. Read more about Black Print Unbound.
Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Read more about Unexpected Places.
Edited Books
Hearts of Gold by J. McHenry Jones. Co-edited with John Ernest. West Virginia University Press, 2010. Read more about Hearts of Gold.
Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Read more about Jennie Carter.
Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery. Toby Press, 2005.
Edited Journal Issue
American Periodicals special issue on Black periodicals. Co-edited with Joycelyn Moody. Scheduled for publication in Fall 2015.
Selected Essays in Books
“‘Each Atomic Part’: Edmonia Goodelle Highgate’s African American Transcendentalism.” Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism. Eds. Jana L. Argersinger and Phyllis Cole. University of Georgia Press, 2014. 277-299.
“Slave Narratives and Archival Research.” Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. Ed. John Ernest. Oxford University Press, 2014. 36-53.
“Early African American Print Culture and the American West,” Early African American Print Culture. Eds. Jordan Stein and Lara Cohen. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 75-89. (A 2012 Choice “Outstanding Academic Title”)
“Of Bottles and Books: Reconsidering the Readers of Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.” Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing, and Region. Eds. Eve Raimon, JerriAnne Boggis, and Barbara White. University of New Hampshire Press, 2007. 3-26.
Selected Essays in Journals
“A ‘New’ Chapter from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Sowing and Reaping.” Common-place 13.1 (October 2012), available at http://www.common-place.org/vol-13/no-01/gardner/
“Forgotten Manuscripts: William Steward’s John Blye.” African American Review 44.3 (Fall 2011): 337-352.
“Remembered (Black) Readers: Subscribers to the Christian Recorder, 1864-1865.” American Literary History 23.2 (Summer 2011): 229-259.
“Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and the ‘New Regionalism.’” Literature Compass 7.10 (October 2010): 935-945.
“‘Yours for the cause’: The Christian Recorder Writings of Lizzie Hart.” Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers 27.2 (2010): 367-391.
“Forgotten Manuscripts: William Jay Greenly’s Antebellum Temperance Drama.” African American Review 42.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2008): 389-406.
“Two Texts on Children and Christian Education by Maria W. Stewart.” PMLA 123.1 (January 2008): 156-165.
“Coloring History and Mixing Race in Levina Urbino’s Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage and Louise Heaven’s In Bonds.” Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers 24.2 (2007): 187-206.
“‘You have no business to whip me’: The Freedom Suits of Polly Wash and Lucy Ann Delaney.” African American Review 41.1 (Spring 2007): 33-50.
“‘Face to Face’: Localizing Lucy Delaney’s From the Darkness Cometh the Light.” Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers 24.1 (2007): 50-71.
“African American Women’s Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865: A Bio-Bibliography with Sample Poems.” African American Review 40.4 (Winter 2006): 813-831.
Full list available on request.
Books
Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. Oxford University Press, 2015. Read more about Black Print Unbound.
Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Read more about Unexpected Places.
Edited Books
Hearts of Gold by J. McHenry Jones. Co-edited with John Ernest. West Virginia University Press, 2010. Read more about Hearts of Gold.
Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Read more about Jennie Carter.
Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery. Toby Press, 2005.
Edited Journal Issue
American Periodicals special issue on Black periodicals. Co-edited with Joycelyn Moody. Scheduled for publication in Fall 2015.
Selected Essays in Books
“‘Each Atomic Part’: Edmonia Goodelle Highgate’s African American Transcendentalism.” Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism. Eds. Jana L. Argersinger and Phyllis Cole. University of Georgia Press, 2014. 277-299.
“Slave Narratives and Archival Research.” Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. Ed. John Ernest. Oxford University Press, 2014. 36-53.
“Early African American Print Culture and the American West,” Early African American Print Culture. Eds. Jordan Stein and Lara Cohen. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 75-89. (A 2012 Choice “Outstanding Academic Title”)
“Of Bottles and Books: Reconsidering the Readers of Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.” Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing, and Region. Eds. Eve Raimon, JerriAnne Boggis, and Barbara White. University of New Hampshire Press, 2007. 3-26.
Selected Essays in Journals
“A ‘New’ Chapter from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Sowing and Reaping.” Common-place 13.1 (October 2012), available at http://www.common-place.org/vol-13/no-01/gardner/
“Forgotten Manuscripts: William Steward’s John Blye.” African American Review 44.3 (Fall 2011): 337-352.
“Remembered (Black) Readers: Subscribers to the Christian Recorder, 1864-1865.” American Literary History 23.2 (Summer 2011): 229-259.
“Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and the ‘New Regionalism.’” Literature Compass 7.10 (October 2010): 935-945.
“‘Yours for the cause’: The Christian Recorder Writings of Lizzie Hart.” Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers 27.2 (2010): 367-391.
“Forgotten Manuscripts: William Jay Greenly’s Antebellum Temperance Drama.” African American Review 42.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2008): 389-406.
“Two Texts on Children and Christian Education by Maria W. Stewart.” PMLA 123.1 (January 2008): 156-165.
“Coloring History and Mixing Race in Levina Urbino’s Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage and Louise Heaven’s In Bonds.” Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers 24.2 (2007): 187-206.
“‘You have no business to whip me’: The Freedom Suits of Polly Wash and Lucy Ann Delaney.” African American Review 41.1 (Spring 2007): 33-50.
“‘Face to Face’: Localizing Lucy Delaney’s From the Darkness Cometh the Light.” Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers 24.1 (2007): 50-71.
“African American Women’s Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865: A Bio-Bibliography with Sample Poems.” African American Review 40.4 (Winter 2006): 813-831.
Full list available on request.