Overview

Stuart Burrows teaches classes on nineteenth and twentieth century American fiction and poetry, the history of photography, film, and literary theory. His first book, A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography explored the ways in which the invention of the camera transformed the way American writers conceived of the limits and purpose of representation. His second, Henry James and the Promise of Fiction (Cambridge, 2023) argued that James remade the moral landscape of the nineteenth century novel by rethinking what a promise is and how it works.

Burrows's essays have appeared in a range of edited collections and journals including American Literary History, boundary 2, J19, Nineteenth Century Literature, NOVEL, and Romantic Circles. He is currently working on a book on film and the idea of offscreen space.

Brown Affiliations

• English

Research Areas