Supernal Loveliness and Fantastic Foolery: The Esthetic Dimension in Poe and Hawthorne

Michael Colacurcio was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended Jesuit high school and university (Xavier) in that city. After earning his PhD at the University of Illinois in 1963, he taught at Cornell until 1985, moving to UCLA at that time. A number of his essays on earlier American literature appeared in a 1997 as Doctrine and Difference; a second volume is scheduled to appear in 2019. His book-length study of Hawthorne's early tales was published by Harvard as The Province of Piety in 1984 and reprinted by Duke in 1994. Godly Letters, a study of the literary history of first-generation New England appeared from Notre Dame in 2007. A two-volume study called “Emerson and Other Minds” is currently in press at Baylor University, which will also publish his anthology of Early American religious writings as American Reformation.