HAROLD FROMM

                              


Harold Fromm lives in Tucson and is Visiting Scholar in English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Academic Capitalism and Literary Value and co-editor of The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. His writings have appeared in a wide range of journals and he is a regular contributor to the Hudson Review. [Email: Click here. Note that many of the files below are unidentified as PDFs, which can take a while to load.]

NEW AND FORTHCOMING:

Pinker and Johnson on Human Nature, in Hudson Review, Spring 2008 (61:1): 220-6. [PDF] (Also html)

J.S. Bach in the Twenty-First Century: The Chapel Becomes a Larder, in Hudson Review, Winter 2008 (60:4): 543-62. [PDF]

(Also viewable as html at http://www.hudsonreview.com/wi08/wi08fromm.html )

From Ecology to Consciousness. Forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press.

WRITINGS ON ECOLOGY, SCIENCE, EVOLUTION, CONSCIOUSNESS:

Michael Pollan’s Ecology of Food, in Hudson Review, Autumn 2006: 517-24.

Science Wars and Beyond, in Philosophy and Literature, 2006,30: 580-589.

Review of  Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, eds. Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley, in Evolutionary Psychology 206:4. [human nature.com/ep]

Daniel Dennett and the Brick Wall of Consciousness, in Hudson Review, Spring 2006: 161-68.

Review of The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative, ed Gottschall & Wilson. In Science, Feb. 3, 2006

Letter to PMLA  on science and the humanities (“Forum,” January 2006, vol. 121 #1, p.297)

Back to Bacteria: Richard Dawkins’ Fabulous Bestiary, in Hudson Review, Autumn 2005: 519-27.

Review of John Searle’s MIND: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION in Georgia Review, Fall 2005

Muses, Spooks, Neurons and the Rhetoric of “Freedom,” in New Literary History, Spring 2005 (36: 147-59).

Evolution, Ecology, and the Western Diet—with a Glance at Jared Diamond, Michael Pollan, and Gary Nabhan (delivered in June 2005 at the conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment [ASLE], held at the  University of Oregon).

Full-Stomach Wilderness and the Suburban Esthetic, in Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West, ed. Paul Lindholdt & Derrick Knowles. Eastern Washington University Press, 2005.

Overcoming the Oversoul: Emerson’s Evolutionary Existentialism, in Hudson Review, Spring 2004: 71-95.

Ecocriticism’s Big Bang in Logos, Summer 2004 [www.logosjournal.com/fromm.htm]

                        The New Darwinism in the Humanities:

                        Part One: From Plato to Pinker, in Hudson Review, Spring 2003 (pdf)   

                        Part Two: Back to Nature, Again, in Hudson Review, Summer 2003 (pdf)

                        (Both parts as one html)

Ecology and Ecstasy on Interstate 80  (on ecology, technology, and the arts) in Hudson Review, Spring 1998: 65-78.

My Science Wars

This essay, which appeared in Hudson Review in 1997, is one of the early accounts of the issue of Social Text that is reputed to have set off the so-called science wars. (This copy is taken from Alan Sokal’s website.)

A Crucifix for Dracula as hmtl  A Crucifix for Dracula as pdf

This review from Hudson Review, Winter 2001, vol.. 53 #4 [657-64], deals with the trashing of Edward O. Wilson's Consilience by Wendell Berry in his book, Life is a Miracle. Berry's reply and my reply to him subsequently appeared in the Summer 2001 of Hudson Review.

Berry/Fromm replies: This is the exchange that followed publication of "A Crucifix for Dracula."

Aldo Leopold, Aesthetic ‘Anthropocentrist This essay appeared in the first issue of ISLE(Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment) in 1993 and was anthologized in 2003 in The ISLE Reader from U. of Georgia Press.

Postmodern Ecologizing: Circumference Without a Center [Hudson Review 48 (Winter 1996):691-99] pdf  This account of Lawrence Buell’s The Environmental Imagination is both a literary and an ecological critique of Buell’s work.

A trilogy on air pollution and ecology:

On Being Polluted [Yale Review 65 (Summer 1976): 614-29] pdf

From Transcendence to Obsolescence: A Route Map [Georgia Review 32 (Fall 1978): 543-552] pdf

Air and Being: The Psychedelics of Pollution [Massachusetts Review 24 (Autumn 1983): 660-68] pdf

 

LITERARY AND CRITICAL ESSAYS:

Coetzee’s Postmodern Animals [Hudson Review 53 (Summer 2000): 657-64] pdf

Myths and Mishegaas: Robert Graves and Laura Riding [Hudson Review 44 (Summer 1991): 189-202]

Sylvia Plath: Hunger Artist [Hudson Review 43 (Summer 1990): 245-56]

Ford Madox Ford Unmuddled? [Hudson Review 44 (Winter 1992): 649-58] pdf

Wrestling With Heidegger [Hudson Review 51 (Winter 1999): 681-90] pdf

Andrew Ross and the Curse of Postmodernism [Hudson Review 49 (Summer 1996): 323-30] pdf

Toscanini, Then and Now [Hudson Review 55 (Winter 2003): 662-70] pdf

Genius or Fudge? The Clouded Alembics of Magister Poe [Hudson Review 45 (Summer 1992): 301-9] pdf

O, Paglia Mia! [Hudson Review 48 (Summer 1995):  308-16] pdf

Establishing A Way in  a World of Conflicts, in Teaching the Conflicts: Gerald Graff, Curricular Reform, and the Culture Wars, edited by William E. Cain. [Garland Publishing, NY & London, 1994, 67-77] pdf

Leonard and Virginia Woolf:

Virginia Woolf: Art and Sexuality [Virginia Quarterly Review 55 (Summer 1979): 441-59] pdf

Recycled Lives: Portraits of the Woolfs as Sitting Ducks [Virginia Quarterly Review 61:3 (Summer 1985): 396-417] pdf

Leonard Woolf and His Virgins [Hudson Review 38 (Winter 1986): 551-69] pdf

Service Not Power: Leonard Woolf’s Letters [Hudson Review 43 (Spring 1990): 170-75] pdf

Between the Acts: The Demiurge Made Flesh [Southern Humanities Review  15 (Summer 1981): 209-17] pdf

To the Lighthouse: Music and Sympathy [English Miscellany 19 (1968): 181-95] pdf

EDITING AND CUSTODIANSHIP: LOOKING OUT FOR DOROTHY M. RICHARDSON

 

Harold Fromm has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught in English departments at Wisconsin-Madison, Oakland University, Wayne State, Brooklyn College, Indiana University Northwest, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. For a BIBLIOGRAPHY, click here. A number of the items in the bibliography have been collected in Fromm: Academic Capitalism and Literary Value, U. of Georgia Press, 1991.