Books by Daniel Cottom

Using a wide range of examples, Cottom argues for the necessity of multiple readings of text and culture, and against the repression of historical differences, conflicts, and possibilities.

"A tour de force, implicitly summarizing and commenting on more than two millennia of arguments about the function of education."-Michael Berube, author of The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies

Daniel Cottom traces the vagabond word "bohemia" as it migrated across national borders over the course of the nineteenth century-from France to the United States, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany-and how it was transformed, contested, or rejected along the way.

Through a wide-ranging study of literature, art, and philosophy, Daniel Cottom explains why ours is an unhuman culture and how this culture still gives us reason for hope.

The Civilized Imagination is a study of literature in a period of cultural change. As part of the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century a great transformation occurred in the relations among aesthetic theory, literature, and society.