Transatlantic Studies and Film Studies: Sharon Cameron, "The Sight of Death in Tolstoy"

"The Sight of Death in Tolstoy," is a meditation on Bresson's filmic revision of Tolstoy's story in L’argent. Sharon is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. Her numerous publications include, Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain (2000); and Impersonality: Seven Essays (2007) Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre (1979); The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne (1981); Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau’s Journal (1985); Thinking in Henry James (1989); Choosing Not Choosing: Emily Dickinson’s Fascicles (1995). Cameron serves on the Advisory Board of Harvard University Press and Houghton Library's Emily Dickinson Archive. February 27th will be the first anniversary of the publication of American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron, in which leading scholars explore the multifaceted impacts of her work.

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