A selection of some scholarly and critical articles by Joe Andriano



"Monsters of the Fantastic: Fusions of the Mythical and the Real." Critical Insights on the Fantastic. Ed. Claire Whitehead. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013



"Moby-Dick in the 21st Century: From Fossil to Rocket." Indiana English (Spring 2007):19-39.
 

"Behemyth Evolving: Whale/Ape/Rocket." Trajectories of the Fantastic. Ed. Michael Morrison.  Westport, CT & London:  Greenwood Press, 1997.
 

"Brother to Dragons: Race and Evolution in Moby-Dick." ATQ: 19th Century American Literature & Culture 10.2 (June 1996): 141–53.  (Univ. of Rhode Island).
         A large portion of this article has been reprinted in The Routledge Literary Source Book on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. (2003)

 
"The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Gravity's Rainbow." Modes of the Fantastic. Eds. Robert Collins and Rob Latham.  Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press, 1995.


"The Handmaid's Tale as Scrabble Game." Essays on Canadian Writing 48 (Winter 1992–93): 89–96. Reprinted in Critical Insights: The Handmaid's Tale (Salem Press, 2012): 276-85.
        

Seven articles for Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. eds. J.R. LeMaster and Donald Kummings. NY: Garland, 1998.
         These are all available online at The Walt Whitman Archive


Six articles for The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, eds. James D. Wilson and J. R. LeMaster.  New York: Garland, 1993. Paperback Edition: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain (2011)
        My article on Twain's hilarious essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" has been cited often--even by Wikipedia!
(under "Reception")