[ecrea] Special Issue in Memory of Robert K. Martin-Canadian Review of American Studies - Spring 2015

Canadian Review of American Studies - Volume 45, Number 1, Spring 2015

Special Issue in Memory of Robert K. Martin /

numéro spécial à la mémoire de Robert K. Martin

Editor/Rédacteur : Leland S. Person



Articles

Introduction—Robert K. Martin: Celebrating a Self /Robert K. Martin : 
célébration d’un soi

Leland S. Person



The five essays in this special issue honour Robert’s legacy. 
Christopher Looby’s “Of Billy’s Time” is certainly written with an 
awareness of historical contingencies that recalls many of Robert’s 
critical readings of texts. A very smart reading of Billy Budd, it 
proceeds, in fact, from what Looby calls the “general claim” that “Billy 
Budd is itself an exploration of and a meditation on the profound 
historicity of sexuality.” In “Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Anxieties of 
the Archive,” Eric Savoy pays tribute to Robert’s “Hester Prynne, C’est 
Moi,” in the process of offering a brilliant reading of “The 
Custom-House” preface to The Scarlet Letter. Using Derrida’s concept of 
the archive—“that is, the quotidian, ritualistic, and performative ways 
in which subjects are constituted precisely as subjects in conformity 
with the regulatory ideals of nation, religious tradition, and 
gender”—he analyzes the complex “psychodrama” through which Hawthorne 
constitutes himself as an author. Priscilla Walton’s “Down the Rabbit 
Hole” uses Robert’s “Picturesque Misperception in The Bostonians” to 
launch her study of connections between Alice James’s long-term 
relationship  with Katherine Loring and James’s representation of the 
“Boston marriage” between Verena Tarrant and Olive Chancellor.



I am very grateful to Professors Looby, Savoy, and Walton for their 
willingness to contribute to this special issue. All were good friends 
and colleagues of Robert’s over many years. I am also excited to have 
two additional essays that should appeal even more palpably to readers 
wishing for more examples of the Robert K. Martin tradition of American 
literary scholarship. Robert and Justin Edwards, a former student of his 
at the University of Montreal, had been working on an essay about 
Margaret Fuller when Robert became too ill to continue with the project. 
Justin has kindly provided that essay for this volume. And as I noted 
above, Robert and I collaborated on an epistolary dialogue about 
Melville’s The Confidence-Man beginning in 1996. We had every intention 
of developing the essay for publication, but that project too got 
sidetracked by Robert’s illness. I am thrilled to be able to include it 
here. Two posthumous essays at least partly in Robert’s own critical 
voice—a special issue indeed! (excerpts from Introduction by Leland S. 
Person)



Publications of Robert K. Martin



Of Billy’s Time: Temporality in Melville’s Billy Budd

Christopher Looby



Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Anxieties of the Archive

Eric Savoy



Down the Rabbit Hole: The Bostonians and Alice James

Priscilla L. Walton



Concord Companions: Margaret Fuller, Friendship, and Desire

Robert K. Martin and Justin D. Edwards



“But Suppose I Did Want a Boy?” Homosexual Economies in Herman 
Melville’s The Confidence-Man

Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person

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