Vera J. Camden, Ph.D. English (Virginia)
Professor; Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
Contact
Vera J. Camden, Ph.D. English (Virginia)
Professor; Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
Contact
Areas of Interest
17c and 18c Literature, Critical theory, Psychoanalysis
17c and 18c Literature, Critical theory, Psychoanalysis
Selected Recent Publications
Books
Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan. Ed. Vera J. Camden, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, forthcoming.
- The Narrative of the Persecution of Agnes Beaumont , (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, Early Women Writers Series, 1992; second printing, East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1998).
- Compromise Formations: Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1989).
Journal Editorships
- Co-Editor, American Imago, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000-present
- Associate Editor, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, The International Universities Press, 1999-2000
Special Issues Edited
- “Identity, Agency and Gender in John Bunyan’s England” Bunyan Studies Special Issue (Guest Editor, with Kimberly Hill) 11(2004).
- “Early Women Analysts” (Special issue) American Imago 60:2 (2003).
- “Dissenting Women in John Bunyan’s World and Work” (Guest Editor) Bunyan Studies 7 (1997).
Articles
- “Attending to Sarah Wight: Little Writer of God’s Wonders” Bunyan Studies special issue on “Identity, Agency and Gender in Bunyan’s England” 11 (2004) 94-131.
- “Introduction” in “Early Women Analysts” American Imago 60:2 (2003) 253-258.
- "Most Fit for a Wounded Conscience: The Place of Luther's Galatians Commentary in Grace Abounding," Renaissance Quarterly 50: Fall (1997): 819-850.
- “Introduction” in “Dissenting Women in John Bunyan’s World and Work” Bunyan Studies 7(1997) 5-11.
- "Domestic Dissent in The Narrative of the Persecution of Agnes Beaumont,"History of European Ideas 10:4 (1990): 211-24.
- “Introduction” Compromise Formations: Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press) ix-xix.
- “Blasphemy and Belief in Grace Abounding," The American Baptist Quarterly: Bunyan Tercentenary Issue, ed. Ted Underwood. 7:4 (1988): 460-471.
- "Loveable Fear: Wounding in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw," American Imago 40:3 (1983): 257-279.