Leslie Butler

Selected Publications

• Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform , (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

• “The ‘Woman Question’ in the Age of Democracy: From Movement History to Problem History,” in Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O’Brien, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, eds., The Worlds of American Intellectual History (Oxford University Press, 2017).

• “A ‘Badge of Advanced Liberalism’: The Place of Woman Suffrage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Political Thought,” in Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow, eds., America’s World: The Transnational Circuitry of U.S. History (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• “Lincoln as the Great Educator: Opinion and Educative Liberalism in the Civil War Era,” in Don Doyle, Marcus Gräser, and Jörg Nagler, eds., The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War (Palgrave Macmillan; 2016).

  “‘Encountering the Smashing Projectile’: William James on John Stuart Mill and the Woman Question,” in Martin Halliwell and Joel Rasmussen, editors, William James and the Transatlantic Conversation: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

• “From the History of Ideas to Ideas in History,” Modern Intellectual History 9.1 (2012), 157-169.

  “Victorianism,” in Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper, eds., Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, Oxford University Press, 2013.

• David Armitage, Thomas Bender, Leslie Butler, Don H. Doyle, Susan-Mary Grant, Charles S. Maier, Jörg Nagler, Paul Quigley, and Jay Sexton, “Nationalism and Internationalism during the Civil War Era: An Interchange,” Journal of American History 98.2 (2011), 455-489

• “Historicizing American Travel, at Home and Abroad,” Modern Intellectual History (April 2011), 1-15.

• “Reconstructions in Intellectual and Cultural Life,” in Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States, T. Brown (ed.) (2006).

• “Liberal Victorians and Foreign Policy in the Age of Empire,” in The Problem of Evil: Race, Slavery, and the Ambiguities of Reform, S. Mintz (ed.) (2006).

• “Investigating the ‘Great American Mystery’: Theory and Style in Henry Adams’ Political Reform Moment,” in Henry Adams and the Need to Know, W. Decker (ed.), (2005) 80-103.

• “Reading the Readers who Remake the (Poetry) Texts,” Reviews in American History 36 (4) 2008: 602-609.

   

  “Dead Presidents and American Reform,” Reviews in American History , 32 (September 2004) 399-406.