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Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” And The “'Masculine' Mind", Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” And The “'Masculine' Mind", Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
No abstract provided.
A Letter And A Dream: The Literary Friendship Of Ellen Glasglow And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
A Letter And A Dream: The Literary Friendship Of Ellen Glasglow And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
No abstract provided.
Preposterous America: The Language Of Inversion In Thoreau, Melville, And Hawthorne, Rasmus R. Simonsen
Preposterous America: The Language Of Inversion In Thoreau, Melville, And Hawthorne, Rasmus R. Simonsen
Rasmus R Simonsen, PhD
This dissertation stages a series of readings that activate the inherent pull towards a queer aesthetic of “preposterousness” in the American Renaissance. In the introduction, I claim that American Studies and Queer Studies have been mutually implicated ever since F.O. Matthiessen’s seminal work American Renaissance. In this way, I bring to light the nascent strands of homoeroticsm and “deviant” practices that disrupt the teleology of normative masculinity in the nineteenth century. My intervention develops a queer heuristic through an exploration of the classical figure of hysteron proteron—the rhetorical inversion of the order of things. As a master-trope for my investigation, …
Sacred Uncertainty: Religious Difference And The Shape Of Melville's Career, Brian Yothers
Sacred Uncertainty: Religious Difference And The Shape Of Melville's Career, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Sacred Uncertainty (published April 2015) explores Herman Melville's engagement with a wide range of religious traditions across his entire career.
Connecting Literature And History: Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby Museum Project, Adam Kotlarczyk
Connecting Literature And History: Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby Museum Project, Adam Kotlarczyk
Adam Kotlarczyk
Despite mixed reviews at the time of its 1925 publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has come to be one of the most widely taught American books and has become a popular candidate for the title of the “Great American Novel.” Uniquely intertwining social history, biography, and literature, the text challenges readers to understand the culture and history of the Jazz Age and to see its interrelationship with the lives and motivations of the characters, as well as with the author himself. This project encourages students to engage and work closely with one of the historical elements that influenced …
Hawthorne’S “The Minister’S Black Veil”: Group Activities And Interpretations, Adam Kotlarczyk
Hawthorne’S “The Minister’S Black Veil”: Group Activities And Interpretations, Adam Kotlarczyk
Adam Kotlarczyk
Although the better-known The Scarlet Letter (1850) still draws more attention from many high school English teachers, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s darkly enigmatic short story “The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836) touches on similar themes and provides readers with diverse avenues for exploration, discussion, and analysis. Containing dramatic, psychological, and moral elements, in addition to its literary ones, it is a complex text that can confound teachers and students alike with its range of interpretations and ambiguity. This lesson allows students in small groups to choose and focus on one interpretive element. It also accommodates different learning styles, offering both creative and analytical …
Thoreau’S Walden: Experiential Learning And A Transcendental Walk, Adam Kotlarczyk
Thoreau’S Walden: Experiential Learning And A Transcendental Walk, Adam Kotlarczyk
Adam Kotlarczyk
Many English classes struggle with Thoreau’s dense and often ponderous prose in Walden. Classes often become mired in his text and its romantic ideals of seclusion and self-reliance. This activity rips the words of Walden off the page and puts them where they belong: outside. It compels students to move beyond basic interpretations of Walden as “connecting with nature” and “keeping life simple,” and instead to see and interpret their modern, living world through the lens of Transcendentalism, as Thoreau did. This lesson encourages students to see and interpret their worlds as Thoreau did through a modeling-based writing experience.
Reading/Photography: Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’S Four Girls At Cottage City, Victoria Earle Matthews And The Woman’S Era, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.
Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers
Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
The link will allow you to view a PDF of this review if you have an institutional subscription to Leviathan.
Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.
Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman
Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.
The Christian Recorder, Broken Families And Educated Nations: Julia Collins' Civil War Novel The Curse Of Caste, P. Gabrielle Foreman
The Christian Recorder, Broken Families And Educated Nations: Julia Collins' Civil War Novel The Curse Of Caste, P. Gabrielle Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
This essay views Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (1865) through the racialized lens of Civil War’s promise and trauma. At first glance, the author’s narrative choices—her antebellum frame, her principal character’s racial indeterminacy and domestic concerns, even the overtly racialized advice she dispenses in the essays she publishes in the important Black paper, the Christian Recorder—seem distractingly distanced from the immediacy of the unfolding national conflict. Yet, readers can plot Collins’s story on the temporal and activist axes that she so explicitly engages by publishing in the Recorder, a paper that printed editorials …
Who’S Your Mama?: ‘White’ Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography And Anti-Passing Narratives Of Slavery And Freedom, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.
Sentimental Abolition In Douglass’S Decade: Revision, Erotic Conversion, And Politics Of Witnessing In Frederick Douglass's "Heroic Slave" And My Bondage And My Freedom, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.
Manifest In Signs: Reading The Undertell In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, P. Foreman
Manifest In Signs: Reading The Undertell In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.
Past-On Stories: History, Ontology, And The Magically Real -- Morrison And Allende, On Call, P. Foreman
Past-On Stories: History, Ontology, And The Magically Real -- Morrison And Allende, On Call, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
The relation between ontology and naming is explicitly figured in both Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Morrison locates the defining power in speech and listening, survival skills quite distinct from talking and passive hearing. Allende subverts the Adamic power of literal naming and so posits a new genesis. In both novels, women become the site of a history that survives and so nurtures the present.
This Promiscuous Housekeeping': Death, Transgression, And Homoeroticism In Uncle Tom's Cabin, P. Foreman
This Promiscuous Housekeeping': Death, Transgression, And Homoeroticism In Uncle Tom's Cabin, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.
Looking Back From Zora: Or Talking Out Both Sides My Mouth For Those Who Have Two Ears, P. Foreman
Looking Back From Zora: Or Talking Out Both Sides My Mouth For Those Who Have Two Ears, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
Issues of representation and problematic address are considered in the works of several black women writers, including Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen. These writers "talk out both sides" of their mouths and mediate their messages about representing race, gender and power.
The Spoken And The Silenced In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl And Our Nig, P. Foreman
The Spoken And The Silenced In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl And Our Nig, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.