In Bound and Determined, Christopher Castiglia gives shape for the first time to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than sixty accounts by women captives, as well as novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's eighteenth-century classic Rueben and Rachel to today's mass-market romances, Castiglia investigates paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find freedom...
In Bound and Determined, Christopher Castiglia gives shape for the first time to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that range...
Not many people know that Walt Whitman arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century began his literary career as a novelist. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies.
The novel tells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls, theaters,...
Not many people know that Walt Whitman arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century began his literary career as a novelist. Fra...
Not many people know that Walt Whitman arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century began his literary career as a novelist. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies.
The novel tells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls, theaters,...
Not many people know that Walt Whitman arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century began his literary career as a novelist. Fra...
In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. Castiglia contends that citizens of the early United States were encouraged to locate this social impulse not in associations with others but in the turbulent and conflicted interiors of their own bodies. He describes how the human interior with its battles between appetite and restraint, desire and deferral became a displacement of the divided sociality of nineteenth-century America s...
In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely de...
In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. Castiglia contends that citizens of the early United States were encouraged to locate this social impulse not in associations with others but in the turbulent and conflicted interiors of their own bodies. He describes how the human interior with its battles between appetite and restraint, desire and deferral became a displacement of the divided sociality of nineteenth-century America s...
In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely de...
Reclaiming the aesthetic, emphasizing the "literary" in literary studies, conceptualizing a new formalism: such recent appeals represent the latest turn in ongoing debates about art and aesthetic ideology. Intervening in these debates often characterized by predictable oppositions that set art against social action, structure against cultural practice, and the so-called imaginaries of affect against the putative reality of politics this special issue of American Literature asks, what's new about the "new aesthetics," and what implications does this shifting ideology have for social and...
Reclaiming the aesthetic, emphasizing the "literary" in literary studies, conceptualizing a new formalism: such recent appeals represent the latest tu...
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS.
Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory, If Memory Serves offers a new perspective on the emergence of...
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academic...
