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Autor:
Jennifer L Fleissner
Publikováno v:
American Literary History. 35:480-490
This essay uses Chantal Mouffe's work in The Democratic Paradox (2000) to think through the paradoxical status of democracy in this special issue. At a moment when democracy is under authoritarian threat worldwide, contributors often treat it not as
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Jennifer L Fleissner
Publikováno v:
American Literary History. 34:142-157
The crises of 2020, this essay argues, demonstrated anew both the dangers and the indispensability of state power. Yet Americanist critics often display the same antistatism that characterized the nation's canonical literature as well as those who ch
Autor:
Jennifer L. Fleissner
An examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will. What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment thinkers hoped, but by will? Western modernity res
Autor:
Jennifer L. Fleissner
The 1890s have long been thought one of the most male-oriented eras in American history. But in reading such writers as Frank Norris with Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Stephen Crane, Jennifer L. Fleissner boldly argues that f
Autor:
Jennifer L. Fleissner
Publikováno v:
Critical Inquiry. 44:185-187
Autor:
Jennifer L. Fleissner
Publikováno v:
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 1:452-459
through Whistler’s art simply “cannot be grasped or even come to be ’there’ for us in any other way.”7 This is a picture that does not work but begs. The picture begs in the way that a statement comes to beg the point or question. It takes
Autor:
Jennifer L. Fleissner
Publikováno v:
American Literature. 84:31-60
Fleissner's essay explores a possible response to the recent return of what Cynthia Russett called “the intellectual imperium of the Darwinian era” through the writings of Henry Adams. Considering Adams's work—particularly The Education (1907),
Autor:
Jennifer L. Fleissner
Publikováno v:
Twentieth-Century Literature. 58:688-693