Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and community Transcendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers-including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret ......
Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and community Transcendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers-including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret ......
Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention from Austen to Audiobooks
A cultural and literary history of domestic reading aloud "Listening," a recent Audible advertising campaign proclaimed, "is the new reading." But this is no new phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, reading aloud was one of the most popular evening entertainments and one of the primary ways people consumed fiction. In Willful Listeners, Kate ......
Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention from Austen to Audiobooks
A cultural and literary history of domestic reading aloud "Listening," a recent Audible advertising campaign proclaimed, "is the new reading." But this is no new phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, reading aloud was one of the most popular evening entertainments and one of the primary ways people consumed fiction. In Willful Listeners, Kate ......
Piracy, Sympathy, and Ocean Politics in Antebellum American Legal Culture
Demonstrating how emotion became central to the legal and literary meanings of piracy in nineteenth-century America Pirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national identity. In the decades leading up to and including the U.S. Civil War, the charge of piracy was leveled against an unusually wide range of ......
Narrative Side-Stepping offers a new feminist, queer, crip way of reading that embraces expansive narrative possibilities for disabled characters. Instead of treating disabled characters as plot devices, metaphors, stereotypes, or marginal figures enforcing able-bodiedness, Christian Lewis argues that authors utilize disabled characters to ......
Narrative Side-Stepping offers a new feminist, queer, crip way of reading that embraces expansive narrative possibilities for disabled characters. Instead of treating disabled characters as plot devices, metaphors, stereotypes, or marginal figures enforcing able-bodiedness, Christian Lewis argues that authors utilize disabled characters to ......
An examination of the influence of white listening practices on literary representations of the plantation South Early colonial histories of the plantation South often relied on multisensory descriptions to construct an image of the region as a "land of beauty." While these early accounts are rich in visual and tactile imagery, aural impressions ......
Although it has long been claimed that Willa Cather destroyed most of her letters in order to protect her privacy, the record now makes clear that this is largely myth: The Complete Letters of Willa Cather digital archive has collected more than three thousand letters, and more are regularly being located. What can we learn about Cather and her ......
