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“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 213–240.
Published: 01 June 2024
... cultural preference for performative self-presentations, and efforts to standardize the US population into types. Drawing on this context along with both affect theory and affective science, the essay demonstrates these novels’ importance to understanding how an unexpressed inner vitality emerged...
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Wondrous Strange: Eco-Sickness, Emotion, and The Echo Maker
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 381–408.
Published: 01 June 2012
...—projection and paranoia—and demonstrates how affect can derail ethical energies. Houser’s essay builds a multidisciplinary account of wonder and its stakes for environmental thought by analyzing the novel’s doubled narration, key texts of environmentalism, neuroscientific studies, and affect theory...
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“Ha-Ha and Again Ha-Ha”: Laughter, Affect, and Emotion in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 541–568.
Published: 01 September 2016
... not in critical theory, but in literature. Focusing in particular on the spasmodic howls and jarring barks of laughter that populate Nathanael West’s final novel, The Day of the Locust (1939), I examine laughter not as an emotional response to humor, but as a form of affect capable of convulsing being. To do so...
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“Flesh-to-Flesh Contact”: Marvel Comics’ Rogue and the Queer Feminist Imagination
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 251–281.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Annual #10, and the end of her first major character arc, Uncanny X-Men #185, reveal that this affective figure for queerness is variable and derived from X-Men writer Chris Claremont’s ongoing engagement with feminist politics and theory. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 queer...
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Red Cars with Red Lights and Red Drivers: Color, Crane, and Qualia
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 719–745.
Published: 01 December 2009
... with theories of color sensation and perception offered by empirical psychologists to produce new opportunities for and understandings of color experience. Color—increasingly puzzled over in the abstract, apart from any instantiations within objects—came to be regarded as an affective force with direct...
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Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 June 2021
... rhetors and rhetors of color co-created the sentimental” (64–65). Affective geography now takes the flavor of feminist ethics; Greyser returns to a familiar scholarly understanding of the sentimental attuned to racialized power relations of female abolitionism, though she employs affect theory to frame...
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Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit in The Soul of Things
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 713–736.
Published: 01 December 2014
... queer about such encounters, then, it is not their
transgressive or forbidden character, but their intensity and their defa-
miliarizing effect. Such intensities are usually imagined, in recent
queer and eco-theory, in an affectively and erotically positive register.
Although Bennett recollects...
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Garden Variety: Botany and Multiplicity in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Abolitionism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 489–516.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Mary Kuhn This essay, by paying attention to botanical language, reveals how Stowe's environmental sensibility affects her racial politics and abolitionist strategies. The theories of plant growth and vitality she draws on as her career develops refute the strict classification and cultivation...
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Dread
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jennifer C. James Abstract Reinterpreting nineteenth-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of “dread,” this essay situates the fear surrounding COVID-19 within a larger historical framework to consider the affective dimension of the virus’s emergence for African Americans. Copyright ©...
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American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville The Official World
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., as are their theoretical orientations (although they share an attraction to German philosophy and theory). Hurh’s introduction situates his study of “the distinctive tone of terror in American romantic literature” (2) vis-à-vis affect theory and science studies, even while his individual chapters are most persuasive...
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“The Complexity of Loss Itself”: The Comics Form and Fun Home ’s Queer Reparative Temporality
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 377–405.
Published: 01 June 2018
... queer theory temporality affect theory gender narrative form Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...
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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 June 2020
... about historical objectivity (169). One good reason to read these books together is that they mutually illuminate not just each other’s important insights but also each other’s weaknesses. Emre’s stunningly effective use of affect theory to make us feel the emotional vibrations of bad reading serves...
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The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 660–662.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Seidman . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 368 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 What’s love got to do with lit ? Very little, scholarship might lead us to believe. Even work shaped by affect theory’s return...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 379–381.
Published: 01 June 2020
... still respecting and illuminating textual surfaces. Also consistent is Coghlan’s interest in a number of less concretely interpretive agendas: for example, as her title hints, in prodding affect theory to embrace “the sensational and sensory modes [that work] at once to mediate and produce cultural...
View articletitled, Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
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Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 156–159.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., posthumanism, and affect theory to highlight the ways women poets target the disasters of our globalized, neoliberal era. In her first chapter, she adapts the concept of strategic embodiment to investigate biopolitics in From Dame Quickly by Jennifer Scappettone (2009), What Stirs by Margaret Christakos...
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 March 2015
... .” In The Affect Theory Reader , edited by Gregg Melissa Seigworth Gregory J. , 52 – 70 . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . McClellan James E. III . 1992 . Colonialism and Science: Saint Dominque in the Old Regime. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . Mesmer F. A. (1799...
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Unsanitized Domestic Allegories: Biomedical Politics, Racial Uplift, and the African American Woman's Risk Narrative
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... of Wisconsin Press . Gregg Melissa Seigworth Gregory J. , eds. 2010 . The Affect Theory Reader . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Haller John S. Jr. 1971 . Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900 . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 416–422.
Published: 01 June 2020
.... of Nebraska Press. 2019. viii, 288 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $30.00; e-book, $30.00. This study examines how nonfiction texts form narratives of “weak nationalism” in their attempts to understand what America is. Relying on affect theory, the book analyzes how works by authors like Simone de Beauvoir...
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Antebellum Apathy: A Study of Indifference in Melville
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Gregg Melissa , and Seigworth Gregory J. . 2010 . “ An Inventory of Shimmers .” In The Affect Theory Reader , edited by Gregg Melissa and Seigworth Gregory J. , 1 – 25 . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Higgins Brian , and Parker Hershel . 2006 . Reading...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 417–426.
Published: 01 June 2014
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This book engages trauma theory and affect theory in order to resituate
Barnes’s work within, not as an alternative to, the modernist project, and by
extension reconsiders modernism’s relationship to the past. Taylor argues that
Barnes’s texts exist as repetitions. The structure of trauma is useful...
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