...Christopher Findeisen This essay argues that in its opposition to the business of college sports, the American campus novel has undergone very few changes over the past century. Debates about college sports replicate, either literally or metonymically, the assumed economic and social functions...

... racism structures institutional contingency and academic precarity, even when the diversity requirement is a norm. This article responds by turning to the Asian American campus novel, a generic category not readily deployed because of the recurrence of universities in literary and lived model minority...

... Womanhood . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Davidson Cathy N. (1986) 2004 . Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . DuBois W. E. B. (1903) 1995 . The Souls of Black Folk . New York : Penguin . ———. (1908) 1973...

... areas.” Situating street literature as a response to particular urban, penal, and economic changes, this book is divided into three parts: a conceptual and historical framing of the street-prison symbiosis; close readings of particular novels; and ethnographic fieldwork involving interviews with street...

... on the frontier in the Otsego Lake region of New York to his departure for Europe in 1826. Franklin suggests that through a carefully balanced combination of “literary acumen” and “busi- ness acumen,” Cooper “invented the very career of the American writer” (xi). By marketing his novels...

.... The story begins with Cooper’s departure for Europe in 1826, followed by his contentious homecoming seven years later, with its libel suits, arguments with the press, and announcement that he’d write no more books. Yet the 1840s were highly productive, as he wrote sixteen novels, innovating the genres he...

... 1861. By Sharon Talley. Knoxville: Univ. of Ten- nessee Press. 2014. xxii, 432 pp. $74.00. Using feminist, poststructural, and cultural studies methodologies, Talley close reads the novels of fifteen writers, creating the first comprehensive anal- ysis of Civil War fiction by Southern women...

... more measured (in every sense of the word), we find ourselves increasingly anxious about the various forms of exposure with which higher education now feels synonymous. We worry that our campus will be the site of the next school shooting. We worry about living without job security, whether that means...

... in Richard Wright’s Native Son. The Farm Novel in North America: Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845–1945. By Florian Freitag. Rochester, NY: Cam- den House. 2013. 364 pp. Cloth, $75.00; e-book available. If the farm is a “symbolic space” for North American...

... of its neighborhood borders to ensure that campus grounds were insulated from a lower-class element, especially lower-class African Americans (Hirsch 2021 : 154). 7 Even without directly critiquing these machinations, the novel alludes to spatial realities within the text that further demarcate...

... society in explicitly gendered and religious acts of claiming control over her body. While Kahf illuminates the limits of secularism, she also sees its potential, and the novel ultimately envisions the secular context as a place in which to foster the umma —the global, transnational community to which...

... . “ Is the Novel Done For? ” Harper’s , December , 76 – 83 . Stegner Wallace . 1949 . “ The Anxious Generation .” College English 10 , no. 4 : 183 – 88 . Stegner Wallace . 1950 . “ Writing as Graduate Study .” College English 11 , no. 8 : 429 – 32 . Stegner Wallace...

... of the college Founder” with “his hands outstretched in the breathtaking gesture of lifting a veil” represents the only truly ekphras- tic moment in the novel by evoking the Booker T. Washington Monument on Tuskegee’s campus (36). It emphasizes Ellison’s dependence on visual art...

... campus bookstore. Cass’s first copy of this book was, arguably, not a book at all but instead an illegally shared file into which some anonymous readers had merged various scanned chapters into a single PDF. Encountering the file on the social blogging website Tumblr.com eventually led Cass...

... and teaching across universities. 1 The novel coronavirus was not impressed with our plans. Where we encouraged collaboration to break the mold of solitary, proprietary research that structures the majority of scholarly activity in the humanities, it demanded isolation. Where we promoted site-specific...

...? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America . By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 200. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel . By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. Book...

... of consciousness if it is to be analyzed at all” (35). Found in this provocatively counterintuitive idea is a pivot for interpreting Scottish Common Sense philosophy, the novels of John Neal, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s emblems, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s idealism, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sen...

... that “experience must be independent of consciousness if it is to be analyzed at all” (35). Found in this provocatively counterintuitive idea is a pivot for interpreting Scottish Common Sense philosophy, the novels of John Neal, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s emblems, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s idealism...

... for interpreting Scottish Common Sense philosophy, the novels of John Neal, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s emblems, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s idealism, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sen- timentalism. Experience for these writers is shown to be a repository of stock responses. It is, to use Davis’s favorite word, something...

... that “experience must be independent of consciousness if it is to be analyzed at all” (35). Found in this provocatively counterintuitive idea is a pivot for interpreting Scottish Common Sense philosophy, the novels of John Neal, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s emblems, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s idealism...