.... Press of Florida . 2018 . ix, 223 pp. Cloth, $ 79.95 . The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature . By Giles Gunn . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . xiv, 198 pp. Cloth, $ 65.00 ; paper, $ 29.50 ; e-book, $ 65.00...

.... Both Haunted by Leo Braudy and Credulity by Emily Ogden look at the paranormal as it relates to the project of Enlightenment. Theoretically, this period saw the advancement of scientific knowledge and democratic political discourses, each, in time, marking the end of provincial superstitions across...

..., an especially contagious strain of Enlightenment rationalism. Franklin’s life and writings encapsulate not only secular interest-thinking’s capacity to supplant violent reli- gious sectarianism but also its distorting, constricting effects on intel- lectual, political, and spiritual life. Drawing...

.... In contrast, Universes without Us examines an alternative to what it frames as both Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment selfhood: on the one hand, “the mastery of otherness,” and on the other, “the mastery of identity” (11). The Enlightenment self seeks to dominate the world and use it to its own...

...Michael Bérubé Duke University Press 2003 Michael Anxious Academics Bérubé Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlighten- 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet...

... Fanon, Michel Foucault, Paul Gilroy, Cedric Robinson, and Sylvia Wynter, Archives of Flesh calls for a heretical critical approach to humanism with respect to how it sustains, despite Enlightenment rhetorics to the contrary, the histories of slavery, racism, and colonialism. As its title suggests...

... and a lot of formalism leads you back again. Manning’s Enlightenment- inspired, ahistorical analysis unfortunately never returns to history. While some sections present sophisticated meditations on the diasporic persistence...

... and the American Indian.” Wicazo Sa Review 19 , no. 1 : 105 – 30 . Pickering John . 1820 . An Essay on a Uniform Orthography for the Indian Languages of North America . Cambridge : Hilliard and Metcalf . Rebok Sandra . 2008 . “Enlightened Correspondents.” Virginia Magazine...

... drama as a Western critique of the “tyranny of custom,” as the American translates Lemierre’s “l’empire des coutumes,” of a non-Christian, Asiatic people but holds out hope that enlightened youth in India will accept the superiority of Western rationalism. At the same time, Lemierre also...

... as increasingly hostile to ‘‘patriarchal aestheticism compulsory heterosexuality, and bourgeois ideology over the course of his career. Rowe stakes his claim for a more conflicted and enlightened Henry James...

... form and its legacies in order to question modernity’s human exceptionalism and the hierarchies of violent inequality it supports. The Enlightenment conception of “Man” as a rational, conscious individual produced the subject of human rights and democratic citizenship; however, this ostensibly...

... Allewaert also conceives of a new genre of the human, the “parahuman,” whose unbounded, interpenetrated body responds to slavery’s dehumanizing forces by combining with the plant, insect, and animal lives in the American tropics. What other genres of the human might we discover? The Enlightenment...

...C. Leiren Mower Duke University Press 2002 C. Leiren Bodies in Labor: Sole Proprietorship and the Mower Labor of Conduct in The Coquette The human body came under increased scrutiny during the Enlightenment as natural scientists attempted to apply...

... when they locate Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville in relation to Enlightenment writing (French logic textbooks, German idealist philosophy) as filtered through mediating figures in the Anglo-American scene. That is, the backbone of Hurh’s method is historicist and his contextual...

... Indeed, this poet’s digres- sive ‘‘Method, and Style, and Grammar, and Invention’’ address pre- cisely those Enlightenment debates regarding the proper employment of knowledge in rational, purposeful discourse that provoked Swift to publish his digression ‘‘in praise of digressions’’ two centuries...

... formation—neglect the history and legacy of racialization, colonialism, and slavery. We invite essays that consider the biopolitics of the plantation form and its legacies in order to question modernity’s human exceptionalism and the hierarchies of violent inequality it supports. The Enlightenment...

... critical methods that continue to inform contemporary practices—that is, those grounded in philology and nation-based historicism. Manning discov- ers in the Scottish Enlightenment an analogic approach to the study of one of the mainstays of traditional literary analysis, the concept of character...

... builds its argument through thematic readings of Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William Wells Brown. Each chapter’s arguments hew closely to the overarching thesis, but Roberts’s textually grounded engagement with Enlightenment philosophy...

... the familiar account of European colonization and Enlightenment science as interlinked projects that resulted in human epistemological domination of an inert object world. While she also finds the American colonies a key site for drawing forth more ecological mate- rialist legacies, she is especially...

... that consider the biopolitics of the plantation form and its legacies in order to question modernity’s human exceptionalism and the hierarchies of violent inequality it supports. The Enlightenment conception of “Man” as rational, conscious individual produced the subject of human rights and democratic...