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...Laura L. Mielke This essay claims that antebellum theatrical star Edwin Forrest registered the era’s investment in oratorical eloquence and anxiety concerning the potentially incendiary nature of free expression in a democracy marked by economic and racial inequality. Forrest’s July 4, 1838, speech...

... their complementarity requires attention to a level of structural determination that subtends the local conditions of knowledge and power with which Amoore and Chun engage. The disavowal of this structural determination is endemic to computational models of social life. It is particularly evident in Forrester’s...

...: Kurnick, Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel, 409–11. Review: Rebhorn, Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier, 409–11. Mielke, Laura Lynn. “Edwin Forrest’s July 4th Oration and the Specters of Provocative Eloquence,” 1–30. Mucher, Christen. Review: Coleman, Preaching...

... and fiction writers to the evolving theater of Edwin Forrest at one end and the new dramatic realists at the other. As Ackerman explains, the cultural politics of a democratic and largely melodramatic theater in the first half of the cen- Tseng...

... progressive sense of time in the margins of “neo-slave narratives” by contemporary African American writers like Toni Morrison, Ernest J. Gaines, Leon Forrest, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Charles Johnson, and Edward P. Jones. Magic, the supernatural, and nonwestern religion in these works have often been...

... of these works were written by African American writers, some of whom were already well known or established when Morrison worked with them (Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, June Jordan, Huey P. Newton), others at the time unknown (Gayl Jones, Wesley A. Brown) or less known (Leon Forrest, Toni Cade Bambara). How...

.... Ackerman himself succeeds best in the individual chapters. He makes fresh use of the well-known rivalry between William Macready and Forrest, culmi- nating in the Astor Place Riot, to illuminate tensions in Whitman’s and Mel...

... and fiction writers to the evolving theater of Edwin Forrest at one end and the new dramatic realists at the other. As Ackerman explains, the cultural politics of a democratic and largely melodramatic theater in the first half of the cen- Tseng...

... Edwin Forrest. Sometimes, Chinn discusses how audiences responded to performances of these plays by extracting contemporaneous newspaper commentary from George C. D. Odell’s Annals of the New York Stage (1927) and similar works, but overall, she approaches her subject as a literary critic...

..., edited by Fishkin Shelley Fisher . Berkeley : Univ. of California Press . Gillman Susan , and Robinson Forrest G. , eds. 1990 . Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture. Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Ginsberg Lesley . 2003 . “ Of Babies, Beasts...

... Place Opera House at the same time that a popular American actor, Edwin Forrest, was scheduled to act the same role at a theater in the Bowery. A long-brewing rivalry between the two actors was readily incorporated...

... in Conversation with Nietzche, Freud, and Marx. By Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2011. xiii, 157 pp. $35.00. This study places Twain alongside three prominent modern “sages.” The goal of the work is to show “the fecundity...

... writers such as Francis Forrester and Oliver Optic. The Fortress of American Solitude: “Robinson Crusoe” and Antebellum Culture. By Shawn Thomson. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2009. 243 pp. $54.40. Thomson defines “the Crusoe topos” as a model of manhood that comprises...

..., The Mysterious Stranger,” “Eve’s Diary,” and the polemical piece What Is Man? The study weaves together reflections on Twain’s inner life with analyses of his work. The Author-Cat: Clemens’s Life in Fiction. By Forrest G. Robinson. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2007. xvi, 242 pp. $45.00. This study...

... of repres- sion or disavowal that people like Nora and Felix employ to deny their own connection to the “good dirt”—to animality and organicism—suf- focate him. The weight of such repression compels him to speak what others keep “hushed.” John Forrester might argue that this moment reveals...

... 1920s. The volume includes letters between Santayana and Ezra Pound, Max Forrester Eastman, Max Fisch, Horace Kallen, Milton Mu- nitz, and Christopher Janus, among many others. James Dickey: Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry. Ed. Donald J. Greiner. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina...

... Dark Twins: Impos- ture and Identity in Mark Twain’s America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989). See also Susan Gillman and Forrest G. Robinson, eds., Mark Twain’s “Pudd’nhead Wilson”: Race, Conflict, and Culture (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1990). 21 Mark...

... ‘‘Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity’’ is the popular 1994 film Forrest Gump, which while set in the South and in some ways over- determined by the historical racial discourse of slavery, nonetheless pairs a white male and an Asian American woman as the model for a nonvio...

...), 23. 11 Michael Rogin, “Francis Galton and Mark Twain: The Natal Autograph in Pudd’nhead Wilson,” in Mark Twain, “Pudd’nhead Wilson”: Race, Conflict, and Culture, ed. Susan Gillman and Forrest G. Robinson (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1990), 76. 12 See Pauline E. Hopkins...

..., the book offers engaging stories about performances that complicate and contest ideologies of manifest destiny. Such spectacles include that of the Native American actress Gowongo Mohawk alongside revisionist interpretations of such canonical shows as Metamora starring Edwin Forrest, whose work...