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...: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Yoshiaki Furui . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2019 . x, 239 pp. Cloth, $54.95 ; e-book, $54.95 . Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America . By Nathaniel Williams...

...Robert DeMott By Richard Francis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 1997. xiii, 256 pp.$32.50. 2000 Book Reviews 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 169 of 237 Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New...

...Pamela Lougheed Duke University Press 2002 Pamela ‘‘Then Began He to Rant and Threaten Lougheed Indian Malice and Individual Liberty in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative The most notorious battle of King Philip’s War is the Great Swamp...

...Kari Nixon Abstract Many public health ethics debates are construed as the rights of the collective versus the rights of the individual. This essay demonstrates that in the context of diseases which are transmitted by healthy carriers, the issue is more complex than this. Instead of arguing about...

...Carrie Hyde Although autonomy and individualism are often coupled together, Hamilton wants to leave individualism behind. He proffers the “tremendous historical and semantic richness” of autonomy as an alternative to the “blank quality of ‘individualism’” (9, 10). Hamilton’s concluding chapter...

... Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New En- gland. By Michael W. Kaufmann. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press; Han- over, N.H.: University Press of New England. 1998. ix, 155 pp. Cloth, $35.00...

.... $25.00 . Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison . By Albrecht James M. . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 376 pp. $60.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews...

... chapters because his book is organized by individual figures, a struc- ture that detracts from the intellectual networks that are the sources of his most provocative insights (201). Where Moses insistently challenges scholars to avoid reductive interpre- tations of DuBois, Shawn Michelle Smith offers...

...Erin Suzuki Abstract Written in the wake of the Japanese incarceration and the emergence of new Cold War discourses around race, privacy, and democracy, Hisaye Yamamoto’s and John Okada’s works mark a shift from the specific targeting of Japanese Americans as individuals whose citizenship...

...Michael Ziser Under the influence of Calvinist and radical abolitionist John Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson reconsidered the value of political activism rooted in absolutist and sectarian religious beliefs. Retreating from the earlier declarations of secular and democratic individualism for which he...

... importantly, what it does. In conduct books, public lectures, and other printed materials, commentators argued that novel reading did not empower individual readers but made them all alike, rendering them passive by invoking passionate and often overwhelming emotions. In short, they posited novel reading...

... of Norris’s critique is his multimedia landscape descriptions, which invoke and subvert Romantic landscape aesthetics through painterly language and visual paradox. At the center of this aesthetics is a contradiction in individual and collective agency that is also central to life and art in the Capitalocene...

...Kyla Schuller Abstract This article explores the enabling intimacy between sentimentalism and biopolitics by turning to a less-than-obvious and yet characteristic example of the sentimental mode: the ubiquitous orphan tale of the mid- to late nineteenth century. It argues that individual orphan...

... with care on individual nurses, doctors, or other medical staff. Instead of exposing the power of individual medical practitioners to exploit bodies, these novels call attention to the power of capitalism and inequality to distort and derange the mission of medicine. Yet, the political critiques offered...

... on interpretations of minority mobility. Bildungsroman hermeneutics understands social relations as organized around individual development. This model undermines the collective politics many critics sense in Cisneros’s text and obscures her revisions of the genre. Furthermore, bildungsroman hermeneutics intersects...

...Allison S. Curseen Abstract Focusing on the minor details of suffering cats, I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as an exemplary illustration of the way in which American novels of individual development destabilize around the movement of minor bodies and minor characters. This destabilization...

..., retrospectively, be described as neoliberalism. The neoliberal style this essay explicates allows for subjects under neoliberalism to inhabit a position that limits politics to the confines of individual entrepreneurialism and consumerism, thus broadcasting politics as not a collective enterprise but instead...

... between an identity category and an individual body. In La Mollie , sexuality, ethnicity, and race are revealed to be always mutually constituted. They become legible simultaneously as inhabited positions, projected identifications, and metaphors used to describe both internal and external spaces too...

... varied scales of care at the level of form, by moving from individual stories that are the typical subject of literary realism to a grand vision of the webbed planetary systems—the environment, the internet, the global economy—in which they are enmeshed. This essay argues that, read through the lens...

... the modern user’s experience of the internet as a private space under their sovereign control. In turn, the individualism of the internet experience restricts our ability to create collective responses to the climate crisis, encouraging internet users to see themselves as disassociated from conditions...