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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 147–148.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Barbara Packer By John T. Foster Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 1999. xix, 158 pp. $24.95. 2002 Book Reviews
Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England. By Laura
Henigman. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1999. xi, 234...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 827–853.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., with booming global markets and
rampant dreams of individual wealth.”3 Rather than celebrating cyber-
capital as a golden age, however, the novel employs New York City and
the bodies of billionaire asset manager Eric Packer, his current employ-
ees, and a former employee, Benno Levin, as specific...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 June 2023
...J. D. Schnepf [email protected] Killer Apps: War, Media, Machine . By Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2020 . 280 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $26.95 ; e-book, $26.95 . Life in the Age of Drone Warfare . Edited by Lisa Parks...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 833–835.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Peter Carafiol © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Bridget Bennett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 247 pp. $69.95. The Transcendentalists . By Barbara L. Packer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 831–833.
Published: 01 December 2008
... American Literature. By Bridget
Bennett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 247 pp. $69.95.
The Transcendentalists. By Barbara L. Packer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press.
2007. 304 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95.
In Transatlantic Spiritualism, “culture” operates both as a dependable...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2008
... that is as nuanced as it is compelling.
Peter West, Adelphi University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-040
Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Bridget
Bennett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 247 pp. $69.95.
The Transcendentalists. By Barbara L. Packer. Athens...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 838–840.
Published: 01 December 2008
... pp. $69.95.
The Transcendentalists. By Barbara L. Packer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press.
2007. 304 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95.
In Transatlantic Spiritualism, “culture” operates both as a dependable con-
veyance for race, gender, and class in (a newer entry) transatlantic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 841–843.
Published: 01 December 2008
... pp. $69.95.
The Transcendentalists. By Barbara L. Packer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press.
2007. 304 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95.
In Transatlantic Spiritualism, “culture” operates both as a dependable con-
veyance for race, gender, and class in (a newer entry) transatlantic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 843–845.
Published: 01 December 2008
... University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-040
Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Bridget
Bennett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 247 pp. $69.95.
The Transcendentalists. By Barbara L. Packer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press.
2007. 304 pp. Cloth...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 845–847.
Published: 01 December 2008
... University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-040
Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Bridget
Bennett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 247 pp. $69.95.
The Transcendentalists. By Barbara L. Packer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press.
2007. 304 pp. Cloth...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 848–850.
Published: 01 December 2008
... pp. $69.95.
The Transcendentalists. By Barbara L. Packer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press.
2007. 304 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95.
In Transatlantic Spiritualism, “culture” operates both as a dependable con-
veyance for race, gender, and class in (a newer entry) transatlantic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2004
...). Barbara
Packer has traced this passage in ‘‘Nature’’ to Emerson’s graduation
from Harvard, when he enthusiastically copied down commencement
speaker Sampson Reed’s claim that ‘‘words make one with things,
Margaret Fuller’s American Translation 43
and language is lost...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 207–234.
Published: 01 June 2006
... whip an individual
for not conforming25 Tried and punished in the press, Emerson came
to identify with the convict.
Barbara Packer has argued that the aftermath of the Divinity School
address was the occasion for Emerson’s attempt, in ‘‘Circles to think
about insurgence (his own) and oppression...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2014
... enters a stabilizing relationship with God,
thereby transforming into a “better self.”
Herein lies one of the seeming paradoxes in Emerson’s often-
misunderstood concept of self-reliance. As Barbara Packer (1995, 393,
460) has noted, Emerson’s writing contains an underlying conflict
between...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2010
... contextualization in Emer-
344 American Literature
son’s writings interrupted the operation of this secularization and uni-
versalization of a particular religious point of view, and as many schol-
arly accounts since Stephen Whicher’s Freedom and Fate (1953) and
Barbara Packer’s Emerson’s Fall (1982) have...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and Vietnamese American men and women reckoning with their memories of war and, for some, their new lives in the United States. Book reviewers received it as an astonishing achievement of imagination and understanding. George Packer ( 1992 ) reviewed it for the New York Times , declaring it a book that “goes...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 229–255.
Published: 01 June 2020
... The primary quality of this feeling is embarrassment verging on self-loathing, for one’s acknowledgment of complicity in social arrangements that entail another’s suffering comes with no guidance, no list of satisfying answers to the question of what to do. As George Packer ( 2000 : 399) describes...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 119–149.
Published: 01 March 2012
... (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1976), esp. 24–25.
14 See Douglas Bicket and Lori A. Packer, “An Early ‘Denial of Ekphrasis’:
Controversy over the Breakout of the Visual in the Jazz Age Tabloids and
the New York Times,” Visual Communication 3 (October 2004): 360–79...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of the Idea of Communication . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . Peters John Durham . 2006 . “ Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph Revisited .” In Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History , edited by Packer Jeremy and Robinson Craig...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 495–520.
Published: 01 September 2000
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University of California, Los Angeles
Notes
I am grateful to Michael Colacurcio, as well as to Barbara Packer, Richard
Yarborough, Brian Walker, Greg Jackson, and the readers from American Lit...
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