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...Cynthia Tolentino This essay examines Carlos Bulosan's autobiography America Is in the Heart (1943) as it engages Henry Luce's influential editorial “The American Century” (1941). To begin, it studies how Luce envisioned the mobile, American-style education of a professional class...

...John Evelev Duke University Press 2003 John ‘‘Every One to His Trade Mardi, Literary Form, Evelev and Professional Ideology 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 63 of 246 My...

...Phillip Barrish Robert Herrick’s novel The Web of Life (1900), a self-proclaimed work of literary realism, opens a critical window onto an urban “web” of intersecting practices, institutions, and professional formations at a moment when key dimensions of the US health-care system as we know...

...Christopher Newfield 2006 Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 . By Francesca Sawaya. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 198 pp. $42.50. The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation...

...Daniel Pecchenino Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America . By Cheever Abigail . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2010 . viii , 312 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; paper , $24.95 . Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World...

... and Professionalism in Antebellum New York . By John Evelev. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2006. xii, 232 pp. $34.95. Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910 . By Claudia Stokes. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. xi, 241 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper...

... and class privilege underlying Ball’s argument, claiming her own professionalism and disparaging Ball as a “poetaster” or a hopeless amateur. With publications across the United States taking sides on either side, the “Rock Me to Sleep” controversy became an important marker of the status of professional...

... time, the temperance plot was updated to include the idea that such habituations might be nervous illnesses afflicting modern professional workers. Through its addicted protagonist Martin Jocelyn, Roe's novel engages these unevenly developing medical, reform, and popular early representations...

...Jesse Zuba The proliferation of first book prizes for poetry reflects the increasingly professionalized academic culture in which poetry was published, written, and read during the 1950s and 1960s. This change threatened the validity of the poetic vocation by formalizing the career and thus opening...

... at the difficulty even professional writers faced in mounting any kind of case for themselves as paid creative personnel. Even when writers made a rational argument to explain why they should be paid more, they tended to undermine themselves, invariably intimating that writers as a group were better off...

...) and Sylvia Beach's memoir Shakespeare and Company (1956) use ideas about consumer capitalism espoused by U.S. consumer elites (policy makers, industrialists, and public relations professionals) to construe their authors as American modernists. In these two texts, Stein and Beach regard consumption...

... eventual divorce in 1913. The Mount was carefully designed to provide Wharton with her own quarters, segregated from her husband's as well as from the public rooms below. Withdrawing there to write, she developed as a professional novelist not by fleeing the domestic but rather by claiming a second order...

... sentimentality. In A Modern Instance , Howells shows the professional effectiveness of strategically deployed affective narration in the courtroom, making it a necessary subject for realist representation. I argue that the novel is Howells’s realist response to and rewriting of E. D. E. N. Southworth’s...

... of “the race novel.” Featuring the murder of a white, female race relations professional by an African American author resembling Himes, End of a Primitive “predicts” (through metafictional address) that the force of racial liberal reading practices will cause the novel to be misread by white liberal readers...

...Anne Raine This essay reads Stein and Cather's early autobiographical fictions as part of a complex negotiation of the gendered divide between the professionalizing sciences and the feminized field of “nature work.” Intrigued yet unsatisfied by scientific accounts of human consciousness...

... Herrick’s The Healer (1911), Wallace Thurman and A. L. Furman’s The Interne (1932), and Frank G. Slaughter’s That None Should Die (1941), the problems of inequality, profit, and corruption plague the practice of professional medicine. The writers of these novels do not, for the most part, blame the trouble...

... relevance today with the rise of cryptocurrencies. The author argues that Secret Service agents who turned authors, as well as professional writers enlisted to support the agency, between 1865 and 1920 developed a unique version of the detective narrative with a particular ideological function: to discredit...

...Benjamin Schreier Abstract This article takes the cliché of Jewish American literary breakthrough in the late 1950s as an opportunity to examine the perverse professional legibility of the Jewish American literary field: everyone knows about it, but few scholars outside the field take it seriously...

... of this form, see Wong 2017 . 24 I use professionalization and its antonym, deprofessionalization , to align with Harney and Moten’s usage in The Undercommons (2013), distinct from a generalized career training or Christopher T. Fan’s ( 2020 ) usage to mean workplace entry. 23 As Hentyle...

...,shedefiesalltherestofthe world to find them out. (HE,iii) By drawing an analogy between the hairdresser and professionally identified men who know about the ‘‘hidden mysteries of life Pot- ter asks her readers to view her text as a ‘‘chronicle’’ and as peda- gogic, as revealing the ‘‘hidden’’ domain of ‘‘domestic...