... notions of authorship, moral authority, and literary value in the second half of the nineteenth century. Noting that a significant strain of commentary on the scandal sought to separate Byron's literary genius from the matter of his personal behavior, Ryan argues that this case study allows us to situate...

...Gordon Fraser The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace . By Ryan Susan M. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 217 pp. Cloth , $69.00 ; e-book available. Plagiarama! William Wells Brown...

...Stephanie A. Smith © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 . By Karen Woods Weierman. x, 214 pp. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $34.95. Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy...

... The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism. By Wendy Steiner. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1995. xi, 251 pp. Paper, $14.00. Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction.By...

... and fail. The novel addresses this scandal of subject formation by dramatizing the process through which the protagonist develops a private fantasy identity informed by the corrido alongside a public “Americanized” identity by following the script of the assimilationist bildungsroman. The conclusion...

... and interpret those debates. Tar Baby responds to early scandals at the magazine spurred by white capitalist investment in the “Black Is Beautiful” slogan as well as the magazine’s coverage of a splintering black liberation movement, its Caribbean travel features, and its shifting assessments of affirmative...

... the “intermedial” strategies that were designed to mobilize readers to engage news stories and insert themselves in such tales—this essay argues that Fitzgerald's reenvisioning of tabloid culture permeates both his aesthetic technique and Nick Carraway's attempts to provide an account of the scandalous “death car...

... The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism. By Wendy Steiner. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1995. xi, 251 pp. Paper, $14.00. Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction.By...

...- tics of Catastrophe, 223–25. Ryan, Katy. “State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated,” 121–51. Ryan, Susan. “Stowe, Byron, and the Art of Scandal,” 59–91. Sawaya, Francesca. “‘That Friendship of the Whites’: Patronage, Philan- thropy, and Charles Chesnutt’s The Colonel’s Dream...

.... xvi, 341 pp. $40.00. The culture of gossip, rumor, and scandal is the shared concern of Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner’s Whispers on the Color Line and Edward Ingebret- sen’s At Stake. Working from...

... is ultimately irrelevant. For celebrity-author Truman Capote, the scandal of his first publication, his proximity to and intimate knowledge of his friend and colleague Harper Lee, the testimony to the “absolute[ ], literal[ ]” truthfulness of his nonfiction accounts, and the narrative that could verify his...

...) is that the moral ones cost more. Although the novel clearly lampoons the Democratic Tweed ring in its thinly veiled Weed ring, it also makes obvious allusions to famous scandals in the Republican Grant administration. In his scathing portrayal of selfish politicking, Twain carefully avoided anointing...

...- cise that converts received notions of Sancho’s obsequious conservatism into a reading of his scandalous and subversive sentimentalism. Ellis interprets Sancho’s letters as culturally combative expressions of political and sexual...

.... xvi, 341 pp. $40.00. The culture of gossip, rumor, and scandal is the shared concern of Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner’s Whispers on the Color Line and Edward Ingebret- sen’s At Stake. Working from...

.... Even with their occasional shortcomings, these studies are worthy addi- tions to our understanding of contemporary cultures of rumor and scandal. Workingfromarchivesthatshouldstrikeenvyintotheheartsofeventhe...

.... This idealization of democracy was linked to its dematerializa- tion; that is, the word became increasingly ubiquitous as the kinds of political agency it described disappeared from Americans’ daily lives. During the 1830s and 1840s, however, a series of political scandals— including the bank wars, election...

...: Ballantine, 1994): ‘‘War is a god that feasts on body parts. It deforms everything it touches, even love. It got to me, too. It cut out my tongue’’ (161). Further references are to this edition and will be cited parenthetically in the text as MT. 7 The Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal...

... Women!’: Louisa May Alcott's Work and the Ideology of Relations.” In Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797–1901 , edited by Harris Sharon , 109 – 227 . Knoxville : Univ. of Tennessee Press . Russo Mary . 1999 . “Aging and the Scandal of Anachronism...

... American writers’ claims were rarelytakenseriously,itishardtoimaginethatthe‘‘bold’’penofan African American working woman6 criticizing her ‘‘superiors’’ would not have been seen as scandalous. How did Potter write about her employers without provoking outrage, much less garner the wildly favorable...

... that night? And how does the need to protect the privacy of that fact simultaneously provoke the very desire to uncover a secret sin? Put differently, concealing the possibly scandalous, immoral fact reproduces the public appearance of morality and maintains privacy as the public symbol of that morality...