... attenuated, Ho ( 2015 ) argues, in the rise of racial ambiguity—writers of mixed race or adopted background whose work thematically challenges the determining power of racial identification. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 theories of definition philosophy of art artworld “Do...

..., Barth continued to distinguish the (male) postmodernism of myth from the occasional writing of women.34 One of the reasons Barth excludes from his definition of postmod- ernism a wide range of fiction produced by women is that his theory is developed out of the very masculine literary institutions...

... it, frequently by either accepting or rejecting Darko Suvin’s science-­fiction-­friendly, fantasy-­phobic definition of SF as the litera- ture of cognitive estrangement.5 The image that graces the cover of this issue—Frank R. Paul’s illustration for the E. E. “Doc” Smith story “The Skylark...

... as a touchstone by which Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather are analyzed. The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar...

... that these narratives simply reflect scientific culture, I will suggest that they re- spond to degeneracy theory in ways that recontextualize the history Perversions and the Science of Desire 531 of scientific definitions of sexuality. In other words, not only do they rewrite sexological...

... with Howells, whose dictum that fiction should be, in Petrie’s words, “a socially and ethically communicative act” (14) func- tions as a touchstone by which Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather are analyzed. The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination...

... with Howells, whose dictum that fiction should be, in Petrie’s words, “a socially and ethically communicative act” (14) func- tions as a touchstone by which Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather are analyzed. The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination...

.... The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar ground but gives an admirably clear demonstration of Howells’s...

... with Howells, whose dictum that fiction should be, in Petrie’s words, “a socially and ethically communicative act” (14) func- tions as a touchstone by which Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather are analyzed. The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination...

.... The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar ground but gives an admirably clear demonstration of Howells’s...

.... The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar ground but gives an admirably clear demonstration of Howells’s...

... with Howells, whose dictum that fiction should be, in Petrie’s words, “a socially and ethically communicative act” (14) func- tions as a touchstone by which Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather are analyzed. The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination...

... with Howells, whose dictum that fiction should be, in Petrie’s words, “a socially and ethically communicative act” (14) func- tions as a touchstone by which Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather are analyzed. The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination...

... the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar ground but gives an admirably clear demonstration of Howells’s core prin- ciple...

... as a touchstone by which Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather are analyzed. The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar...

... the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar ground but gives an admirably clear demonstration of Howells’s core prin- ciple...

... with Howells, whose dictum that fiction should be, in Petrie’s words, “a socially and ethically communicative act” (14) func- tions as a touchstone by which Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather are analyzed. The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination...

.... The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar ground but gives an admirably clear demonstration of Howells’s...

... the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar ground but gives an admirably clear demonstration of Howells’s core prin- ciple...

.... The first chapter bases the definition of Howells’s theory of literature on a careful examination of “Editor’s Study,” the monthly essay of criticism that Howells wrote for Harper’s Magazine from 1886 to 1892. Petrie covers familiar ground but gives an admirably clear demonstration of Howells’s...