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... of California, Los Angeles Stephen Crane’s Blue Badge of Courage. By George Monteiro. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2000. 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Econo- mies of Play. By Bill Brown. Cambridge: Harvard Univ...

..., and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's sense, the political unconscious of American literature. As a celebrated example of political theater, The Exonerated also provides a forum...

... of their theories because they were looking at a text in dialogue with psychoanalysis’s antecedents. By recovering these antecedents, the essay shows that states of insensibility like sleepwalking—which Fiedler takes as figures for the unconscious—in fact had social and political meanings that even postcolonial...

... precisely because of how it reacts against this formation, as well as how it suggests an alternative, unconscious receptivity to the detail that foreshadows American modernism and regionalism. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Alden Henry Mills Howells William Dean , eds...

... about “free” markets that we have unconsciously relied on in our literary histories, while also showing how a focus on the social practices of patronage and philanthropy helps us ask new questions about the relation of literature to corporate capitalism. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

... of unconscious brain and nervous system processes as the manufactur- ersofliteraturechallengedthatoftheconsciousreporter. My history here of the intersection between literature and neuro- science in the late nineteenth century is offered partly as a rethink- ing of American literary realism, in order to put...

..., fiction, essays, and reviews. What is striking in these analyses is how often Poe’s social proclivities appear to be beyond his control as ide- ology and unconscious desire determine textual meanings.2 But what if Poe...

... on the right to critique; Pérez’s book seems to be written in a similar spirit of critique and love. He writes in the service of “contemporary antiracist queer politics,” and as he argues, without a thorough examination of queer theory’s racial unconscious, the field “remains imperiled” (17). Pérez extends...

... this a kind of unconscious calculation—a probabilistic method neither driven by reason nor wholly accessible to it, which is paradoxical only if we define calculation as something intellectual and willed. However, nineteenth-century probability theo- rists recognized that feeling, intuition...

... her narrator as a “talking book,” she has discovered a way to “unsettle” her readers the way jazz does its listeners and to put us “a little on edge” (“TM,” 42), language that invokes Culler’s notion of the “textual unconscious,” or the reader’s transferential relation to the text.5...

.... In Uncanny X-Men #194, for instance, in a desperate effort to make one final stand against the X-Men’s robotic archnemesis, Nimrod, who has beaten and left unconscious all her fellow X-Men, Rogue gently grazes her fingertips against the skins of her teammates, the teleporting blue elf Nightcrawler...

... of all the weaknesses of our very weak nature.”5 “It is possible,” writes Corny Littlepage in The Chain- bearer (1845), that “unconsciously to ourselves,” he and his father “may have been influenced by the ancient prejudices” of the Dutch against the English, despite having “endeavored...

... the transition of Thoreau’s preoccupa- tion with metaphorical sleep into his own sleep disturbances, which eventually pushed Thoreau into “a feeling of outsiderness,” Reiss tracks how a surficial concern with sleep moves through a proto-unconscious into a critique of the (human) subject of modernity...

...: ‘‘phallic pens’’ (7), ‘‘psychic splittings’’ (124), ‘‘the white female psyche’’ (106), ‘‘the symbolic night-clothes of the white woman’s unconscious’’ (42), and ‘‘the butch lesbian’’ (173). Nevertheless, the book...

... woman’s unconscious’’ (42), and ‘‘the butch lesbian’’ (173). Nevertheless, the book makes a significant contribution to American women’s writing in general and Civil War writing in particular. Alongside the work of Edmund Wilson...

... Monk Hall, Arlington is found unconscious in the street by two Irish policemen (notably, they are engaged in a debate about the effects of Jackson’s removal of the deposits from ‘‘the Nasshunal Bank’’ [QC, 401 Upon reviving, Ar- lington springs to his feet, shouting, ‘‘Mary, I will save you, save...

..., as when Coale, in a single paragraph, unites in one conceptual sweep the quantum realm, the concept of death, literary postmodernism, and Freud’s idea of the unconscious (51). Book Reviews  205 Lisa Zunshine’s Getting inside Your Head...

... late US stories as a repository of the nation’s repressed unconscious, suggesting that against the “bracing fables of heroic purpose that glorified the United States, [Poe] juxtaposed tales exposing the grotesqueness—the cruelty and perverseness, the deformity and enormity—to which nationalism had...

... if unconsciously concedes in his final chapter, which discusses Kenneth Burke’s influence on Ellison and Invisible Man (1952). Ellison’s conception of irony is Burkean in its focus on multiple perspectives on events, not in its critical distance from them. The ironic tradition delineated by Stratton is one...

... drawn from blackface and caricature. The Cat in the Hat thus links gloved hands with Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Raggedy Ann, and other such figures. Like Twain, Seuss was a complicated figure, prone to unconscious racism while committed to progressive causes. The answer to Nel’s titular question seems...