...Brook Thomas Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 R econstructing state and F ed eral Jurisdiction in A F o o l 's E r r a n d a n d Th e C lansm an brook T homas C ritics have long noted that the first novel in Thomas Dixon's Reconstruction tril­ ogy, The Leopard's...

...Charles D. Tarlton Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001 D ecem ber 2001 13 OF THF. NATURATI. CONDITION OFMANKIND REFLECTIONS ON THE ONTOLOGY OF THE STATE OF NATURE IN CHAPTER XIII OF HOBBES S LEVIATHAN 1 . . . thepains left another, will be onely to consider, if he...

...Marlon B. Ross W hat Can Race T heory and Q ueer T heory T each Us about the State of L iterary St u d ie s ? M a r l o n B. R o s s I want to ponder what recent cultural theory m ight proffer in helping us to rethink liter­ ary study in three interrelated areas: curriculum, faculty hiring...

...Melissa Mowry T he State of the P r o f e s s io n : W ork, the H u m a n itie s , and T ransform atio n M elissa Mo w r y A merican institutions of higher education are being thrust rapidly toward the cen­ ter o f a "perfect economic storm " where they find themselves in a peculiar posi­ tion...

...." Indeed, the vital relationship between the publication and circu­ lation of print texts to state and colonial authority has interested several other contributors to this issue of ELNJ In this paper, I argue th a t the connection between print culture and governm entality was uniquely dramatized...

.... Essays and Studies of the English Association 11 (1925): 92-116, 106. EVOLUTION AND THE POLITICS OF THE EARLY UNITED STATES IN WILLIAM BARTRAM S TRAVELS (1791) In th eir critique o f William B artram s Travels, Douglass Anderson and Christopher Looby argue that Bartram uses the natural world to com m...

... criticism has tended to slight Dickens melodramatic villains because they are pre-realist, whereas m odern criticism has found its most satisfying subjects in the realist tradition. This book should help to correct that narrow focus. Jo h n R. Reed Wayne State University Hawthorne s Fuller Mystery. By Thom...

... and a thoroughly enjoyable read. East Conecticut State University M eredith Clermont-Ferrand, Ph.D. Emerson s Ethics. By Gustaaf Van Crom phout. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999. P p.182. he. $34.95. 0-82621215-8. If C.P. Snow s The Masters were adapted for a modern-day set­ ting, the characters...

... as terrains w ith specific latent associations that have yet to be named. For such a project, Wessex serves as one o f many beginnings. M atthew Burroughs Price Pennsylvania State University NOTES 1Thom as Hardy, 1895 "Preface" to Far from the M adding Crowd, in Thomas Hardy's Personal W ritings, ed. Harold...

... publication o f Thomas More's Utopia, depicts the form o f More's fanciful but Ideal nation-state. In this woodcut, Utopia's capital city, Am aurotum , is placed In a suitably central po ­ sition, but even m ore prom inent in the foregrounding is a ship at anchor, presum ably the one that brought Raphael...

... n g l is h La n g u a g e No t e s 52.2 f a l l / W in te r 2 0 1 4 the m onopoly and its One-W orld dom inion frantically seek to safeguard their hegemony by m ilitarized public or m ercenary security agencies and by state apparatuses of surveil­ lance and enforcem ent by any means, from robotic...

... States, and w riting about characters w ho themselves move and live between spaces, Adichie's work has been praised fo r its keen perception and atten­ tion to diasporic and transnational realities. Even before the publication of Am ericanah, A d i­ chie's w ork already contained an im p licit critiq ue...

... cartographies o f dissent, then the surveying and parceling o f the landscape of the Am erican W est as a rectilinear grid is the cartographic hegem ony o f the United States. Jefferson devised this grid in 1790,2 as part of the u n i­ form system of weights and measures demanded by congress; the grid survey...

... have discarded the masks they wore in everyday life, one has donned the hooded mask of the Ku Klux Klan at a tim e when m em bership in this abhorrent racist organization had reached its peak. Is this the queer London Houlbrook wants us to embrace? Eileen Barett California State University, East Bay...

... the dangerous classes o f queers and prom ising the state (via powerful magistrates) a kind of sexual and commercial invisibility.The modern homosex­ ual, paradoxically, clim bs into the closet in the 1950s only to come out in the 1970s as pridefully "gay." Meanwhile, the working-class bodies that brought queer...

... Wheeler M etropolitan State College of Denver NOTES 1Angelina Weld Grimké, "The Closing Door," The Birth Control Review 10.3 (Sept. 1919): 10-14. 2Qtd. in Alan Steward, "The Early M odern Closet Discovered," Representations 50 (Spring 1995): 76. 3Henry Urbach, "Closets, Clothes, disclosure, " Assem blage...

... pt the patient, w orkm anlike suffering a w rite r m ust go through. In any case, the story ends as it opens, the stolid regularity o f its final panels im plying that we've come back to the same state o f irresolution that we saw in the beginning (home-away-home). Yet, though the story's end may...

... state o f a g riculture. The new seeds dem anded m ore w a te r and expensive in p u ts, b u t did n o t d e live r higher yie ld s. Intensive fa rm in g eroded th e soil, decreasing b io d ive rs ity w h ile incre asing social in s e c u rity and hence v io le n c e (e s p e c ia lly a g a in s t w o m...

...-concerns.html. Last accessed April 1, 2016. 20 Ken Saro-W iwa coined the term "slick alliance." On the slick relationship between energy companies and the state, see "The Downside of the Boom," Deborah Sontag and Robert Gebeloff, The N ew York Times, No­ vember 22, 2014: httpw w w .nytim es.eom /interactive...

..., including myself, found a productive space in the field in w hich to draw attention to the environmental justice movement that began form ing more visibly after 1991, when over 300 com m unity leaders from the United States, Canada, Central and South America, and the Marshall Islands convened the First...