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Creatures of Empire in Le Fanu's Uncle Silas

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Gretchen Braun
Genre (2023) 56 (2): 145–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-10581119
Published: 01 July 2023
... gothic tropes but imbricated with cultural and scientific modernization. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas , a novel that straddles generic and national literature categories, typifies the sensation era's uneasy awareness of not only similarity but interdependence across boundaries. While eschewing...
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Radioactive Forms: Radium, the State, and the End of Victorian Narrative

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Michael Martel
Genre (2019) 52 (3): 151–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-7965779
Published: 01 December 2019
.... PMLA 126, no. 2: 305 10. Zimmern, Antonia. 1904. Invisible Radiations. Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, July, 88 96. atomic energy environmental literature Joseph Conrad H. G. Wells science fiction ...
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The Modal Roots of Environmentalism: Pastoral, Prophecy, and Nature in Biblical and Early Romantic Discourse

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Kevin Hutchings
Genre (2002) 35 (1): 1–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-35-1-1
Published: 01 March 2002
... which almost inevitably takes the form of vatic, self-conscious, and revolutionary prophecy. When studying environmental literature, it is important to consider such generic motifs, patterns, and interactions; for as systems of conventional repre- sentation, genres and modes serve...
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North to Alaska and Other Bad Trips in T. C. Boyle's Drop City

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Susan Kollin
Genre (2012) 45 (2): 329–350.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-1574339
Published: 01 June 2012
... ecology movement, Boyle is not interested in contributing to a neoconservative backlash against the counterculture; his critique instead involves recognizing how race, gender, and class privilege operate as important factors in environmentalism and how authoritarian structures often shape understandings...
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Desiring Natures: The American Adrenaline Narrative

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Kristin J. Jacobson
Genre (2002) 35 (2): 355–382.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-35-2-355
Published: 01 June 2002
... . 9 June 2002 . &lt; http://www.outsidemag.com/magazine/200102/200102disp3.html &gt;. Barthes Roland . Image, Music, Text . Trans. Heath Stephen . New York : Noonday Press , 1977 . Buell Lawrence . The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing...
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Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction

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David AP Womble
Genre (2024) 57 (3): 283–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-11437011
Published: 01 December 2024
...David AP Womble Works Cited Grosz Elizabeth. 2005 . Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Taylan Ferhat. 2022 . “ The Rise of the ‘Environment’: Lamarckian Environmentalism between Life Sciences and Social Philosophy .” Biological...
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The Politics and Psychology of the Literary Field: Revisiting Cultural Capital

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Amanda Anderson
Genre (2023) 56 (1): 33–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-10346795
Published: 01 April 2023
... calls an “ego‐ideal” of the profession. In particular, the psychic investments of literary critics account, on the one hand, for their inflated claims to political relevance and, on the other, for the ability of professors of literature to strike an anti‐institutional pose from within the privileged...
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The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Climate, Retreat, and Revolution

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Elizabeth Callaway
Genre (2024) 57 (3): 295–299.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-11437043
Published: 01 December 2024
... drawn in by either doesn't actually exist yet. The monograph is explicit in embracing its method of examining unsuccessful texts, critiquing the way “criticism has tended to assume that literature's engagement with environmental crisis must be a constructive one and so, implicitly a positive one, even...
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Endangered Vampires of the Anthropocene: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive and the Ecology of Romance

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Joanna Mansbridge
Genre (2019) 52 (3): 207–228.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-7965805
Published: 01 December 2019
...Joanna Mansbridge Among the recent spate of independent vampire films, Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive uniquely depicts vampires whose immortality is under threat in a world tainted by environmental toxins. Facing their mortality as we humans face our own extinction, Adam and Eve are vampires...
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The Geography of the Combat Narrative: Unearthing Identity, Narrative, and Agency in the Iraq War

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Geoffrey A. Wright
Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 163–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-43-1-2-163
Published: 01 March 2010
...: The Journal of Cinema and Media 48 . 2 ( 2007 ): 56 - 65 . Baker Anne . Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America . Ann Arbor : U of Michigan P , 2006 . Barker-Plummer Bernadette Boaz Cynthia . “War News as Masculinist Discourse.” Feminist...
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Peter Matthiessen's Sal Si Puedes : In America with Cesar Chavez

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James G. Watson
Genre (2005) 38 (1-2): 95–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-38-1-2-95
Published: 01 March 2005
... . Selves at Risk: Patterns of Quest in American Literature . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1990 . Holland Patrick Huggan Graham . Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1998...
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Removing the Eggshells: Rereading Wittgenstein on a Desert Island

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Marjorie Perloff
Genre (2000) 33 (3-4): 269–277.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-33-3-4-269
Published: 01 September 2000
.... But Wittgenstein, we both knew, was different—a philosopher, so to speak, for poets and artists, as we agreed when we compared notes as to our favorite "remarks" in Culture and Value. "Remarks," that other Stein (Gertrude) once rebuked Hemingway, "are not literature" (875).1 But in the Preface...
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“The Sea, Not the Ocean”: Anthropocene Fiction and the Memory of (Non)human Life

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Pieter Vermeulen
Genre (2017) 50 (2): 181–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-3890028
Published: 01 July 2017
... Culture, and Early Modern English Literature.” Literature Compass 6, no. 5: 997 – 1013. Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Northcott, Michael. 2013. A Political Theology of Climate Change. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm...
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The Mom and the Many: Animal Subplots and Vulnerable Characters in Ducks, Newburyport

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Ben De Bruyn
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-9263104
Published: 01 July 2021
... University Press . Houser Heather . 2020 . Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data . New York : Columbia University Press . James David , and Seshagiri Urmila . 2014 . “ Metamodernism: Narratives of Continuity and Revolution .” PMLA 129 , no. 1 : 87...
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James Schuyler's Pastoral Poetics

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Don Adams
Genre (2006) 39 (2): 229–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-39-2-229
Published: 01 June 2006
... to Literature .Trans. Nicholson Shierry Weber . Ed. Tiedemann Rolf . Vol. 1 . 2 vols . New York : Columbia UP , 1991 . 37 - 54 . Ashbery John . `` John Clare .'' In Other Traditions . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2000 . 1 - 22 . —, `` The Impossible .'' Poetry 90 ( July...
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Conspiracy, Theory, Genre: Collecting, the Paralysis of Interpretation, and Lyrical Truth in John Sayles's Silver City

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Wesley Beal
Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 151–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-41-1-2-151
Published: 01 March 2008
..., and the impulse to provide this kind of social mapping radiates throughout the conspiratorial thematics of many post 9/11 films. At this juncture, we should reflect on the politics and the formal conventions 1 The list of post 9/11 conspiratorial literatures is indeed extensive, but a quick survey...
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“We'll Make Magic”: Zen Writers and Autofictional Readers in A Tale for the Time Being

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Marjorie Worthington
Genre (2021) 54 (1): 89–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-8911524
Published: 01 April 2021
... . 2006 . The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television . Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press . Genette Gérard . (1982) 1997 . Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree . Translated by Newman Channa and Doubinsky Claude . Lincoln : University...
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Survival of the Depressed: The Discourse of Darwinian Psychiatry

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Scott L. Montgomery
Genre (2011) 44 (3): 381–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-1407558
Published: 01 September 2011
... domains such as politics and economics, art, literature, sexual preference, and even psychiatric medicine, including evolutionary explanations of depression. Dating from the 1990s, the discipline of Darwinian psychiatry pro- vides a fascinating example of metaphor being employed to “update...
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Mapping Globalization or Globalizing the Map?: Heidegger and Planetary Discourse

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Michael Lang
Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 239–250.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-36-3-4-239
Published: 01 September 2003
... its here from the environmental there [Sein Hier ver- steht das Dasein aus dem umweltlichen Dort]" (1073). History for Heidegger is the setting-up of this surrounding world by humans. As Dasein demarks and makes its place, it creates reality-interpretations or meanings. In this way, nature...
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Culture, Patriotism, and the Habitus of a Discipline; Or, What Happens to American Studies in a Moment of Globalization?

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Susan Hegeman
Genre (2005) 38 (4): 443–466.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-38-4-443
Published: 01 December 2005
... to cover all aspects of the U.S. The unstated assumption behind Radway's speech was that other departments at large American universities take care of history, literature, art, politics, environmental studies, and so on, and that American Studies ought to concentrate elsewhere...
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