... and Melville .” The Southern Review 25 : 3 ( Summer 1989 ): 549 - 562 . Williamson Allan . Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1974 . ADAPTATION LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE: BENITO CERENO AND ROBERT LOWELL'S LITERARY...

... . The article risks the claim that in Mailer's conflicted attempts to write the collective form we can not only locate stark evidence of the retreat of class-based models in the American political imaginary but also map the ways in which the novel genre adapts to political change. The paper also attends...

...Benjamin Mangrum Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out , disputes the manner in which its characters appropriate literary texts for their political interests. Woolf delivers this challenge through Rachel Vinrace's ill-fated voyage, which culminates in a series of disorienting encounters...

...Timothy Wientzen This article argues for the centrality of ideas of automatism and habit within the political and aesthetic life of literary modernism. D. H. Lawrence's characteristic interest in the raptures of sexuality and corporality are read in relation to shifts in the nature of political...

... and Gentility in Medieval England, 1300-1500 . Stroud : Tempus Publishing , 2003 . Klein Lawrence E. Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1994 . Kroll Richard W.F...

...Siân E. White This article explores how Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Last September relies on a spatial aesthetic to convey interpersonal and political tensions, corresponding with the novelistic trend toward greater historical and political engagement that recent scholars have deemed “late...

... experiments in search of liberty, constructing a prosthetic past in an attempt to interpret the American people and their Constitution. Despite Lovecraft's horror of labor unrest and miscegenation, his racist political vision is as a result haunted by the radical and progressive potential of these past...

... to the reportage writing of Joseph Roth and Ilya Ehrenburg as representative examples of the conceptualizations of the “object” and the “fact” put forward by these movements, and the second half of the essay shows how and to what political effect works of reportage by Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin blur...

...Justin Young Network Culture: Politics in the Information Age. Terranova Tizianna . London : Pluto Press , 2004 . COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 REVIEWS 191 Network Culture: Politics...

...Tanya Caldwell © COPYRIGHT 1999 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 1999 SURE INSTINCT: INCEST, POLITICS, AND GENRE IN DRYDEN AND DEFOE TANYA CALDWELL, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY At the heart of his anti-epic Fables, immediately before the mock-heroic "First Book of Homer's Ilias...

...Allison Stedman © COPYRIGHT 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2001 A GALLERY OF AUTHORS: THE POLITICS OF INNOVATION AND SUBVERSION IN MONTPENSIER'S DIVERS PORTRAITS ALLISON STEDMAN, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA When Anne Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier published...

... . London : Routledge , 1994 . Collini Stefan Winch Donald Burrow John . That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1983 . Connolly Claire . “Reading Responsibility in Castle Rackrent...

...Elaine Tyler May COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2006 WORKS CITED Brownstein Ronald . `` For Clinton Foes, Morality Clouds Political Storm Over Starr Report .'' Los Angeles Times 14 September 1998 : A5 . Carlson Peter . `` America Gamely Stumbled Off...

...Russ Castronovo COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2006 WORKS CITED Ankersmit F.K. Aesthetic Politics: Political Philosophy Beyond Fact and Value . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1996 . Appadurai Arjun . `` Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon...

... IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHE": POLITICAL TOURISM AS A STRATEGY FOR ENTERING AND LEAVING MODERNITY1 MAUREEN MOYNAGH, ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY In the introduction to his seminal study, The Tourist, Dean MacCannell notes that "[o]riginally, [he] had planned to study tourism and revolution, which...

... a fiction’s contextualized political actuality (how a fiction was read or what it did). This essay is primarily con- cerned with explicating Manchette’s politicized critical gestures, because, I will argue, they have been largely overlooked or misunderstood. The very fact that they have been overlooked...

... of the undocumented youth movement in the United States. More specifically, this article identifies how the national comprehensive immigration reform movement created a political genre known as the Dreamer narrative that undocumented youth were trained to produce. By examining the ways Vargas performs these genre...

...Benjamin Pickford Copyright © 2020 University of Oklahoma 2020 Genre, Vol. 53, No. 1 April 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8210789 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Book Review benjamin pickford Ronald Schleifer, A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post- classical Economics, and the Lower...

... 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...

...Diana R. Newby Similar formations of self are the focus of Ronjaunee Chatterjee's Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature , a rich and challenging monograph that theorizes subjectivity as “partial, contingent, and in relation” (1). Chatterjee draws...