... Orwell’s essay has fallen into relative obscurity, similar politicized readings of crime narratives and their idealized masculinities have proliferated in the past seventy years. This has not meant, however, that any kind of critical consensus about how to read the gender politics of popular...

... 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 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 Middle- Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

...Tanya Caldwell 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," lies Dryden's translation of Ovid's father-daughter...

...Allison Stedman 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 the Divers Portraits [ Various Portraits], her first...

... . 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Michael Martel This article examines Edwardian “radioactive fiction”—narratives about radium’s transformative political implications—to demonstrate how radioactivity shaped narrative form and English politics between 1898 and 1914. Recent scholarship on this period’s literary engagements...

...-­historical framework, was widely and tacitly accepted in the decades after World War II. Writing in the 1970s, Cowley notes that most of the literature of an explicitly political stripe has since been forgotten along with the overtly politicizing style of literary criticism that slotted fiction...