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Domestic Individualism

Author : Gillian Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520913353

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Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed. In this study of the domestic constitution of individualism, Brown traces how the values of interiority, order, privacy, and enclosure associated with the American home come to define selfhood in general. By analyzing writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Fern, and Gilman, and by examining other contemporary cultural modes—abolitionism, consumerism, architecture, interior decorating, motherhood, mesmerism, hysteria, and agoraphobia—she reconfigures the parameters of both domesticity and the patterns of self it fashions. Unfolding a representational history of the domestic, Brown's work offers striking new readings of the literary texts as well as of the cultural contexts that they embody.

Disciplining Girls

Author : Joe Sutliff Sanders
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421403779

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Disciplining Girls by Joe Sutliff Sanders Pdf

At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic orphan girl novels of Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. M. Montgomery, and other writers still popular today. Domestic novels published between 1850 and 1880 argued that a discipline that emphasized love was the most effective and moral form. These were the first best sellers in American fiction, and by reimagining discipline as a technique of the heart—rather than of the whip—they ensured their protagonists a secure, if limited, claim on power. This same ideal was adapted by women authors in the early twentieth century, who transformed the sentimental motifs of domestic novels into the orphan girl story made popular in such novels as Anne of Green Gables and Pollyanna. Through close readings of nine of the most influential orphan girl novels, Sanders provides a seamless historical narrative of American children’s literature and gender from 1850 until 1923. He follows his insightful literary analysis with chapters on sympathy and motherhood, two themes central to both American and children’s literature, and concludes with a discussion of contemporary ideas about discipline, abuse, and gender. Disciplining Girls writes an important chapter in the history of American, women’s, and children’s literature, enriching previous work about the history of discipline in America.

From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men

Author : Yoon Sun Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781684175802

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From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men by Yoon Sun Yang Pdf

"The notion of the individual was initially translated into Korean near the end of the nineteenth century and took root during the early years of Japanese colonial influence. Yoon Sun Yang argues that the first literary iterations of the Korean individual were prototypically female figures appearing in the early colonial domestic novel—a genre developed by reform-minded male writers—as schoolgirls, housewives, female ghosts, femmes fatales, and female same-sex partners. Such female figures have long been viewed as lacking in modernity because, unlike numerous male characters in Korean literature after the late 1910s, they did not assert their own modernity, or that of the nation, by exploring their interiority. Yang, however, shows that no reading of Korean modernity can ignore these figures, because the early colonial domestic novel cast them as individuals in terms of their usefulness or relevance to the nation, whether model citizens or iconoclasts. By including these earlier narratives within modern Korean literary history and positing that they too were engaged in the translation of individuality into Korean, Yang’s study not only disrupts the canonical account of a non-gendered, linear progress toward modern Korean selfhood but also expands our understanding of the role played by translation in Korea’s construction of modern gender roles."

Equity Home Bias in International Finance

Author : Kavous Ardalan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000001433

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Equity Home Bias in International Finance by Kavous Ardalan Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of research outcomes on the equity home bias puzzle – that people overinvest in domestic stocks relative to the theoretically optimal investment portfolio. It introduces place attachment – the bonding that occurs between individuals and their meaningful environments – as a new explanation for equity home bias, and presents a philosophically multi-paradigmatic view of place attachment. For the first time, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the extant literature is provided, demonstrating that place attachment is a contributing factor to 22 different topics in which variations of home bias are present. The author also analyses the social-psychological underpinnings of place attachment, and considers the effect of multi-culturalism on the future of equity home bias. The book’s unique approach discusses the issues in conceptual terms rather than through data and statistical methods. This multi- and inter-disciplinary book is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers interested in economics, finance, philosophy, and/or methodology, introducing them to a new line of research.

Ugly White People

Author : Stephanie Li
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452969909

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Whiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive complacency of white self-consciousness​ White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply as American or human), white writers are exposing a self-awareness of white racialized behavior—from staunch antiracism to virulent forms of xenophobic nationalism. Ugly White People explores representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white American authors, revealing white recognition of the ugly forms whiteness can take. Stephanie Li argues that much of the twenty-first century has been defined by this rising consciousness of whiteness because of the imminent shift to a “majority minority” population and the growing diversification of America’s political, social, and cultural institutions. The result is literature that more directly grapples with whiteness as its own construct rather than a wrongly assumed norm. Li contextualizes a series of literary novels as collectively influenced by changes in racial and political attitudes. Turning to works by Dave Eggers, Sarah Smarsh, J. D. Vance, Claire Messud, Ben Lerner, and others, she traces the responses to white consciousness that breed shared manifestations of ugliness. The tension between acknowledging whiteness as an identity built on domination and the failure to remedy inequalities that have proliferated from this founding injustice is often the source of the ugly whiteness portrayed through these narratives. The questions posed in Ugly White People about the nature and future of whiteness are vital to understanding contemporary race relations in America. From the election of Trump and the rise of white nationalism to Karen memes and the war against critical race theory to the pervasive pattern of behavior among largely liberal-leaning whites, Li elucidates truths about whiteness that challenge any hope of national unity and, most devastatingly, the basic humanity of others. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.

The Myth of Empowerment

Author : Dana Becker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781479846825

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The Myth of Empowerment surveys the ways in which women have been represented and influenced by the rapidly growing therapeutic culture—both popular and professional—from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The middle-class woman concerned about her health and her ability to care for others in an uncertain world is not as different from her late nineteenth-century white middle-class predecessors as we might imagine. In the nineteenth century she was told that her moral virtue was her power; today, her power is said to reside in her ability to “relate” to others or to take better care of herself so that she can take care of others. Dana Becker argues that ideas like empowerment perpetuate the myth that many of the problems women have are medical rather than societal; personal rather than political. From mesmerism to psychotherapy to the Oprah Winfrey Show, women have gleaned ideas about who they are as psychological beings. Becker questions what women have had to gain from these ideas as she recounts the story of where they have been led and where the therapeutic culture is taking them.

Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy

Author : Luke Philip Plotica
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319621722

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Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy by Luke Philip Plotica Pdf

This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner. The argument of the book is that these thinkers offer distinct visions of individualism that reflect their respective understandings of the market, and provide thoughtful and insightful perspectives upon the promise and peril of this economic and social order. Looking back to Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner furnishes valuable insights about the history of American political and social thought, as well as about the complexity of one of the most basic and prevalent relationships of modern life: that between the individual and the institutional complex of the market.

Staging Depth

Author : Joel Pfister
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780807863855

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Staging Depth by Joel Pfister Pdf

Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's staging and modernizing of 'psychological' individualism for his social class. Pfister examines the history of the middle-class family and of Freudian pop psychology in the 1910s and 1920s to reconstruct the cultural conditions for the imagining and popularizing of 'depth,' a trope that was central to O'Neill's dramatic vision. He also recovers provocative critiques by contemporary critics on the Left who challenged O'Neill's preoccupation with dramatizing psychological, familial, and aesthetic 'depth.' One of the few sustained works on O'Neill in recent years, this wide-ranging book makes a major contribution to cultural studies, to the history of subjectivity, and to scholarship on the ideological origins of modernism and modern American drama. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Domestic Allegories of Political Desire

Author : Claudia Tate
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195108576

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"As a pioneering work, it is itself critical history."--Women's Review of Books. "Tate's book deserves an honored place in historical literature."--American Historical Review.

The Coming Individualism

Author : Alfred Egmont Hake,O. E. Wesslau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCAL:$B22416

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The Coming Individualism by Alfred Egmont Hake,O. E. Wesslau Pdf

The modern economic imbroglio.--Essence of exact political economy.--The errors of democracy.--The haven of socialism.--Imperial free trade.--Free competition in the supply of capital to labour.--Free trade in drink.--Free trade in amusements.--Free trade in land.--The consolidation of the empire.--Municipal government, by F. Fletcher-Vane.

Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860

Author : Maurice S. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521846536

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Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860 by Maurice S. Lee Pdf

Lee demonstrates how Melville, Emerson and others tried to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict.

Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy

Author : R. Howard Bloch,Frances Ferguson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520065468

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Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy by R. Howard Bloch,Frances Ferguson Pdf

These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations, explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does misogyny differ from misandry? Can author intention be separated from social context? Do good women counterbalance or reenforce the misogyny of negative examples? Is an obsession with women itself misogynistic? These questions are approached from various angles by Joel Fineman, Charles Bernheimer, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Frances Ferguson, Naomi Schor and Gillian Brown. In sum, the authors detail not only the ways in which gender is represented, but also the changes to which representation subjects questions of sexual difference.

Structuralism and Individualism in Economic Analysis

Author : S. Charusheela
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135409838

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Structuralism and Individualism in Economic Analysis by S. Charusheela Pdf

This book argues that the debates about the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world within the field of development economics are at heart debates about the appropriate ontology to ascribe to agents within the developing world.

Adopting America

Author : Carol J. Singley
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199779390

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-213) index.

The Moral Project of Childhood

Author : Daniel Thomas Cook
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479899203

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The Moral Project of Childhood by Daniel Thomas Cook Pdf

Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children’s needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the “child” as a moral project. Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women’s periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothers—and later, by commercial actors—as consumers. From concerns about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children’s consumer culture. An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural history of childhood.