Donald E Pease: 45 books
Gumshoe America
Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront...
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park
Activism, Culture, and American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as...
Necro Citizenship
Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to—and even dependent on—death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized...
by Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1996
Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white in order to gain their freedom. More generally, it has served as a way for women and people of color...
The Color of Sex
Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001
In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious...
Negative Liberties
Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2001
Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States—and even more so after the Reagan era. But has this presence been for the good of all? In...
Interior States
Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens’ democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. Castiglia contends that citizens of the early United States were encouraged to locate this social...
Reconstituting the American Renaissance
Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving...
The Genuine Article
Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the construction of white manhood across class lines, Gilmore argues that in the years before the Civil...
Red Land, Red Power
Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of “Red Power,” an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture....
Hemispheric Imaginings
The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for democracy. Over the next century, these ideas—which came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine—provided...
Around Quitting Time
Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001
Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this atonce hopelessly ideological and breathlessly...
Clear Word and Third Sight
Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated...
by June Howard, Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social change,...