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The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei (2024)
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This paper offers an analysis of US strategy in the unfolding US-China ‘tech war’ and its consequences. We argue that a tech war is now underway, and that Washington is the driving force behind it. Here we focus on the most impactful policy so far: t... Read More about The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei.
A Manual Job in a Machine Age: The Long Wait for Mechanized Typesetting (2024)
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William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969) (2024)
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This article takes the distinctive publishing history of William Williams's Robinsonade novel Mr. Penrose as a prompt to challenge conventional assumptions about the temporal logic of textual recovery. Scholars typically make a case for the value of... Read More about William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969).
The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel (2023)
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From Jacob Riis to Michael Harrington, observers of American poverty have often focused, in literal and metaphorical ways, on the faces of the economically dispossessed, finding in them a means to generate emotional responses that are more personaliz... Read More about The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel.
Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee (2023)
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James Kim has argued that "despite long noting the links between animalisation and racialisation, critical animal studies have yet to consider their relationship to Asian American studies." Relating to this wider scholarly gap, studies of the South A... Read More about Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee.
“Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan (2022)
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Bharati Mukherjee is principally known for her best-selling 1989 novel Jasmine. But much of Mukherjee's early work, especially her unpublished creative and academic writing from the 1960s, has been overlooked by critics and scholars. My essay address... Read More about “Indiascape”: Bharati Mukherjee’s engagement with E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse and R.K. Narayan.
Media Visibility of Femininity and Care: UK Women’s Magazines’ Representation of Female ‘Keyworkers’ During Covid-19 (2022)
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This article explores the media visibility of female keyworkers—workers deemed essential for society’s functioning, including medical staff, transport workers, and social care workers—during COVID-19. Focusing on UK women’s magazines as an important... Read More about Media Visibility of Femininity and Care: UK Women’s Magazines’ Representation of Female ‘Keyworkers’ During Covid-19.
Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon (2022)
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This contribution to a symposium on The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown discusses Brown's late eighteenth-century magazine writing and the questions they raise around authorial attribution, literary anonymity and pseudonymity, and period... Read More about Periodical Queries: Early American Magazine Writing in and out of the Charles Brockden Brown Canon.
The New Melville Studies, ed. Cody Marrs (2022)
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The Periodical Text Network, Serialized Genres, and the Making of “Literature” in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2021)
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This article intervenes into current debates around genre and textual production in nineteenth-century American periodical culture by expanding our understanding of magazine serialization beyond its typical focus on fiction. Drawing on various theori... Read More about The Periodical Text Network, Serialized Genres, and the Making of “Literature” in the Nineteenth-Century United States.
Special Issue Introduction: Early American Fictionality (2021)
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This introduction to the special issue “Early American Fictionality” provides a detailed overview of the concept of fictionality and a concise history of its scholarly uses and outlines a vision of what greater attention to it in early American liter... Read More about Special Issue Introduction: Early American Fictionality.
Portrait Miniatures: Fictionality, Visual Culture, and the Scene of Recognition in Early National America (2021)
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This essay seeks to expand the geographical and formal scope of the concept of fictionality by examining the self-conscious presentation of fictional beings’ nonreferentiality in early American visual culture. Its principal case study is a portrait o... Read More about Portrait Miniatures: Fictionality, Visual Culture, and the Scene of Recognition in Early National America.
Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism (2021)
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What prompted New York City teachers to form a union in the Progressive Era? The founding of the journal American Teacher in 1912 led to creation of the Teachers' League in 1913 and then the Teachers Union in 1916, facilitating formation of the Ameri... Read More about Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism.
An appeal to supersede the slave trade triangle in English museums (2021)
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In 2007 several permanent museum galleries were created in England that discuss the subject of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. This article critiques one recurring image within many of these sites: the diagrams of the slave trade triangle.... Read More about An appeal to supersede the slave trade triangle in English museums.
Defending the indefensible?: The pro-confederate lobby in Britain in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation (2021)
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The purpose of this article is to provide the first dedicated examination of the pro-Confederate movement in Britain in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation. By analysing the ideas and activities of pro-Confederates after emancipation the articl... Read More about Defending the indefensible?: The pro-confederate lobby in Britain in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation.
“A Ringer Was Used to Make the Killing”: Horse Painting and Racetrack Corruption in the Early Depression-Era War on Crime (2021)
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Peter Christian "Paddy" Barrie was a seasoned fraudster who transferred his horse doping and horse substitution skills from British to North American racetracks in the 1920s. His thoroughbred ringers were entered in elite races to guarantee winnings... Read More about “A Ringer Was Used to Make the Killing”: Horse Painting and Racetrack Corruption in the Early Depression-Era War on Crime.
The Frontline as Performative Frame: An Analysis of the UK COVID Crisis (2021)
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In this paper, we examine the multiple significations of the “frontline” metaphor in the UK during the first ten months of COVID-19. We argue that the term “frontline” has operated as a performative frame, which has helped to produce the very notion... Read More about The Frontline as Performative Frame: An Analysis of the UK COVID Crisis.
Young America and the Anti-Emersonian Western: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (2020)
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