Christopher Looby
Biographic Data
| ID | 679771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Looby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Looby |
| SIGNATURE | LOOBY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Elizabeth Stoddard’s Depravity
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies
Of Billy’s Time
Billy Budd is replete with invocations of various temporalities. This article brings the tale’s “juggling temporalities” to bear upon the questions of sexuality that the story also addresses and shows that Billy Budd is a searching exploration of (and meditation on) the profound historicity of sexuality. Unfinished and unpublished at the time of Melville’s death, the extant manuscript of Billy Budd is a complicated palimpsest of additions and rev…
Southworth and Seriality
E.D.E.N. Southworth's originally massively popular novel, The Hidden Hand (1859), was not published as a book until it had undergone serialization three separate times, over the course of a quarter century, in a weekly story-paper called the New York Ledger. This bare fact about the material form in which it circulated and gained its large and admiring audience has consequences for interpreting the novel that have gone entirely unexamined by scho…
The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Inhuman Race
While modern critics have tended to approach black and white perspectives of race in America by considering the two sides separately, Cassuto's timely book brings the two together, reconstructing a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves). The focus is on literature - from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of writers such as M…
“As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire”
Voicing America
Voicing America
Journal Article Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States. By Christopher Looby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 and The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America. By Christopher Newfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Voicing America
The Linguistic Foundations of a Nation
Voicing America
Declaring Independence
Journal Article Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance. By Jay Fliegclman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. xx, 268 pp. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-8047-2075-4. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8047-2076-2.) Get access Christopher Looby Christopher Looby University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Is…
"George Thompson's "Romance of the Real
Lecture de The House Breaker faisant apparaitre la tension entre la critique du statu quo social et la restauration de l'ideologie sentimentale dans ce roman noir de G. Thompson
Writing in the New Nation
Second Stories
Charles Willson Peale and the Labor of Representation
The Affairs of the Revolution Occasion'd the Interruption
Phonetics and Politics
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WAS FASCINATED BY THE ALPHABET. As the silent, spatial, ordered representation of the noisy, temporal, relatively disordered realm of human speech, the alphabet appeared to him as the perfect image of the rational organization of erratic human energies. It was a model, for him, of what a rationally administered society ought to be: it represented the imposition of normative structure on the world of human experience. This is mos…
Southworth and Seriality
E.D.E.N. Southworth's originally massively popular novel, The Hidden Hand (1859), was not published as a book until it had undergone serialization three separate times, over the course of a quarter century, in a weekly story-paper called the New York Ledger. This bare fact about the material form in which it circulated and gained its large and admiring audience has consequences for interpreting the novel that have gone entirely unexamined by scho…
Voicing America
"George Thompson's "Romance of the Real
Lecture de The House Breaker faisant apparaitre la tension entre la critique du statu quo social et la restauration de l'ideologie sentimentale dans ce roman noir de G. Thompson
Phonetics and Politics
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WAS FASCINATED BY THE ALPHABET. As the silent, spatial, ordered representation of the noisy, temporal, relatively disordered realm of human speech, the alphabet appeared to him as the perfect image of the rational organization of erratic human energies. It was a model, for him, of what a rationally administered society ought to be: it represented the imposition of normative structure on the world of human experience. This is mos…
The Affairs of the Revolution Occasion'd the Interruption
Charles Willson Peale and the Labor of Representation
Writing in the New Nation
Second Stories
"George Thompson's "Romance of the Real
Lecture de The House Breaker faisant apparaitre la tension entre la critique du statu quo social et la restauration de l'ideologie sentimentale dans ce roman noir de G. Thompson
Declaring Independence
Journal Article Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance. By Jay Fliegclman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. xx, 268 pp. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-8047-2075-4. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8047-2076-2.) Get access Christopher Looby Christopher Looby University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Is…
“As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire”
Voicing America
Voicing America
Journal Article Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States. By Christopher Looby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 and The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America. By Christopher Newfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 Get access Robert A. Gross Robert A. Gross College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Voicing America
The Linguistic Foundations of a Nation
Voicing America
The Inhuman Race
While modern critics have tended to approach black and white perspectives of race in America by considering the two sides separately, Cassuto's timely book brings the two together, reconstructing a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves). The focus is on literature - from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of writers such as M…
The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Southworth and Seriality
E.D.E.N. Southworth's originally massively popular novel, The Hidden Hand (1859), was not published as a book until it had undergone serialization three separate times, over the course of a quarter century, in a weekly story-paper called the New York Ledger. This bare fact about the material form in which it circulated and gained its large and admiring audience has consequences for interpreting the novel that have gone entirely unexamined by scho…
Of Billy’s Time
Billy Budd is replete with invocations of various temporalities. This article brings the tale’s “juggling temporalities” to bear upon the questions of sexuality that the story also addresses and shows that Billy Budd is a searching exploration of (and meditation on) the profound historicity of sexuality. Unfinished and unpublished at the time of Melville’s death, the extant manuscript of Billy Budd is a complicated palimpsest of additions and rev…
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies
Elizabeth Stoddard’s Depravity
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