Matthew Garrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 107940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Garrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrett |
| SIGNATURE | GARRETT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9352-4695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Objective Eventfulness
The Natural Laws of Plot is a subtle and sophisticated synthesis of work in narrative and novel theory, and formalist criticism more broadly, with an equally rigorous incorporation of eighteenth-century science studies. What may be most remarkable is what the book does not say, the way it achieves its level of reading by tactically restricting its attention and calmly delimiting its relevant materials. For although this is a book of rare expansiv…
The Cambridge History of the American Essay
From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, f…
Reading between Freedom and Necessity
Mostly the culture of literacy has taken shape within a realm of freedom, seemingly distant from the needs of the body and the demands of sustenance. At the same time, the world represented within so much of the world’s narrative, both truth and fiction, has been saturated in struggle and deprivation. This article tries to make some sense of this juxtaposition, freedom on one side and necessity on the other: in particular, the pull of past or res…
Finding Agency in Captivity: Resistance, Co-optation, and Replication Among Indentured Indians, 1847–1900
When Mormon settlers entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they brought with them their institutions and attitudes. These included a perception of Native Americans as fallen Israelites who, the Book of Mormon promised, would someday join Mormons in Zion. Latterday Saints never quite realized those expectations in New York, nor in Ohio, Missouri, or Illinois, and upon entry into the Great Basin, Mormons once again found Indians largely disinterest…
Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
The patchwork of case law and congressional acts defining tribal jurisdiction is complex and beyond the understanding of most Americans, including those affected by it. Alexandra Harmon's Reclaiming the Reservation is an impressive exploration of the ebb and flow of tribal sovereignty, focusing on the Native people who proactively engaged changing legal standards. Harmon thoughtfully interweaves two hundred years of jurisdictional disputes in a n…
Disentangling binaries and the rise of Lamanite studies
The rise of Lamanite studies is a peculiar phenomenon that parallels the decline of the term's usage by the church that forged the very notion. Though created for a people who initially rejected the term in the nineteenth century, many mid- and late-twentieth century converts embraced the Lamanite identity. Just as the ranks of self-identified Lamanites swelled, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' focus spilled over into internationa…
An Imperial Syllabus
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire, edited by distinguished historians Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, brings together ten essays on individual books with a substantial methodological introduction. Covering the full geographical expanse of the Empire, the volume seeks to unify book and imperial history through careful accounts of the circulation, recycling, and uptake of each of the books under consideration. The upshot is an invaluab…
Subterranean Gratification: Reading after the Picaro
Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution
"Merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot."--Book jacket
Conclusion
The conclusion provides a methodological and historical synthesis of the book’s argument, tracing its movement from the early Federalist moment of 1787–88 to the broadly Republican moment of Salmagundi, in 1807–8, with particular reflections on implications for literary-historical methods.
The Romance of Real Politics
The Romance of Real Politics Matthew Garrett (bio) 1 Putting aside for a moment the confounding case of the twentieth-century vanguards, it’s fair to say that intellectuals, left or otherwise, are generally weak activists. We—left intellectuals—tend to have funny ideas about political struggle, and the record of activism on the academic Left is not an especially illustrious one. (By Left, I should indicate at the outset that I mean systemic oppos…
The Liquid Life: Money and the Circulation of Success After Franklin
What happens when the money form becomes a model for selfhood and social success? Benjamin Franklin's autobiography posits a reciprocal relationship between the circulation of money and self. Self is expressed in Franklin's memoirs in the form of money, through a formal configuration of narrative episodes modelled on Franklin's own conception of the circulation of money. Through this representation, Franklin produces a historically novel way of f…
Pursuing Wicozani (the Good Way of Life): Functional Adaptations through Dakota Lifeways
Using focus group methodology, we examined the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota idea of wicozani (pronounced wee-cho'zah-nee), or "the good way of life", as it relates to individual and family life and assert its value in guiding functional adaptations. Additional theoretical scaffolding is drawn from Vygotsky's (1978) zone of proximal development within the framework of Hill's (1949) family stress model, reifying the effectiveness of wicozani to direc…
Standing Bear is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice (review)
Reviewed by: Standing Bear is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice Matthew Garrett Stephen Dando-Collins . Standing Bear is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004. 252 pp. Paperback, $18.00. In Buckskin and Blanket Days: Memoirs of a Friend of the Indians, Thomas Henry Tibbles introduces his chapter on Standing Bear with a prophetic passage. He predicts, "…
Subterranean Gratification: Reading after the Picaro
Disentangling binaries and the rise of Lamanite studies
The rise of Lamanite studies is a peculiar phenomenon that parallels the decline of the term's usage by the church that forged the very notion. Though created for a people who initially rejected the term in the nineteenth century, many mid- and late-twentieth century converts embraced the Lamanite identity. Just as the ranks of self-identified Lamanites swelled, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' focus spilled over into internationa…
Standing Bear is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice (review)
Reviewed by: Standing Bear is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice Matthew Garrett Stephen Dando-Collins . Standing Bear is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004. 252 pp. Paperback, $18.00. In Buckskin and Blanket Days: Memoirs of a Friend of the Indians, Thomas Henry Tibbles introduces his chapter on Standing Bear with a prophetic passage. He predicts, "…
Pursuing Wicozani (the Good Way of Life): Functional Adaptations through Dakota Lifeways
Using focus group methodology, we examined the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota idea of wicozani (pronounced wee-cho'zah-nee), or "the good way of life", as it relates to individual and family life and assert its value in guiding functional adaptations. Additional theoretical scaffolding is drawn from Vygotsky's (1978) zone of proximal development within the framework of Hill's (1949) family stress model, reifying the effectiveness of wicozani to direc…
The Liquid Life: Money and the Circulation of Success After Franklin
What happens when the money form becomes a model for selfhood and social success? Benjamin Franklin's autobiography posits a reciprocal relationship between the circulation of money and self. Self is expressed in Franklin's memoirs in the form of money, through a formal configuration of narrative episodes modelled on Franklin's own conception of the circulation of money. Through this representation, Franklin produces a historically novel way of f…
The Romance of Real Politics
The Romance of Real Politics Matthew Garrett (bio) 1 Putting aside for a moment the confounding case of the twentieth-century vanguards, it’s fair to say that intellectuals, left or otherwise, are generally weak activists. We—left intellectuals—tend to have funny ideas about political struggle, and the record of activism on the academic Left is not an especially illustrious one. (By Left, I should indicate at the outset that I mean systemic oppos…
Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution
"Merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot."--Book jacket
Conclusion
The conclusion provides a methodological and historical synthesis of the book’s argument, tracing its movement from the early Federalist moment of 1787–88 to the broadly Republican moment of Salmagundi, in 1807–8, with particular reflections on implications for literary-historical methods.
Subterranean Gratification: Reading after the Picaro
An Imperial Syllabus
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire, edited by distinguished historians Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, brings together ten essays on individual books with a substantial methodological introduction. Covering the full geographical expanse of the Empire, the volume seeks to unify book and imperial history through careful accounts of the circulation, recycling, and uptake of each of the books under consideration. The upshot is an invaluab…
Disentangling binaries and the rise of Lamanite studies
The rise of Lamanite studies is a peculiar phenomenon that parallels the decline of the term's usage by the church that forged the very notion. Though created for a people who initially rejected the term in the nineteenth century, many mid- and late-twentieth century converts embraced the Lamanite identity. Just as the ranks of self-identified Lamanites swelled, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' focus spilled over into internationa…
Finding Agency in Captivity: Resistance, Co-optation, and Replication Among Indentured Indians, 1847–1900
When Mormon settlers entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they brought with them their institutions and attitudes. These included a perception of Native Americans as fallen Israelites who, the Book of Mormon promised, would someday join Mormons in Zion. Latterday Saints never quite realized those expectations in New York, nor in Ohio, Missouri, or Illinois, and upon entry into the Great Basin, Mormons once again found Indians largely disinterest…
Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
The patchwork of case law and congressional acts defining tribal jurisdiction is complex and beyond the understanding of most Americans, including those affected by it. Alexandra Harmon's Reclaiming the Reservation is an impressive exploration of the ebb and flow of tribal sovereignty, focusing on the Native people who proactively engaged changing legal standards. Harmon thoughtfully interweaves two hundred years of jurisdictional disputes in a n…
Reading between Freedom and Necessity
Mostly the culture of literacy has taken shape within a realm of freedom, seemingly distant from the needs of the body and the demands of sustenance. At the same time, the world represented within so much of the world’s narrative, both truth and fiction, has been saturated in struggle and deprivation. This article tries to make some sense of this juxtaposition, freedom on one side and necessity on the other: in particular, the pull of past or res…
The Cambridge History of the American Essay
From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, f…
Objective Eventfulness
The Natural Laws of Plot is a subtle and sophisticated synthesis of work in narrative and novel theory, and formalist criticism more broadly, with an equally rigorous incorporation of eighteenth-century science studies. What may be most remarkable is what the book does not say, the way it achieves its level of reading by tactically restricting its attention and calmly delimiting its relevant materials. For although this is a book of rare expansiv…
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