J Michelle Coghlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 2958108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Michelle Coghlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Coghlan |
| SIGNATURE | COGHLAN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | English and American Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Karl Marx in America
Sensory Experiments
“That the senses and the symbolic are coextensive is a truth so obvious as to be invisible; sensation is inscribed into the etymological meaning of aesthetics (aisthetikos in Greek) as “of or relating to sensation,” as Erica Fretwell and Hsuan Hsu reminded us in their September 2023 American Literature special issue, “Senses With/out Subjects” (447-8). That the senses have only come into such relief for us now cannot be disentangled from the larg…
A Taste of Power
Tasting the Archive
Tasting the ArchiveNineteenth-Century American Literature and the Sensory Turn J. Michelle Coghlan (bio) The way in which human sense perception isorganized—the medium in which it takes place—is notonly conditioned naturally but historically. —Walter Benjamin What might it mean to taste the archive? And why might we be drawn to such a project of so sensing it now? To consider these questions is to wrestle with the way that an encounter with the a…
Sensational Internationalism
In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century. It offers fascinating, remarkably accessible readings of a range of literary works, from periodical poetry and boys’ adventure fiction to radical pulp and the writings of Henry James, as well a…
Communal luxury
Much as her earlier book May ’68 and Its Afterlives (Ross 2002) set out to upend our most basic assumptions about the constellation of events that go by May’s name and the uses and abuses of its le
Urban Appetites
If New York in the 1970s and 1980s was defined by its underground arts and music scene, today it is dominated instead by its avant-garde food scene, with devotees of the artisanal and the-next-big
Communal luxury
Much as her earlier book May ’68 and Its Afterlives (Ross 2002) set out to upend our most basic assumptions about the constellation of events that go by May’s name and the uses and abuses of its le
Urban Appetites
If New York in the 1970s and 1980s was defined by its underground arts and music scene, today it is dominated instead by its avant-garde food scene, with devotees of the artisanal and the-next-big
Sensational Internationalism
In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century. It offers fascinating, remarkably accessible readings of a range of literary works, from periodical poetry and boys’ adventure fiction to radical pulp and the writings of Henry James, as well a…
Communal luxury
Much as her earlier book May ’68 and Its Afterlives (Ross 2002) set out to upend our most basic assumptions about the constellation of events that go by May’s name and the uses and abuses of its le
A Taste of Power
Tasting the Archive
Tasting the ArchiveNineteenth-Century American Literature and the Sensory Turn J. Michelle Coghlan (bio) The way in which human sense perception isorganized—the medium in which it takes place—is notonly conditioned naturally but historically. —Walter Benjamin What might it mean to taste the archive? And why might we be drawn to such a project of so sensing it now? To consider these questions is to wrestle with the way that an encounter with the a…
Sensory Experiments
“That the senses and the symbolic are coextensive is a truth so obvious as to be invisible; sensation is inscribed into the etymological meaning of aesthetics (aisthetikos in Greek) as “of or relating to sensation,” as Erica Fretwell and Hsuan Hsu reminded us in their September 2023 American Literature special issue, “Senses With/out Subjects” (447-8). That the senses have only come into such relief for us now cannot be disentangled from the larg…
Karl Marx in America
History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Taste (3 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works)