James Chandler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Chandler |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Chandler |
| SIGNATURE | CHANDLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Idaho State Board of Education |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Pathologies of Motion
Hourly Gratification
The first serious and sustained literary response to cultural acceleration in modern society comes not from Benjamin or Simmel, as some have suggested, nor the work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, but the poetic experiments of Wordsworth. At the turn of the nineteenth-century Wordsworth confronted an impatient mediascape, inhabited by readers requiring "outrageous stimulation" that the "rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." He publis…
Memories Are Made of This
This essay considers the cultural implications of a brief period in the life of New York's Brill Building, America's second Tin Pan Alley, a transformative moment in R&B that involved music performed by African American artists but written by songwriters committed to "Jewish Latin." Recorded on 45 rpm vinyl, circulated in jukeboxes and on radio in new Top 40 radio formats, this sound formed young taste, and, in the bargain, its commercial cycles …
I. A. Richards and Raymond Williams
The Question of Sensibility
There is, of course, more than one question posed by the elusive notion of sensibility, especially if we consider it both in its contemporary deployment and in its rich conceptual history. The question I pose here is occasioned by the recent renewal of interest in aesthetic education and, more precisely, in efforts to renew criticism itself by returning to the psychological paradigm of sensibility-formation in the work of I. A. Richards. What mig…
Around 1980, Seamus Heaney in Chicago
Sentimental Journeys, Vehicular States
From eighteenth-century literature through twentieth-century cinema, the sentimental spectator is a figure in motion, able to assume multiple locations in narrative space. This capacity to move and be moved depends on a kind of quickness that in the discourse of the sentimental comes to be called “sensibility.” This chapter examines sentimental mobility by way of this notion of sensibility in its modern evolution, but also in the conceit that it …
Sentimental Monstrosity
This chapter examines the relation between sentimentalism and moral deformity. It first looks briefly at the emergence of the relation between beauty and deformity in the work of Shaftesbury and Adam Smith. The theme of moral monstrosity emerges explicitly in both writers, as it does in a different register with Rousseau. It then turns to what is made of this connection in the work of the Godwin circle, notably that of Mary and Percy Shelley, who…
The Case of the Literary Spectator
This chapter focuses on the case of the literary spectator. It argues that the notion of the case not only is helpful for thinking about the relation between an externalized point of view and its subject, but is also a term that is most apposite to the sentimental tradition in question. It is there in Adam Smith's language about how, in the act of sympathetically imagining ourselves in the place of the other, we put ourselves in the case of the o…
The Emergence of Sentimental Probability
This chapter examines the problem of probability in sentimental narrative. It describes this problem as a crossing of the mimetic and pragmatic axes of representation in the context of a national readership. In less schematic terms, it means that probability arises as a problem when collective sentiment becomes the object of representation, in both senses of “object”—when writers aspire, that is, to move national sympathies in the act of depictin…
Coda
This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions and presents some final thoughts. The previous chapters addressed “basic problems of stance and mode” in the “composition” of the sentimental mode across fiction, poetry, cinema, and theater. It recognizes that modern literary criticism has had to overcome a programmatic institutional animosity toward cinema, dating from the modernist moment, and that, more recently, film studies has had its own s…
Romanticism
This chapter analyzes the fate of the sentimental mode in the context of poetry. It suggests that many of the issues in Romantic poetry are similar those that have so far been considered, such as the characteristic features of mixed feelings, slippage of levels, and interchangeability of subject positions. It is just that these features tend to manifest differently in short works of verse.
Modernism
Cinema as a Medium of Sentiment
Capra's America
This chapter discusses the films of Frank Capra, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946); how Capra appeared to realize the long-term significance of television sooner than many directors of his generation; the preoccupation with the Capraesque in the cinema of the 1990s; the publication in 1971 of Capra's autobiography, The Name above the Title; and the link between Capra's claim to auteurism and the issue …
The Sentimental Mode
Capra Remakes Capra
Capra's sentimentality, and even that what makes Capra Capra, is attributed to a so-called “recursivity” in his work, his singular preoccupation with self-revision. This chapter examines pairings of films that suggest ways in which the self-revisiting and self-revising practices unfold (and enfold) themselves in Capra's career as a filmmaker. Specifically, it looks how the interpolated celestial screening of George Bailey's life, when it reaches …
An Archaeology of Sympathy
Archaeology of Sympathy
Edgeworth and the Lunar Enlightenment
Maria Edgeworth was arguably the most important novelist writing in English during the early Regency period. Her narrative art was informed by her influential educational theories, and in its turn it decisively shaped the very different oeuvres of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, whose successes in fiction would somewhat eclipse hers. If Edgeworth’s novels came to seem puzzling in their design, the reason may lie in the distinctive disciplinary …
The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature
The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction and reform in politics, and by the invention of imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. This History presents an engaging account of six decades of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century. Reflecting the most up-to-date research, the essays are designed both to provide …
Introduction
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
Foucault and Disciplinary Authority
The Cambridge History of Romantic Literature (New Cambridge History of English Literature Series)
Introduction
An Archaeology of Sympathy
The Pope Controversy
Critical Disciplinarity
Hallam, Tennyson, and the Poetry of Sensation
Arts of Transmission
On the Face of the Case
I. A. Richards and Raymond Williams
Edgeworth and the Lunar Enlightenment
Maria Edgeworth was arguably the most important novelist writing in English during the early Regency period. Her narrative art was informed by her influential educational theories, and in its turn it decisively shaped the very different oeuvres of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, whose successes in fiction would somewhat eclipse hers. If Edgeworth’s novels came to seem puzzling in their design, the reason may lie in the distinctive disciplinary …
About Loss
Research Article| January 01 2003 About Loss: W. G. Sebald's Romantic Art of Memory James Chandler James Chandler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 235–262. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-235 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
Romantic Allusiveness
The Question of Sensibility
There is, of course, more than one question posed by the elusive notion of sensibility, especially if we consider it both in its contemporary deployment and in its rich conceptual history. The question I pose here is occasioned by the recent renewal of interest in aesthetic education and, more precisely, in efforts to renew criticism itself by returning to the psychological paradigm of sensibility-formation in the work of I. A. Richards. What mig…
Wordsworth and Burke
most successful attempt to trace the historical and political genesis of Wordsworth's for poetry has been the work of M. H. Abrams, first in Romanticism: Spirit of the Age and then more fully in Natural Supernaturalism, the book which that essay became. Taking the French Revolution as his starting point, Abrams argues that this program is best understood as a displacement of millenarian political expectations into an aesthetic principle that he c…
Romantic Allusiveness
The Pope Controversy
Making Tales
Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism . Richard E. Brantley
The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789-1832 . Seamus Deane
Hallam, Tennyson, and the Poetry of Sensation
Validity of the Quality of Well-Being Scale for Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
To evaluate the validity of the Quality of Well-Being Scale (QWB) for studies of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease, 514 men were studied who were divided among four categories: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Group A (N = 272), CDC-B (N = 81), CDC-C (N = 47), and uninfected male controls (N = 114). The QWB and a variety of medical, neuropsychological, and biochemical measures were administered to all partic…
Population viability analysis of white sturgeon and other riverine fishes
About Loss
Research Article| January 01 2003 About Loss: W. G. Sebald's Romantic Art of Memory James Chandler James Chandler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 235–262. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-235 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
Arts of Transmission
Critical Disciplinarity
The Cambridge History of Romantic Literature (New Cambridge History of English Literature Series)
On the Face of the Case
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
Foucault and Disciplinary Authority
The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature
The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction and reform in politics, and by the invention of imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. This History presents an engaging account of six decades of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century. Reflecting the most up-to-date research, the essays are designed both to provide …
Introduction
Edgeworth and the Lunar Enlightenment
Maria Edgeworth was arguably the most important novelist writing in English during the early Regency period. Her narrative art was informed by her influential educational theories, and in its turn it decisively shaped the very different oeuvres of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, whose successes in fiction would somewhat eclipse hers. If Edgeworth’s novels came to seem puzzling in their design, the reason may lie in the distinctive disciplinary …
Sentimental Journeys, Vehicular States
From eighteenth-century literature through twentieth-century cinema, the sentimental spectator is a figure in motion, able to assume multiple locations in narrative space. This capacity to move and be moved depends on a kind of quickness that in the discourse of the sentimental comes to be called “sensibility.” This chapter examines sentimental mobility by way of this notion of sensibility in its modern evolution, but also in the conceit that it …
Sentimental Monstrosity
This chapter examines the relation between sentimentalism and moral deformity. It first looks briefly at the emergence of the relation between beauty and deformity in the work of Shaftesbury and Adam Smith. The theme of moral monstrosity emerges explicitly in both writers, as it does in a different register with Rousseau. It then turns to what is made of this connection in the work of the Godwin circle, notably that of Mary and Percy Shelley, who…
The Case of the Literary Spectator
This chapter focuses on the case of the literary spectator. It argues that the notion of the case not only is helpful for thinking about the relation between an externalized point of view and its subject, but is also a term that is most apposite to the sentimental tradition in question. It is there in Adam Smith's language about how, in the act of sympathetically imagining ourselves in the place of the other, we put ourselves in the case of the o…
The Emergence of Sentimental Probability
This chapter examines the problem of probability in sentimental narrative. It describes this problem as a crossing of the mimetic and pragmatic axes of representation in the context of a national readership. In less schematic terms, it means that probability arises as a problem when collective sentiment becomes the object of representation, in both senses of “object”—when writers aspire, that is, to move national sympathies in the act of depictin…
Coda
This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions and presents some final thoughts. The previous chapters addressed “basic problems of stance and mode” in the “composition” of the sentimental mode across fiction, poetry, cinema, and theater. It recognizes that modern literary criticism has had to overcome a programmatic institutional animosity toward cinema, dating from the modernist moment, and that, more recently, film studies has had its own s…
Romanticism
This chapter analyzes the fate of the sentimental mode in the context of poetry. It suggests that many of the issues in Romantic poetry are similar those that have so far been considered, such as the characteristic features of mixed feelings, slippage of levels, and interchangeability of subject positions. It is just that these features tend to manifest differently in short works of verse.
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