Hollis Robbins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hollis Robbins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hollis |
| FAMILY NAME | Robbins |
| SIGNATURE | ROBBINS H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew Jarrett (review)
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911 ed. by Mary Maillard
Reviewed by: Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911 ed. by Mary Maillard Hollis Robbins Mary Maillard, ed. Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2017. 240 pp. $64.95. There are two kinds of research projects: those that are provoked by a question (nagging, burning, pressing) and those that are provoked by a discovery. Res…
Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature by Daniel Hack
Reviewed by: Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature by Daniel Hack Hollis Robbins Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 304 pp. $35.00. Anyone who works on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African American literature knows how necessary it is to keep a bookshelf nearby of all of the works of classical, bi…
“We Are Seven” and the First British Census
Research Article| September 01 2010 “We Are Seven” and the First British Census Hollis Robbins Hollis Robbins Johns Hopkins University [email protected] Hollis Robbins is a professor of humanities at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and associate research scholar in the Center for Africana Studies. Her most recent book is a Penguin Classics edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel lola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (2010). Sea…
Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry "Box" Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics
Fugitive Mail:The Deliverance of Henry "Box" Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics Hollis Robbins (bio) On March 29, 1849, in Richmond, Virginia, a thirty-four-year old, 200-pound slave named Henry Brown asked two friends to pack him in a wooden box and ship it by express mail to Philadelphia. They did and he arrived alive twenty-seven hours later with a new name and a marketable story. The Narrative of the Life of Henry "Box" Brown, published mon…
The Emperor's New Critique
The Emperor's New Critique" reads Hans Christian Andersen's famous 1837 tale as critiquing constitutional monarchy's endemic disarray and satirizing its opponents. If, as theorists from Sigmund Freud to Jacques Derrida have noted, the tale's truth is the fantasy-desire for the kind of truth that can be revealed, what happens when what is revealed is not naked power but a weak ruler? Does the public really want transparent government? Like Hamlet'…
Government regulation of gambling advertising: Replacing vice prevention with consumer protection
The Emperor's New Critique
The Emperor's New Critique" reads Hans Christian Andersen's famous 1837 tale as critiquing constitutional monarchy's endemic disarray and satirizing its opponents. If, as theorists from Sigmund Freud to Jacques Derrida have noted, the tale's truth is the fantasy-desire for the kind of truth that can be revealed, what happens when what is revealed is not naked power but a weak ruler? Does the public really want transparent government? Like Hamlet'…
Government regulation of gambling advertising: Replacing vice prevention with consumer protection
The Emperor's New Critique
The Emperor's New Critique" reads Hans Christian Andersen's famous 1837 tale as critiquing constitutional monarchy's endemic disarray and satirizing its opponents. If, as theorists from Sigmund Freud to Jacques Derrida have noted, the tale's truth is the fantasy-desire for the kind of truth that can be revealed, what happens when what is revealed is not naked power but a weak ruler? Does the public really want transparent government? Like Hamlet'…
Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry "Box" Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics
Fugitive Mail:The Deliverance of Henry "Box" Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics Hollis Robbins (bio) On March 29, 1849, in Richmond, Virginia, a thirty-four-year old, 200-pound slave named Henry Brown asked two friends to pack him in a wooden box and ship it by express mail to Philadelphia. They did and he arrived alive twenty-seven hours later with a new name and a marketable story. The Narrative of the Life of Henry "Box" Brown, published mon…
“We Are Seven” and the First British Census
Research Article| September 01 2010 “We Are Seven” and the First British Census Hollis Robbins Hollis Robbins Johns Hopkins University [email protected] Hollis Robbins is a professor of humanities at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and associate research scholar in the Center for Africana Studies. Her most recent book is a Penguin Classics edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel lola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (2010). Sea…
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911 ed. by Mary Maillard
Reviewed by: Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911 ed. by Mary Maillard Hollis Robbins Mary Maillard, ed. Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2017. 240 pp. $64.95. There are two kinds of research projects: those that are provoked by a question (nagging, burning, pressing) and those that are provoked by a discovery. Res…
Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature by Daniel Hack
Reviewed by: Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature by Daniel Hack Hollis Robbins Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 304 pp. $35.00. Anyone who works on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African American literature knows how necessary it is to keep a bookshelf nearby of all of the works of classical, bi…
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew Jarrett (review)
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)