Sarah Sillin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Sillin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Sillin |
| SIGNATURE | SILLIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cross-dressing as Familial Care
What happens when parents tell their ostensible daughters to dress as boys? This essay reconsiders the trope of cross-dressing through two antebellum stories, “Theresa: A Haytien Tale” (1827) and “Lucy Nelson; or the Boy-Girl” (1831), that include this plot point. By imagining unconventional approaches to teaching girlhood, the stories explore what shapes each character’s gender attachments. In “Lucy Nelson,” the titular character’s gender identi…
A Laughable Empire
In A Laughable Empire, Todd Thompson locates American comedy about Pacific Islanders in the archives of nineteenth-century periodicals and offers analysis of what attitudes these jokes convey. The book thus develops a compelling response to Judith Yaross Lee’s call for scholars to explore the relation between humor and imperialism by arguing that comedy is “contact” (7) and that these jokes both served and resisted US expansion in the Pacific (10…
The Cuban Question and the Ignorant American
By reading antebellum-era jokes about Cuba in conversation with Judith Yaross Lee's argument that imperialism has persistently shaped American humor, this essay considers how US humorists located pleasure in the nation's fraught foreign relations. Examining a variety of comics, anecdotes, and malapropisms from Yankee Notions demonstrates how this popular, long-running magazine mocked US Americans’ efforts to assert their cosmopolitan knowledge of…
Seduction's Offspring
This essay argues that tensions in sentimentalism proved generative for nineteenth-century African American women writers who rethink familiar portraits ofthe shift from the seduction plot to domestic fiction
Heroine, Reformer, Citizen
This article reads Mary Antin's The Promised Land in relation to sentimentalism and realism, arguing that the author interweaves conventions of earlier fictional genres in her autobiography so as to express her American identity. Antin, a Russian Jewish immigrant, draws on familiar depictions of the sentimental heroine and New Woman to characterize herself. She thereby makes a forceful claim for her own belonging to American culture and contests …
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Heroine, Reformer, Citizen
This article reads Mary Antin's The Promised Land in relation to sentimentalism and realism, arguing that the author interweaves conventions of earlier fictional genres in her autobiography so as to express her American identity. Antin, a Russian Jewish immigrant, draws on familiar depictions of the sentimental heroine and New Woman to characterize herself. She thereby makes a forceful claim for her own belonging to American culture and contests …
Seduction's Offspring
This essay argues that tensions in sentimentalism proved generative for nineteenth-century African American women writers who rethink familiar portraits ofthe shift from the seduction plot to domestic fiction
The Cuban Question and the Ignorant American
By reading antebellum-era jokes about Cuba in conversation with Judith Yaross Lee's argument that imperialism has persistently shaped American humor, this essay considers how US humorists located pleasure in the nation's fraught foreign relations. Examining a variety of comics, anecdotes, and malapropisms from Yankee Notions demonstrates how this popular, long-running magazine mocked US Americans’ efforts to assert their cosmopolitan knowledge of…
A Laughable Empire
In A Laughable Empire, Todd Thompson locates American comedy about Pacific Islanders in the archives of nineteenth-century periodicals and offers analysis of what attitudes these jokes convey. The book thus develops a compelling response to Judith Yaross Lee’s call for scholars to explore the relation between humor and imperialism by arguing that comedy is “contact” (7) and that these jokes both served and resisted US expansion in the Pacific (10…
Cross-dressing as Familial Care
What happens when parents tell their ostensible daughters to dress as boys? This essay reconsiders the trope of cross-dressing through two antebellum stories, “Theresa: A Haytien Tale” (1827) and “Lucy Nelson; or the Boy-Girl” (1831), that include this plot point. By imagining unconventional approaches to teaching girlhood, the stories explore what shapes each character’s gender attachments. In “Lucy Nelson,” the titular character’s gender identi…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (2 works)