Shari Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shari Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shari |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart" opens up the figuration of heartache, so common to sentimental writings, to consider how it can signify anatomical pain as well. What does it mean to read figuratively-accepting that every instance of a heart broken or throbbing or heavy indexes emotional pain addressing the reader's sympathy-and, at the same time, to literalize these instances, so that each one refers to a specific episode in the history of a circu…
Reading Wharton with Pain
Critics have widely regarded Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep (1927) as an ironic novel about pain: a satire of modern life's supposed promise that pain can be avoided. This essay argues that Wharton's novel is as much about managing pain as it is about avoiding it. I consider the novel in light of experiences of chronic pain and illness, both Wharton's and my own. My analysis finds that while the novel's satire targets the fleeing of pain, the tex…
A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma
Scholars tracing the genealogy of trauma generally place its emergence in the 1870s, when the condition began to be conceptualized as mental rather than physical injury, treatable through psychological measures. This essay locates a complicating earlier engagement. Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Guardian Angel (1867), Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (1863), and Walt Whitman's war entries in Specimen Days (from 1863) represent mental breakdown …
From Quietism to Quiet Politics
While Ralph Waldo Emerson has been increasingly acknowledged as an American thinker influential in the evolution of nineteenth-century philosophy, his essays have largely failed to escape the charges of quietism and political apathy bestowed upon them in his lifetime. Yet if Emerson insisted on the importance of silence to the antislavery movement, it was perhaps due to his theory that one's deepest obligations become involuntarily part of the se…
A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma
Scholars tracing the genealogy of trauma generally place its emergence in the 1870s, when the condition began to be conceptualized as mental rather than physical injury, treatable through psychological measures. This essay locates a complicating earlier engagement. Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Guardian Angel (1867), Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (1863), and Walt Whitman's war entries in Specimen Days (from 1863) represent mental breakdown …
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart" opens up the figuration of heartache, so common to sentimental writings, to consider how it can signify anatomical pain as well. What does it mean to read figuratively-accepting that every instance of a heart broken or throbbing or heavy indexes emotional pain addressing the reader's sympathy-and, at the same time, to literalize these instances, so that each one refers to a specific episode in the history of a circu…
From Quietism to Quiet Politics
While Ralph Waldo Emerson has been increasingly acknowledged as an American thinker influential in the evolution of nineteenth-century philosophy, his essays have largely failed to escape the charges of quietism and political apathy bestowed upon them in his lifetime. Yet if Emerson insisted on the importance of silence to the antislavery movement, it was perhaps due to his theory that one's deepest obligations become involuntarily part of the se…
A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma
Scholars tracing the genealogy of trauma generally place its emergence in the 1870s, when the condition began to be conceptualized as mental rather than physical injury, treatable through psychological measures. This essay locates a complicating earlier engagement. Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Guardian Angel (1867), Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (1863), and Walt Whitman's war entries in Specimen Days (from 1863) represent mental breakdown …
Reading Wharton with Pain
Critics have widely regarded Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep (1927) as an ironic novel about pain: a satire of modern life's supposed promise that pain can be avoided. This essay argues that Wharton's novel is as much about managing pain as it is about avoiding it. I consider the novel in light of experiences of chronic pain and illness, both Wharton's and my own. My analysis finds that while the novel's satire targets the fleeing of pain, the tex…
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart" opens up the figuration of heartache, so common to sentimental writings, to consider how it can signify anatomical pain as well. What does it mean to read figuratively-accepting that every instance of a heart broken or throbbing or heavy indexes emotional pain addressing the reader's sympathy-and, at the same time, to literalize these instances, so that each one refers to a specific episode in the history of a circu…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works)