Robert A Ferguson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Ferguson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferguson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSON R A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Accounting for Unaccountability
This chapter discusses how much of what Western thought came to feel about the subject of punishment originates in Ovid's artistic treatment of the subject. Punishment, he realized, is more than itself. It provides satisfaction for the punisher and through misery designates a flawed identity for the punished. That synergy also explains why punishment invariably goes up whenever it is not watched closely. To appreciate Ovid's obsession with punish…
Metamorphosis: How to Transform Punishment in America
Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment
Robert Ferguson diagnoses all parts of a massive, out-of-control punishment regime. Turning the spotlight on the plight of prisoners, he asks the American people, Do we want our prisons to be this way? Acknowledging the suffering of prisoners and understanding what punishers do when they punish are the first steps toward a better, more just system
Judicial Rhetoric and Ulysses in Government Hands
The famous decision by District fudge John Woolsey lifting the ban on the publication of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses in the United States changes the nature of obscenity law when it appears in 1933, but the opinion itself is defective in ways that lead toward an unworkable legal standard in future cases. When a decision is accepted, but the logic for reaching it is faulty, the law suffers in a particular way, and this kind of discrepancy between …
The Curves of Justice: Spatial Metaphors in the Courtroom Novel
Research Article| September 01 2010 The Curves of Justice: Spatial Metaphors in the Courtroom Novel Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University [email protected] Robert A. Ferguson is George Edward Wood berry Professor in Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia University. His books in law and literature include Law and Letters in American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1987); The American Enlightenment, 1750–1820 (Ha…
Reading the Early Republic
"A Global History" Brought down to Size
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Still Not Global
truth, applicable to all men and all times. That said, Lincoln, lawyer, also understood integrity of jurisdictional context, and in less well-known passages he called Declaration the sheet anchor of American republicanism; it was apple of gold, with Union and Constitution as the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. Framing Declaration in its properly expanded role as driving normative promise Americans made to themselves has far more…
The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture
Journal Article The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture Get access Brown GillianThe Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture. 2001Cambridge Harvard University Press237$49.95, ISBN 0-674-00298-9 Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Iss…
The Many Legalities of Early America
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
Journal Article Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. By Jerome Loving. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 568 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-21427-7.) Get access Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 663–664, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568816 Published: 01 Se…
The Commonalities of Common Sense
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
Journal Article Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America. By Garry Wills. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 317 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-671-76956-1.) Get access Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 696–697, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079955 Published: 01 Sept…
Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law and Literature
Poethics: Toward a Literary Jurisprudence1. Filling the void2. The Poetic Method for Law, or How the Law Means3. Narrative Aspects of Judicial Opinions4. Poetic Substance: The Poethics of Legal NarrativeLegalistic StorytellersII. Let's Not Kill All the Lawyers: Anglo-American Fiction's Equivocal Approach to the Lawyer FIgure5. The Literary Lawyer's Six Compelling Traits6. I'll have no feelings here!: More on Mr. Jaggers7. Law's Oppression of the …
Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States
The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry
Law and Culture in Antebellum Boston
Law and Letters in American Culture
Journal Article Law and Letters in American Culture. By Robert A. Ferguson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. xi + 417 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $22.50.) Get access Lawrence M. Friedman Lawrence M. Friedman Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903613 Published: 01 June 198…
Law and Letters in American Culture
Law and Letters in American Culture
The Authority of Publius: A Reading of the Federalist Papers
Thomas Paine's American Ideology
William Cullen Bryant: The Creative Context of the Poet
OUR first leading William Cullen Bryant was a young and rather angry lawyer in Western Massachusetts just after the War of 1812. He wrote verse for another fifty years, but most of his important poems were finished before he decided, in 1825, to try journalism in New York City. These facts, while minimal, mark the creative context of a who has been victimized by more false impressions than any counterpart in American literature. Inflated by liter…
Mysterious Obligation: Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
r lHOMAS JEFFERSON, by any standard, is major writer of the early Republic, and his one book, Notes on the State of Virginia, has been accepted universally as both an American classic and vital contribution to the political and scientific thought of the eighteenth century. Yet the same book has been virtually ignored as literary text, and is true even though Notes is prototype for understanding literary involvement in post-Revolutionary America. …
The Emulation of Sir William Jones in the Early Republic
The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture
Journal Article The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture Get access Brown GillianThe Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture. 2001Cambridge Harvard University Press237$49.95, ISBN 0-674-00298-9 Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Iss…
Law and Culture in Antebellum Boston
The Commonalities of Common Sense
Longfellow's Political Fears: Civic Authority and the Role of the Artist in Hiawatha and Miles Standish
N I849 HENRY LONGFELLOW wrote that three-fold function of poet was charm, to strengthen, and to teach and he added that these elements inevitably worked together to form the most perfect harmony.1 These assumptions did not furnish best preparation for close examination and description of political turmoil that would tear Union apart during ensuing decade. Indeed, large aspects of Longfellow's temperament were completely unsuited for coping with A…
Longfellow's Political Fears: Civic Authority and the Role of the Artist in Hiawatha and Miles Standish
N I849 HENRY LONGFELLOW wrote that three-fold function of poet was charm, to strengthen, and to teach and he added that these elements inevitably worked together to form the most perfect harmony.1 These assumptions did not furnish best preparation for close examination and description of political turmoil that would tear Union apart during ensuing decade. Indeed, large aspects of Longfellow's temperament were completely unsuited for coping with A…
The Emulation of Sir William Jones in the Early Republic
The Grotesque in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Research Article| October 01 1979 The Grotesque in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (4): 460–477. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-78-4-460 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert A. Ferguson; The Grotesque in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. South A…
William Cullen Bryant: The Creative Context of the Poet
OUR first leading William Cullen Bryant was a young and rather angry lawyer in Western Massachusetts just after the War of 1812. He wrote verse for another fifty years, but most of his important poems were finished before he decided, in 1825, to try journalism in New York City. These facts, while minimal, mark the creative context of a who has been victimized by more false impressions than any counterpart in American literature. Inflated by liter…
Mysterious Obligation: Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
r lHOMAS JEFFERSON, by any standard, is major writer of the early Republic, and his one book, Notes on the State of Virginia, has been accepted universally as both an American classic and vital contribution to the political and scientific thought of the eighteenth century. Yet the same book has been virtually ignored as literary text, and is true even though Notes is prototype for understanding literary involvement in post-Revolutionary America. …
Law and Letters in American Culture
The Authority of Publius: A Reading of the Federalist Papers
Thomas Paine's American Ideology
Law and Letters in American Culture
Journal Article Law and Letters in American Culture. By Robert A. Ferguson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. xi + 417 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $22.50.) Get access Lawrence M. Friedman Lawrence M. Friedman Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Pages 166–167, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903613 Published: 01 June 198…
Law and Letters in American Culture
Law and Culture in Antebellum Boston
The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
Journal Article Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America. By Garry Wills. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 317 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-671-76956-1.) Get access Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 696–697, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079955 Published: 01 Sept…
Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law and Literature
Poethics: Toward a Literary Jurisprudence1. Filling the void2. The Poetic Method for Law, or How the Law Means3. Narrative Aspects of Judicial Opinions4. Poetic Substance: The Poethics of Legal NarrativeLegalistic StorytellersII. Let's Not Kill All the Lawyers: Anglo-American Fiction's Equivocal Approach to the Lawyer FIgure5. The Literary Lawyer's Six Compelling Traits6. I'll have no feelings here!: More on Mr. Jaggers7. Law's Oppression of the …
Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
Journal Article Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. By Jerome Loving. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 568 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-21427-7.) Get access Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 663–664, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568816 Published: 01 Se…
The Commonalities of Common Sense
The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture
Journal Article The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture Get access Brown GillianThe Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture. 2001Cambridge Harvard University Press237$49.95, ISBN 0-674-00298-9 Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Iss…
The Many Legalities of Early America
"A Global History" Brought down to Size
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Still Not Global
truth, applicable to all men and all times. That said, Lincoln, lawyer, also understood integrity of jurisdictional context, and in less well-known passages he called Declaration the sheet anchor of American republicanism; it was apple of gold, with Union and Constitution as the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. Framing Declaration in its properly expanded role as driving normative promise Americans made to themselves has far more…
Reading the Early Republic
The Curves of Justice: Spatial Metaphors in the Courtroom Novel
Research Article| September 01 2010 The Curves of Justice: Spatial Metaphors in the Courtroom Novel Robert A. Ferguson Robert A. Ferguson Columbia University [email protected] Robert A. Ferguson is George Edward Wood berry Professor in Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia University. His books in law and literature include Law and Letters in American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1987); The American Enlightenment, 1750–1820 (Ha…
Judicial Rhetoric and Ulysses in Government Hands
The famous decision by District fudge John Woolsey lifting the ban on the publication of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses in the United States changes the nature of obscenity law when it appears in 1933, but the opinion itself is defective in ways that lead toward an unworkable legal standard in future cases. When a decision is accepted, but the logic for reaching it is faulty, the law suffers in a particular way, and this kind of discrepancy between …
Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment
Robert Ferguson diagnoses all parts of a massive, out-of-control punishment regime. Turning the spotlight on the plight of prisoners, he asks the American people, Do we want our prisons to be this way? Acknowledging the suffering of prisoners and understanding what punishers do when they punish are the first steps toward a better, more just system
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