Amanda Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3680989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8064-8418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Humanities Theory
Humanities Theory offers a new framework for understanding the place of the humanities in the culture at large and as a transdisciplinary project with identifiable aims, practices, and theoretical frameworks. Taking a long historical view, Simon During analyses the cultural and intellectual history of the humanities, both within and outside the academy, arguing for a rich “humanities world” characterized by amateur and scholarly forms. Focusing o…
Humanities Theory
Mutuality, power, and performance: Reading possession in Bronx gothic
The Politics and Psychology of the Literary Field: Revisiting Cultural Capital
This article explores the importance of psychoanalysis to John Guillory's literary sociology. The failure of scholars to recognize the canon wars as a symptom of the increasing institutional marginality of literary studies derives from their commitment to what Guillory calls an “ego-ideal” of the profession. In particular, the psychic investments of literary critics account, on the one hand, for their inflated claims to political relevance and, o…
Factors Underlying Racial Disparity in Utilization of Hepatitis C-Viremic Kidneys in the United States
The moral and political challenges of Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance
This paper explores a series of challenges presented by Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance viewed in the context of the normative and political dimensions of critical theory, a tradition in which he explicitly places his work (even as he draws on a wide range of other scholarly fields and domains). First, a tension between the anthropological and sociocultural aspects of his project raises questions about whether the avowed political commitments…
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies
Eculizumab improves fatigue in refractory generalized myasthenia gravis
Compared with placebo, eculizumab was associated with improvements in perceived fatigue that strongly correlated with improvements in MG-specific outcome measures. Trial ID Registration: NCT01997229, NCT02301624
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Eliz…
Isobel Armstrong’s Novel Politics: Four responses, and a reply from the author
The following Turning Point offers responses, from four leading critics, to Isobel Armstrong’s Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth Century Fiction. At a time when the meaning and
The Liberal Aesthetic in the Postwar Era: The Case of Trilling and Adorno
This chapter explores the relation between politics and aesthetics in the war and post-war era through a comparison of liberal and radical responses to the catastrophes of the twentieth century. Post-war liberalism is compared to the thought of the Marxist-oriented Frankfurt School, and more particularly, the writings of the liberal Lionel Trilling are elucidated by means of contrast with Theodor Adorno. The aim of this chapter is to expose the s…
Liberalism in the Age of High Realism
This chapter considers the influence of liberalism, both conceptually and formally, on the high realist tradition. Coming at the same historical juncture, liberalism and realism explore many of the same issues: imagining the critique of custom and convention as a way of life; mediating between the moral life of individuals and a long sociological or historical view of communities and societies; and finding a way to acknowledge violence and suffer…
Bleak Liberalism
This chapter provides a summary analysis of the concept and history of bleak liberalism, a body of thought informed by distinctive attitudes and styles of political commitment. While the analysis reaches from nineteenth-century British liberalism to present-day theories of liberalism and neoliberalism, special attention is paid to the liberalism in and after the era of the Second World War. The liberalism of this period acutely registers the soci…
Revisiting the Political Novel
This chapter reconsiders the role of argument as a distinctive formal feature within the genre of the nineteenth-and twentieth-century political novel. Noticeable most within interludes of ideological debate among characters, dialogical argumentation characterizes the political novel from its inception. This chapter argues for the formal specificity of such forms of argument, which cannot simply be classed as conventional dialogue. Additionally, …
Bleak Liberalism and the Realism/Modernism Debate: Ellison and Lessing
This chapter addresses two important political novels of the mid-twentieth century, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, showing how the bleak liberal tradition continues its experiments with form during the modernist period. Invisible Man employs the formal strategies and conceptual frameworks of modernism, including the idea of protean shape shifting and the elevation of style and cultural expression, yet at it…
Bleak Liberalism
Randomised clinical trial of snus versus medicinal nicotine among smokers interested in product switching
NCT: 00710034
Thinking Fast and Slow
Book Review| January 01 2014 Thinking Fast and Slow Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking Fast and Slow. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011), 499 pp. Amanda Anderson Amanda Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 139–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374961 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amanda Anderson; Thinking Fast …
Postwar Aesthetics: The Case of Trilling and Adorno
A Companion to George Eliot
Companion to George Eliot
Character and Ideology: The Case of Cold War Liberalism
This essay reexamines liberalism as a body of thought and as a lived political commitment, arguing for a more differentiated understanding of both the history of liberalism and its ethos, or character. Throughout its history, liberalism has been animated by a dialectic of hope and skepticism, and its particular forms of pessimism, or sober realism, derive from a keen awareness of those forces and conditions that threaten the realization of libera…
The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory
How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which theorists understand ideals of critical distance, forms of subjective experience, and the determinants of belief and practice. Drawing on the resourc…
Epistemological Liberalism
Bleak Liberalism
The Temptations of Aggrandized Agency: Feminist Histories and the Horizon of Modernity
n the 1980s, feminist cultural history of the Victorian period manifested a decisive shift toward asserting the centrality of gender to the ideological advent of modernity. In her influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" (1986), Joan Scott gave prominence to the notion that feminist history ideally aspires not only to uncover women in history, but to argue for the primacy of gender in the symbolic formations of cultur…
George Eliot and the Jewish Question
George Eliot and the Jewish Question Amanda Anderson (bio) The Jewish Question interrogates the limits of modernity. The tradition of debate on the topic, extending out of Enlightenment thought, left Hegelianism, and the varied itineraries of European nationalism, typically asks whether and how the particularity of the Jew might be assimilated to, or alternately accommodated by, a project conceived as modern in its pretensions to universality. Be…
Character and Ideology: The Case of Cold War Liberalism
This essay reexamines liberalism as a body of thought and as a lived political commitment, arguing for a more differentiated understanding of both the history of liberalism and its ethos, or character. Throughout its history, liberalism has been animated by a dialectic of hope and skepticism, and its particular forms of pessimism, or sober realism, derive from a keen awareness of those forces and conditions that threaten the realization of libera…
Trollope's Modernity
Trollope's Modernity Amanda Anderson In the Autobiography, Anthony Trollope famously asserts the importance of character over plot.1 Like so much else in Trollope, this statement is not as transparent as it may seem. Overall, it is not a simple matter to discern exactly what Trollope means by character or, consequently, what he means to privilege in assigning primacy to it. One might imagine that Trollope is simply more interested in characters t…
Cryptonormativism and Double Gestures: The Politics of Post-Structuralism
ly decentered subjectivity is to distort our understanding of both the decentered subject and the condition of specific oppressed groups. More importantly, Spivak generates a false dualism between a higher theoretical truth-the truth of decentered subjectivity-and what ultimately must then be seen as an enabling practical lie. That is, her conception of a strategic essentialism both guarantees practice and then obligingly acts as a target for a k…
Epistemological Liberalism
Victorian Studies and the Two Modernities
Victorian Studies and the Two Modernities Amanda Anderson (bio) Why, despite increasing self-reflexivity, internal critique, and instructive defections on the part of other fields, does Victorian studies refuse to abandon the all-too-apparent limitations of its own field designation? Why do we keep the name "Victorian studies"? Doubtless several factors contribute to this state of affairs. There remains a lingering disaffiliation with Romanticism…
Pragmatism and Character
Debatable Performances: Restaging Contentious Feminisms
The moral and political challenges of Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance
This paper explores a series of challenges presented by Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance viewed in the context of the normative and political dimensions of critical theory, a tradition in which he explicitly places his work (even as he draws on a wide range of other scholarly fields and domains). First, a tension between the anthropological and sociocultural aspects of his project raises questions about whether the avowed political commitments…
Prostitution's Artful Guise
Cryptonormativism and Double Gestures: The Politics of Post-Structuralism
ly decentered subjectivity is to distort our understanding of both the decentered subject and the condition of specific oppressed groups. More importantly, Spivak generates a false dualism between a higher theoretical truth-the truth of decentered subjectivity-and what ultimately must then be seen as an enabling practical lie. That is, her conception of a strategic essentialism both guarantees practice and then obligingly acts as a target for a k…
George Eliot and the Jewish Question
George Eliot and the Jewish Question Amanda Anderson (bio) The Jewish Question interrogates the limits of modernity. The tradition of debate on the topic, extending out of Enlightenment thought, left Hegelianism, and the varied itineraries of European nationalism, typically asks whether and how the particularity of the Jew might be assimilated to, or alternately accommodated by, a project conceived as modern in its pretensions to universality. Be…
Debatable Performances: Restaging Contentious Feminisms
The Temptations of Aggrandized Agency: Feminist Histories and the Horizon of Modernity
n the 1980s, feminist cultural history of the Victorian period manifested a decisive shift toward asserting the centrality of gender to the ideological advent of modernity. In her influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" (1986), Joan Scott gave prominence to the notion that feminist history ideally aspires not only to uncover women in history, but to argue for the primacy of gender in the symbolic formations of cultur…
The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment
Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with forceful theoretical argument, The Powers of Distance examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. Amanda Anderson explores a range of practices in nineteenth-century British culture, including methods of objectivity in social science, practices of omniscience in artistic realism, and the complex forms of aff…
Pragmatism and Character
Victorian Studies and the Two Modernities
Victorian Studies and the Two Modernities Amanda Anderson (bio) Why, despite increasing self-reflexivity, internal critique, and instructive defections on the part of other fields, does Victorian studies refuse to abandon the all-too-apparent limitations of its own field designation? Why do we keep the name "Victorian studies"? Doubtless several factors contribute to this state of affairs. There remains a lingering disaffiliation with Romanticism…
Trollope's Modernity
Trollope's Modernity Amanda Anderson In the Autobiography, Anthony Trollope famously asserts the importance of character over plot.1 Like so much else in Trollope, this statement is not as transparent as it may seem. Overall, it is not a simple matter to discern exactly what Trollope means by character or, consequently, what he means to privilege in assigning primacy to it. One might imagine that Trollope is simply more interested in characters t…
Epistemological Liberalism
The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory
How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which theorists understand ideals of critical distance, forms of subjective experience, and the determinants of belief and practice. Drawing on the resourc…
Character and Ideology: The Case of Cold War Liberalism
This essay reexamines liberalism as a body of thought and as a lived political commitment, arguing for a more differentiated understanding of both the history of liberalism and its ethos, or character. Throughout its history, liberalism has been animated by a dialectic of hope and skepticism, and its particular forms of pessimism, or sober realism, derive from a keen awareness of those forces and conditions that threaten the realization of libera…
A Companion to George Eliot
Companion to George Eliot
Thinking Fast and Slow
Book Review| January 01 2014 Thinking Fast and Slow Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking Fast and Slow. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011), 499 pp. Amanda Anderson Amanda Anderson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 139–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374961 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amanda Anderson; Thinking Fast …
Postwar Aesthetics: The Case of Trilling and Adorno
Randomised clinical trial of snus versus medicinal nicotine among smokers interested in product switching
NCT: 00710034
The Liberal Aesthetic in the Postwar Era: The Case of Trilling and Adorno
This chapter explores the relation between politics and aesthetics in the war and post-war era through a comparison of liberal and radical responses to the catastrophes of the twentieth century. Post-war liberalism is compared to the thought of the Marxist-oriented Frankfurt School, and more particularly, the writings of the liberal Lionel Trilling are elucidated by means of contrast with Theodor Adorno. The aim of this chapter is to expose the s…
Liberalism in the Age of High Realism
This chapter considers the influence of liberalism, both conceptually and formally, on the high realist tradition. Coming at the same historical juncture, liberalism and realism explore many of the same issues: imagining the critique of custom and convention as a way of life; mediating between the moral life of individuals and a long sociological or historical view of communities and societies; and finding a way to acknowledge violence and suffer…
Bleak Liberalism
This chapter provides a summary analysis of the concept and history of bleak liberalism, a body of thought informed by distinctive attitudes and styles of political commitment. While the analysis reaches from nineteenth-century British liberalism to present-day theories of liberalism and neoliberalism, special attention is paid to the liberalism in and after the era of the Second World War. The liberalism of this period acutely registers the soci…
Revisiting the Political Novel
This chapter reconsiders the role of argument as a distinctive formal feature within the genre of the nineteenth-and twentieth-century political novel. Noticeable most within interludes of ideological debate among characters, dialogical argumentation characterizes the political novel from its inception. This chapter argues for the formal specificity of such forms of argument, which cannot simply be classed as conventional dialogue. Additionally, …
Bleak Liberalism and the Realism/Modernism Debate: Ellison and Lessing
This chapter addresses two important political novels of the mid-twentieth century, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, showing how the bleak liberal tradition continues its experiments with form during the modernist period. Invisible Man employs the formal strategies and conceptual frameworks of modernism, including the idea of protean shape shifting and the elevation of style and cultural expression, yet at it…
Bleak Liberalism
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Eliz…
Isobel Armstrong’s Novel Politics: Four responses, and a reply from the author
The following Turning Point offers responses, from four leading critics, to Isobel Armstrong’s Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth Century Fiction. At a time when the meaning and
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