Yoon Sun Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3869308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoon Sun Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoon Sun |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE Y S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8229-9955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the morality and legality of slavery emerged that would pave the way for formal abolition. The thirteen essays collected here make clear that these developments thoroughly informed Romantic-era literature: the very terms that have long defined Romanticism – revolution and radicalism, poetry and “powerful feeli…
Typicality in the Novel and Novel Theory
This essay examines the phenomenon of typicality as a horizon of the novel's activity. The novel's manner of representing seems to require a certain belief in the existence of types. Yet how the novel goes about demonstrating this belief does not sit easily with usual ideas about what classification looks like or how it proceeds. Novels seem to manifest typicality while pulling away from taxonomic endeavors in the empirical world. If taxonomy aim…
Beats Go On
As a genre the novel has always been understood to hold time at its core, but at what scale, in what fashion? Should we consider the novel's relation to modernity as an epoch, or look more closely at its implication in a century, a decade, a day, a practice, or a pace of reading? Do novels, as E. M. Forster argues, contain clocks, or do they pulse and flutter like living bodies or a work of music? In her elegant study, Amit Yahav argues that chro…
Bad Plots and Objectivity in Maria Edgeworth
Drawing on the protocols and structures of experimental science, the early nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth develops objectivity as a dimension of plot rather than of narrative viewpoint. In her novels, plot becomes a means of producing legitimately objective facts within a fictive universe
Excerpt from Modern Minority
Author(s): Lee, Yoon Sun | Abstract: Reprinted from Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life by Yoon Sun Lee, with permission from Oxford University Press USA. © 2013 Oxford University Press
Type, Totality, and the Realism of Asian American Literature
This essay examines how the concept of realism applies to minor literature by retrieving and expanding Georg Lukács’s understanding of realism as the deliberate negation of modernism. In Lukács’s view, realism distinctively expresses an aspiration to totality. Its most important device is typicality, which claims to broaden the significance of what might seem merely particular. This definition of realism illuminates two pioneering works of Asian …
Nationalism and Irony
Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous chara…
Body Image and the Appearance Culture Among Adolescent Girls and Boys
This research evaluates the contributions of three dimensions of appearance culture (appearance magazine exposure, appearance conversations with friends, and peer appearance criticism) and body mass index (BMI) to internalization of appearance ideals and body image dissatisfaction. Four hundred thirty-three girls and 347 boys in Grades 7 through 10 responded to several measures on a self-report questionnaire. The results of path analyses indicate…
Nationalism and Irony
Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous chara…
Making What Will Suffice
C ARLYLE AS FETISHIST : this oldest of charges against Carlyle holds the key to his new importance as cultural critic. Carlyle’s earliest reviewers singled out for disapproval the indiscriminate admiration Carlyle seemed to feel for idols chosen according to an obscure logic of personal need or affinity. In the Quarterly Review of September 1840, for example, William Sewell 1 complains
Kingston's China Men
Kingston’s China Men: Circumscribing the Romance of Deterritorialization Yoon Sun Lee (bio) To begin simply: Kingston’s China Men attempts to investigate the father. It is no easy task even to invent questions about this elusive figure. The narrator recalls how, as a child, she would follow her father to the quintessential “father place,” the gambling parlor where he worked as the surrogate owner. It is a “secret place” which “[a] pedestrian woul…
Body Image and the Appearance Culture Among Adolescent Girls and Boys
This research evaluates the contributions of three dimensions of appearance culture (appearance magazine exposure, appearance conversations with friends, and peer appearance criticism) and body mass index (BMI) to internalization of appearance ideals and body image dissatisfaction. Four hundred thirty-three girls and 347 boys in Grades 7 through 10 responded to several measures on a self-report questionnaire. The results of path analyses indicate…
Nationalism and Irony
Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous chara…
Nationalism and Irony
Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous chara…
Bad Plots and Objectivity in Maria Edgeworth
Drawing on the protocols and structures of experimental science, the early nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth develops objectivity as a dimension of plot rather than of narrative viewpoint. In her novels, plot becomes a means of producing legitimately objective facts within a fictive universe
Making What Will Suffice
C ARLYLE AS FETISHIST : this oldest of charges against Carlyle holds the key to his new importance as cultural critic. Carlyle’s earliest reviewers singled out for disapproval the indiscriminate admiration Carlyle seemed to feel for idols chosen according to an obscure logic of personal need or affinity. In the Quarterly Review of September 1840, for example, William Sewell 1 complains
Kingston's China Men
Kingston’s China Men: Circumscribing the Romance of Deterritorialization Yoon Sun Lee (bio) To begin simply: Kingston’s China Men attempts to investigate the father. It is no easy task even to invent questions about this elusive figure. The narrator recalls how, as a child, she would follow her father to the quintessential “father place,” the gambling parlor where he worked as the surrogate owner. It is a “secret place” which “[a] pedestrian woul…
Making What Will Suffice
C ARLYLE AS FETISHIST : this oldest of charges against Carlyle holds the key to his new importance as cultural critic. Carlyle’s earliest reviewers singled out for disapproval the indiscriminate admiration Carlyle seemed to feel for idols chosen according to an obscure logic of personal need or affinity. In the Quarterly Review of September 1840, for example, William Sewell 1 complains
Body Image and the Appearance Culture Among Adolescent Girls and Boys
This research evaluates the contributions of three dimensions of appearance culture (appearance magazine exposure, appearance conversations with friends, and peer appearance criticism) and body mass index (BMI) to internalization of appearance ideals and body image dissatisfaction. Four hundred thirty-three girls and 347 boys in Grades 7 through 10 responded to several measures on a self-report questionnaire. The results of path analyses indicate…
Nationalism and Irony
Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous chara…
Nationalism and Irony
Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous chara…
Type, Totality, and the Realism of Asian American Literature
This essay examines how the concept of realism applies to minor literature by retrieving and expanding Georg Lukács’s understanding of realism as the deliberate negation of modernism. In Lukács’s view, realism distinctively expresses an aspiration to totality. Its most important device is typicality, which claims to broaden the significance of what might seem merely particular. This definition of realism illuminates two pioneering works of Asian …
Excerpt from Modern Minority
Author(s): Lee, Yoon Sun | Abstract: Reprinted from Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life by Yoon Sun Lee, with permission from Oxford University Press USA. © 2013 Oxford University Press
Bad Plots and Objectivity in Maria Edgeworth
Drawing on the protocols and structures of experimental science, the early nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth develops objectivity as a dimension of plot rather than of narrative viewpoint. In her novels, plot becomes a means of producing legitimately objective facts within a fictive universe
Beats Go On
As a genre the novel has always been understood to hold time at its core, but at what scale, in what fashion? Should we consider the novel's relation to modernity as an epoch, or look more closely at its implication in a century, a decade, a day, a practice, or a pace of reading? Do novels, as E. M. Forster argues, contain clocks, or do they pulse and flutter like living bodies or a work of music? In her elegant study, Amit Yahav argues that chro…
Typicality in the Novel and Novel Theory
This essay examines the phenomenon of typicality as a horizon of the novel's activity. The novel's manner of representing seems to require a certain belief in the existence of types. Yet how the novel goes about demonstrating this belief does not sit easily with usual ideas about what classification looks like or how it proceeds. Novels seem to manifest typicality while pulling away from taxonomic endeavors in the empirical world. If taxonomy aim…
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the morality and legality of slavery emerged that would pave the way for formal abolition. The thirteen essays collected here make clear that these developments thoroughly informed Romantic-era literature: the very terms that have long defined Romanticism – revolution and radicalism, poetry and “powerful feeli…
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