Amy Schrager Lang
Biographic Data
| ID | 391913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Schrager Lang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Schrager |
| FAMILY NAME | Lang |
| SIGNATURE | LANG A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1084-0092 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1910 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Realists of a Larger Reality: On New Science Fiction
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. —Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin is undoubtedly right about resistance in the "real" world, but in reading, only some books offer a call to resistance and the possibilities of a new reality. Among the books considered here, some come to us as "literary fiction"; others are marked as belonging to another, historically denigrated, form, "science fiction" or "fantasy." This could be a distinctio…
Pete Seeger, Socialist Songster: Introduction
Our friend and comrade Pete Seeger died a year ago this month, on January 27, 2014. Pete was a long-time reader of Monthly Review and, occasionally, a writer for this magazine. Harry Magdoff used to say that when a letter arrived from Pete, nearly always handwritten and often pages long, responding to an article or suggesting a topic to be covered or a book to be reviewed, it would go right home with him, to be pondered, considered, answered, and…
Culture and Ritual in the Montreal Women's Movement
This paper focuses on how culture and ritual in social movements can be forms of protest or conduits to contentious politics. Based on the Montreal cases of the anglophone women's performance scene in the 1990s and the 2000 World March of Women campaign, we argue that the context in which culture is produced and consumed affects its political character and potential. Networks among activists and organizations in social movement communities affect…
But Is It for Real? The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly as a Model of State-Sponsored Citizen Empowerment
Emerging forms of empowered participatory governance have generated considerable scholarly excitement, but critics continue to ask if such initiatives are 'for real': Are participatory governance processes sufficiently independent? Do citizen participants make good policy choices? An in-depth look at the case of the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform suggests that real citizen empowerment depends on both the institutional con…
The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
The Syntax of Class explores the literary expression of the crisis of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture--and manage--increasingly apparent inequalities of wealth and power. As new social types emerged at midcentury and, with them, new narratives of…
The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education
In this well-written and well-researched short volume, John K. Wilson takes upon himself the task of defending all liberals and leftists in the academy against the charge that they are imposing an oppressive "political correctness" (PC) that stifles academic freedom and free expression on campus, indoctrinates students with radical ideologies, and promotes intolerance of any dissent from the right.Wilson is well equipped for his task.As the edito…
Class and the Strategies of Sympathy
In 1851 the North American Review published a series of articles on political economy written by Francis Bowen, editor of the Review from 1843 until 1854 and, later, Alvord Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University. “There is a danger,” Bowen wrote, “from which no civilized community is entirely free, lest the several classes of its society should nourish mutual jealousy and hatred, which may finally …
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Stalking the Academic Communist: Intellectual Freedom and the Firing of Alex Novikoff
The Imagination as Cultural Space
Thoreau's Alternative History: Changing Perspectives on Nature, Culture, and Language
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Journal Article Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England. By Amy Schrager Lang. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xii + 237 pp. $28.00.) Get access Lawrence Buell Lawrence Buell Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Page 1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902175 Published…
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Interpretation
Slavery and sentimentalism: The strange career of augustine St. Clare
(1986). Slavery and sentimentalism: The strange career of augustine St. Clare. Women's Studies: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 31-54
Antinomianism and the "Americanization" of Doctrine
IN London in 1652, Thomas Gataker published a treatise entitled Antinomianism Discovered and Confuted. His purpose was to expose the dangers of the heresy, but in the process he neatly articulated the paradox the antinomian finds at the center of orthodox interpretations of the covenant of grace. In horror, Gataker quotes the heretics: Away with the Law, which cuts off a man's leg and then bids him walk.'l Antinomianism-literally, rejection of th…
Kabi Sub-Class Names
The Puzzle of Kaiabara Sub-Class Names
231) saw that there is probably "an inaccuracy."There are about seven inaccuracies !Mr. Frazer rightly suspects confusion of the names of classes and sub-classes with those of totems, in Mr. Howitt's paper in Journ.Anthr.Inst.(XIII, p. 336), but himself makes a curious oversight.If I may conjecturally emend a document certainly erroneous, Mr. Howitt's table of Kaiabara " totemic marriages " (N.T. S. E. A., p. 229) the results will be lucid, and, …
But Is It for Real? The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly as a Model of State-Sponsored Citizen Empowerment
Emerging forms of empowered participatory governance have generated considerable scholarly excitement, but critics continue to ask if such initiatives are 'for real': Are participatory governance processes sufficiently independent? Do citizen participants make good policy choices? An in-depth look at the case of the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform suggests that real citizen empowerment depends on both the institutional con…
Culture and Ritual in the Montreal Women's Movement
This paper focuses on how culture and ritual in social movements can be forms of protest or conduits to contentious politics. Based on the Montreal cases of the anglophone women's performance scene in the 1990s and the 2000 World March of Women campaign, we argue that the context in which culture is produced and consumed affects its political character and potential. Networks among activists and organizations in social movement communities affect…
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Journal Article Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England. By Amy Schrager Lang. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xii + 237 pp. $28.00.) Get access Lawrence Buell Lawrence Buell Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Page 1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902175 Published…
Slavery and sentimentalism: The strange career of augustine St. Clare
(1986). Slavery and sentimentalism: The strange career of augustine St. Clare. Women's Studies: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 31-54
The Puzzle of Kaiabara Sub-Class Names
231) saw that there is probably "an inaccuracy."There are about seven inaccuracies !Mr. Frazer rightly suspects confusion of the names of classes and sub-classes with those of totems, in Mr. Howitt's paper in Journ.Anthr.Inst.(XIII, p. 336), but himself makes a curious oversight.If I may conjecturally emend a document certainly erroneous, Mr. Howitt's table of Kaiabara " totemic marriages " (N.T. S. E. A., p. 229) the results will be lucid, and, …
Kabi Sub-Class Names
Antinomianism and the "Americanization" of Doctrine
IN London in 1652, Thomas Gataker published a treatise entitled Antinomianism Discovered and Confuted. His purpose was to expose the dangers of the heresy, but in the process he neatly articulated the paradox the antinomian finds at the center of orthodox interpretations of the covenant of grace. In horror, Gataker quotes the heretics: Away with the Law, which cuts off a man's leg and then bids him walk.'l Antinomianism-literally, rejection of th…
Slavery and sentimentalism: The strange career of augustine St. Clare
(1986). Slavery and sentimentalism: The strange career of augustine St. Clare. Women's Studies: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 31-54
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Journal Article Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England. By Amy Schrager Lang. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xii + 237 pp. $28.00.) Get access Lawrence Buell Lawrence Buell Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Page 1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902175 Published…
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Interpretation
The Imagination as Cultural Space
Thoreau's Alternative History: Changing Perspectives on Nature, Culture, and Language
Stalking the Academic Communist: Intellectual Freedom and the Firing of Alex Novikoff
Class and the Strategies of Sympathy
In 1851 the North American Review published a series of articles on political economy written by Francis Bowen, editor of the Review from 1843 until 1854 and, later, Alvord Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University. “There is a danger,” Bowen wrote, “from which no civilized community is entirely free, lest the several classes of its society should nourish mutual jealousy and hatred, which may finally …
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education
In this well-written and well-researched short volume, John K. Wilson takes upon himself the task of defending all liberals and leftists in the academy against the charge that they are imposing an oppressive "political correctness" (PC) that stifles academic freedom and free expression on campus, indoctrinates students with radical ideologies, and promotes intolerance of any dissent from the right.Wilson is well equipped for his task.As the edito…
The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
The Syntax of Class explores the literary expression of the crisis of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture--and manage--increasingly apparent inequalities of wealth and power. As new social types emerged at midcentury and, with them, new narratives of…
The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
Culture and Ritual in the Montreal Women's Movement
This paper focuses on how culture and ritual in social movements can be forms of protest or conduits to contentious politics. Based on the Montreal cases of the anglophone women's performance scene in the 1990s and the 2000 World March of Women campaign, we argue that the context in which culture is produced and consumed affects its political character and potential. Networks among activists and organizations in social movement communities affect…
But Is It for Real? The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly as a Model of State-Sponsored Citizen Empowerment
Emerging forms of empowered participatory governance have generated considerable scholarly excitement, but critics continue to ask if such initiatives are 'for real': Are participatory governance processes sufficiently independent? Do citizen participants make good policy choices? An in-depth look at the case of the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform suggests that real citizen empowerment depends on both the institutional con…
Pete Seeger, Socialist Songster: Introduction
Our friend and comrade Pete Seeger died a year ago this month, on January 27, 2014. Pete was a long-time reader of Monthly Review and, occasionally, a writer for this magazine. Harry Magdoff used to say that when a letter arrived from Pete, nearly always handwritten and often pages long, responding to an article or suggesting a topic to be covered or a book to be reviewed, it would go right home with him, to be pondered, considered, answered, and…
Realists of a Larger Reality: On New Science Fiction
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. —Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin is undoubtedly right about resistance in the "real" world, but in reading, only some books offer a call to resistance and the possibilities of a new reality. Among the books considered here, some come to us as "literary fiction"; others are marked as belonging to another, historically denigrated, form, "science fiction" or "fantasy." This could be a distinctio…
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