Vanessa Meikle Schulman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Meikle Schulman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa Meikle |
| FAMILY NAME | Schulman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULMAN V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Symbols of Freedom
Matthew J. Clavin's Symbols of Freedom is a tale of two antebellum Americas: a slaveholding South, in which the founding values of the nation were perverted to justify the system of chattel slavery, and a militant North, in which Black and white abolitionists harnessed the shifting meanings of national symbols to demand freedom for all. The setup for this tale is a familiar one, yet Clavin's steady hand and clear prose guide readers through a fre…
Transatlantic Fairy Painting and Social Unrest in Victorian America
Fairy painting is a genre associated almost entirely with Victorian Britain; however, numerous artists from the United States engaged with fairy subjects in the 1860s and 1870s following a major exhibit of British art that traveled to New York, Philadelphia, and Boston in 1857–58. This article is the first art historical consideration of American fairy painting. It examines two primary examples of the genre by John Ferguson Weir and James Farring…
"Vanessa Schulman. Review of "Prints of a New Kind
In Honor, as in Limb, Unmarred
This article examines Herman Melville’s poetry collection Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) using theories and concepts from the sphere of disability studies. Mobilizing evidence from Melville’s letters as well as close readings of the poems, I argue that Melville presented a complicated relationship to questions of bodily wholeness and autonomy in his written work, particularly in response to the political and existential stresses of t…
The Pleasure of the Parlor
Responses to the formation of home guards in the Civil War North used a humorous visual vocabulary that played off the gender expectations of prewar periodical, literary, and artistic culture. Humorists and artists made fun of the men who chose to stay at home by linking them with the feminine space of the parlor. Using a painting by Thomas Hicks titled The Home Guard, along with other war-era images of home guards, this article argues that the s…
Visualizing Race at the Polling Place
This article examines Thomas Waterman Wood’s 1867 painting American Citizens, which depicts four voters, one of whom is an African American. Past interpretations have emphasized themes of equality and citizenship that must be reconsidered in light of nineteenth-century voting practices. As a means to understand American Citizens in a larger historical context, this article looks at the rhetoric of race and citizenship surrounding the extension of…
Managing subjects, manufacturing citizens
This article examines structures of social control that became institutionalized in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s. In particular, it examines how key philanthropic and penal institutions within New York City, including the school, workhouse and prison, were represented in the illustrated popular press as sites for both controlling and training an industrializing workforce. Examining how the language of scientific management seeped into…
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Managing subjects, manufacturing citizens
This article examines structures of social control that became institutionalized in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s. In particular, it examines how key philanthropic and penal institutions within New York City, including the school, workhouse and prison, were represented in the illustrated popular press as sites for both controlling and training an industrializing workforce. Examining how the language of scientific management seeped into…
Visualizing Race at the Polling Place
This article examines Thomas Waterman Wood’s 1867 painting American Citizens, which depicts four voters, one of whom is an African American. Past interpretations have emphasized themes of equality and citizenship that must be reconsidered in light of nineteenth-century voting practices. As a means to understand American Citizens in a larger historical context, this article looks at the rhetoric of race and citizenship surrounding the extension of…
The Pleasure of the Parlor
Responses to the formation of home guards in the Civil War North used a humorous visual vocabulary that played off the gender expectations of prewar periodical, literary, and artistic culture. Humorists and artists made fun of the men who chose to stay at home by linking them with the feminine space of the parlor. Using a painting by Thomas Hicks titled The Home Guard, along with other war-era images of home guards, this article argues that the s…
In Honor, as in Limb, Unmarred
This article examines Herman Melville’s poetry collection Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) using theories and concepts from the sphere of disability studies. Mobilizing evidence from Melville’s letters as well as close readings of the poems, I argue that Melville presented a complicated relationship to questions of bodily wholeness and autonomy in his written work, particularly in response to the political and existential stresses of t…
"Vanessa Schulman. Review of "Prints of a New Kind
Symbols of Freedom
Matthew J. Clavin's Symbols of Freedom is a tale of two antebellum Americas: a slaveholding South, in which the founding values of the nation were perverted to justify the system of chattel slavery, and a militant North, in which Black and white abolitionists harnessed the shifting meanings of national symbols to demand freedom for all. The setup for this tale is a familiar one, yet Clavin's steady hand and clear prose guide readers through a fre…
Transatlantic Fairy Painting and Social Unrest in Victorian America
Fairy painting is a genre associated almost entirely with Victorian Britain; however, numerous artists from the United States engaged with fairy subjects in the 1860s and 1870s following a major exhibit of British art that traveled to New York, Philadelphia, and Boston in 1857–58. This article is the first art historical consideration of American fairy painting. It examines two primary examples of the genre by John Ferguson Weir and James Farring…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works)