Carrie Tirado Bramen

Biographic Data

ID515966
NAMECarrie Tirado Bramen
GIVEN NAMESCarrie Tirado
FAMILY NAMEBramen
SIGNATUREBRAMEN C T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York
ORCID0009-0003-6198-2431
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Astrological speculation on Wall Street

    Carrie Tirado BramenARTICLEJournal of Cultural Economy2026References: 21

    This essay discusses the role that astrological prediction played in the culture of speculative capitalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To make sense of this increasingly abstract form of capitalism, astrologers used their own symbolic language, rich in metaphor, which helped to make financialization a part of everyday life. The most famous financial astrologer of the period, Evangeline Adams, defended her craft as a ‘sci…

  • Niceness in a Neoliberal Age

    Carrie Tirado BramenARTICLEPublic Culture2018

    Despite a penchant for nastiness, Donald Trump insists that he is a “nice person.” This political moment invites us to interrogate a concept that has been overlooked as superficial and vapid, as clichéd as the phrase “Have a nice day.” Trump’s fixation with niceness is not anomalous, but reflects a growing trend—from Pope Francis to Pussy Riot—that invokes niceness and other modes of positive sociality at a time of unprecedented cruelty. The curr…

  • Assault on Mexican American Collective Memory, 2010-2015

    Carrie Tirado BramenARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    The refrain throughout Rodolfo F. Acuña's Assault on Mexican American Collective Memory is that history matters. Arguably, this theme defines all of Acuña's work, most notably Occupied America (1981). But in his most recent book, Acuña focuses on a five-year period from 2010 to 2015 that begins with the battle to save Mexican American studies in the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona and ends with Donald J. Trump's presidential victory, as…

  • Flirting in Yankeeland

    Carrie Tirado BramenCHAPTERThe Latino Nineteenth Century2017

  • American Niceness

    Carrie Tirado BramenBOOKAmerican Niceness2017

    The cliché of the Ugly American—loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic—still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a different national archetype—the nice American—which has been central to ideas of American identity since the nineteenth century.

  • A New Literary History of America

    Open AccessAlan Ackerman, Emilio Bizzi et al.BOOKNew Literary History of America2012

    America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nati…

  • At Home in the City

    Carrie Tirado BramenARTICLEJournal of American History2007

    Betsy Klimasmith's At Home in the City is a genuine pleasure to read. The narrative seamlessly moves from close readings of urban novels to discussions about architectural designs of tenements and boarding houses as well as of New York's Central Park. It analyzes the interiority of urban domestic fiction then literally and figuratively goes outside, to extra-literary sources. It is as if the very structure of the book confirms its central observa…

  • The Uses of Variety

    Kathryn J Oberdeck, Carrie Tirado BramenARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Journal Article The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness. By Carrie Tirado Bramen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 380 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-674-00308-X.) Get access Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, Septe…

  • American Picturesque

    Carrie Tirado Bramen, John Conron et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2001

  • William Dean Howells and the Failure of the Urban Picturesque

    Carrie Tirado BramenARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2000

    HE late nineteenth century marked a turning point in representations of the city. Mid-century Gothic exposes, such as George Lippard's The Quaker City (1845) and George Foster's New York By Gas-Light (1850)-which depicted the dangers of rural migration primarily through tales of poor, innocent girls-gave way to late-nineteenth-century accounts that focused less on brothels and saloons than on the pleasures of strolling through immigrant neighborh…

  • The Urban Picturesque and the Spectacle of Americanization

    Open AccessCarrie Tirado BramenARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2000Cited by: 10References: 7

    By the late nineteenth century, regionalists such as Hamlin Garland, as well as literary critics more generally, considered the adjective picturesque to mean "superficial," an overused and commercial mode of representation. This opinion was commonplace as early as the 1850s when Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance was criticized for its "picturesque detail" and its subsequent lack of "moral depth and earnestness." 1 More concerned with surfaces th…