Karen Halttunen
Biographic Data
| ID | 517328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Halttunen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Halttunen |
| SIGNATURE | HALTTUNEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Grounded Histories
A Companion to American Cultural History
The Blackwell Companions to American History series tackles major themes, periods and regions of US history. Karen Halttunen, Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the editor of the latest book in the sequence, this time concerning American cultural history. For editor Halttunen, the true essence of cultural history is to learn more about ?meanings?: ?the meanings of the signs, gestur…
Groundwork
Groundwork:American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005 Karen Halttunen (bio) A rising chorus of modern-day Jeremiahs proclaims the death of place in American life. "It is commonplace in Western societies in the twenty-first century," observes geographer Tim Cresswell, "to bemoan a loss of a sense of place as the forces of globalization have eroded local cultures and produced homogenized glo…
"Self, Subject, and the "Barefoot Historian
In his evocative historical essay Alongshore, the landscape historian John R. Stilgoe explores the stretch of Massachusetts coastline from Gurnet Light to Minot Ledge that is his family's year-round home. “I see flood tide or ebb each morning before I see my university. I am close to my subject, too close for relaxation, for comfort.” To convey that close connection between self and subject, Stilgoe creates the persona of “the barefoot historian,…
Murder Most Foul
From Courtesy to Civility
Murder Most Foul
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and American Imagination. By Karen Halttunen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 322. Illustrations. $29.95.) Karen Halttunen situates origins of conventions that shape contemporary tales of murder-mystery and horror-in antebellum America, and thus is appropriate that this journal include a review of her latest book. Murder Most Foul is as inspired and compelling as best of studies concerning the Ame…
Moral Problems in American Life
Moral Problems in American Life: New Perspectives on Cultural History. Edited by Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 350. Illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.) Perhaps half the essays in this volume cover subjects that fall squarely under the rubric of the republic, even by the recently expanded definitions of SHEAR and this journal. Readers should not restrict themselves to those articles in …
Murder Most Foul
Beyond the Cultural Turn
Moral Problems in American Life
Murder Most Foul
Introduction 1. The Murderer as Common Sinner 2. The Birth of Horror 3. The Pornography of Violence 4. The Construction of Murder as Mystery 5. Murder in the Family Circle 6. Murdering Medusa 7. The Murderer as Mental Alien Epilogue Notes Index
Murder and Meanings in U.S. Historiography
Peer-reviewed
Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture
Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture
Journal Article Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 100, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 303-334, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/100.2.303 Published: 01 April 1995
The Refinement of America
Journal Article The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. By Richard L. Bushman. (New York: Knopf, 1992. xx, 504 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-39455010-2.) Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen University of California, Davis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1054–1055, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080438 Published: 01 December…
Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations.)
Journal Article Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations). By Simon Schama. (New York: Knopf, 1991. xiv + 333 pp. $21.00, ISBN 0-679-40213-6.) Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 631, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080071 Published: 01 September 1992
Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England
The Life and Times of the American Girl
We the People
Through the Cracked and Fragmented Self
most powerful, the most nerve-shattering ghost he had ever read, the author was pleased, remarking, I meant to scare the whole world with that story.' But since its publication in 1898, literary critics have debated whether The Turn of the Screw is a ghost story or a Freudian study in delusion. The Freudian school took as its point of departure Edmund Wilson's argument that young governess who tells the story is a neurotic case of sex repression …
People of Chance
Journal Article People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas Get access People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas. By Findlay John M.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vi + 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $19.95.) Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western…
Confidence Men and Painted Women
Victorian Domesticity
A Hunger for Home
Journal Article A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott and Little Women. By Sarah Elbert. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. xiii + 278 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $24.95.) Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 626–627, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887504 P…
Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations.)
Journal Article Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations). By Simon Schama. (New York: Knopf, 1991. xiv + 333 pp. $21.00, ISBN 0-679-40213-6.) Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 631, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080071 Published: 01 September 1992
The Refinement of America
Journal Article The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. By Richard L. Bushman. (New York: Knopf, 1992. xx, 504 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-39455010-2.) Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen University of California, Davis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1054–1055, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080438 Published: 01 December…
Groundwork
Groundwork:American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005 Karen Halttunen (bio) A rising chorus of modern-day Jeremiahs proclaims the death of place in American life. "It is commonplace in Western societies in the twenty-first century," observes geographer Tim Cresswell, "to bemoan a loss of a sense of place as the forces of globalization have eroded local cultures and produced homogenized glo…
A Companion to American Cultural History
The Blackwell Companions to American History series tackles major themes, periods and regions of US history. Karen Halttunen, Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the editor of the latest book in the sequence, this time concerning American cultural history. For editor Halttunen, the true essence of cultural history is to learn more about ?meanings?: ?the meanings of the signs, gestur…
The Domestic Drama of Louisa May Alcott
Grounded Histories
Moral Problems in American Life
"Self, Subject, and the "Barefoot Historian
In his evocative historical essay Alongshore, the landscape historian John R. Stilgoe explores the stretch of Massachusetts coastline from Gurnet Light to Minot Ledge that is his family's year-round home. “I see flood tide or ebb each morning before I see my university. I am close to my subject, too close for relaxation, for comfort.” To convey that close connection between self and subject, Stilgoe creates the persona of “the barefoot historian,…
Victorian Domesticity
A Hunger for Home
Journal Article A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott and Little Women. By Sarah Elbert. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. xiii + 278 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $24.95.) Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 626–627, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887504 P…
The Anti-Hypocrites
The Domestic Drama of Louisa May Alcott
Confidence Men and Painted Women
Victorian Domesticity
People of Chance
Journal Article People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas Get access People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas. By Findlay John M.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vi + 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $19.95.) Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western…
Through the Cracked and Fragmented Self
most powerful, the most nerve-shattering ghost he had ever read, the author was pleased, remarking, I meant to scare the whole world with that story.' But since its publication in 1898, literary critics have debated whether The Turn of the Screw is a ghost story or a Freudian study in delusion. The Freudian school took as its point of departure Edmund Wilson's argument that young governess who tells the story is a neurotic case of sex repression …
The Life and Times of the American Girl
We the People
Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England
Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations.)
Journal Article Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations). By Simon Schama. (New York: Knopf, 1991. xiv + 333 pp. $21.00, ISBN 0-679-40213-6.) Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 631, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080071 Published: 01 September 1992
The Refinement of America
Journal Article The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. By Richard L. Bushman. (New York: Knopf, 1992. xx, 504 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-39455010-2.) Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen University of California, Davis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1054–1055, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080438 Published: 01 December…
Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture
Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture
Journal Article Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture Get access Karen Halttunen Karen Halttunen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 100, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 303-334, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/100.2.303 Published: 01 April 1995
Beyond the Cultural Turn
Moral Problems in American Life
Murder Most Foul
Introduction 1. The Murderer as Common Sinner 2. The Birth of Horror 3. The Pornography of Violence 4. The Construction of Murder as Mystery 5. Murder in the Family Circle 6. Murdering Medusa 7. The Murderer as Mental Alien Epilogue Notes Index
Murder and Meanings in U.S. Historiography
Peer-reviewed
Murder Most Foul
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and American Imagination. By Karen Halttunen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 322. Illustrations. $29.95.) Karen Halttunen situates origins of conventions that shape contemporary tales of murder-mystery and horror-in antebellum America, and thus is appropriate that this journal include a review of her latest book. Murder Most Foul is as inspired and compelling as best of studies concerning the Ame…
Moral Problems in American Life
Moral Problems in American Life: New Perspectives on Cultural History. Edited by Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 350. Illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.) Perhaps half the essays in this volume cover subjects that fall squarely under the rubric of the republic, even by the recently expanded definitions of SHEAR and this journal. Readers should not restrict themselves to those articles in …
Murder Most Foul
Murder Most Foul
From Courtesy to Civility
"Self, Subject, and the "Barefoot Historian
In his evocative historical essay Alongshore, the landscape historian John R. Stilgoe explores the stretch of Massachusetts coastline from Gurnet Light to Minot Ledge that is his family's year-round home. “I see flood tide or ebb each morning before I see my university. I am close to my subject, too close for relaxation, for comfort.” To convey that close connection between self and subject, Stilgoe creates the persona of “the barefoot historian,…
Groundwork
Groundwork:American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005 Karen Halttunen (bio) A rising chorus of modern-day Jeremiahs proclaims the death of place in American life. "It is commonplace in Western societies in the twenty-first century," observes geographer Tim Cresswell, "to bemoan a loss of a sense of place as the forces of globalization have eroded local cultures and produced homogenized glo…
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