Leonard Cassuto
Biographic Data
| ID | 540300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard Cassuto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassuto |
| SIGNATURE | CASSUTO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
Monsters in America is a story of America through a grotesque lens. Though not a long book, it is big and rangy, spanning all of American history from the colonial period to the present. The author W. Scott Poole announces his goal as “Seeing America through its monsters,” and he follows through on that promise: this book centers on the historical and cultural interpretation of monster legends (xvii). At his best, Poole shows how monsters explain…
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
"This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones. Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as…
Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market
Book Review| December 01 2011 Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market. By Dowling, David. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2009. 217 pp. $39.95.The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. By McGurl, Mark. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. xiv, 466 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95.What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960. …
To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel; Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930
Book Review| June 01 2006 To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel; Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 Leonard Cassuto Leonard Cassuto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 398–400. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-012 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leonard Cassuto; To Hell and Back…
The Silhouette and the Secret Self: Theorizing Biography in Our Times
The Silhouette and the Secret Self:Theorizing Biography in Our Times Leonard Cassuto (bio) Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. By John D'Emilio. New York: Free Press, 2003. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 564 pages. $20.00 (paper). Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism. By Elizabeth Faue. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. 249 pages. $19.95 (paper). The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore…
The Cambridge companion to Theodore Dreiser
Master Plots: Race and the Founding of American Literature
Oliver Sacks: The P.T. Barnum of the Postmodern World
The historic problem in representing disabled people's lives has always been the control of that representation. When others speak for the disabled, they often point the way to the freak show and the medical theater, two arenas of human objectification. The freak show, which flourished well into the twentieth century, depended on the spectacular mystification of disability; promoters exhibited disabled people as wondrous creatures of stupefying d…
The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture
While modern critics have tended to approach black and white perspectives of race in America by considering the two sides separately, Cassuto's timely book brings the two together, reconstructing a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves). The focus is on literature - from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of writers such as M…
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
Journal Article Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Ed. by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xviii, 400pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-81478217-5 and The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture. By Leonard Cassuto. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xxii, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10336-0 Get access Mark C. Carnes Mark C. Carnes Barnard College New Yo…
Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
Rereading Jack London
Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America’s most widely translated author (into more than eighty languages), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic critics in the United States, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in American literary history. The breadth and depth of new critical study of London’s work in recent decades attest to h…
Frederick Douglass and the Work of Freedom: Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic in the Fugitive Slave Narrative
When Frederick L. Olmstead came face to face with slavery in his travels through the South, he wrote that it was “difficult” to treat a human as property, but “embarrass[ing]” to treat property as human. Olmstead's dilemma encapsulates the difficulties that white slaveholders had in objectifying their slaves. American slaveholders tried to treat the slave as property, but couldn't consistently maintain that stance because they understood all alon…
Oliver Sacks: The P.T. Barnum of the Postmodern World
The historic problem in representing disabled people's lives has always been the control of that representation. When others speak for the disabled, they often point the way to the freak show and the medical theater, two arenas of human objectification. The freak show, which flourished well into the twentieth century, depended on the spectacular mystification of disability; promoters exhibited disabled people as wondrous creatures of stupefying d…
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
Monsters in America is a story of America through a grotesque lens. Though not a long book, it is big and rangy, spanning all of American history from the colonial period to the present. The author W. Scott Poole announces his goal as “Seeing America through its monsters,” and he follows through on that promise: this book centers on the historical and cultural interpretation of monster legends (xvii). At his best, Poole shows how monsters explain…
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
Journal Article Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Ed. by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xviii, 400pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-81478217-5 and The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture. By Leonard Cassuto. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xxii, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10336-0 Get access Mark C. Carnes Mark C. Carnes Barnard College New Yo…
Rereading Jack London
Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America’s most widely translated author (into more than eighty languages), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic critics in the United States, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in American literary history. The breadth and depth of new critical study of London’s work in recent decades attest to h…
Frederick Douglass and the Work of Freedom: Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic in the Fugitive Slave Narrative
When Frederick L. Olmstead came face to face with slavery in his travels through the South, he wrote that it was “difficult” to treat a human as property, but “embarrass[ing]” to treat property as human. Olmstead's dilemma encapsulates the difficulties that white slaveholders had in objectifying their slaves. American slaveholders tried to treat the slave as property, but couldn't consistently maintain that stance because they understood all alon…
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
Journal Article Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Ed. by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xviii, 400pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-81478217-5 and The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture. By Leonard Cassuto. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xxii, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10336-0 Get access Mark C. Carnes Mark C. Carnes Barnard College New Yo…
Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture
While modern critics have tended to approach black and white perspectives of race in America by considering the two sides separately, Cassuto's timely book brings the two together, reconstructing a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves). The focus is on literature - from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of writers such as M…
Oliver Sacks: The P.T. Barnum of the Postmodern World
The historic problem in representing disabled people's lives has always been the control of that representation. When others speak for the disabled, they often point the way to the freak show and the medical theater, two arenas of human objectification. The freak show, which flourished well into the twentieth century, depended on the spectacular mystification of disability; promoters exhibited disabled people as wondrous creatures of stupefying d…
Master Plots: Race and the Founding of American Literature
The Cambridge companion to Theodore Dreiser
To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel; Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930
Book Review| June 01 2006 To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel; Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 Leonard Cassuto Leonard Cassuto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 398–400. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-012 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leonard Cassuto; To Hell and Back…
The Silhouette and the Secret Self: Theorizing Biography in Our Times
The Silhouette and the Secret Self:Theorizing Biography in Our Times Leonard Cassuto (bio) Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. By John D'Emilio. New York: Free Press, 2003. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 564 pages. $20.00 (paper). Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism. By Elizabeth Faue. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. 249 pages. $19.95 (paper). The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore…
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
"This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones. Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as…
Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market
Book Review| December 01 2011 Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market. By Dowling, David. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2009. 217 pp. $39.95.The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. By McGurl, Mark. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. xiv, 466 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95.What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960. …
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
Monsters in America is a story of America through a grotesque lens. Though not a long book, it is big and rangy, spanning all of American history from the colonial period to the present. The author W. Scott Poole announces his goal as “Seeing America through its monsters,” and he follows through on that promise: this book centers on the historical and cultural interpretation of monster legends (xvii). At his best, Poole shows how monsters explain…
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