Robert K Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert K Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert K |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN R K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Concord Companions
In this paper, we examine the rhetoric of friendship and desire in mid-nineteenth-century American writing. We begin by looking at Emerson’s essay on friendship and Thoreau’s poem “Sympathy” (1840) to provide a context for reading Margaret Fuller’s fascinating texts on same-sex bonds between women. Of particular interest to us is Fuller’s translation of Elizabeth von Arnim’s Die Günderode (1840), a collection of letters between Arnim and the Germ…
But Suppose I Did Want a Boy?” Homosexual Economies in Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man
This article is centred on chapter twenty-two of The Confidence-Man, the chapter in which the con man, in the guise of Philosophical Intelligence Officer, tries to sell a boy to Pitch, the misanthropic Missouri bachelor who has used up some thirty boys on his backwoods farm and now wants to replace boys with machines. Structured as an epistolary dialogue between the two authors, the article explores the complex ways Melville’s novel positions its…
The Children’s Hour
I run the risk, I realize, of sounding like Persse McGarrigle, the hapless young scholar from Limerick, in David Lodge’s wicked satire of the MLA, Small World.The comically innocent McGarrigle is, you may recall, working on a thesis on Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot—not, however, as the others assume, on the influence of Shakespeare on Eliot but rather on the influence of Eliot on Shakespeare. The novel takes such a project to be inherently funny, a …
American Gothic
Drawing widely on contemporary theory - particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva - this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkne…
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging an…
Very Queer Indeed
ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING SHIFTS IN U.S. SEXUAL POLITICS HAS TAKEN place over the past few years as the lesbian and gay movement, approaching its twenty-fifth anniversary in its present form, has given way, not always without a fight, to a queer politics. In part, this shift can be seen as typically generational: the children of Stonewall rising up to kill, or at least shunt aside, those who first took to the streets. This new wave, as Michael War…
The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman
The most protean and elusive of all American poets, Walt Whitman is everywhere and nowhere at once. An unavoidable presence, he still arouses anger, envy, love, and debate one hundred years after his death. To honor this anniversary, Robert Martin has invited the most invigorating and innovative of Whitman's new readers and critics to respond not to Whitman's death but to his continuing life as it has marked their own lives and writings. The eigh…
North of the Border
The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman
Gender, Race, and the Colonial Body
Almost twenty years after its first production, Michel Tremblay's two- person play about a drag queen and her motorcyclist lover, Hosanna, was staged again in Montreal, this time by a woman director, Lorraine Pintal. In the interval, the play had become a classic of Québec nationalism, with the sexual disguises read as failure of political self-affirmation. The new produc- tion was significantly different from the 1973 production, which many peop…
Hero, Captain, and Stranger
Hero, Captain, and Stranger
Hero, Captain, and Stranger
Hero, Captain, and Stranger
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value
Jacobeana
Stephen Donadio. Nietzsche, Henry James, and the Artistic Will. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.347 pp. Susanne Kappeler. Writing and Reading in Henry James. Foreword by Tony Tanner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 242 pp. Robert Emmet Long. The Great Succession : Henry James and the Legacy of Hawthorne. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979.203 pp. Mary Doyle Springer. A Rhetoric of Literary Character: Some Women of…
Edward Carpenter and the Double Structure ofMaurice
No abstract available for this article
E. M. Forster
The Quest for Poe
The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry
Second revised edition of a collection of essays which provide a study of American gay male poetry
Henry James and the Visual Arts
The Fictional Children of Henry James
Edward Carpenter and the Double Structure ofMaurice
No abstract available for this article
Very Queer Indeed
ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING SHIFTS IN U.S. SEXUAL POLITICS HAS TAKEN place over the past few years as the lesbian and gay movement, approaching its twenty-fifth anniversary in its present form, has given way, not always without a fight, to a queer politics. In part, this shift can be seen as typically generational: the children of Stonewall rising up to kill, or at least shunt aside, those who first took to the streets. This new wave, as Michael War…
Gender, Race, and the Colonial Body
Almost twenty years after its first production, Michel Tremblay's two- person play about a drag queen and her motorcyclist lover, Hosanna, was staged again in Montreal, this time by a woman director, Lorraine Pintal. In the interval, the play had become a classic of Québec nationalism, with the sexual disguises read as failure of political self-affirmation. The new produc- tion was significantly different from the 1973 production, which many peop…
The Fictional Children of Henry James
The Fictional Children of Henry James
Henry James and the Visual Arts
The Quest for Poe
The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry
Second revised edition of a collection of essays which provide a study of American gay male poetry
E. M. Forster
Jacobeana
Stephen Donadio. Nietzsche, Henry James, and the Artistic Will. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.347 pp. Susanne Kappeler. Writing and Reading in Henry James. Foreword by Tony Tanner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 242 pp. Robert Emmet Long. The Great Succession : Henry James and the Legacy of Hawthorne. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979.203 pp. Mary Doyle Springer. A Rhetoric of Literary Character: Some Women of…
Edward Carpenter and the Double Structure ofMaurice
No abstract available for this article
Hero, Captain, and Stranger
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value
Hero, Captain, and Stranger
Hero, Captain, and Stranger
Hero, Captain, and Stranger
The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman
Gender, Race, and the Colonial Body
Almost twenty years after its first production, Michel Tremblay's two- person play about a drag queen and her motorcyclist lover, Hosanna, was staged again in Montreal, this time by a woman director, Lorraine Pintal. In the interval, the play had become a classic of Québec nationalism, with the sexual disguises read as failure of political self-affirmation. The new produc- tion was significantly different from the 1973 production, which many peop…
The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman
The most protean and elusive of all American poets, Walt Whitman is everywhere and nowhere at once. An unavoidable presence, he still arouses anger, envy, love, and debate one hundred years after his death. To honor this anniversary, Robert Martin has invited the most invigorating and innovative of Whitman's new readers and critics to respond not to Whitman's death but to his continuing life as it has marked their own lives and writings. The eigh…
North of the Border
Very Queer Indeed
ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING SHIFTS IN U.S. SEXUAL POLITICS HAS TAKEN place over the past few years as the lesbian and gay movement, approaching its twenty-fifth anniversary in its present form, has given way, not always without a fight, to a queer politics. In part, this shift can be seen as typically generational: the children of Stonewall rising up to kill, or at least shunt aside, those who first took to the streets. This new wave, as Michael War…
American Gothic
Drawing widely on contemporary theory - particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva - this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkne…
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging an…
The Children’s Hour
I run the risk, I realize, of sounding like Persse McGarrigle, the hapless young scholar from Limerick, in David Lodge’s wicked satire of the MLA, Small World.The comically innocent McGarrigle is, you may recall, working on a thesis on Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot—not, however, as the others assume, on the influence of Shakespeare on Eliot but rather on the influence of Eliot on Shakespeare. The novel takes such a project to be inherently funny, a …
Concord Companions
In this paper, we examine the rhetoric of friendship and desire in mid-nineteenth-century American writing. We begin by looking at Emerson’s essay on friendship and Thoreau’s poem “Sympathy” (1840) to provide a context for reading Margaret Fuller’s fascinating texts on same-sex bonds between women. Of particular interest to us is Fuller’s translation of Elizabeth von Arnim’s Die Günderode (1840), a collection of letters between Arnim and the Germ…
But Suppose I Did Want a Boy?” Homosexual Economies in Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man
This article is centred on chapter twenty-two of The Confidence-Man, the chapter in which the con man, in the guise of Philosophical Intelligence Officer, tries to sell a boy to Pitch, the misanthropic Missouri bachelor who has used up some thirty boys on his backwoods farm and now wants to replace boys with machines. Structured as an epistolary dialogue between the two authors, the article explores the complex ways Melville’s novel positions its…
Art (16 works) · History (11 works) · Literature (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (7 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (6 works) · Friendship (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)