Elissa Gurman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elissa Gurman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurman |
| SIGNATURE | GURMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Onward, Onward”: Sister Carrie and the Railroad
This paper argues that Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) is governed by a distinctly mechanical form of determinism. Through the characters of Drouet, Carrie, and Hurstwood, Dreiser demonstrates the train's instrumentality in transforming America from a series of rural, local economies to a commodity-based economy and, finally, to an economy of signs increasingly divorced from the material circumstances of production and even from products …
Never yet did any Woman/more for Love and Glory do”: Gender, Heroism, and the Reading Public in The Female Soldier; Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell
Richard Walker’s popular 1750 biography of Hannah Snell, real-life Woman Warrior, follows many of the conventions of the typical cross-dressing female soldier ballad. Although the notion of the cro
The holy and the powerful light that shines through history”: Tradition and Technology in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It
Elissa Gurman, “The holy and the powerful light that shines through history”: Tradition and Technology in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (November 2011), pp. 460-477
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The holy and the powerful light that shines through history”: Tradition and Technology in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It
Elissa Gurman, “The holy and the powerful light that shines through history”: Tradition and Technology in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (November 2011), pp. 460-477
Never yet did any Woman/more for Love and Glory do”: Gender, Heroism, and the Reading Public in The Female Soldier; Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell
Richard Walker’s popular 1750 biography of Hannah Snell, real-life Woman Warrior, follows many of the conventions of the typical cross-dressing female soldier ballad. Although the notion of the cro
Onward, Onward”: Sister Carrie and the Railroad
This paper argues that Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) is governed by a distinctly mechanical form of determinism. Through the characters of Drouet, Carrie, and Hurstwood, Dreiser demonstrates the train's instrumentality in transforming America from a series of rural, local economies to a commodity-based economy and, finally, to an economy of signs increasingly divorced from the material circumstances of production and even from products …
Art (3 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adventure (1 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Commodity (1 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (1 works)