Carolyn Vellenga Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Vellenga Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn Vellenga |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN C V |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Desire and Democracy
Kent Puckett's scintillating study of the electoral imagination illuminates both the history of the novel and political theory. While a growing group of literary critics have probed the relationship between the novel and democracy, most focus on the expanding franchise, setting aside key mechanisms of democracy, from districting to modes of voting (in caucuses, divisions, oral votes, or written ballots). What Puckett shows is just how difficult—a…
Snoring for the million
In an 1847 preface to the Cheap Edition of The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens explained how he came to revive the serial novel as a form a decade earlier. “I was a young man of three-and-twenty,”
Awful Unknown Quantities”
Charles Dickens was lionized in the early 1850s for his political powers as a novelist, journalist, and reformer. A December 1850 review of David Copperfield in Fraser's Magazine affirmed that the so-called “Boz” has done more, we verily believe, for the promotion of peace and goodwill between man and man, class and class, nation and nation, than all the congresses under the sun . . . . Boz, and men like Boz, are the true humanizers, and therefor…
Love, Wages, Slavery
Barbara Ryan's fascinating book explores a nineteenth-century American conundrum that still bedevils us: must a well-kept home depend on free (unpaid) labor? Or can it incorporate paid domestics who are free to leave? As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in an 1839 story, “Shall we go for slavery, or shall we give up houses?” (p. 5). Ryan links that anxiety with Henry David Thoreau's Walden experiment, as well as with Brook Farm and Fruitlands, as she …
Creole Crossings
The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings , Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels as Jane Eyre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Indiana, as well as in the antislavery discourse of the period. "Creole" in its etymological sense means "broug…
Love, Wages, Slavery
Barbara Ryan's fascinating book explores a nineteenth-century American conundrum that still bedevils us: must a well-kept home depend on free (unpaid) labor? Or can it incorporate paid domestics who are free to leave? As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in an 1839 story, “Shall we go for slavery, or shall we give up houses?” (p. 5). Ryan links that anxiety with Henry David Thoreau's Walden experiment, as well as with Brook Farm and Fruitlands, as she …
Creole Crossings
The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings , Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels as Jane Eyre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Indiana, as well as in the antislavery discourse of the period. "Creole" in its etymological sense means "broug…
Love, Wages, Slavery
Barbara Ryan's fascinating book explores a nineteenth-century American conundrum that still bedevils us: must a well-kept home depend on free (unpaid) labor? Or can it incorporate paid domestics who are free to leave? As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in an 1839 story, “Shall we go for slavery, or shall we give up houses?” (p. 5). Ryan links that anxiety with Henry David Thoreau's Walden experiment, as well as with Brook Farm and Fruitlands, as she …
Awful Unknown Quantities”
Charles Dickens was lionized in the early 1850s for his political powers as a novelist, journalist, and reformer. A December 1850 review of David Copperfield in Fraser's Magazine affirmed that the so-called “Boz” has done more, we verily believe, for the promotion of peace and goodwill between man and man, class and class, nation and nation, than all the congresses under the sun . . . . Boz, and men like Boz, are the true humanizers, and therefor…
Snoring for the million
In an 1847 preface to the Cheap Edition of The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens explained how he came to revive the serial novel as a form a decade earlier. “I was a young man of three-and-twenty,”
Desire and Democracy
Kent Puckett's scintillating study of the electoral imagination illuminates both the history of the novel and political theory. While a growing group of literary critics have probed the relationship between the novel and democracy, most focus on the expanding franchise, setting aside key mechanisms of democracy, from districting to modes of voting (in caucuses, divisions, oral votes, or written ballots). What Puckett shows is just how difficult—a…
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