Nicholas Bromell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Bromell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Bromell |
| SIGNATURE | BROMELL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is Democratic Charisma Thinkable
In this article, I argue that the idea of “democratic charisma” is not the oxymoron it first appears to be but is, rather, a term that helps us think about the affective aspects of democratic citizenship and more broadly about the role aesthetics might play in democratic theory. After defining what I understand “charisma” to be, I begin with two historical examples of democratic charisma in U.S. cultural history: Ralph Waldo Emerson's notion of “…
What Next? Thought and Action in Intellectual Work
THE PRESENT HISTORICAL MOMENT CALLS FOR A SERIOUS RECONSIDERAtion and reconstruction of higher education and of the humanities especially.1 What follows is not, I hope, a jeremiad. I aim, rather, to articulate some professional discontents that I suspect are widely felt and to offer several specific courses of action to help remedy them. Over the last three decades, the profession of those who are concerned with history, American studies, cultura…
Labor into Art
Journal Article Labor into Art: The Theme of Work in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By David Sprague Herreshoff. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. x + 170 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8143-2081-3.) Get access Nicholas Bromell Nicholas Bromell University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 659–660, https:…
What Next? Thought and Action in Intellectual Work
THE PRESENT HISTORICAL MOMENT CALLS FOR A SERIOUS RECONSIDERAtion and reconstruction of higher education and of the humanities especially.1 What follows is not, I hope, a jeremiad. I aim, rather, to articulate some professional discontents that I suspect are widely felt and to offer several specific courses of action to help remedy them. Over the last three decades, the profession of those who are concerned with history, American studies, cultura…
Labor into Art
Journal Article Labor into Art: The Theme of Work in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By David Sprague Herreshoff. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. x + 170 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8143-2081-3.) Get access Nicholas Bromell Nicholas Bromell University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 659–660, https:…
What Next? Thought and Action in Intellectual Work
THE PRESENT HISTORICAL MOMENT CALLS FOR A SERIOUS RECONSIDERAtion and reconstruction of higher education and of the humanities especially.1 What follows is not, I hope, a jeremiad. I aim, rather, to articulate some professional discontents that I suspect are widely felt and to offer several specific courses of action to help remedy them. Over the last three decades, the profession of those who are concerned with history, American studies, cultura…
Is Democratic Charisma Thinkable
In this article, I argue that the idea of “democratic charisma” is not the oxymoron it first appears to be but is, rather, a term that helps us think about the affective aspects of democratic citizenship and more broadly about the role aesthetics might play in democratic theory. After defining what I understand “charisma” to be, I begin with two historical examples of democratic charisma in U.S. cultural history: Ralph Waldo Emerson's notion of “…
Engineering (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Work (physics (2 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (1 work) · Action (physics (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American literature (1 work) · American Literature and Humor Studies (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work)