Cindy Weinstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 5702385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cindy Weinstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cindy |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinstein |
| SIGNATURE | WEINSTEIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
The Scarlet Letter Oxford Worlds Classics Paperback
The Scarlet Letter
Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.' With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very d…
The slave narrative and sentimental literature
Always it gave me a pain that my children had no lawful claim to a name. \n \n(Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl) \n“Monsieur, je m'appelle Ellen M...” \n \nShe stopped short, in utter and blank uncertainty what to call herself; \n \nMontgomery she dared not; Lindsay stuck in her throat. \n \n(The Wide, Wide World) \nSlave narratives are famously or, more precisely, infamously surrounded by the voices of white men and women. Their function is…
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponen…
We Are Family
Despite the fact that today, Melville’s reputation and readership is greater than those of Caroline Lee Hentz’s or Mary Jane Holmes’s, two very popular antebellum writers, and despite Pierre’s harangues against “the countless tribes of common novels,” Pierre was (and is) desperate to be one of them. On the most practical level, Melville wanted to write a popular novel that would make money. On a more theoretical level, “common novels” begin with …
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe establishes new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Beecher Stowe's writing and life. This collection of specially commissioned essays provides new perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel. The volume inves…
The Cambridge companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
How Many Others are There in the Other Half? Jacob Riis and the Tenement Population
How the Other Half Lives (1890) concerns itself with what Jacob Riis calls “the sea of a might population” (226), an immigrant population living in an unsanitary, economic, and spiritual wasteland. Rii’s reforms on behalf of the “other half” were propelled by his own experiences as an unemployed, homeless Danish immigrant forced to rely on New York’s charitable though uninhabitable lodging-houses. These personal experiences with the other half (i…
Sentimental Materialism
Sentimental Materialism presents an account of the disciplinary processes whereby affective relations to objects came to constitute the proprietary logic of liberal subjectivity and subjection in nineteenth-century U.S. culture. Merish reads nineteenth-century literary texts, and the objects in them, as productive sites in which the outlines of this subjectivity, specifically its deployment \nof gender and racial categories, are established, repr…
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 Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labour in fictional texts and non-fictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. Both allegory and the new forms of labour produced a version of personhood that seemed frighteningly flat, a flatness that attacked the substance of the work ethic and, indeed, the very foundations of American…
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labour in fictional texts and non-fictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. Both allegory and the new forms of labour produced a version of personhood that seemed frighteningly flat, a flatness that attacked the substance of the work ethic and, indeed, the very foundations of American…
The Calm before the Storm
Melville's Mardi committed a number of sins, the most egregious being its challenge to the work ethic-one of the ideological centerpieces of nineteenth-century American culture. The work ethic combined a belief in hard work with the promise of reward-sometimes material, sometimes spiritual, sometimes both. It had provided a coherent framework for both the economic and moral development of American society and a reliable American self-one that cou…
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The Calm before the Storm
Melville's Mardi committed a number of sins, the most egregious being its challenge to the work ethic-one of the ideological centerpieces of nineteenth-century American culture. The work ethic combined a belief in hard work with the promise of reward-sometimes material, sometimes spiritual, sometimes both. It had provided a coherent framework for both the economic and moral development of American society and a reliable American self-one that cou…
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labour in fictional texts and non-fictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. Both allegory and the new forms of labour produced a version of personhood that seemed frighteningly flat, a flatness that attacked the substance of the work ethic and, indeed, the very foundations of American…
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labour in fictional texts and non-fictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. Both allegory and the new forms of labour produced a version of personhood that seemed frighteningly flat, a flatness that attacked the substance of the work ethic and, indeed, the very foundations of American…
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…
How Many Others are There in the Other Half? Jacob Riis and the Tenement Population
How the Other Half Lives (1890) concerns itself with what Jacob Riis calls “the sea of a might population” (226), an immigrant population living in an unsanitary, economic, and spiritual wasteland. Rii’s reforms on behalf of the “other half” were propelled by his own experiences as an unemployed, homeless Danish immigrant forced to rely on New York’s charitable though uninhabitable lodging-houses. These personal experiences with the other half (i…
Sentimental Materialism
Sentimental Materialism presents an account of the disciplinary processes whereby affective relations to objects came to constitute the proprietary logic of liberal subjectivity and subjection in nineteenth-century U.S. culture. Merish reads nineteenth-century literary texts, and the objects in them, as productive sites in which the outlines of this subjectivity, specifically its deployment \nof gender and racial categories, are established, repr…
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe establishes new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Beecher Stowe's writing and life. This collection of specially commissioned essays provides new perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel. The volume inves…
The Cambridge companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
We Are Family
Despite the fact that today, Melville’s reputation and readership is greater than those of Caroline Lee Hentz’s or Mary Jane Holmes’s, two very popular antebellum writers, and despite Pierre’s harangues against “the countless tribes of common novels,” Pierre was (and is) desperate to be one of them. On the most practical level, Melville wanted to write a popular novel that would make money. On a more theoretical level, “common novels” begin with …
The slave narrative and sentimental literature
Always it gave me a pain that my children had no lawful claim to a name. \n \n(Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl) \n“Monsieur, je m'appelle Ellen M...” \n \nShe stopped short, in utter and blank uncertainty what to call herself; \n \nMontgomery she dared not; Lindsay stuck in her throat. \n \n(The Wide, Wide World) \nSlave narratives are famously or, more precisely, infamously surrounded by the voices of white men and women. Their function is…
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponen…
The Scarlet Letter
Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.' With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very d…
The Scarlet Letter Oxford Worlds Classics Paperback
Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
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