John Levi Barnard
Biographic Data
| ID | 794358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Levi Barnard |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Levi |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnard |
| SIGNATURE | BARNARD J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Wooster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States: New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, 288 pages
Building on Elaine Scarry’s foundational description of pain as something that both destroys and elicits language, Thomas Constantinesco’s elegant and beautifully written monograph, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, shows how pain "fuels the work of literature" in the era of the U.S. Civil War. Across various literary forms – from Emerson’s essays to Dickinson’s poetry to the diary of Alice James – the writers in this study gr…
The Ruins of the Future
The Ruins of the Future John Levi Barnard (bio) and Stephanie Foote (bio) The twelve-month period over which the linked special issues on the “Infrastructure of Emergency” at Resilience and American Literature came together—roughly March to March of 2020–21—was bookended by two striking materializations of its central theme: a deadly pandemic unleashed with explosive speed through the infrastructural networks of global commerce and transportation…
The Bison and the Cow: Food, Empire, Extinction
This essay tracks the entwined species histories of the bison and the cow in North America, with a focus on the interrelation between the symbolic and the material value of the bison in discourses of American exceptionalist historiography and neoliberal environmentalism. In the former, the bison functions as a sign of the tragic but inevitable “vanishing” of Indigenous human societies and the ecosystems in which they are embedded, while in the la…
In Plain Sight
This chapter elaborates three primary elements of “black classicism” that African American writers, editors, and activists would develop in relation to dominant modes of classicism and monumental culture: the appropriation of the classically inflected rhetoric of revolutionary liberty to the cause of radical abolitionism; the critical juxtaposition of the neoclassical architecture of national buildings and monuments with images of the infrastruct…
Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture
This book traces the development of a critical practice within African American literature, art, and activism that identifies and critiques the widespread appropriation of classical tradition to the projects of exceptionalist historiography and cultural white supremacy in the United States. This appropriative method has typically figured the United States as the inheritor of the best traditions of classical antiquity and thus as the standard bear…
The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction
This essay tracks the interrelated histories of the cod and the whale from John Smith’s colonial American vision of abundance to the near disappearance of the living resources he described as inexhaustible. Working at the intersections of animal studies, food studies, and the environmental humanities—and considering cultural artifacts from Smith’s tracts and Herman Melville’s fiction to Cheryl Savageau’s poetry and the underwater sculpture of Jas…
Ruins Amidst Ruins: Black Classicism and the Empire of Slavery
While scholars have taken an increasing interest in the ways writers of the African diaspora have appropriated, revised, and otherwise intervened in the Western classical tradition, this scholarship has yet to fully articulate a cohesive theory of the political implications of black classicism as a literary and historiographical practice. This essay works toward such a theory by delineating a continuous tradition of black classicism as political …
American Socrates: Melville and the Sacrifice of Philosophy”
African-American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamic of Faith
The Bison and the Cow: Food, Empire, Extinction
This essay tracks the entwined species histories of the bison and the cow in North America, with a focus on the interrelation between the symbolic and the material value of the bison in discourses of American exceptionalist historiography and neoliberal environmentalism. In the former, the bison functions as a sign of the tragic but inevitable “vanishing” of Indigenous human societies and the ecosystems in which they are embedded, while in the la…
The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction
This essay tracks the interrelated histories of the cod and the whale from John Smith’s colonial American vision of abundance to the near disappearance of the living resources he described as inexhaustible. Working at the intersections of animal studies, food studies, and the environmental humanities—and considering cultural artifacts from Smith’s tracts and Herman Melville’s fiction to Cheryl Savageau’s poetry and the underwater sculpture of Jas…
The Ruins of the Future
The Ruins of the Future John Levi Barnard (bio) and Stephanie Foote (bio) The twelve-month period over which the linked special issues on the “Infrastructure of Emergency” at Resilience and American Literature came together—roughly March to March of 2020–21—was bookended by two striking materializations of its central theme: a deadly pandemic unleashed with explosive speed through the infrastructural networks of global commerce and transportation…
American Socrates: Melville and the Sacrifice of Philosophy”
African-American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamic of Faith
Ruins Amidst Ruins: Black Classicism and the Empire of Slavery
While scholars have taken an increasing interest in the ways writers of the African diaspora have appropriated, revised, and otherwise intervened in the Western classical tradition, this scholarship has yet to fully articulate a cohesive theory of the political implications of black classicism as a literary and historiographical practice. This essay works toward such a theory by delineating a continuous tradition of black classicism as political …
In Plain Sight
This chapter elaborates three primary elements of “black classicism” that African American writers, editors, and activists would develop in relation to dominant modes of classicism and monumental culture: the appropriation of the classically inflected rhetoric of revolutionary liberty to the cause of radical abolitionism; the critical juxtaposition of the neoclassical architecture of national buildings and monuments with images of the infrastruct…
Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture
This book traces the development of a critical practice within African American literature, art, and activism that identifies and critiques the widespread appropriation of classical tradition to the projects of exceptionalist historiography and cultural white supremacy in the United States. This appropriative method has typically figured the United States as the inheritor of the best traditions of classical antiquity and thus as the standard bear…
The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction
This essay tracks the interrelated histories of the cod and the whale from John Smith’s colonial American vision of abundance to the near disappearance of the living resources he described as inexhaustible. Working at the intersections of animal studies, food studies, and the environmental humanities—and considering cultural artifacts from Smith’s tracts and Herman Melville’s fiction to Cheryl Savageau’s poetry and the underwater sculpture of Jas…
The Bison and the Cow: Food, Empire, Extinction
This essay tracks the entwined species histories of the bison and the cow in North America, with a focus on the interrelation between the symbolic and the material value of the bison in discourses of American exceptionalist historiography and neoliberal environmentalism. In the former, the bison functions as a sign of the tragic but inevitable “vanishing” of Indigenous human societies and the ecosystems in which they are embedded, while in the la…
The Ruins of the Future
The Ruins of the Future John Levi Barnard (bio) and Stephanie Foote (bio) The twelve-month period over which the linked special issues on the “Infrastructure of Emergency” at Resilience and American Literature came together—roughly March to March of 2020–21—was bookended by two striking materializations of its central theme: a deadly pandemic unleashed with explosive speed through the infrastructural networks of global commerce and transportation…
Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States: New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, 288 pages
Building on Elaine Scarry’s foundational description of pain as something that both destroys and elicits language, Thomas Constantinesco’s elegant and beautifully written monograph, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, shows how pain "fuels the work of literature" in the era of the U.S. Civil War. Across various literary forms – from Emerson’s essays to Dickinson’s poetry to the diary of Alice James – the writers in this study gr…
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