Sean Mccann
Biographic Data
| ID | 802457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Mccann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccann |
| SIGNATURE | MCCANN S |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6030-6456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eerie Serenity”: A Response to John McClure
Research Article| May 01 2009 “Eerie Serenity”: A Response to John McClure Sean McCann; Sean McCann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael Szalay Michael Szalay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 145–153. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2009-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sean McCann, Michael Szalay…
In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America; Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York; Writers in Retrospect: The Ris…
Do You Believe in Magic? Literary Thinking after the New Left
Toward the end of the 1960s, the New Left and the counterculture developed a libertarian theory of politics that emphasized symbolic action and self-realization. A concomitant suspicion of formal political institutions and a turn to cultural politics have since become common to intellectual discourse within the humanities. This essay argues against these attitudes, while tracing them from the protest movements of the late sixties to contemporary …
Introduction: Paul Potter and the Cultural Turn
In 1965, Paul Potter designated "the system" as the principle antagonist of the fledgling New Left. This term, and the assumptions behind it, capaciously synthesized the many ills that Potter and others hoped to redress; it also revealed, the authors suggest, a conception of power particularly congenial to the description and analysis of culture. The authors introduce each of the following essays with this in mind, detailing their shared interest…
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
As the titles of these two excellent books suggest, they explore the interrelationships between literary production and the political and economic revolution wrought by the New Deal. Whereas numerous studies have focused on the proletarian and radical literature or, as does Michael Denning's monumental The Cultural Front (1996), on the “laboring”of depression-era America, Sean McCann and Michael Szalay convincingly demonstrate that the various st…
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Connecting Links: The Anti-Progressivism of Sui Sin Far
Connecting Links: The Anti-Progressivism of Sui Sin Far Sean McCann (bio) Surveying the impoverished neighborhoods of turn-of-the-century lower Manhattan, the journalist Jacob Riis excluded only one group from his characteristic mixture of sympathy and condescension. The various ethnic communities described by his famed reformist document, How the Other Half Lives—Jewish, Irish, German, Bohemian, Italian, African-American—were often slovenly, car…
Reintroduction of the specialists
Reintroduction of the Specialists Sean McCann (bio) The Field Of Cultural Production. By Pierre Bourdieu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. 322 pages. $18.95. Of the French intellectuals who have arrived on American shores to transform the humanities in the last several decades, perhaps no one has received a more partial and limiting reception than Pierre Bourdieu. Compared to peers like Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, and Lacan, whose idea…
Bonds of Brotherhood: Pauline Hopkins and the Work of Melodrama
“Bonds of Brotherhood”: Pauline Hopkins and the Work of Melodrama Sean McCann The house was filled with the cries and groans of the audience, sobs shook the women, while the men drank in the words of the speaker with darkening brows and hands which involuntarily clinched themselves in sympathy with his words. . . . As the speaker stood silently contemplating his weeping, grief-convulsed audience, a woman was borne from the auditorium in a faintin…
Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction Sean McCann (bio) In an emergency Americans will enforce their own law—not merely their statutes but also fundamental laws that they believe essential for their own or the national good—and . . . they will use lamposts if it should become necessary. —Stanley Frost, The Challenge of the Klan The flash of my gun showed me nothing. It never does, though it’s easy to thi…
Why I'll Never Teach Rock 'n' Roll Again
Research Article| October 01 1996 Why I'll Never Teach Rock ‘n’ Roll Again Sean McCann Sean McCann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (66): 191–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-66-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sean McCann; Why I'll Never Teach Rock ‘n’ Roll Again. Radical History Review 1 October 1996; 1996 (66): 191–202. doi: https…
A Roughneck Reaching for Higher Things: The Vagaries of Pulp Populism
Bonds of Brotherhood: Pauline Hopkins and the Work of Melodrama
“Bonds of Brotherhood”: Pauline Hopkins and the Work of Melodrama Sean McCann The house was filled with the cries and groans of the audience, sobs shook the women, while the men drank in the words of the speaker with darkening brows and hands which involuntarily clinched themselves in sympathy with his words. . . . As the speaker stood silently contemplating his weeping, grief-convulsed audience, a woman was borne from the auditorium in a faintin…
Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction Sean McCann (bio) In an emergency Americans will enforce their own law—not merely their statutes but also fundamental laws that they believe essential for their own or the national good—and . . . they will use lamposts if it should become necessary. —Stanley Frost, The Challenge of the Klan The flash of my gun showed me nothing. It never does, though it’s easy to thi…
A Roughneck Reaching for Higher Things: The Vagaries of Pulp Populism
Why I'll Never Teach Rock 'n' Roll Again
Research Article| October 01 1996 Why I'll Never Teach Rock ‘n’ Roll Again Sean McCann Sean McCann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (66): 191–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-66-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sean McCann; Why I'll Never Teach Rock ‘n’ Roll Again. Radical History Review 1 October 1996; 1996 (66): 191–202. doi: https…
Reintroduction of the specialists
Reintroduction of the Specialists Sean McCann (bio) The Field Of Cultural Production. By Pierre Bourdieu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. 322 pages. $18.95. Of the French intellectuals who have arrived on American shores to transform the humanities in the last several decades, perhaps no one has received a more partial and limiting reception than Pierre Bourdieu. Compared to peers like Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, and Lacan, whose idea…
Bonds of Brotherhood: Pauline Hopkins and the Work of Melodrama
“Bonds of Brotherhood”: Pauline Hopkins and the Work of Melodrama Sean McCann The house was filled with the cries and groans of the audience, sobs shook the women, while the men drank in the words of the speaker with darkening brows and hands which involuntarily clinched themselves in sympathy with his words. . . . As the speaker stood silently contemplating his weeping, grief-convulsed audience, a woman was borne from the auditorium in a faintin…
Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction Sean McCann (bio) In an emergency Americans will enforce their own law—not merely their statutes but also fundamental laws that they believe essential for their own or the national good—and . . . they will use lamposts if it should become necessary. —Stanley Frost, The Challenge of the Klan The flash of my gun showed me nothing. It never does, though it’s easy to thi…
Connecting Links: The Anti-Progressivism of Sui Sin Far
Connecting Links: The Anti-Progressivism of Sui Sin Far Sean McCann (bio) Surveying the impoverished neighborhoods of turn-of-the-century lower Manhattan, the journalist Jacob Riis excluded only one group from his characteristic mixture of sympathy and condescension. The various ethnic communities described by his famed reformist document, How the Other Half Lives—Jewish, Irish, German, Bohemian, Italian, African-American—were often slovenly, car…
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
As the titles of these two excellent books suggest, they explore the interrelationships between literary production and the political and economic revolution wrought by the New Deal. Whereas numerous studies have focused on the proletarian and radical literature or, as does Michael Denning's monumental The Cultural Front (1996), on the “laboring”of depression-era America, Sean McCann and Michael Szalay convincingly demonstrate that the various st…
Do You Believe in Magic? Literary Thinking after the New Left
Toward the end of the 1960s, the New Left and the counterculture developed a libertarian theory of politics that emphasized symbolic action and self-realization. A concomitant suspicion of formal political institutions and a turn to cultural politics have since become common to intellectual discourse within the humanities. This essay argues against these attitudes, while tracing them from the protest movements of the late sixties to contemporary …
Introduction: Paul Potter and the Cultural Turn
In 1965, Paul Potter designated "the system" as the principle antagonist of the fledgling New Left. This term, and the assumptions behind it, capaciously synthesized the many ills that Potter and others hoped to redress; it also revealed, the authors suggest, a conception of power particularly congenial to the description and analysis of culture. The authors introduce each of the following essays with this in mind, detailing their shared interest…
Eerie Serenity”: A Response to John McClure
Research Article| May 01 2009 “Eerie Serenity”: A Response to John McClure Sean McCann; Sean McCann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael Szalay Michael Szalay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 145–153. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2009-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sean McCann, Michael Szalay…
In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America; Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York; Writers in Retrospect: The Ris…
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