Bryce Traister
Biographic Data
| ID | 816988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryce Traister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryce |
| FAMILY NAME | Traister |
| SIGNATURE | TRAISTER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English, University of Western Ontario |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Manufacturing Belief
Although not typically read as either a religious text or a narrative preoccupied with religious issues, Herman Melville’s novella of maritime slave revolution and recontainment demonstrates how antebellum Americans came to “believe” in slavery. Focusing on the narrative’s staging of religious declension within the theater of enslavement aboard the San Dominick, this essay shows how the novella positions the practice of human slavery as an object…
The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these i…
Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
American Literature and the New Puritan Studies
Terrorism Before the Letter
This essay argues that Herman Melville's 1855 novella, Benito Cereno, serves as a historical model for thinking through the construction of paranoid narrative in the 9/11 Commission Report. Melville's text invites a consideration of slavery's role in the preservation of status quo politics, and reveals the means by which the disclosure of secrecy becomes a condition for the legal fiction of slavery to persist. In purporting to reveal the hidden p…
States of Exception
The Object of Study; or, Are We Being Transnational Yet
This article polemically engages with recent trends and particular interventions in American transnational studies. It argues that the transnationalization of American literary and cultural studies, a movement sponsored institutionally by the American Studies Association among other scholarly organizations, amounts to another version of exceptionalist Americanist critique. In reading and assessing contributions to transnational studies from the f…
The Wandering Bachelor
American Literature - Volume 74, Number 1, March 2002
The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation
Book Review| December 01 2000 The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation: A Call for Socio-Political Reform By Donna R. Bontatibus. East Lansing: Michigan State Univ. Press. 1999. 126 pp. Paper, $16.95. Bryce Traister Bryce Traister Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 868–869. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-868 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic
American Literature - Volume 72, Number 1, March 2000
Academic Viagra
ly, we might say that if one lesson of history is that of anxious, agonistic men trying desperately to embody the masculine, then the next lesson is that they—all men everywhere, from Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan—failed in the attempt. Lee Clark Mitchell writes in Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film: “The frequency with which the body is celebrated, then physically punished, only to convalesce, suggests something of…
Anne Hutchinson’s “Monstrous Birth” and the Feminization of Antinomianism
In Saints and Sectaries: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversyin the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1962), Emery Battis recounts the birthingexperience of a New England woman named Mary Dyer, the wife of aBoston milliner. Attended by Boston's midwife, Jane Hawkins, and a gentle-woman of good standing and ready wit, Anne Hutchinson, the travaillingMary Dyer delivered what governor John Winthrop later came to call amonstrous birth. As Battis te…
Risking Nationalism
In recent years, calls for a radical revisioning of field of American studieshave sounded forth from such influential voices as R.C. DeProspo, Amy Kaplan, Donald Pease, Gregory Jay, Peter Carafiol, CarolynPorter, and Paul Lauter. I use term Americanist guardedly here; someof names just dropped have made compelling cases for permanentlydispensing with term Americanist altogether, along with attendantsupporting narratives and myths (the Puritans, e…
Anne Hutchinson's "Monstrous Birth" and the Feminization of Antinomianism
Academic Viagra
ly, we might say that if one lesson of history is that of anxious, agonistic men trying desperately to embody the masculine, then the next lesson is that they—all men everywhere, from Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan—failed in the attempt. Lee Clark Mitchell writes in Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film: “The frequency with which the body is celebrated, then physically punished, only to convalesce, suggests something of…
Risking Nationalism
In recent years, calls for a radical revisioning of field of American studieshave sounded forth from such influential voices as R.C. DeProspo, Amy Kaplan, Donald Pease, Gregory Jay, Peter Carafiol, CarolynPorter, and Paul Lauter. I use term Americanist guardedly here; someof names just dropped have made compelling cases for permanentlydispensing with term Americanist altogether, along with attendantsupporting narratives and myths (the Puritans, e…
The Object of Study; or, Are We Being Transnational Yet
This article polemically engages with recent trends and particular interventions in American transnational studies. It argues that the transnationalization of American literary and cultural studies, a movement sponsored institutionally by the American Studies Association among other scholarly organizations, amounts to another version of exceptionalist Americanist critique. In reading and assessing contributions to transnational studies from the f…
The Wandering Bachelor
American Literature - Volume 74, Number 1, March 2002
Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic
American Literature - Volume 72, Number 1, March 2000
Anne Hutchinson’s “Monstrous Birth” and the Feminization of Antinomianism
In Saints and Sectaries: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversyin the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1962), Emery Battis recounts the birthingexperience of a New England woman named Mary Dyer, the wife of aBoston milliner. Attended by Boston's midwife, Jane Hawkins, and a gentle-woman of good standing and ready wit, Anne Hutchinson, the travaillingMary Dyer delivered what governor John Winthrop later came to call amonstrous birth. As Battis te…
Anne Hutchinson’s “Monstrous Birth” and the Feminization of Antinomianism
In Saints and Sectaries: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversyin the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1962), Emery Battis recounts the birthingexperience of a New England woman named Mary Dyer, the wife of aBoston milliner. Attended by Boston's midwife, Jane Hawkins, and a gentle-woman of good standing and ready wit, Anne Hutchinson, the travaillingMary Dyer delivered what governor John Winthrop later came to call amonstrous birth. As Battis te…
Risking Nationalism
In recent years, calls for a radical revisioning of field of American studieshave sounded forth from such influential voices as R.C. DeProspo, Amy Kaplan, Donald Pease, Gregory Jay, Peter Carafiol, CarolynPorter, and Paul Lauter. I use term Americanist guardedly here; someof names just dropped have made compelling cases for permanentlydispensing with term Americanist altogether, along with attendantsupporting narratives and myths (the Puritans, e…
Anne Hutchinson's "Monstrous Birth" and the Feminization of Antinomianism
The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation
Book Review| December 01 2000 The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation: A Call for Socio-Political Reform By Donna R. Bontatibus. East Lansing: Michigan State Univ. Press. 1999. 126 pp. Paper, $16.95. Bryce Traister Bryce Traister Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 868–869. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-868 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic
American Literature - Volume 72, Number 1, March 2000
Academic Viagra
ly, we might say that if one lesson of history is that of anxious, agonistic men trying desperately to embody the masculine, then the next lesson is that they—all men everywhere, from Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan—failed in the attempt. Lee Clark Mitchell writes in Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film: “The frequency with which the body is celebrated, then physically punished, only to convalesce, suggests something of…
The Wandering Bachelor
American Literature - Volume 74, Number 1, March 2002
The Object of Study; or, Are We Being Transnational Yet
This article polemically engages with recent trends and particular interventions in American transnational studies. It argues that the transnationalization of American literary and cultural studies, a movement sponsored institutionally by the American Studies Association among other scholarly organizations, amounts to another version of exceptionalist Americanist critique. In reading and assessing contributions to transnational studies from the f…
States of Exception
Terrorism Before the Letter
This essay argues that Herman Melville's 1855 novella, Benito Cereno, serves as a historical model for thinking through the construction of paranoid narrative in the 9/11 Commission Report. Melville's text invites a consideration of slavery's role in the preservation of status quo politics, and reveals the means by which the disclosure of secrecy becomes a condition for the legal fiction of slavery to persist. In purporting to reveal the hidden p…
American Literature and the New Puritan Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these i…
Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
Manufacturing Belief
Although not typically read as either a religious text or a narrative preoccupied with religious issues, Herman Melville’s novella of maritime slave revolution and recontainment demonstrates how antebellum Americans came to “believe” in slavery. Focusing on the narrative’s staging of religious declension within the theater of enslavement aboard the San Dominick, this essay shows how the novella positions the practice of human slavery as an object…
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