Maria Farland
Biographic Data
| ID | 824338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Farland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Farland |
| SIGNATURE | FARLAND M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decomposing City
This essay situates Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in the context of New York's environmental health crisis in the 1850s and 1860s. Against the dominant conception of Whitman as a poet of urban life, I argue that "This Compost"—and related lyrics in Leaves—express profound discomfort with the City's escalating waste, decay, and decomposing matter, and their effects on environmental and individual health. The poet's early prose writings endorse ur…
W. E. B. DuBois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift
This essay recovers a lost scientific study by W.E.B. DuBois, "Negro Labor in Lowndes County," through readings of his 1911 novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece. DuBois's study of the predominantly-black Lowndes County sought to refute the dominant belief in blacks' mental and physical inferiority—sometimes called the "retrogression hypothesis"—by amassing extensive empirical evidence of black American vitality and health through anthropometric …
"Total system, total solution, total apocalypse"
This essay examines major texts of 1970s women's and feminist fiction in terms of themes of sex oppression and systems of property which served as the nodal point for post-1945 sexual liberation theory and fiction. Where Beatnik writers like Jack Kerouac and Diane di Prima had insisted that free love could only flourish in a milieu of freedom from property and possessiveness, a new generation of 1970s writers came to abandon the notion that freed…
Gertrude Stein's Brain Work
Research Article| March 01 2004 Gertrude Stein's Brain Work Maria Farland Maria Farland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 117–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-117 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Maria Far…
Inventing the Psychological
MLN - Volume 113, Number 5, December 1998 (Comparative Literature Issue)
Domestic Individualism. Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America
Letters of the Republic
Decomposing City
This essay situates Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in the context of New York's environmental health crisis in the 1850s and 1860s. Against the dominant conception of Whitman as a poet of urban life, I argue that "This Compost"—and related lyrics in Leaves—express profound discomfort with the City's escalating waste, decay, and decomposing matter, and their effects on environmental and individual health. The poet's early prose writings endorse ur…
Gertrude Stein's Brain Work
Research Article| March 01 2004 Gertrude Stein's Brain Work Maria Farland Maria Farland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 117–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-117 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Maria Far…
Letters of the Republic
Domestic Individualism. Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America
Inventing the Psychological
MLN - Volume 113, Number 5, December 1998 (Comparative Literature Issue)
Gertrude Stein's Brain Work
Research Article| March 01 2004 Gertrude Stein's Brain Work Maria Farland Maria Farland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 117–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-117 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Maria Far…
"Total system, total solution, total apocalypse"
This essay examines major texts of 1970s women's and feminist fiction in terms of themes of sex oppression and systems of property which served as the nodal point for post-1945 sexual liberation theory and fiction. Where Beatnik writers like Jack Kerouac and Diane di Prima had insisted that free love could only flourish in a milieu of freedom from property and possessiveness, a new generation of 1970s writers came to abandon the notion that freed…
W. E. B. DuBois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift
This essay recovers a lost scientific study by W.E.B. DuBois, "Negro Labor in Lowndes County," through readings of his 1911 novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece. DuBois's study of the predominantly-black Lowndes County sought to refute the dominant belief in blacks' mental and physical inferiority—sometimes called the "retrogression hypothesis"—by amassing extensive empirical evidence of black American vitality and health through anthropometric …
Decomposing City
This essay situates Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in the context of New York's environmental health crisis in the 1850s and 1860s. Against the dominant conception of Whitman as a poet of urban life, I argue that "This Compost"—and related lyrics in Leaves—express profound discomfort with the City's escalating waste, decay, and decomposing matter, and their effects on environmental and individual health. The poet's early prose writings endorse ur…
Art (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)