Jeannine Marie Delombard
Biographic Data
| ID | 989696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeannine Marie Delombard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeannine Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Delombard |
| SIGNATURE | DELOMBARD J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps ou…
The Art of Naturalization
Stephanie DeGooyer revises the early history of the English novel by contextualizing it in the legal and political history of immigration and naturalization. Rather than charting the rise of the self-possessed, individual, Protestant, and—above all—English subject, DeGooyer contends, novels by Daniel Defoe, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley experiment with a “paranational” subje…
Elizabeth Freeman, Spinster
Elizabeth Freeman is remembered today for bringing one of the lawsuits credited with ending slavery in Massachusetts and for serving as "surrogate mother" in the family of her white lawyer, Theodore Sedgwick. This article finds a corrective to the Sedgwicks' paternalistic, antebellum narrative of "Mumbet" in the legal documents Freeman generated when she sued her enslaver, purchased land, and dictated her will. Rather than a triumphal narrative o…
Erin Forbes, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845
Darnella Frazier received the 2021 Pulitzer Prize Citation and Award for “courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world, highlighting the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quest for truth and justice.” With this short statement, the Pulitzer Board recognized the “active, material, and distributed” (153) but also “voluntarist” (18) agency that Erin Forbes identifie…
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 by Kristin A. Olbertson
Hate speech. Cancel culture. Civility. Safe spaces. Trigger warnings. Microaggressions. Pronouns. Gag orders. Doxxing. Parental controls. Twitter and Facebook suspensions. Misinformation. Disinformation. Fake news. Alternative facts. The dark web. TikTok bans. Hot mics. Discord leaks. Oversharing. Earmuffs.American law and culture is preoccupied with speech, its effects, and its limits. As historian Kristin Olbertson documents in her delightfully…
Dehumanizing Slave Personhood
Afrohumanism is crucial to the forward-looking "project of thinking humanity from perspectives beyond the liberal humanist subject, Man" (Weheliye 2014: 8). It is another question, however, whether such a humanist approach provides the best historical analytic for understanding slavery and its carceral afterlives. This question becomes particularly pressing when we consider that today's prison-industrial complex, like the American slaveholder of …
Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder , African American Literature, and Periodical CultureThe Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
In the 1970s and 1980s, early African American literature was central to the institutionalization of black studies and a revised US literary canon. The slave narrative in particular became the focus of exciting new or recovered scholarship by Marion Wilson Starling, Frances Smith Foster, William Andrews, Houston A. Baker Jr., Jean Fagan Yellin, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (among others). Then in 2005, a quarter century after publishing her influent…
The Lives of Frederick Douglass by Robert S. Levine
Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850
Mark J. Miller's study of abjection might be plotted at the intersection of three previous inquiries: Nancy Ruttenburg's Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship (1998), Marianne Noble's Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (2000), and Christopher Castiglia's Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States (2008). Miller sets out to examine h…
White-Jacket: Telling Who Is – and Aint – a Slave
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Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution
Making Waves on the Black Atlantic: The Case of John Anderson
The once celebrated, now neglected case of John Anderson reveals a rare moment of conflict between two modes of black publicity in Anglo-American law and letters on the eve of emancipation. As a fugitive from justice as well as from service, Anderson marked a disruption in the legal–literary continuum linking the colonial gallows tradition to the antebellum slave narrative. Eluding the due process that affirmed the criminous slave's legal personh…
Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity; Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn
Book Review| September 01 2011 Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn. By Wilson, Christopher P.. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2010. ix, 202 pp. $44.95.The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons. By Dayan, Colin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2011. xvii, 343 pp. $29.95. Jeannine Marie D…
Salvaging Legal Personhood: Melville's Benito Cereno
DeLombard's essay departs from previous legally oriented readings of Benito Cereno by foregrounding not the title character's mysterious deposition but the novella's hitherto neglected series of contracts in order to interpret Herman Melville's only sustained literary portrayal of slavery through contemporaneous changes in contract law. Surveying the numerous legal documents that accumulate within and between the novella and its source text, Amas…
By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority; Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
Book Review| June 01 2008 By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority; Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois Jeannine Marie DeLombard Jeannine Marie DeLombard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 407–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence; Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States
Book Review| December 01 2007 The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence; Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States Jeannine Marie DeLombard Jeannine Marie DeLombard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 826–828. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissio…
Turning Back the Clock: Black Atlantic Literary Studies
Representing the Slave: "White Advocacy and Black Testimony in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Dred
Eye-Witness to the Cruelty: Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative
Research Article| June 01 2001 “Eye-Witness to the Cruelty”: Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative Jeannine DeLombard Jeannine DeLombard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 245–275. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-245 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeannine DeLombard; “Eye-Wit…
Sisters, Servants, or Saviors? National Baptist Women Missionaries in Liberia in the 1920s
Jeannine DeLombard, Sisters, Servants, or Saviors? National Baptist Women Missionaries in Liberia in the 1920s, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1991), pp. 323-347
Salvaging Legal Personhood: Melville's Benito Cereno
DeLombard's essay departs from previous legally oriented readings of Benito Cereno by foregrounding not the title character's mysterious deposition but the novella's hitherto neglected series of contracts in order to interpret Herman Melville's only sustained literary portrayal of slavery through contemporaneous changes in contract law. Surveying the numerous legal documents that accumulate within and between the novella and its source text, Amas…
Dehumanizing Slave Personhood
Afrohumanism is crucial to the forward-looking "project of thinking humanity from perspectives beyond the liberal humanist subject, Man" (Weheliye 2014: 8). It is another question, however, whether such a humanist approach provides the best historical analytic for understanding slavery and its carceral afterlives. This question becomes particularly pressing when we consider that today's prison-industrial complex, like the American slaveholder of …
Eye-Witness to the Cruelty: Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative
Research Article| June 01 2001 “Eye-Witness to the Cruelty”: Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative Jeannine DeLombard Jeannine DeLombard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 245–275. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-245 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeannine DeLombard; “Eye-Wit…
Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution
Sisters, Servants, or Saviors? National Baptist Women Missionaries in Liberia in the 1920s
Jeannine DeLombard, Sisters, Servants, or Saviors? National Baptist Women Missionaries in Liberia in the 1920s, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1991), pp. 323-347
Eye-Witness to the Cruelty: Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative
Research Article| June 01 2001 “Eye-Witness to the Cruelty”: Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative Jeannine DeLombard Jeannine DeLombard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 245–275. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-245 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeannine DeLombard; “Eye-Wit…
Turning Back the Clock: Black Atlantic Literary Studies
Representing the Slave: "White Advocacy and Black Testimony in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Dred
The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence; Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States
Book Review| December 01 2007 The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence; Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States Jeannine Marie DeLombard Jeannine Marie DeLombard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 826–828. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissio…
By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority; Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
Book Review| June 01 2008 By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority; Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois Jeannine Marie DeLombard Jeannine Marie DeLombard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 407–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Salvaging Legal Personhood: Melville's Benito Cereno
DeLombard's essay departs from previous legally oriented readings of Benito Cereno by foregrounding not the title character's mysterious deposition but the novella's hitherto neglected series of contracts in order to interpret Herman Melville's only sustained literary portrayal of slavery through contemporaneous changes in contract law. Surveying the numerous legal documents that accumulate within and between the novella and its source text, Amas…
Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity; Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn
Book Review| September 01 2011 Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn. By Wilson, Christopher P.. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2010. ix, 202 pp. $44.95.The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons. By Dayan, Colin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2011. xvii, 343 pp. $29.95. Jeannine Marie D…
Making Waves on the Black Atlantic: The Case of John Anderson
The once celebrated, now neglected case of John Anderson reveals a rare moment of conflict between two modes of black publicity in Anglo-American law and letters on the eve of emancipation. As a fugitive from justice as well as from service, Anderson marked a disruption in the legal–literary continuum linking the colonial gallows tradition to the antebellum slave narrative. Eluding the due process that affirmed the criminous slave's legal personh…
White-Jacket: Telling Who Is – and Aint – a Slave
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution
Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850
Mark J. Miller's study of abjection might be plotted at the intersection of three previous inquiries: Nancy Ruttenburg's Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship (1998), Marianne Noble's Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (2000), and Christopher Castiglia's Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States (2008). Miller sets out to examine h…
Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder , African American Literature, and Periodical CultureThe Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
In the 1970s and 1980s, early African American literature was central to the institutionalization of black studies and a revised US literary canon. The slave narrative in particular became the focus of exciting new or recovered scholarship by Marion Wilson Starling, Frances Smith Foster, William Andrews, Houston A. Baker Jr., Jean Fagan Yellin, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (among others). Then in 2005, a quarter century after publishing her influent…
The Lives of Frederick Douglass by Robert S. Levine
Dehumanizing Slave Personhood
Afrohumanism is crucial to the forward-looking "project of thinking humanity from perspectives beyond the liberal humanist subject, Man" (Weheliye 2014: 8). It is another question, however, whether such a humanist approach provides the best historical analytic for understanding slavery and its carceral afterlives. This question becomes particularly pressing when we consider that today's prison-industrial complex, like the American slaveholder of …
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 by Kristin A. Olbertson
Hate speech. Cancel culture. Civility. Safe spaces. Trigger warnings. Microaggressions. Pronouns. Gag orders. Doxxing. Parental controls. Twitter and Facebook suspensions. Misinformation. Disinformation. Fake news. Alternative facts. The dark web. TikTok bans. Hot mics. Discord leaks. Oversharing. Earmuffs.American law and culture is preoccupied with speech, its effects, and its limits. As historian Kristin Olbertson documents in her delightfully…
Erin Forbes, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845
Darnella Frazier received the 2021 Pulitzer Prize Citation and Award for “courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world, highlighting the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quest for truth and justice.” With this short statement, the Pulitzer Board recognized the “active, material, and distributed” (153) but also “voluntarist” (18) agency that Erin Forbes identifie…
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps ou…
The Art of Naturalization
Stephanie DeGooyer revises the early history of the English novel by contextualizing it in the legal and political history of immigration and naturalization. Rather than charting the rise of the self-possessed, individual, Protestant, and—above all—English subject, DeGooyer contends, novels by Daniel Defoe, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley experiment with a “paranational” subje…
Elizabeth Freeman, Spinster
Elizabeth Freeman is remembered today for bringing one of the lawsuits credited with ending slavery in Massachusetts and for serving as "surrogate mother" in the family of her white lawyer, Theodore Sedgwick. This article finds a corrective to the Sedgwicks' paternalistic, antebellum narrative of "Mumbet" in the legal documents Freeman generated when she sued her enslaver, purchased land, and dictated her will. Rather than a triumphal narrative o…
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