Jennifer Rae Greeson
Biographic Data
| ID | 992767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Rae Greeson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Rae |
| FAMILY NAME | Greeson |
| SIGNATURE | GREESON J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speculation and Scientific Method
This article proposes that Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of 1588 is the first initial public offering (IPO) in history and that understanding it as such provides new insight into how plantation capitalism and scientific method were conceptualized in a mutually constitutive Anglo-American discourse. First, the author traces how the practical exigencies posed by the anomalous form of English New World colonization that Walter Ralegh pursu…
Both Ends of the Telescope
Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty
Reimagining the Republic
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as…
“Their Position Must Be Mined”
Plantation and Enlightenment
This essay revises traditional notions of the plantation as antithetical to modernity by linking foundational Anglo-American writings about the plantation to English Enlightenment thought. By examining writings about the American plantation enterprise ranging from Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of the New-Found Land of Virginia (1588/1590) to John Locke’s Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), this essay establishes a clear relati…
K aren L. C ox . Goat Castle
Karen L. Cox’s Goat Castle is a gorgeous “Trojan horse” of a book—executing a “draw ’em in/teach ’em something they didn’t mean to learn” one-two punch that the field of southern studies seems particularly well placed to deliver. Although every inch a meticulously researched monograph, Goat Castle presents itself to the reader as offering up a stereotypically lurid, pleasurably consumable southern story. John Grisham provides true-crime cred with…
Novel Bondage
Book Review| June 01 2014 Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America. By Chakkalakal, Tess. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 145 pp.$40.00.Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance. By Reynolds, Larry J.. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. …
American Universal Geography
Our South
Claiming the Pen
Book Review| December 01 2007 Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South; American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 Jennifer Greeson Jennifer Greeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 828–830. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-044 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Gre…
Southern Aberrations
Book Review| March 01 2002 Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism By Richard Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2000. xiv, 535 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $34.95. Jennifer Rae Greeson; Jennifer Rae Greeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Candace Waid Candace Waid Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 176–177. …
The "Mysteries and Miseries" of North Carolina
Research Article| June 01 2001 The “Mysteries and Miseries” of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jennifer Rae Greeson Jennifer Rae Greeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 277–309. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-277 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Rae Greeson; The “Myste…
The Figure of the South and the Nationalizing Imperatives of Early United States Literature
The Figure of the South and the Nationalizing Imperatives of Early United States Literature Jennifer Rae Greeson (bio) The development of postcolonial theory in recent decades has seemed necessarily to impact the study of United States culture, since the U.S. has its own colonial origins. But the American path to nationhood significantly deviated from the foundational paradigm of postcolonial studies, the model of twentieth-century nationalizatio…
The "Mysteries and Miseries" of North Carolina
Research Article| June 01 2001 The “Mysteries and Miseries” of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jennifer Rae Greeson Jennifer Rae Greeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 277–309. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-277 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Rae Greeson; The “Myste…
The Figure of the South and the Nationalizing Imperatives of Early United States Literature
The Figure of the South and the Nationalizing Imperatives of Early United States Literature Jennifer Rae Greeson (bio) The development of postcolonial theory in recent decades has seemed necessarily to impact the study of United States culture, since the U.S. has its own colonial origins. But the American path to nationhood significantly deviated from the foundational paradigm of postcolonial studies, the model of twentieth-century nationalizatio…
The "Mysteries and Miseries" of North Carolina
Research Article| June 01 2001 The “Mysteries and Miseries” of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jennifer Rae Greeson Jennifer Rae Greeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 277–309. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-277 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Rae Greeson; The “Myste…
Southern Aberrations
Book Review| March 01 2002 Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism By Richard Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2000. xiv, 535 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $34.95. Jennifer Rae Greeson; Jennifer Rae Greeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Candace Waid Candace Waid Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 176–177. …
Claiming the Pen
Book Review| December 01 2007 Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South; American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 Jennifer Greeson Jennifer Greeson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 828–830. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-044 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Gre…
American Universal Geography
Our South
Novel Bondage
Book Review| June 01 2014 Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America. By Chakkalakal, Tess. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 145 pp.$40.00.Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance. By Reynolds, Larry J.. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. …
K aren L. C ox . Goat Castle
Karen L. Cox’s Goat Castle is a gorgeous “Trojan horse” of a book—executing a “draw ’em in/teach ’em something they didn’t mean to learn” one-two punch that the field of southern studies seems particularly well placed to deliver. Although every inch a meticulously researched monograph, Goat Castle presents itself to the reader as offering up a stereotypically lurid, pleasurably consumable southern story. John Grisham provides true-crime cred with…
Plantation and Enlightenment
This essay revises traditional notions of the plantation as antithetical to modernity by linking foundational Anglo-American writings about the plantation to English Enlightenment thought. By examining writings about the American plantation enterprise ranging from Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of the New-Found Land of Virginia (1588/1590) to John Locke’s Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), this essay establishes a clear relati…
Reimagining the Republic
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as…
“Their Position Must Be Mined”
Speculation and Scientific Method
This article proposes that Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of 1588 is the first initial public offering (IPO) in history and that understanding it as such provides new insight into how plantation capitalism and scientific method were conceptualized in a mutually constitutive Anglo-American discourse. First, the author traces how the practical exigencies posed by the anomalous form of English New World colonization that Walter Ralegh pursu…
Both Ends of the Telescope
Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty
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