Article: Atavistic tendencies; the culture of science in American modernity.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Whissel, Kristen: Picturing American Modernity: ...
History: Review of New Books;  June 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Whissel, Kristen Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology ... September 2008 In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel, an associate ... years. Still, Picturing American Modernity is an exciting work of scholarship ...

Lisa Duggan, Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American ...
American Studies International;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... invention of "lesbian" identity in American modernity and its concomitant violence, examining ... legacy as a narrative type, shaped American modernity, citizenship, and nation. Since ... construction of an exclusive citizenship in American modernity because their racialized storylines ...

Article: Anglo-American Modernity and the ...
The Modern Language Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean. Ed. by CAROLINE PATEY, GIOVANNI CIANCI, and FRANCESCA CUOJATI. Milan: Cisalpino. 2006. 399 PP ...

Article: THE SOUTH CRITIQUES AMERICAN MODERNITY.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 28, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... there also is an admirable seriousness about the intellectual pedigree of a particular cultural critique of American modernity. However, if you want to know just how lost the lost cause is, and how much the league needs a leavening sense ...

Article: The Pattern of American Modernity from the ...
Daedalus;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... participated in the founding discourse emphasized discontinuity from European origins and past. This new "project of American modernity" [5] was of crucial importance because it shaped the specific institutional features that developed in the ...

Article: Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American ...
The Village Voice;  February 13, 2001 ;     649 words ...SAPPHIC SLASHERS: SEX, VIOLENCE, AND AMERICAN MODERNITY By Lisa Duggan Duke University Press, 328 pp., $17.95 paper In the wintry afternoon in 1892 when Alice Mitchell took a razor ...

Article: Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American ...
The Village Voice;  September 15, 1998 ;     682 words ...EXOTICS AT HOME: ANTHROPOLOGIES, OTHERS, AMERICAN MODERNITY By Micaela di Leonardo University of Chicago Press, 445 pp., $35 Quick: think of an anthropologist. Chances are, you just ...