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Romagnuolo, Anna. "Political discourse in translation." Discourse Analysis and Translation Studies 4, no. 1 (2009): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.4.1.01rom.

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Political discourse has been the subject of increasing interest in recent decades with the development of ideological and rhetorical criticism focusing on US presidential speeches, especially after the events of 9/11. Indeed, extensive research literature already exists in the field of American presidential rhetoric. The same cannot be said for studies of political texts available in translation. Currently, translation studies seems to be more concerned with the politics and the politicization of translation than with the translation of political texts, which have been examined more from a syn
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Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Anna D. "Between Polish Positivism and American Capitalism: The Educational Agents' Experiment in the Polish-American Community, 1889–1914." History of Education Quarterly 48, no. 4 (2008): 485–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2008.00167.x.

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Those who think that the job of an intelligent agent of Mr. Paryski is limited to selling his books [and] his newspaper, collecting the money, attending to business and never showing up again are wrong indeed…. The true, intelligent agent of “Ameryka-Echo” has the responsibility to visit as many Polish families (or Lithuanian, Slovak, and Russyn) as possible, to encourage them to learn, to facilitate their learning through providing them with suitable inexpensive books and newspapers, getting to know their problems and needs, and giving them appropriate advice so that people can be brought out
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Wellenstein, Edmund. "Political Implications of US‐EC Economic Conflicts (I) Euro‐American Turbulence—The Trade Issue." Government and Opposition 21, no. 4 (1986): 387–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1986.tb00027.x.

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TRADE QUARRELS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE have featured as a daily item in newspapers for some time, often even on the front page. Thus the New York Times in June 1986 carried a headline: ‘Reagan's tougher trade stand – policy shift angers Allies’. At the same time, the EC Council of ministers meeting in Luxembourg rejected American criticism of EC trade practices; in particular, the ministers underlined that EC support for exports of agricultural products could only be discussed in the framework of GATT, and only if other direct and indirect support schemes were also submitted to th
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Brynhildsvoll, Knut. "The Ethics of Aesthetics." Interlitteraria 22, no. 2 (2018): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2017.22.2.2.

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In my article I shall deal with the role of modern literary criticism as exercised by critics working for influential newspapers, journals and public media. I will discuss the evaluating standards and the judgment criteria. I will also examine the independence and moral integrity of critics working in close cooperation with big publishing houses. An important part of my article will focus on the jeopardized balance in book business which threatens to make the critics vulnerable to compromises and loss of ethical credibility. As a consequence of the critic’s cooperation with the sales departmen
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Davies, Mark. "Expanding horizons in historical linguistics with the 400-million word Corpus of Historical American English." Corpora 7, no. 2 (2012): 121–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2012.0024.

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The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) contains 400 million words in more than 100,000 texts which date from the 1810s to the 2000s. The corpus contains texts from fiction, popular magazines, newspapers and non-fiction books, and is balanced by genre from decade to decade. It has been carefully lemmatised and tagged for part-of-speech, and uses the same architecture as the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), BYU-BNC, the TIME Corpus and other corpora. COHA allows for a wide range of research on changes in lexis, morphology, syntax, semantics, and American culture and soci
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Frykholm, Joel. "Renegotiating quality TV in the Swedish press." Nordicom Review 42, no. 1 (2021): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0012.

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Abstract In this article, I explore the reception of American “quality” serial television in Sweden from 1999 to the mid-2010s. My analysis includes how cultural critics and journalists writing for Sweden's leading newspapers conceptualised American serial television as “quality TV” and as legitimate “art”, and it charts the ways in which these discourses relate to the reconfiguration of Swedish television from public service monopoly to niche-oriented multichannel system. The analysis uncovers a process of cultural consecration that was based on comparisons with already consecrated art forms,
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Tucker, David, and Mark Nixon. "Toward a Scholarly Edition of Beckett's Critical Writings." Journal of Beckett Studies 24, no. 1 (2015): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2015.0119.

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This essay outlines the case for a new, scholarly edition of Beckett's critical writings, one that would be complete and with critical annotation. For the most part these texts (critical writings, tributes, in memoria and epigraphs) have been published in a range of places. As well as in the magazines, newspapers, books and special-issue publications in which pieces originally appeared, a number were collected in Disjecta (Calder 1983 & Grove 1984). This volume, however, is not exhaustive; it misses out a number of important texts (not least Proust) and contains some textual inaccuracies.
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Søndergaard, Rasmus Sinding. "The Resilience of Camelot: The Kennedy Myth in Danish Newspapers during the Cold War." American Studies in Scandinavia 50, no. 2 (2018): 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v50i2.5778.

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John F. Kennedy holds a unique position in American public memory and opinion polls continuously rank Kennedy among the best presidents. The scholarly assessment of Kennedy, however, has changed considerably over time and holds a decisively less celebratory appraisal of Kennedy today. This dissonance between public opinion and scholarly assessment is closely connected to the so-called Kennedy Myth, which presents an idealized mythological image of Kennedy. Existing scholarship has demonstrated that Kennedy was immensely popular among Danes up until his assassination in 1963. However, little is
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Friedman, Sharon M., Kara Villamil, Robyn A. Suriano, and Brenda P. Egolf. "Alar and apples: newspapers, risk and media responsibility." Public Understanding of Science 5, no. 1 (1996): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/5/1/001.

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During 1989, a major environmental and health risk issue, the spraying of Alar on apples, created a furor among the American people. After hearing charges from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) that eating Alar-laden apples significantly increased a child's risk of developing cancer, numbers of school districts dropped apples from their menus and parents poured apple juice down the drains. Apple sales plummeted. The NRDC's charges, which were disseminated by a well-planned and effective public relations campaign, brought counter-charges from the US Environmental Protection Agency, w
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Hershberg, James G. "Reflections on George F. Kennan: An American Life." Journal of Cold War Studies 15, no. 4 (2013): 155–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00399.

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Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the book, they also raise numerous points of criticism. Two of the commentators, Barton J. Bernstein and Anders Stephanson, present extended critiques of
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Books Criticism. American newspapers"

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Orand, Amber Werley Darden Bob. "A quantitative analysis of theater criticism in four American newspapers." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5169.

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Hull, Thomas William Allan. "Selling Moral Panic: Social Scientific Criticism of Movies and Comic Books for Children, 1925-1955." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1263949945.

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Haley, Jennifer M. "Encomium, agency, and subversion : the feminist recovery of baby books as women's domestic rhetoric." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1370879.

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In this dissertation I conduct a feminist recovery of the baby book as one kind of ordinary women's domestic rhetoric. I analyze the ways in which the baby book's evolution reflects changes in cultural practices over time and the means by which the baby book constitutes acts of potentially subversive agency in its power to resist patriarchal structuring. I classify the baby book within the ancient rhetorical genre of encomium, allowing us to perceive how a culture, situated in time and place, values the perception and presentation of an infant and the culturally-assigned role of the mother in
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Chan, Suet Ni. "In the periphery of the margin: white masculinity in contemporary American fiction /Chan Suet Ni." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/351.

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My thesis discusses male identity in contemporary culture in relation to work by Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk. Such work reflects the problems, anxieties, and dilemmas of the masculine subject in American culture. The characters in my six selected texts, namely, Ellis' Less Than Zero, American Psycho, and Glamorama, and Palahniuk's Fight Club, Survivor, and Choke, symbolize a generation with no discernible future. Each male protagonist finds himself in a place of no time and no meaning because image and illusion have supplanted essence. These characters combat culture-prevalent emptin
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Zachik-Smith, Susie. "Romance by the book: A morphological analysis of the popular romance." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/810.

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Broxson, Gene Marshall. "A comprehensive examination of the precode horror comic books of the 1950's." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2429.

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Rhodes, Molly Rae. "Doctoring culture : literary intellectuals, psychology and mass culture in the twentieth-century United States /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9809139.

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Dedman, Stephen. "Techronomicon (novel) ; and The weapon shop : the relationship between American science fiction and the US military (dissertation)." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0093.

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Techronomicon Techronomicon is a science fiction novel that examines far-future military actions from several different perspectives. Human beings have colonized several planets with help from the enigmatic and more technologically advanced Zhir, who gave spaceships and habitable worlds to those they deemed suitable and their descendants. The Joint Expeditionary Force is the military arm of the Universal Faith, called in when conflicts arise that the Faith decides are beyond the local government and militia and require their intervention. Leneveldt and Roader are JEF officers assigned to Oper
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Reavis, E. "Adolescent Female Identity Development and Its Portrayal in Select Contemporary Young Adult Fiction." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/116.

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This study describes a content analysis of six contemporary young adult fiction novels. Adolescence is a time of great change, particularly for girls. It is during this time that female adolescents develop their voice and identity. As literature reflects the reader’s world, it also affects in part how female adolescents perceive their identity. Latent content analysis was used to code eight variables to determine if select contemporary young adult fiction novels appropriately describe the development of identity among adolescent females. All of the novels included in the study provided su
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Robinson, Laura M. "Educating the reader, negotiation in nineteenth-century popular girls' stories." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0007/NQ27853.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Books Criticism. American newspapers"

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American newspaper comics: An encyclopedic reference guide. The University of Michigan Press, 2011.

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Brian, Walker, and West Richard V, eds. Children of the yellow kid: The evolution of the American comic strip. Frye Art Museum in association with the University of Washington Press, 1998.

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Reading the funnies: Essays on comic strips. Fantagraphics Books, 2001.

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Barlow, Ronald S. The insider's guide to old books, magazines, newspapers, trade catalogs. Windmill Pub. Co., 1995.

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The Word in the world: Evangelical writing, publishing, and reading in America, 1789-1880. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

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Companion to American children's picture books. Greenwood Press, 2005.

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Powell, Lawrence Clark. Books--West, Southwest: Essays on writers, their books, and their land. Books West Southwest, 1994.

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Biržiška, Vaclovas. Knygotyros darbai. Pradai, 1998.

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Conn, Peter J. Great American bestsellers: The books that shaped America. Teaching Co., 2009.

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Never in doubt: Critical essays on American books, 1972-1985. Arbor House, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Books Criticism. American newspapers"

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Adlington, Hugh. "Critical Writing." In Penelope Fitzgerald. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780746312957.003.0002.

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This chapter surveys the large body of Fitzgerald’s critical writing, only a fraction of which has been collected and is currently in print. This body of work includes more than fifty book, film and theatre reviews for Punch magazine, more than twenty essays on European art, literature and culture for World Review (the periodical that Fitzgerald co-edited in the early 1950s), and more than 200 reviews of fiction and biography in British and American newspapers, as well as introductions for books and editions, travel essays, art criticism, literary essays and journalistic sketches. The chapter considers the nature of Fitzgerald’s critical sympathies, priorities and tastes, and the marked stylistic continuities between her criticism and fiction. In particular, the chapter notes Fitzgerald’s fascination in her critical writing with what would become two of the most distinctive features of her own writing: a searching appreciation of the psychological and social interplay between fictional characters, and a prose style apparently without art.
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Abate, Michelle Ann. "“It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s an Elementary-Aged Girl!”." In Funny Girls. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496820730.003.0001.

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The Introduction provides necessary historical background information. It gives an overview of the book's overall aims and argument, and it also summarizes the project's methodology and organizational plan.When critics, scholars, and fans think about major developments in American comics from the first half of the twentieth century, they commonly think of events like the advent of the Sunday newspaper supplement, the rise of the comic book, and the backlash against the industry by individuals like Fredric Wertham. The Introduction to this project makes a case for adding another phenomenon to this history: the popularity of young female protagonists.As it explains, examining figures like Little Lulu, Nancy, and Little Orphan Annie-both individually and as part of a larger tradition-yields compelling new insights about the industry during the first half of the twentieth century. Remembering and recouping the cadre of Funny Girls who played such a significant role in the popular appeal and commercial success of American comics during the first half of the twentieth century challenges longstanding perceptions about the gender dynamics operating during this era.
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Temkin, Sefton D. "Duties Old and New." In Creating American Reform Judaism. Liverpool University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774457.003.0042.

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This chapter describes Isaac Mayer Wise’s further struggles after his latest milestone at Hebrew Union College. If not before, when the glow of this ceremony had faded, Wise may have realized that his was the task to trudge on, now with one more burden on his shoulders. He was 56; he had fought his way upwards despite all the opposition of inferior beings, but the plateau he had reached was still not the summit. Over and above his duties to his congregation and his two weekly newspapers, he had to make Hebrew Union College mean something, lest the predictions of his enemies be confirmed and the presidency which had been vested in him with all the external marks of confidence was to go down as an empty and ephemeral title, with no more significance in the life of American Jewry than that of the other institutions which he had vainly attempted to bring to life. Apart from these tasks, during the remaining quarter-century of his life Wise continued to travel and lecture, now being more in demand on account of his new office, and he added several books to his list of publications.
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Lonsdale, Sarah. "Literary and Review Journalism." In The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 3. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424929.003.0008.

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Cultural commentary has always been an important part of a newspaper’s offering to its readers. Book, theatre and film reviews provide an essential reader service, and form part of a nation’s cultural conversation about itself and its values. Arts criticism in the mainstream press has until recently been dominated by a privileged, often Oxbridge-educated and male elite of ‘amateur’ journalists from the arts world, many having been novelists themselves. More recently, arts pages are more likely to be edited by professional journalists. Newspaper books pages contain fewer reviews of ‘difficult’ or academic books than they did in the mid-twentieth century; instead contain more reviews of celebrity memoir and ‘pop’ histories. This is partly because the number of books reviewed in mainstream newspapers and arts journals has decreased significantly since the mid-1980s; reviews having been replaced with features such as books ‘hit parades’ and interviews with celebrity novelists and directors.
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Casal, Rodrigo Cacho. "Writing in the New World." In The Places of Early Modern Criticism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834687.003.0009.

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Over the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish American poetry and poetic theory experience a crucial moment of affirmation. Literary networks strengthen their circle of influence, and several authors, both creole and settlers, are able to promote their careers, further facilitated by the printing press. Books such as Miscelánea austral (Lima, 1602/1603) by Diego Dávalos y Figueroa, Grandeza mexicana (Mexico City, 1604) by Bernardo de Balbuena, and Parnaso antártico (Seville, 1608) by Diego Mexía contain a number of texts which lay the foundations for a new American poetics. They constitute a canon of New World authors who fashion themselves at the centre of a transatlantic exchange, both as followers and innovators of the peninsular literary tradition of the Renaissance. Framed within the rhetorical genre of “defences of poetry” and “defences of women”, these poets put forward an engaging critical representation of their own poetic identity.
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Sheppard, W. Anthony. "“Beyond Description”." In Extreme Exoticism. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190072704.003.0002.

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Chapter one places music in the context of late 19th-century Euro-American japonisme. The focus is on American perceptions of and reactions to Japanese music encountered in Japan in the second half of the 19th century. Sources include published and unpublished correspondence and diaries of Americans (from Salem sailors to scholars to Gilded Age socialites) who traveled to Japan as well as travel books, scholarly journals, newspapers, and novels set in Japan. The chapter presents the earliest songs, musicals, and plays representing Japan and Japanese music to the American public. Bostonian Japanophiles are central as are American music educators who worked in Japan. The context in which Japanese music was first heard in the U.S., particularly at World Expositions, is explored. These early and primarily negative reports indirectly reveal contemporaneous American musical values and unintentionally marked Japanese music as an ideal model for later modernist composers.
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Agathocleous, Tanya. "Introduction." In Disaffected. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501753879.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter introduces James Long, an Anglo-Irish missionary who was active in schoolbook production and fascinated by Bengali literature, who published A Catalogue of Bengali Newspapers and Periodicals from 1818 to 1855. As the author of this text, he was in a good position to argue, two years later, that had the British paid more heed to the discontent on view in Indian periodicals, they might have prevented the 1857 Rebellion. With such argument, the chapter unveils the impact of the 1857 Rebellion into the Press and Registration of Books Act of 1867, an official acknowledgment of the power of the Indian press, and how it metastasized into a full-fledged culture of surveillance. It investigates how politics and affect became “officially” (legally) coupled at a crucial historical juncture, and the wide-ranging effects of this coupling on politics, literary culture, and ideas of criticism. The chapter also focuses on what British administrators thought Indian affect was, how they sought to control it and the effects this had on print culture and the colonial public sphere. For this reason, the chapter uses the words “affect” and “emotion” interchangeably, reflecting the way they were used in colonial courtrooms, as prosecutors sought to find evidence and proof of disaffection. Ultimately, it analyses the way censorship influenced conceptions of the public sphere and of the politics of empire.
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Kuisel, Richard F. "The Paradox of the Fin de Siècle: Anti-Americanism and Americanization." In The French Way. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691151816.003.0007.

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As the twentieth century drew to a close, Americanization was transforming how the French ate, entertained themselves, conducted business, and even communicated. Yet the fin de siècle also witnessed the strongest expression of anti-Americanism since the 1960s, which was visible in opinion polls, newspapers, books, television, and politicians' pronouncements. This chapter examines this paradox, this tension between a society seemingly immersed in America and one that posed America as “the other.” The growing anti-Americanism can be briefly explained as follows: once the Cold War ended, the transatlantic superpower, from a French perspective, became more overbearing. The French in turn became more critical of domestic trends in the United States and less comfortable with the inroads of American culture. As a result they intensified their efforts at both asserting their independence and defining themselves differently from their American cousins.
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Hagen, Benjamin D. "Essaying Affects." In The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979275.003.0005.

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This chapter intervenes in the critical reception of Lawrence’s literary studies, works that scholarship tends to mine for their insights into Lawrence’s metaphysics or psychology rather than insights into the critical study of literature. Reading his criticism as criticism, the author argues that Lawrence’s study of Thomas Hardy, his survey of American literature, and his return to the Book of Revelation near the end of his life model practices of reparative reading avant la lettre. Lawrence believes that novels can teach readers to live and feel. He mobilizes this belief into a method that identifies moments of tension or intensity in literary texts and models how readers can inhabit these tensions and intensities, trying them out, essaying literary affects as means to their own ends. Moreover, Lawrence’s literary studies attend to a range of needs: his own, his readers’, and those of the books he effortfully repairs.
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Tackett, Timothy. "Understanding the World." In The Glory and the Sorrow. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197557389.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the evidence in Colson’s correspondence that throws light on his “culture,” the manner in which he understood and interpreted his world. Although the emphasis is on the end of the Old Regime, the examination also helps illuminate his views during the Revolution. Among the topics dealt with are his writing facility and style, the books in his personal library, the newspapers he read, his reporting on local gossip, his attitude toward the king, his account of the War of American Independence, his relationship to the Enlightenment, his reports on the earliest hot-air balloons, his experience with sickness and medicine, his attitudes toward the popular classes, and his relations with women. In general, the chapter concludes that there is virtually no evidence of an influence of the canonical Enlightenment on Colson’s beliefs, nor is there evidence of a “desacralization of the monarchy” before 1789. Nevertheless, later Revolutionary attitudes are possibly prefigured in his clear sympathy for the lower classes and in his penchant for practical reforms in some aspects of daily life.
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