Books by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Contributors: Anthony Bogues, Marlene Daut, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, Laurent Du... more Contributors: Anthony Bogues, Marlene Daut, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, Laurent Dubois, James Alexander Dun, Duncan Faherty, Carolyn Fick, David Geggus, Kieran Murphy, Colleen O'Brien, Peter P. Reed, Siân Silyn Roberts, Cristobal Silva, Ed White, Ivy Wilson, Gretchen Woertendyke, Edlie Wong.
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In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eightee... more In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical emergence of a collective body in the colonized New World—one that included indigenous peoples, diasporic Africans, and diasporic Europeans. In the raucous space of the theatre, the contradictions of colonialism loomed large. Foremost among these was the central paradox of modernity: the coexistence of a massive slave economy and a nascent politics of freedom.
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"In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the work... more "In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere—from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism. Placing representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere, this book links modern forms of political identity to the seemingly private images of gender displayed prominently in the developing public sphere. The 'fictions of liberalism' explored in this book are those of marriage and motherhood, sentimental domesticity, and heterosexual desire—narratives that structure the private realm upon which liberalism depends for its meaning and value. In a series of bold theoretical arguments and nuanced readings of literary texts, the author explores the political force of these private narratives with chapters on the Antinomian crisis in Puritan Massachusetts, early national models of gender and marriage in the works of Charles Brockden Brown and Hannah Webster Foster, infanticide narratives and nineteenth-century accounts of motherhood in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lydia Maria Child, and 're-arranging' marriage in the poetry of Emily Dickinson."
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Contents: The Gender of Freedom
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public
1. Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere
2. Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts
3. Contracting Marriage in the New Republic
4. Sociality and Sentiment
Coda: Queering Marriage—Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today, 2023
Representation as a keyword for understanding the history of Democracy in the United States.
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History of the Present, 2022
This article argues that Freud's account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus ... more This article argues that Freud's account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century-a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation that developed in and around the first factories of the modern world, namely, the sugar plantations of the colonial Caribbean. The article links Freud's own economic and intellectual history to the production of capital and the theft of land and labor in the Caribbean by way of the central European trade in textiles and global cotton production. Examining a series of family portraits, the article locates the eclipsed yet central force of Black women's productive and socially reproductive work extracted for the creation of white, heteropatriarchal reproduction and property accumulation.
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Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers seeks to develop theoret... more Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers seeks to develop theoretical models that will help scholars better understand what qualities--both textual and thematic--helped particular news stories, short fiction, and poetry "go viral" in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. Prior to copyright legislation and enforcement, literary texts as well as other non-fiction prose texts circulated promiscuously among newspapers as editors freely reprinted materials borrowed from other venues. What texts were reprinted and why? How did ideas--literary, political, scientific, economic, religious--circulate in the public sphere and achieve critical force among audiences? By employing and developing computational linguistics tools to analyze the large textual databases of nineteenth-century newspapers newly available to scholars, this project will generate new knowledge of the nineteenth-century print public sphere.
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This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus ... more This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century—a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation that developed in and around the first factories of the modern world, namely, the sugar plantations of the colonial Caribbean. The article links Freud’s own economic and intellectual history to the production of capital and the theft of land and labor in the Caribbean by way of the central European trade in textiles and global cotton production. Examining a series of family portraits, the article locates the eclipsed yet central force of Black women’s productive and socially reproductive work extracted for the creation of white, heteropatriarchal reproduction and property accumulation.
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... In the US the 1790s mark a turn toward defining American identity in ascriptive terms, making... more ... In the US the 1790s mark a turn toward defining American identity in ascriptive terms, makingrace an increasingly important signifier of ... In this instance, the lowbrow comic character ofSebastiana drunkard and dunce among the party of Anglo-American slaves plotting the ...
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Novel, 2014
This article turns to the space of the colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to offer a... more This article turns to the space of the colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to offer an alternative theory of the novel—one that defines colonial geographies as constitutive of the novel as a genre rather than as marginal and inessential. In looking to such colonial locations as they appear in the novel, I advance a claim concerning aesthetics and politics: namely, in the eighteenth century it is the demos—the collectivity and the geography of that collectivity, the defining of a people—that requires constituting by way of the genre of the novel as much as it is the novelistic subject. Turned in such a light, the genre of the novel can be seen as one that marshals aesthetic resources toward generating horizontal collectivities (democratic structures, for instance) that are distinct from, and in tension with, vertically oriented genealogical kinship structures. I argue that the aesthetics at play in the novel as a genre are instrumental in creating and defining the demos a...
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Books by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Free Sample Chapter (Introduction): http://www.sup.org/pages.cgi?isbn=0804758476&item=Introduction_pages&page=1
Stanford UP catalogue: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=836
Google books: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Gender_of_Freedom.html?id=UuPsKmi46tsC
Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Gender-Freedom-Fictions-Liberalism/dp/0804758476
Contents: The Gender of Freedom
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public
1. Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere
2. Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts
3. Contracting Marriage in the New Republic
4. Sociality and Sentiment
Coda: Queering Marriage—Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Papers by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Free Sample Chapter (Introduction): http://www.sup.org/pages.cgi?isbn=0804758476&item=Introduction_pages&page=1
Stanford UP catalogue: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=836
Google books: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Gender_of_Freedom.html?id=UuPsKmi46tsC
Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Gender-Freedom-Fictions-Liberalism/dp/0804758476
Contents: The Gender of Freedom
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public
1. Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere
2. Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts
3. Contracting Marriage in the New Republic
4. Sociality and Sentiment
Coda: Queering Marriage—Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title
Notes
Works Cited
Index