What is the relationship between common sense categories of experience and analytical concepts developed in order to understand the processes that produce such categories and effect their taken-for-grantedness? This question is crucial for those working on nationalism, ethnicity, and state formation. Much of the misplaced concreteness that bedevils this scholarship results from an uncritical reproduction of common sense that poses intellectual as well as political problems_

The Politics of Space, Time and Substance: State Formation, Nationalism, and Ethnicity

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Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn

Cold War orientalism

The manipulation of time and the legitimacy of power during the American and French Revolutions, 1774-1815

To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of frontier mythology begun in The Lay of the Land .

The Land before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860.

This collection of critical essays develops the study of nineteenth-century sentimentality by examining it in light of the so-called 'women's culture' and of issues of race.

The culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America

What constitutes the pervasive cultural assumptions known to us as "America?" Since the American hemisphere actually encompasses a variety of national identities, can it make sense to speak of a unified "American" identity? Can a place for marginalized identities be established within the cultural mainstream? Comparative American Identities maps out a dynamic terrain of "New World" cultural identities, questions and problems. The essays attempt to locate "America" as a cultural and historical site of plurality and division, a discursive space of multiple differences which becomes, paradoxically, the ground for a new notion of American unity.

Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text.

The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth- Century America.

Samuels looks at the relations among sexual, political, and familial rhetoric in American writing from 1790 to the 1850s. With a special focus on the depictions of the American Revolution and the use of the family as model and instrument of political forces, she examines how the historical novel formalizes some of the more extravagant features of the gothic novel while incorporating a sentimental vision of the family.

Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation

Facing America investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. Drawing on the literature as well as the photographs and political cartoons of the period, Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine.

Shirley Samuels

Papers

The culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America

Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text.

The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth- Century America.

Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation

Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War