“The Product of a Spoiled America”: Divorce as Collective Crisis in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1990s Olga Thierbach-McLean Articles The new millennium has entered its third decade, but the 1990s have never quite left us. For twenty years, they have been haunting the pop-cultural imagination as a lost golden era. In what is just the latest i... Read More...
Review: Kloeckner, Knewitz, and Sielke, eds., Knowledge Landscapes North America Natalia Kovalyova Reviews Kloeckner, Christian, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke, editors. Knowledge Landscapes North America. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. Data explosions and information revolutions have made news on both sides... Read More...
Review: T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America Michael J. Griffin Reviews T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. That revolutions generally end very badly is a truth generally (i... Read More...
The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon Julie Sheridan Articles, Reviews Peter Kivisto. The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016. Emerald Publishing, 2017. It is a truism of recent political discourse that the United States has become a more polarized nation... Read More...
Review: Andy Connolly, Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition Dolores Resano Reviews Andy Connolly. Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition. Lexington Books, 2017. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in November 2016 has proved a happy event for fiction. Thi... Read More...
Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism Alan Gibbs Reviews Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Siebel, and Klaus H. Schmidt, editors. Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. Using “revisionist” in the title of a text is som... Read More...
Review: Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction Yves Laberge Reviews Bernice M. Murphy. Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Students and academics always need keywords and concise definitions for the everyday concepts they refer to,... Read More...
