SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 58) history Logan: C.2 (Fonts: Bauer Bodoni + Meta. Colors: Black + PMS 144 VICTORIAN FETISHISM Intellectuals and Primitives Peter Melville Logan Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory. Portolano Sketch A 04/28/08 Four Color Victorian Fetishism Intellectuals and PrImItIves THE pASSIONATE EMpIRICIST The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science Marlana Portolano THE PASSIONATE EMPIRICIST The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science JANuARy • 240 pp $70.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7699-4 directtext dt e www.sunypress.edu “A brilliant analysis of the centrality of fetishism to several Victorian social and humanistic disciplines … It will surely come to be regarded as the book to read on the subject, as well as one of the most important recent contributions to nineteenth-century cultural analysis.” — John Kucich, author of Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class Peter Melville Logan is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and the author of Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose. A volume in the SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Pamela K. Gilbert, editor JANuARy • 206 pp • 1 figure $55.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7661-1 directtext dt 58 e P Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory Peter melville logan in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all “primitive” cultures with “Primitive Fetishism,” a psychological form of selfprojection in which people believe everything in the external world—thunderstorms, trees, stones—is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby “fetishizing” fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory. Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science. This book introduces readers to the role that classical oratory played in changing early American attitudes about pure scientific research. Marlana Portolano investigates the impact of John Quincy Adams’s oratorical campaigns on the origins of government-funded science in America, with a special focus on his classical theory of rhetorical engagement and civic duty. Marlana Portolano Marlana Portolano is Assistant Professor of English at Towson University. P http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61738 http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61723
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