Christopher Looby
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American literary critic
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Christopher Looby's Degrees
- PhD English University of California, Berkeley
- Masters English University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher Looby is an American literary critic specializing in 18th and 19th century American literature. He is a Professor of English at UCLA. Background Looby received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1989.
Christopher Looby's Published Works
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Published Works
- Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States. (1997) (124)
- The Literariness of Sexuality: Or, How to Do the (Literary) History of (American) Sexuality (2013) (30)
- SOUTHWORTH AND SERIALITY (2004) (30)
- American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions (2012) (25)
- George Thompson's `Romance of the Real': Transgression and taboo in American sensation fiction (1993) (21)
- Ameloblastic fibrosarcoma of the maxilla: report of a case. (1998) (18)
- The complete Civil War journal and selected letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1999) (15)
- Voicing America: Language, literary form, and the origins of the United States (1998) (14)
- The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850 (review) (2011) (12)
- Metastatic hypernephroma to the larynx: an unusual presentation (2004) (10)
- “As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire”: Erotics of Race in Higginson’s Army Life in a Black Regiment (1997) (10)
- The Gay Novel in the United States 1900–1950 (2009) (8)
- The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson@@@The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1823-1911 (2001) (8)
- FLOWERS OF MANHOOD: Race, Sex and Floriculture from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Robert Mapplethorpe (1995) (6)
- "THE AFFAIRS OF THE REVOLUTION OCCASION'D THE INTERRUPTION": WRITING, REVOLUTION, DEFERRAL, AND CONCILIATION IN FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1986) (5)
- Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States. (1992) (5)
- Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in “The Counterpane” (2011) (5)
- Of Billy’s Time: Temporality in Melville’s Billy Budd (2015) (4)
- Lippard in Part(s) (2015) (4)
- "The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" (2013) (4)
- "The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories (2016) (4)
- John Marcher's Queer Timing (2012) (3)
- 1. Liberty of the Imagination in Revolutionary America (2012) (3)
- 17. Network Aesthetics Juliana Spahr’s The Transformation and Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social (2012) (2)
- Gender and the Politics of Conflict-Pedagogy: A Dialogue (1994) (2)
- Scholar and Exegete: A Tribute to Sacvan Bercovitch, MLA Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2002 (2004) (2)
- Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament (1905) (2016) (2)
- 4. Lyric Citizenship in Post 9/11 Performance Sekou Sundiata’s the 51st (dream) state (2012) (1)
- 6. Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet (2012) (1)
- Sexuality, History, Difficulty, Pleasure (2013) (1)
- The Haunted Valley (1871) (2016) (1)
- “The Roots of the Orchis, the Iuli of Chesnuts”: The Odor of Male Solitude (2020) (1)
- 7. Sexuality’s Aesthetic Dimension Kant and the Autobiography of an Androgyne (2012) (1)
- Introduction: Come Again? New Approaches to Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature (2009) (1)
- 5. Aesthetics Beyond the Actual: The Marble Faun and Romantic Sociality (2012) (1)
- 13. Warped Conjunctions Jacques Rancière and African American Twoness (2012) (1)
- Introduction: Sweat, Sand, Sex (2020) (0)
- Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England. Donald WeberThe First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774-1775. John Leacock , Carla Mulford (1991) (0)
- The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville ed. by Robert S. Levine (review) (2017) (0)
- Announcements (1976) (0)
- Franklin's Purloined Letters (2014) (0)
- 8. From Hawthorne to Hairspray American Anxieties About Beauty (2012) (0)
- The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman (1857) (2016) (0)
- The Candy Country (1885) (2016) (0)
- 2. The Writing on the Wall Revolutionary Aesthetics and Interior Spaces (2012) (0)
- Elizabeth Stoddard’s Depravity (2021) (0)
- The Child’s Champion (1841) (2016) (0)
- Anti-Enlightenment Voices@@@Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (1997) (0)
- Stephen Calvert’s Unfinished Business (2019) (0)
- Twin-Love (1871) (2016) (0)
- 12. Upon a Peak in Beinecke The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe (2012) (0)
- The Linguistic Foundations of a Nation@@@Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (1997) (0)
- Book Review: Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin: The Price of Representative Personality, by Christopher Looby (1987) (0)
- How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson (c. 1900–1903) (2016) (0)
- Schopenhauer in the Air (1894) (2016) (0)
- Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2009–10 (2011) (0)
- Charles Willson Peale and the Labor of Representation@@@The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and his Family:@@@Vol. 1: Charles Willson Peale: Artist in Revolutionary America, 1735-1791@@@Vol. 2: Charles Willson Peale: The Artist as Museum Keeper. (1989) (0)
- Two Friends (1887) (2016) (0)
- A South-Sea Idyl (1869) (2016) (0)
- I and My Chimney (1856) (2016) (0)
- 11. What Maggie Knew Game Theory, The Golden Bowl, and the Critical Possibilities of Aesthetic Knowledge (2012) (0)
- Introduction: Queer Short Stories in Nineteenth-Century America (2016) (0)
- Out of the Deeps (1872) (2016) (0)
- Sexuality and American Literary Studies (2011) (0)
- The Bachelors (1836) (2016) (0)
- Book Review:The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York Amy Gilman Srebnick (1999) (0)
- Sexuality’s Aesthetic Dimension (2012) (0)
- "As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment (2020) (0)
- Afterword Are Aesthetic Models the Best Way to Talk About the Artfulness of Literary Texts (2012) (0)
- In the Tules (1895) (2016) (0)
- AMERICAN COLONIAL WRITERS, 1735-1781. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 31) and AMERICAN PURITAN STUDIES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DISSERTATIONS, 1882-1981. (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History, Volume 1) (1985) (0)
- 15. Postwar Pastoral The Art of Happiness in Philip Roth (2012) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
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