Dana D. Nelson
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American activist
Dana D. Nelson's Degrees
- PhD English University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Masters English University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Bachelors English University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dana D. Nelson is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University and a prominent progressive advocate for citizenship and democracy. She is notable for her criticism—in her books such as Bad for Democracy—of excessive presidential power and for exposing a tendency by Americans towards presidentialism, which she defines as the people's neglect of basic citizenship duties while hoping the president will solve most problems. Her scholarship focuses on early American literature relating to citizenship and democratic government.
Dana D. Nelson's Published Works
Published Works
- Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. (1994) (1186)
- National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men@@@Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic (1999) (242)
- To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. (1994) (188)
- Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics (2002) (177)
- The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867 (1993) (61)
- Women in public (2001) (56)
- Preface: Violence, the Body and "The South" (2001) (55)
- Early Native American Writing: “(I speak like a fool but I am constrained)”: Samson Occom's Short Narrative and economies of the racial self (1996) (36)
- Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People (2008) (34)
- The Word in Black and White: Reading “Race” in American Literature, 1638-1867. Dana D. Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xvi + 189 pages. $12.95 paper. (1996) (32)
- Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States (1999) (17)
- Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation (2002) (15)
- Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States (2015) (10)
- The haunting of white manhood: Poe, fraternal ritual, and polygenesis (1997) (10)
- The President and Presidentialism (2006) (10)
- "No Cold or Empty Heart": Polygenesis, Scientific Professionalization, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism (1999) (8)
- Women and Gender in the State of Sympathy (2002) (5)
- Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies (2002) (4)
- Bad for Democracy (2008) (4)
- Democracy in Theory (2006) (4)
- "In the Blood": Sentiment, Sex, and the Ugly Girl (1999) (3)
- The Columbia History of the American Novel: New Views. (1992) (3)
- From Manitoba to Patagonia (2003) (2)
- The Invisible Fence (2009) (2)
- National Manhood (2020) (2)
- “Indications of the Public Will””: Modern Chivalry's Theory of Democratic Representation (2002) (2)
- We Have Never Been Anti-Exceptionalists (2019) (2)
- Team Comp (2003) (2)
- Frontier Novels, Border Wars, and Indian Removal (2014) (1)
- “Action, Action, Action”: Nineteenth-Century Literature for Twenty-First-Century Citizenship? (2012) (1)
- Between Savagery and Civilization (2015) (1)
- Guest Introduction: Identity? Politics (2002) (1)
- Representative/Democracy: Presidents, Democratic Management, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism (2020) (1)
- ConsterNation (2020) (1)
- The Privatizing State (2015) (0)
- Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian PolicyArchives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States (2020) (0)
- Geoffrey Sanborn, Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick and the Maori (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, $49.95). Pp. 173. isbn 0 19975 169 3. (2012) (0)
- Susan Castillo, American Literature in Context to 1865 (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, £14.99). Pp. xviii+185. isbn 978 1 4051 8863 0. (2011) (0)
- “Our Castle Still Remains Unshaken”: Professional Manhood, Science, Whiteness (1998) (0)
- MCCURDY, Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States (2010) (0)
- “That’s Not My Wife, That’s an Indian Squaw”: Inindianation and National Manhood (1998) (0)
- Rooting for a Better World: American Literary History Today (2021) (0)
- Consolidating National Masculinity: Scientific Discourse And Race In The Post-Revolutionary United States (2018) (0)
- Editors' Introduction: The Next Phase of J19 (2018) (0)
- From Nothing to Start, into Being (2015) (0)
- The Second Book Project: A Second Introduction (2021) (0)
- Reading the Written Selves of Colonial America: Franklin, Occom, Equiano, and Palou/Serra (1993) (0)
- Devil's Dream (2018) (0)
- Settler Self-Governance (2015) (0)
- Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in 19th-Century America (2013) (0)
- Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature (2011) (0)
- The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture since 1960. By David E. Kyvig. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xiv, 482 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1581-0.) (2010) (0)
- Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America by Stacey Margolis (review) (2017) (0)
- Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image (review) (2001) (0)
- Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture. Susan GubarThe Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity. Maggie Montesinos Sale (2000) (0)
- Melville's Anatomies (review) (2000) (0)
- BAAS Keynote Speech A Passion for Democracy: Proximity to Power and the Sovereign Immunity Test (2016) (0)
- Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction by Hannah Lauren Murray (review) (2022) (0)
- Steel Traps: A Response to Winfried Fluck (2019) (0)
- Steel Traps (2019) (0)
- Gynecological Manhood: The Worries of Whiteness and the Disorders of Women (1998) (0)
- If We Are Brave Enough to Accept: Taking on the Challenges of Lydia Maria Child Today (2017) (0)
- Purity Control: Consolidating National Manhood in the Early Republic (1998) (0)
- The Melancholy of White Manhood, or, Democracy’s Privileged Spot (1998) (0)
- Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America; Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America; Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction (2011) (0)
- The Enduring Appeal of the Commons (2019) (0)
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