The Queen of America Goes to Washington City
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Lauren Gail Berlant
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Drawing on literature, the law, and popular media--and "taking her (counter)cue from that celebrated sitcom of American life, 'The Reagan Years'" (Homi K. Bhabh
The Anatomy of National Fantasy
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Lauren Berlant
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-08-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawt
The Female Complaint
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Lauren Berlant
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-17 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as a
Cruel Optimism
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Lauren Berlant
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-27 - Publisher: Duke University Press Books

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A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lau
Compassion
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Lauren Berlant
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these