Monthly Archives: May 2010

Women in Aviation Not Pictured

Why does this airline magazine story on women in aviation feature a picture of this guy, the Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, but not pictures of women?  I think it’s probably just myopia — no one noticed the problem.  … Continue reading

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More _Metzerott_ madness…

I still haven’t finished the novel (I read slowly), but there are a couple things I have to report. it appears to have been fairly widely read (from contemporary periodical references) it is definitely a Christian socialist novel, and could … Continue reading

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Thoughts on _Metzerott, Shoemaker_ (preliminary)

I am halfway through a novel entitled Metzerott, Shoemaker (1891 1889), which I discovered in researching for a conference paper (see abstract) which I am writing for the American Literature Association meeting next week in San Francisco.  Metzerott is, so … Continue reading

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My American Literature Association 2010 Abstract

Utopian and Dystopia on Foot: Shoes in Turn of the 20th Century American Fiction J. Michael Duvall, Assistant Professor, College of Charleston A famous scene from Theodore Dresier’s Sister Carrie (1900) has the shoes in a department store angling to replace … Continue reading

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