Charles Waddell Chesnutt and Joel Chandler Harris: An Anxiety of Influence

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tynes Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Charles Waddell Chesnutt ◽  
Anxiety Of Influence ◽  
Joel Chandler Harris

Literature and Visual Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 186-214
Author(s):  
Amanda Brickell Bellows
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Charles Waddell Chesnutt ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
Thomas Dixon ◽  
Thomas Nelson Page ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Joel Chandler Harris ◽  
Enslaved African Americans

In the early twentieth century, an increasingly diverse group of Russians and Americans reflected upon their changing worlds in literature and visual culture. They produced competing representations of serfs, enslaved African Americans, peasants, and freedpeople that alternately idealized and criticized the pre and post-emancipation eras. This chapter studies the work of Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, Kate Chopin, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Thomas Dixon, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, Anton Chekhov, and Evgenii Opochinin.

Men with a Past: Music and the "Anxiety of Influence"

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd Whitesell
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Of Influence

Deductive Hedonism and the Anxiety of Influence

Utilitas ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
The Real ◽  
Herbert Spencer ◽  
Anxiety Of Influence

This paper examines the undervalued role of Herbert Spencer in Sidgwick's thinking. Sidgwick recognized Spencer's utilitarianism, but criticized him on the ground that he tried to deduce utilitarianism from evolutionary theory. In analysing these criticisms, this paper concludes that Spencer's deductive methodology was in fact closer to Sidgwick's empiricist position than Sidgwick realized. The real source of Sidgwick's unhappiness withSpencer lies with the substance of Spencer's utilitarianism, namely its espousal of indefeasible moral rights.

A Review Essay: Author, Text, Authority: Anxiety of Influence in the Renaissance

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
W. H. Herendeen ◽  
Margaret W. Ferguson ◽  
David Quint
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Anxiety Of Influence

scholarly journals “The Anxiety of Influence”: Rashbam's Approach to Rashi's Commentary on the Torah

AJS Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-303
Author(s):  
Eran Viezel
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
Anxiety Of Influence ◽  
Methodological Principles

Rashbam's approach to Rashi's commentary on the Torah is characterized by contrasts: originality and continuity, independence and dependence, open admiration and flagrant aggression. Scholars have clarified various aspects of this complex stance, yet their analyses do not provide a comprehensive explanation for it. This article argues that Rashbam's approach to Rashi's commentary is not based on methodological principles alone, but also includes an emotional element that is in part unconscious. To analyze these complex emotional elements of the text, the article uses a theoretical model that demonstrates that the ambivalence reflected in the text is not unusual, and in fact can be found in relationships between other writers— “the anxiety of influence,” as formulated by Harold Bloom. This conclusion sheds new light on Rashbam's commentary, including several of its more well-known passages.

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