Gordon Fraser

Author of "Star Territory" (@PennPress). Teaches @Amer_UoM and @ECW_UoM. Words @TheTLS, @washingtonpost, @chronicle.

[Gordon Fraser @GordonDFraser]

If you are interested reading an excerpt from Star Territory (https://t.co/CHk7nXxbc2), you can find one here: https://t.co/zYZP5nXFWh

[Gordon Fraser @GordonDFraser]

@DevRoyShaibal Wonderful! Congratulations, Shaibal!

[Gordon Fraser @GordonDFraser]

My BRILLIANT third-year student, Georgina Blackburn, published an article about how "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was understood by British conservatives during the Cold War. Read all about her discovery in @CommonplaceJrnl
@UoMNews @UoMSALC @ECW_UoM

https://t.co/jX3mHT7k9X

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@UoMSALC

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I was absolutely thrilled to come across this generous review of "Star Territory" by Mary-Jane Rubenstein in @IsisJournal. "Luminous and exhaustive." My goodness.
@PennPress @ECW_UoM @Amer_UoM
https://t.co/nBOJJ10swz

[Gordon Fraser @GordonDFraser]

@IsisJournal @PennPress @ECW_UoM @Amer_UoM And if you're searching for a contemporary study of some of the themes I explore in "Star Territory," you should definitely check out Rubenstein's "Astrotopia:
The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race," from @UChicagoPress.

[Xander Manshel @XanderManshel]

"Manshel’s book raises broader questions: What is the so-called literary canon supposed to do? What has it done in the past? And does the canon matter in an era when literary education is crowded out by technical training and online distraction?"
—@GordonDFraser in @TheTLS

[Gordon Fraser @GordonDFraser]

Is there still a literary canon? How has it changed? I wrote for TLS about @XanderManshel's "Writing Backwards", John Guillory's "Cultural Capital," and the state of the American literature canon today.

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'Once you see how pervasive traumatic, historical fiction has become, you cannot unsee it.'

Gordon Fraser (@GordonDFraser) on the American canon today https://t.co/Gis5YDfiwn

[George Berridge @George_Berridge]

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @PeterKGeoghegan on Net Zero; @GordonDFraser on the canon; new poems by @BevisKathryn and @MrRavoon; @msannapicard on Elektra at the ROH; me on Poor Things; @georgeccochrane on Colin Barrett; @rinireg on the Harvard plagiarism row – and more

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@ProfL12 You could check out Thomas Augst's "The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in 19th Century America" (Chicago, 2003).

[Gordon Fraser @GordonDFraser]

@Carlos_A_Nugent I'm so deeply sorry for your loss, Carlos. She sounds like a truly extraordinary woman, and this was a beautiful tribute to her.

[Gordon Fraser @GordonDFraser]

@greatlakesqueer I'll echo @XineYaoPhD recommending Kathryn Walkiewicz's "Reading Territory." Phillip Round's "Removable Type" is foundational, too. And for Hawai'i check out Noenoe Silva. I dealt with the Phoenix in "Star Territory" (Ch. 3), but was limited by the language barrier, as you say.

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@ProfL12 Oh, I hadn't even thought about this. If there are ghosts of a version of the text that never made it into print -- language anticipating a revolutionary chapter that gets omitted. She certainly kept the Nat Turner material ... That's interesting.

[Gordon Fraser @GordonDFraser]

@ProfL12 Hi Greg! And I just bought Democracies in America on Audible. I'm excited about it!

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Made by History, which offers historians to contextualise the present, has a new home @TIME @TIMEHistory. Really glad to see this program come back.

[madebyhistory @madebyhistory]

Knock, knock. Is this thing on? This summer @madebyhistory took a short pause, but we are back — and thrilled to announce our new publication partner, @TIME @TIMEHistory. 🥳🎉🤩❤️

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@bgyazell @TheTLS @DrOwenClayton Thank you! I'm really glad I got a chance to read it.

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Conversations about homelessness are about a lot more than homelessness. I wrote about two excellent new books for @TheTLS: @DrOwenClayton's Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos and @bgyazell's American Vagrant in Literature.
https://t.co/m7f2eWtuwv

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'In popular literature, this figure was almost always a white man – homeless, itinerant and often, but not always, jobless. Those concerned about this transiency were responding to a real phenomenon.'

https://t.co/is8ldWT2Sy

[BrANCA @brancaUK]

Good news! The BrANCA steering committee has extended the deadline for proposals for the symposium to Friday, 22 September. We welcome individual paper proposals as well as panels. Additional proposals for fully formed panels are also welcome.

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@DevRoyShaibal Way to go, Shaibal!