Yun Sik Jeong

White upper middle-class Americans at the turn of the twentieth century were entrenched in a battle with a newly discovered, or invented, mental illness called neurasthenia. This essay examines the ways in which the medical discourse of neurasthenia reflected late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century white Anglo-Saxon men's belief in, as well as anxiety over, American values bolstered by their idea of cultural, racial, and sexual superiority and consolidated through a conjunction of medicine

The American Frontier and Edward Bellamy's Utopian Imagination Yeonsik Jung (bio) Edward Bellamy's first important biographer, Arthur E. Morgan, identified the end of the frontier, along with the mass influx of immigrants and the consequent class struggle, as the sources of social and economic stresses in the late-nineteenth-century United States that impelled the writing of Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888) (209–10). More recent scholars have followed suit. Darko Suvin labels Bellamy's utopia

The Immunity of Empire: Tropical Medicine, Medical Nativism, and Biopolitics in Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith Yeonsik Jung (bio) In January 1923, Sinclair Lewis set out on a two-month trip to the West Indies, accompanied by his scientific collaborator the bacteriologist Paul de Kruif, to research his novel Arrowsmith, particularly its climactic episode about a plague outbreak on a tropical island. During the trip, he chose “Barbarian” as the working title for this new novel about a young research

Reading Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha”, the second story of Three Lives (1909), as a kind of medical record, this essay argues that the author creates the eponymous heroine as a mulatto hysteric by adopting the alleged symptoms and etiologies of hysteria in the early twentieth century such as wandering mind, traumatic sexual experiences, histrionic personality and homosexuality. Examining the racism and misogynism inherent in the medical theories of hysteria, this essay will demonstrate the ways i

This article reads Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha” as a racial, if not racist, text—a text not solely about blacks but also about Jews in the sense that black characters work as a mask for the author’s concern about her own Jewishness. Nineteenth-century pseudoscientific medical discourses link blackness, Jewishness, and homosexuality—the trinity of “difference”—based on their biological connectedness and similarities. Examining the racism and misogyny particularly inherent in the theories of physi

In Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888), Edward Bellamy neither paid much attention to the issue of race nor explicitly elucidated the character of the utopian inhabitants. In his utopia, the Boston ...

KEYWORDS: American Imperialismthe International Health CommissionSinclair Lewisthe Rockefeller Institute

In the “Lotus-Eaters” episode of Ulysses, Leopold Bloom picks up the letter from the erotic pen pal Martha Clifford at the post office, reads it surreptitiously after a reluctant conversation with ...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: Edward Bellamyhygieneneurasthenia

본고는 1900-10년대에 제작된 미국의 무성영화, 특히 남부, 동부 유럽 출신의 ‘구’이민자들의 삶을 그린 ‘게토영화’가 이민자 관객들이 미국사회로 동화하는 데 있어 담당했던 역할을 살펴보고자 한다. 이를 위해 본고는 20세기 초 이탈리아 이민자들의 삶을 묘사한 초기 미국 무성영화 중, 이후 오랫동안 미국 관객들을 매혹시켰던 이탈리아 마피아 영화의 모태가 되었던 ‘블랙핸드’를 묘사한 두 편의 초기 갱스터 영화에 주목하여, 이 영화들이 일부 이민자에 대한 부정적으로 묘사를 통해 이민자들 간의 인종, 민족 및 계급 갈등을 서사화하는 방식으로 ‘동화’서사를 구축했음을 논증하고자 한다. 1906년에 제작된 영화 〈블랙핸드〉가 경찰의 치밀한 수사와 검거 과정의 묘사를 통해 이탈리아 이민자 관객들에게 미국사회에 대한 신뢰를 갖도록 했다면, 1912년에 제작된 〈경찰 페트로시노의 모험〉은 미국사회에 완벽하게 동화된 이탈리아 이민자 출신의 뉴욕 경찰 페트로시노와 그와 극적인 대비를 이루고 있는

Fear is a productive power through which morality, law, and the state are founded and maintained. Focusing on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon American men‟s pathological fear of disease ranging from neurasthenia and hysteria to bubonic plague, this dissertation suggests that turn-of-the-century medical discourse, manifesting the age‟s ideological evaluation of vice and virtue, was instrumental in shaping and sustaining the racial and sexual order of American society. The

In Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward 2000–1887 (1888), a young Bostonian Julian West falls in a long sleep of more than a century and finds himself awakened in the utopia of 2000 where he learns le...

Lady Orlando of the nineteenth century, who transformed into a woman while serving as an English ambassador in seventeenth-century Turkey, crosses paths with Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine on a moo...

In Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888), Bellamy imagines a utopian city of Boston where “[t]he industry and commerce of the country, ceasing to be conducted by a set of irresponsible corporations an...