OUT NOW – Comparative American Studies – Volume 11, Number 4, Dec 2013 Special Issue: ‘Questioning E Pluribus Unum’ ed. Dr. Michael Collins

Dr. Michael Collins (Kent), with Dr. Chris Pallant (CCCU) and Dr. Sarah Trott (Swansea) have just completed work on a special issue memorialising the 2010 US-UK Fulbright Programme at NYU. The issue considers the place of New York City and its environs in considerations of the direction of Transnational American Studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The publication comprises the following essays by Fulbright alumni:

Table of Contents

‘Introduction: Questioning E Pluribus Unum’ (FREE ACCESS)

Michael J. Collins and Chris Pallant

‘New York: The Animated City’

Chris Pallant

‘Fashionable Females: Women, Clothes, and Culture in New York’

Anne-Marie Evans

‘Joseph Cornell’s Subversive Materialism’

Siofra McSherry

‘The Woolrichian Window and the Democratization of the Detective in “Rear Window”’

Anna Woodhouse

‘Manacled to Identity: Cosmopolitanism, Class, and “The Culture Concept” in Stephen Crane’