Keith Gandal

• City College of New York

In this paper, we examine U.S. COVID-19 deaths by day of the week during the first few months of the pandemic. Using data from the two large US. States (Florida and Texas) that report deaths by “day of actual death,” and controlling for time trends, we show that deaths during the Monday to Friday period (the week) were 7-8 percent higher than the w...

American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army's unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men-except, notoriously, African Americans-to positions and ranks based on merit. And it misses the fact that the culture...

The huge protest against the Vietnam War, which Charles DeBenedetti has described as “the largest and most potent expression of domestic antiwar discontent since the Russian Revolution,”¹ remains a mystery, a stunning and unprecedented event in American history, and one that has not been repeated. More than forty years later, there is nothing appro...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These "quintessential" male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

This book demonstrates that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar books, not by their experiences of the horrors of the war but rather by their failure to have those experiences. These “quintessential” male American novelists of the 1920s were all deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or com...

the great gatsby;modernist prose;hemingway;Fitzgerald;Racists

Consider the plots, or subplots, of two sets of 1990s independent films. The first is a group of trauma films set among the lower classes.

Stephen Crane is often credited with inventing the modern myth of the bohemian writer, or, to look at it a bit differently, Crane has been integrated into the mythology of the slumming drama: he lived fast and furiously, spurned the middle class, associated with the poor and lowlifes, and died young. But instead of Crane’s famous, romantic, masculi...

Several of the Academy Award winners for Best Picture in recent years are based on a by now very familiar slumming romance of lower-class life, one that is already fully articulated in Hurston’s Their Eyes. Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, and American Beauty, for example, all depend on the charms of downward mobility into lower-class existence—at lea...

Stephen Crane and Zora Neale Hurston represent two different artistic accommodations or transformations of humiliation that translate into two of the three genres at issue here. Crane, who kept no journal or diary and wrote no autobiography or memoir and few revealing letters (his most recent biographer thus calls his life “enigmatic”1), seems to h...

A shame theorist would question the critically popular “multicultural” account of Hurston as an avant-garde Black Nationalist and feminist, a portrait constructed by ignoring, explaining away, or dismissing as “out of character” aspects of her fictions and her life, certain of her works, and her later political positions. Instead of a racial and ge...

The stark polarization between blockbuster sentimental slumming dramas and sardonic independent traumas is only part of the profile of contemporary class-crossing cinema. Between the slumming fantasy film and the class trauma movie stands a sort of hybrid genre, what might be called the slumming trauma. Between the sentimental slumming hero Jack in...

A fresh exploration of the representation of poverty and class in American literature and film, through the juxtaposition of films, writings and the unusual lives of Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Henry Miller and Michel Foucault. The book argues for Hurston’s centrality, not merely to the African-American canon, but to the American tradition.

Resources for American Literary Study 26.2 (2000) 283-286 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York). By Stephen Crane. A Bedford Cultural Edition. Edited by Kevin J. Hayes. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. xvi + 374 pp. $39.95. There is no doubt that the Bedford Cultural Edition of Crane's Maggie is a valuable resource for teaching thi...

Keith Gandal is Associate Professor of English at Mount Saint Mary's College. He is the author of The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum (Oxford University Press, 1997). His next book, Rebel Genius, will deal with Crane, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Miller, and Michel Foucault. 1. John Berryman, Stephen Cr...

One of Crane's biographers calls his short and adventurous life "enigmatic" and his psyche "baffling and unavailable"; Crane's prose has been difficult to categorize, and his poetry has often been ignored or dismissed as cryptic. My effort to understand Crane is based first on a consideration of his poetry as a struggle for a personal faith and sec...

Foucault's work has often been attacked as nihilistic and despairing. His histories are seen to be interesting or even compelling, but, ultimately, exasperating. He argues that we create delinquents and a criminal milieu with our prisons and our paroles; he tells us that, from the Catholic confessional to the psychiatrist's couch, we have produced...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California at Berkeley, 1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-350). Photocopy.