Carol Colatrella
Undergraduate student
Matriculated in 1971 in Annapolis.
List of Publications
- Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner (1990, 2017)
- Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading (2002)
- Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology. (2011)
- Cohesion and Dissent in America (1993)
- Technology and Humanity (2012)
Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner (Book)
Year of publication: 1990, 2017
Publisher: New York: Garland. Reprint: Routledge Library Editions (The Nineteenth-Century Novel).
Description: Balzac, Zola and Faulkner all drew upon the principles of evolutionary theory to represent man’s place in nature and his struggle for survival in their major series La Comèdie humaine, Rougon-Macquart and the Yoknapatawpha fiction. This book focuses on the ‘first’ novels in each author’s series (La Père Goriot, La Fortune des Rougon and Flags in the Dust) and considers how each novel relates to its series and derives a definition of the naturalistic roman-fleuve. To describe this development, the issues of how a scientific idea becomes refracted in a literary genre and how the naturalistic novel developed out of the realistic novel are considered.
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Amazon link to reprintLiterature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading (Book)
Year of publication: 2002
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Description: This book offers an historically informed study of moral rehabilitation and reform, including discussion of penitentiaries, in the nineteenth-century United States as well as analysis of Melville's narrative strategies in his fictions.
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Amazon linkToys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology. (Book)
Year of publication: 2011
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Description: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs work collaboratively to connect education and research at the institutional, national, and global levels. But what role do women play in STEM? In this very timely book, Carol Colatrella responds to the under-representation of women in STEM by considering how gender inflects literary and media representations. In her analysis of fictional and cinematic texts that reference STEM, she investigates cultural tensions concerning sex roles—tensions that continue to be influential in today’s world.
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Amazon linkCohesion and Dissent in America (Contribution)
Year of publication: 1993
Description: This book addresses one of the most important theories to arise in recent American literary scholarship. Developed over the past two decades, Sacvan Bercovitch's ideas about the relationship of American cultural institutions to voices of dissent have repeatedly posed challenges to pervasive assumptions about American culture and the methods used by cultural critics and literary historians. The contributors to this book respond to different aspects of Bercovitch's ideas by exploring a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including American, Chicano, Amerindian, African-American, Asian-American, feminist, comparatist, philosophical, legal, and critical studies. In addition to essays that focus on the theoretical backgrounds and implications of Bercovitch's concepts, this book interrogates the uses of those concepts in the study of American literatures. Works by a variety of American writers are analyzed: the Colonial poet Phillis Wheatly; nineteenth-century writers Hawthorne and Melville; modernists Pound and Eliot; contemporary authors John Barth, Norman Mailer, Arturo Islas, and John Yau; and philosophers William James and Stanley Cavell. This book offers new directions to students of American culture, while it participates in the ongoing reassessment of American cultural and literary scholarship.
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Amazon linkTechnology and Humanity (Contribution)
Year of publication: 2012
Publisher: Salem Press
Description: Human engagement with technology has a deep history, as social progress and creative expression have long been connected with the development, deployment, and representation of what we recognize as technological products and processes. this volume explores the theme in such important works as Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby, The House of Seven Gables, and Neuromancer.