... of and meditation on economic speculation. It dwells upon the ways in which a transition from an agrarian economy into finance capitalism impacts the body. Where many accounts of Sheppard Lee emphasize embodiment as the central issue of the novel, this essay instead insists on disembodiment, demonstrating how...

...D. Berton Emerson D. Berton Emerson, “George Lippard’s The Quaker City : Disjointed Text, Dismembered Bodies, Regenerated Democracy” (pp. 102–131) This essay argues that George Lippard’s The Quaker City (1844–1845), originally published in ten separate numbers, is best understood when read more...