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The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons / Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The year's work: studies in fan culture and cultural theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States--21st century.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology).
- Popular culture--United States--21st century.
- Popular culture.
- Intellectuals--United States--21st century.
- Intellectuals.
- United States--Intellectual life--21st century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, [Indiana] ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- As teachers, researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or contempt.
- Contents:
- Cover
- THE YEAR'S WORK IN NERDS, WONKS, AND NEOCONS
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: Working in and on Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons, This Year and to Come
- PART I: THROUGH GLASSES, DORKILY
- 1 Wonk Masculinity
- 2 Surface Worship, Super-Public Intellectuals, and the Suspiciously Common Reader
- 3 Stratigraphic Form: Science Fictions of the Present
- 4 Obsession, Pathology, and Justice: Nerds, Bodies, Winsor McCay, and the 1893 Chicago Fair
- 5 The Neoconservative Imagination
- 6 Conservative and Internationalist: George S. Schuyler's Pulp Fiction and the Imperialism of the Oppressed
- 7 The Turing Test and Other Love Songs
- PART II: NATURE, NURTURE, NERD: WAYS OF BEING
- 8 Sex and the Single Nerd: The Schizo Saga of Genes, Genius, and Finally Getting Some
- 9 Nerds in Capes: Courtly Love and the Erotics of Medievalism
- 10 Comic Book Kid
- 11 Walking Simulators, #GamerGate, and the Gender of Wandering
- 12 The Fan as Public Intellectual in "RaceFail '09"
- 13 Autism, Nerds, and Insecurity
- AFTERWORD: Professors without Chairs
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-02687-3
- OCLC:
- 968246500
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