LEADER 04034nam 2200649 450 001 9910466148003321 005 20200520144314.0 024 7 $a10.7312/mart18192 035 $a(CKB)3710000001386336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5276001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5267899 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001980556 035 $a(DE-B1597)480300 035 $a(OCoLC)984512331 035 $a(OCoLC)984686831 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231543897 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5276001 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11529494 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001386336 100 $a20180404h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aContemporary drift $egenre, historicism, and the problem of the present /$fTheodore Martin 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (265 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aLiterature Now 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-231-18192-2 311 $a0-231-54389-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Theses on the Concept of the Contemporary -- $tChapter One. Decade: Period Pieces -- $tChapter Two. Revival: Situating Noir -- $tChapter Three. Waiting: Mysterious Circumstances -- $tChapter Four. Weather: Western Climes -- $tChapter Five. Survival: Work and Plague -- $tConclusion: How to Historicize the Present -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, part of the literature and film of our moment. In Contemporary Drift, Theodore Martin argues that the contemporary is not just a historical period but also a conceptual problem, and he claims that contemporary genre fiction offers a much-needed resource for resolving that problem.Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical account of contemporary literature and film. Emphasizing both the difficulty and the necessity of historicizing the contemporary, the book explores how recent works of fiction depict life in an age of global capitalism, postindustrialism, and climate change. Through new histories of the novel of manners, film noir, the Western, detective fiction, and the postapocalyptic novel, Martin shows how the problem of the contemporary preoccupies a wide range of novelists and filmmakers, including Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Vikram Chandra, China Miéville, Kelly Reichardt, and the Coen brothers. 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The Puzzle of Judicial Institution Building --$tChapter Two. The Early Republic --$tChapter Three. Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy --$tChapter Four. The Civil War and Reconstruction --$tChapter Five. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era --$tChapter Six. The Interwar and New Deal Years --$tChapter Seven. Modern America --$tChapter Eight. Judicial Power in a Political World --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aHow did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance? How did the Supreme Court move from political irrelevance to political centrality? Building the Judiciary uncovers the causes and consequences of judicial institution-building in the United States from the commencement of the new government in 1789 through the close of the twentieth century. Explaining why and how the federal judiciary became an independent, autonomous, and powerful political institution, Justin Crowe moves away from the notion that the judiciary is exceptional in the scheme of American politics, illustrating instead how it is subject to the same architectonic politics as other political institutions. Arguing that judicial institution-building is fundamentally based on a series of contested questions regarding institutional design and delegation, Crowe develops a theory to explain why political actors seek to build the judiciary and the conditions under which they are successful. He both demonstrates how the motivations of institution-builders ranged from substantive policy to partisan and electoral politics to judicial performance, and details how reform was often provoked by substantial changes in the political universe or transformational entrepreneurship by political leaders. Embedding case studies of landmark institution-building episodes within a contextual understanding of each era under consideration, Crowe presents a historically rich narrative that offers analytically grounded explanations for why judicial institution-building was pursued, how it was accomplished, and what--in the broader scheme of American constitutional democracy--it achieved. 410 0$aPrinceton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives 606 $aProcedure (Law) 606 $aJudicial power 606 $aCourts 610 $aFederal courts 615 0$aProcedure (Law). 615 0$aJudicial power. 615 0$aCourts. 676 $a347.73/109 700 $aCrowe$b Justin$f1981-$01567629 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790009903321 996 $aBuilding the judiciary$93839138 997 $aUNINA