Cuteness In History

Cuteness: when, where, and how did it emerge as a deliberate, mediated strategy in American arts and letters?

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Cat ladies in history

It's a start - !

Posted by Angela Sorby at 9:50 AM

▼ 2015 (3)
- ▼ November (1)
  - Cat ladies in history It's a start - !
- ► February (2)

D. E. Wittkower, "On the Origins of Cute as a Dominant Aesthetic Category in Digital Culture' [article]
Gary D. Sherman and Jonathan Haidt, "Cuteness and Disgust: The Humanizing and Dehumanizing Effects of Emotion" [scientific study]
Gary Genosko, "Natures and Cultures of Cuteness" [article]
Liora Halperin, "The Birth of Cute" [blog entry]
Lori Merish, "Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics" [book chapter]
Nittano, et. al. on cuteness and attentional focus [scientific study]
Rules of Cuteness [from a commercial site, "Cute Overload"]
Sianne Ngai [interview, with Adam Jasper]
Sianne Ngai, "On the Cuteness of the Avant-Garde"
Tom Bartlett, "The Evolution of Aww" [blog entry]

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Angela Sorby: I teach in the English at Marquette University with dual specializations in nineteenth-century American literature and creative writing. My books include Distance Learning (poems, 1998), Schoolroom Poets (criticism, 2005), Bird Skin Coat (poems, 2009), and The Sleeve Waves (poems, 2014). I also co-edited, with Karen Kilcup, an anthology, Over the River and Through the Wood: Nineteenth-Century Children's Poetry (2013).

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