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Karen Halttunen

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Publications

16

Citations

2K

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14

Active since

1983

Affiliations

University of California, Davis(Current)

Karen Halttunen is an author at University of California, Davis specializing in cultural history, language studies, and literary criticism.

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Cultural HistoryArtsLanguageArt HistoryLiterary CriticismAmerican LiteratureCultureEducationBlack StudiesSocial Sciences

Publications per year

1983–2006

16

Publications

16

Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870

David Grimsted, Karen Halttunen · Journal of American History · 1983 · 564 citations

Art History, Gender Studies, Feminist Scholarship +14

Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture

Karen Halttunen · The American Historical Review · 1995 · 316 citations

Culture, Colonialism, Decoloniality +6

Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture

Karen Halttunen · The American Historical Review · 1995 · 280 citations

Colonialism, Decoloniality, Education +16

Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870

William R. Leach, Karen Halttunen · The New England Quarterly · 1983 · 209 citations

Art History, African American Studies, Middle-class Culture +6

Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination

Laura Hanft Korobkin, Karen Halttunen · American Journal of Legal History · 1999 · 171 citations

Forensic Psychology, Murder Most Foul, Comparative Literature +13

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