Michael Greaney, “‘The Meaner & More Usual &c.’: Everybody in Emma” (pp. 417-440) This essay aims to read Jane Austen’s Emma (1815) not as a portrait of pampered individual but story collective or communal selfhood—that is, the everybody. “Everybody”—the term is used approximately one hundred times this novel—in both more and less than village neighborhood. Spread shared across people, ...

In rejecting Plessy v. Ferguson’s “separate but equal” doctrine in Brown Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court created a presumption that segregation equals discrimination. However, alongside this assertion, American space has become increasingly separate. A socio-legal analysis identifies three generations spatial United States and calls for recognizing fourth generation—separate, therefo...