...Michael L. Burduck 12  Early-19th-Century Literature Michael L. Burduck A number of publishers willing in the past to provide review copies of books for consideration in American Literary Scholarship did not reply to requests for this year’s volume. Fortunately most presses...

...Roark Mulligan 13  Late-19th-Century Literature Roark Mulligan A struggle to define realism has continued to occupy scholars. The dean of American literature, W. D. Howells, has remained a central figure in the discussion, which has shifted from a focus on realism as a product...

...Michael L. Burduck American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8225396 © 2020 by Duke University Press 11 Early-19th-Century Literature Michael L. Burduck The quantity of significant scholarship dealing with early-19th-century literature dropped noticeably again this year, continuing...

...Roark Mulligan American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8225413 © 2020 by Duke University Press 12 Late-19th-Century Literature Roark Mulligan Although traditional literary methods endure and although canonical writers are still studied, the shift to lesser-known works...

...Michael L. Burduck Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Early- th-Century Literature Michael L. Burduck Searching in for noteworthy scholarship published in was a bit of a challenge. In the forms of a rather destructive tornado and a panic-causing virus, Mother Nature played a somewhat...

...Roark Mulligan Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Late- th-Century Literature Roark Mulligan Literary studies have increasingly focused on works that are culturally relevant. Examining forgotten authors, neglected artifacts, and popu- lar culture, scholars have a clear social purpose...

...Michael L. Burduck © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 12  Early-19th-Century Literature Michael L. Burduck A thorough examination of this year’s scholarship fails to uncover any truly groundbreaking scholarship. Fortunately, however, a collection of noteworthy studies do appear...

...Nicolas S. Witschi © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 13  Late-19th-Century Literature Nicolas S. Witschi The question of how one defines a genre, how one might categorize a literary text amid the wash of all the other texts in the period, is particu- larly highlighted...

...Kristin Boudreau Duke University Press 2009 12  Early-19th-Century Literature Kristin Boudreau This year’s scholarship would suggest that authors are shrinking in importance next to the cultural issues that affected 19th-century liter- ary production...

...Nicolas S. Witschi Duke University Press 2009 13  Late-19th-Century Literature Nicolas S. Witschi Poetry and prose by African American artists take center stage amid this year’s scholarship. A special issue devoted to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar provides a welcome...

...Michael L. Burduck © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 12  Early-19th-Century Literature Michael L. Burduck A substantial number of noteworthy period studies appear this year, with scholars focusing on such varied topics as “writerly eccentricity,” the public’s fascination...

...Nicolas S. Witschi © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 13  Late-19th-Century Literature Nicolas S. Witschi The primary impression one takes away from this year’s scholarship is of breadth: so many authors and so many topics are compellingly explored that no single topic or trend...

...Michael L. Burduck © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 12  Early-19th-Century Literature Michael L. Burduck This year the number of noteworthy studies dealing with early-19th- century American literature dropped off considerably. Despite the dearth of groundbreaking scholarship...

...Nicolas S. Witschi © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 13  Late-19th-Century Literature Nicolas S. Witschi The dominant investigative trends continue to emphasize the ways region and the Civil War were of deep concern to artists in the period. Perhaps consequently, attempts...

...Robert Sattelmeyer; Janet Gabler-Hover Duke University Press 2005 12 Early-19th-Century Literature Robert Sattelmeyer and Janet Gabler-Hover The sheer heft and diversity of scholarship on formerly noncanonical women and minority writers—while Poe holds his own—productively...

...Michael J. Kiskis Duke University Press 2005 13 Late-19th-Century Literature Michael J. Kiskis The scholarship produced during 2003 is a complex mix of perspectives and materials: in the host of essays and books we see evidence not only of the end of the academic apartheid...