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American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 349–357.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Dale Fancher Enggass Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 dale.enggass@utah.edu 19 Poetry: The 1950s to the Present Dale Fancher Enggass i Reading Form Two books by Craig Dworkin aim to demonstrate the interpretive potentials of unusual ways of reading (and writing) for literary...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 257–279.
Published: 01 September 2009
...
to their constitutional promise. When the cheap press made possible
widespread spectatorship of sensational trials, actual legal crises over
slavery became central to abolitionist print campaigns, as DeLom-
bard demonstrates in her readings of both actual and literary “trials.”
Central to her discussion...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 387–408.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and collections, but by and large
contextualized close readings tend to dominate.
i African American Poetry
Perhaps the most exciting salient feature this year is the amount and
quality of work on modern African American poets that appeared over
the course of the year. The rich and varied literary...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 37–53.
Published: 01 September 2015
... classic work Herman Melville: A Critical Study (1949) in order
to suggest that we might recover from his work an approach to Melville
studies appropriate to our post-Cold War moment. In Chase’s allegori-
cal reading of Melville, Castiglia argues, we can find an imaginative
idealism that might...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2014) 2012 (1): 33–49.
Published: 01 September 2014
... novels elicit
new readings that blend transnationalist, ecocritical, ideological, and
queer theory interpretations. Melville’s own penchant for employing
somewhat disparate source materials makes his literary works fertile
ground for new scholarship that draws freely from the toolbox of recent...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2002) 2000 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 September 2002
... diverse
books. The tales and sketches—particularly ‘‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’’ and
‘‘Benito Cerenoreceived a number of fine readings. Also notable is
a special issue of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies devoted to
pedagogy.
i General
Several works deal with biography. Elizabeth Hardwick’s...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 81–99.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and the nature of a scholarly edition. At 733 pages, it is
massive, and even fuller than the first volume in the sense that it does
not need to contain the extensive, excellent critical introductions. Read-
ers who can follow Mark Twain’s eccentric, rambling, chaotic plan will
be rewarded on every page...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 47–73.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to textual studies, global visions of these writers, and readings that look beyond the genre of poetry. There is increasing emphasis on political science perspectives in Whitman scholarship and new popular culture studies work in Dickinson scholarship. Stephanie M. Blalock contributed the Whitman section...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2014) 2012 (1): 219–242.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
studies. Scholars also provide intriguing readings of works by Wash-
ington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and John Neal. African
American writers receive less attention, as do Native American writers.
Prominent literary women, among them Julia Ward Howe, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Margaret Fuller...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 177–194.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Sensibar’s pages as a woman who, with her own
mother, gave Faulkner a “first language” of visual art that nearly all read-
ers remark in his prose. Such new material allows Sensibar to augment
the record. Although she admits that in the process she “had to speculate
more than [she] would have liked...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2013) 2011 (1): 189–209.
Published: 01 September 2013
... interpretive trends—for example, New Critical, post-structuralist,
feminist, and sexuality studies readings. Beuka reveals how these and
other critical modes have different claims and points of emphasis based,
in part, on larger scholarly concerns in given eras. His thorough and
very mineable...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2012) 2010 (1): 181–197.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Wolff is careful to qualify
her basic claim in the opening analytical section: “William Faulkner’s
ready access to this particular set of ledgers, his repeated readings of it,
as well as his close friendship with its owner make this particular plan-
tation diary a likely source of material...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 363–394.
Published: 01 September 2016
...
principles (“wldn’t myself add . . . either the ‘aunties’ or the ‘grandpas’
Ben Hickman looks at the anthology’s considerable influence in Britain
( pp. 81–108), which helped forge connections between American and
British poets as well as a 1965 reading at Royal Albert Hall featuring
Jim Cocola 365...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 45–62.
Published: 01 September 2017
...
America. Bernadini argues that the poems Campana produced on this
trip evidence a Whitmanesque mythopoetic sensibility of America and
“can be read as Campana’s creative response to Whitman’s idea of
‘America’ as the source of an extra-European newness, freedom, and
regeneration.” Gary Schmigdall...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2006) 2004 (1): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2006
... (Stanford). A more
helpful title would have included the words “published poetry,” for
three-quarters of the book offers close, often brilliant readings ofBattle-
Pieces, Clarel, John Marr and Other Sailors, and Timoleon. The first
quarter of the book, a dense discussion of form...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 33–44.
Published: 01 September 2017
...: Religious Difference and the Shape
of Melville’s Career (Northwestern) is an ambitious attempt to trace
Melville’s lifelong interest in different and competing religious faith
traditions. Yothers’s opening chapter examines how Melville’s reading
informed “the interplay between faith and doubt...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 33–47.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to generate new insights on identity
in a transnational context. (The other essays in this group are discussed
where appropriate below.)
In “Melville in the Asylum: Literature, Sociology, Reading” (AmLH
26: 234–61) David J. Alworth proposes a new method for reading devel-
oped from the intersection...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 263–279.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of the war’s impact on regions other than the South.
i Women and Literature
While not very detailed in its readings of individual texts, Elaine Sho
walter’s A Jury of Her Peers certainly helps to demonstrate the keynote
theme of this year’s scholarship. Overall, this book offers a compre-
hensive...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2008
...
his cosmopolitanism, global reading public, and internationalist politics.
“Geographies” supplies scientific, naturalistic, commercial, and cultural
contexts, with special attention to the South Seas, the Atlantic trade,
and the Eastern Mediterranean. “Nations” centers on Melville’s political...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2004) 2002 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 September 2004
... discussion of
Melville’s reading throughout his last 40 years will also provide scholars
with many suggestions for further study. In addition, this biography is
particularly extensive and valuable in detailing Melville’s family and its
significance in his life and works. Parker’s portrayal lets us see...
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