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American Literary Scholarship (2000) 1998 (1): 61–86.
Published: 01 September 2000
... in Germany, Guiyou Huang on the Chinese reception, Robert Leigh Davis on Whitman s Civil War Nursing Martin Klammer on Slavery and Abolitionism Luke Mancuso on Reconstruction and Sherry Ceniza s several entries on Whitman and women. Some unevenness in the writing is to be expected in a project with so...
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American Literary Scholarship (2001) 1999 (1): 71–96.
Published: 01 September 2001
... by the searchable web version. In a notable new edition of Whitman’s wartime writings and later reflections, The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman’s Experi- ences in the Civil War (Godine), John Harmon McElroy presents excerpts from a variety of prose sources, most of them published previously...
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American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 157–175.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Bobs Her Hair, as O. Henry-style twist endings. In an omnibus argument bringing together novels and stories, David A. Rennie s chapter F. Scott Fitzgerald in his American Writers and World War I (Oxford) argues that a more nuanced and accommodating approach is required to examine Fitzgerald s...
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American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 143–156.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the Civil War in his writings. Several significant projects consider Faulkner in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement and the alt-right movement that have defined the poles of contemporary politics, and others apply new, innovative theoretical methods, demonstrating that almost any approach finds...
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American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 117–137.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and Theodore Roosevelt. These accounts are welcome correctives to Lubbock’s selective, often-biased accounts of Wharton. Other materials offer a range of literary assessments as well as commentaries on Wharton’s relief work during World War I. Retrieved from archives or reprinted from newspapers...
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American Literary Scholarship (2021) 2019 (1): 53–66.
Published: 01 September 2021
... New York, as well as Robert Schultz and Binh Danh s War Memoranda: Photog- raphy, Walt Whitman, and Memorials (Roanoke: Taubman Museum of Art), combining photographs of Civil War memorials and soldiers with Whitman s writing. Noteworthy online publications in honor of Whitman s bicentennial year...
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American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and the short stories feature more prominently than in years past. Scholarship on Ernest Hemingway also stresses influences on the writer and offers innovative perspectives on the Cuban and African works. Inquiry dedicated to reassessing Heming- way’s wartime biography and war writing predominates...
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American Literary Scholarship (2012) 2010 (1): 273–293.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Nicolas S. Witschi © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 13  Late-19th-Century Literature Nicolas S. Witschi The predominant subject this year is war, both literal and figurative. The lasting impact of the Civil War is traced through such topics as racial and gender identity...
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American Literary Scholarship (2020) 2018 (1): 317–342.
Published: 01 September 2020
... precursor, John Keats. Like Keats, Cotter contracted tuberculosis and died young. The balance of the chapter is devoted to praise sonnets, which Müller situates in the context of genteel convention of tributes to public figures, especially abolitionists and Civil War heroes. He discusses examples...
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American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 45–62.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Amanda Gailey; Michelle Kohler © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 4  Whitman and Dickinson Amanda Gailey and Michelle Kohler The scholarship on Whitman and Dickinson in 2015 had a few com- mon refrains: the poets’ responses to the Civil War and to 19th-century scientific...
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American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 153–175.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and novel. Likewise, scholarship on Hemingway emphasizes affect, influence, and wartime biography and war writing in addition to fictional appropriation, modernist aesthetics, and pedagogical strategies. i  F. Scott Fitzgerald a. Books and Essay Collections  In “Tender is the Night” and F. Scott...
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American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 211–232.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., albeit for different reasons. For Gay, the novel is ultimately designed to point out the loss of total vision, which she claims aligns Fitzgerald with Faulkner and Dos Passos and thus affirms his standing as a serious modernist. In “The War Veteran in Tender is the 218...
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American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 259–278.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Sally E. Parry © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 14  Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s Sally E. Parry In conjunction with the centenary of World War I, scholars have been focusing on fiction about the war, including the home front and the postwar world, as well as its influence...
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American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 September 2011
... growth in research spurred by the sesquicentennial of both the third edition of Leaves and the beginning of the Civil War. In addition to a major study of Whitman and cultural authority in a transnational context by Günther Leypoldt, this year saw the publication of a major book on Whitman’s...
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American Literary Scholarship (2002) 2000 (1): 61–90.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in this year’s books on Whitman, both monographs and collections of essays. A topic of perennial interest, Whitman’s connection to the Civil War, benefits from a fresh treatment in an outstanding biographical narrative by Roy Morris Jr. The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War (Oxford) tells the story...
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American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 285–313.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of Philip Roth. Here geopolitical bear- ings take effect on “the private, the emotional, and their expression,” creating an “affectsphere” modeled on the Cold War phenomenon of living in the shadow of nuclear annihilation. In Roth’s novels personal doings are “mapped onto world affairs,” a manner...
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American Literary Scholarship (2021) 2019 (1): 149–174.
Published: 01 September 2021
... are nearly equal in periodical scholarship for it is book-length studies that pull Hemingway far ahead. For both authors, scholarship trends include pointed and narrow biographical topics, ecocritical and global perspectives, and reconsid- erations of the writers views on war. Both authors are also...
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American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to publication history, and in the context of travel and war. Change and ambivalence are frequent themes. Theorists informing the analyses include Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Jean Baudrillard, and Theodor Adorno. Cather scholarship in 2015 is distinguished by its sheer quantity and range—some 50 articles...
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American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 145–162.
Published: 01 September 2015
... that Pound could have won acquittal had he ever been tried for treason should think again. Of course, none of the 65 articles Pound published without payment for British outlets before the war are treasonous, nor is anything Pound wrote until December 1941 and the Italian declaration of war against...
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American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 55–79.
Published: 01 September 2015
... for translation because they “are imitating sounds that are outside of meaningful language.” The essays that follow look at how translators have represented the phrase in Swedish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Brazilian, Serbian, Russian, Polish, Turkish, and Hindi editions. b. Death and War  Several...