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New England beyond Criticism: In Defense of America’s First Literature The Dream of the Great American Novel
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 885–888.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Tom Ferraro New England beyond Criticism: In Defense of America’s First Literature . By New Elisa . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell . 2014 . ix, 322 pp. Cloth , $112.95 ; paper, $35.95 ; e-book, $28.99 . The Dream of the Great American Novel . By Buell Lawrence . Cambridge...
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John Neal, American Romance, and International Romanticism
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 477–504.
Published: 01 September 2012
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critics, his description of a new kind of poetry transfigured as prose
would seem to augur the poetics of an ensuing generation of American
writers, those most often considered romantics, whether it be Neal’s
American Literature, Volume 84, Number 3, September 2012
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1664692 ©...
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New Criticism and Value in Taiwanese College English
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 397–423.
Published: 01 June 2017
... in the Taiwanese context, with focus on the material value of an English degree and the potential expansion of the degree beyond the isolated major. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Taiwan college English American New Criticism pedagogical value humanities crisis An often-noted...
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“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., cyberspace provided a new environment for Americans to enter, an ecosystem that molded to the desires of its users and that stood outside the threats of invasion and overdevelopment. Critics widely acknowledge Barlow as the first person to use the term cyberspace to describe the intersection...
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The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 639–669.
Published: 01 December 2023
... American support of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 when news of Benito Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia galvanized members of the Harlem Renaissance. These two conflicts triangulated the imaginaries of the United States, Spain, and Ethiopia, producing a distinct form of antifascist Black transnationalism...
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The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk Autobiography and Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 533–561.
Published: 01 September 2012
... this autobiography, coupled with Pretty Shield’s explanations of historical use of the sign language among precontact Crow people, suggests new views of various critical problems within the hybrid genre of American Indian autobiography, of which this text is one example. Pretty Shield’s husband, Goes Ahead, used...
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The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... 2012. “Hive Plots—Rational Approach to Visual-
izing Networks.” Briefings in Bioinformatics 13, no. 5: 627–44.
Lepore, Jill. 1998. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of
American Identity. New York: Knopf.
Liu, Alan. 2012. “Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital...
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Writing the Old Negro in a New Century: James Weldon Johnson and the Uses of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
... America’s soul” (318). The loss of black life brings with it a grave moral and spiritual loss to white America. While Locke and other critics of the Harlem Renaissance positioned the New Negro against an Old Negro best forgotten, Johnson understood the necessity of both figures in African American...
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Richard Wright and the Black Metropolis: From the Great Migration to the Urban Planning Novel
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 653–680.
Published: 01 December 2020
... pastoralism and the prejudiced essentialization of African Americans within that representative schema. However, by not unpacking the racist stigmas of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York that produced many of the social conditions Dunbar observed—signs of how segregation would shape New York (and Chicago...
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Archipelagic Diaspora, Geographical Form, and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 121–149.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston . New York : Scribner . Brathwaite Edward . (1974) 1977 . Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean . Mona, Jamaica : Savacou . Brickhouse Anna . 2008 . “ Hemispheric Jamestown .” In Hemispheric American...
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Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic: Reading Surface Meaning in Thoreau
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2013
... . Fischer Michael R. 1992 . “ Walden and the Politics of Contemporary Literary Theory .” In New Essays on Walden . Edited by Sayre Robert F. . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press , 95 – 113 . Gallagher Catherine . 1998 . “ The History of Literary Criticism .” In American Academic...
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Beyond the “Proper Notice”: Frederick Douglass, Uncle Tom’s Cabin , and the Politics of Critical Reprinting
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Technology in the Humanities, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia . http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/interpret/exhibits/brown/brown.html . Charvat William . 1961 . The Origins of American Critical Thought, 1810–1835 . New York : A. S. Barnes . First published 1936. Cohen Lara...
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The History of Jewish American Literary History: A Critical Genealogy of Emergence
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 2014 , 12). 24 And it wasn’t just the writers; the critics who read them were also attuned to the almost immediate petrification of the cliché. In 1969 Robert Alter validated the emergence narrative in claiming that “the sudden new ascendency” and “rise to prominence in American literature...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 681–688.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, and Fannie Flagg, among others.
Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction. By Lorna Piatti-Farnell. New York:
Routledge. 2011. ix, 191 pp. $133.00.
This volume brings together the critical lenses...
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Federalist Criticism and the Fate of Genius
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 687–717.
Published: 01 December 2004
... and humane art. It is the offspring of good
sense and refined taste8 ThusinspiredbyBlair,aswellasAddison,
Lord Kames, and others, American authors began to investigate the
nature of criticism and examine the new works of literature produced
at home and abroad with surprising alacrity and frequency...
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The “Comfort” Of Critical Consolidation: Pedagogy, Ethical Alienation, and Asian American Literary Studies
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
... . 1997 . “ They Are Our Grandmas .” positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 5 , no. 1 : 255 – 74 . Koshy Susan . 1996 . “ The Fiction of Asian American Literature .” Yale Journal of Criticism 9 , no. 2 : 315 – 46 . Lee Chang-rae . 1999 . A Gesture Life . New York...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 467–473.
Published: 01 June 2012
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American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political
History. By Peter Swirski. New York: Routledge. 2011. xii, 255 pp. $133.00.
Swirski turns a neo-Darwinian critical eye on twentieth-century Ameri-
can utopian fiction and on eutopian societies. Investigating...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 445–458.
Published: 01 June 2001
... American Fiction. By Gordon
E. Slethaug. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. xxxi, 206 pp. Paper, $19.95.
Beautiful Chaos may not be the first book of its kind (earlier works of liter-
ary criticism...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 209–224.
Published: 01 March 2005
... American Literature
Deconstructing Post–WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of
an Emerging Global Capital. By Robert Bennett. New York: Routledge. 2003. xiv, 127 pp.
$65.00.
This combination of urban history and literary criticism examines the mu-
tually influencing realms...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 639–652.
Published: 01 December 2004
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African American authors, am the editor of American Literature.Much
has changed. To what do we, the present editors, attribute this remark-
able shift? Cathy Davidson is our answer.
With her arrival in 1990, Cathy gave the journal the huge ‘‘barbaric
yawp’’ of wakefulness and new energy...
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