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Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation

Stephanie Foote

American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 615–618.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-026

Published: 01 September 2007

...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2007 Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value . By Tom Lutz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. vii, 226 pp. Paper, $19.95. At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930...

View articletitled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation

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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature

Stephen P. Knadler

American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 191–194.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-191

Published: 01 March 2004

... the narratives by Black men to be libera- tory’’ in the way that she deﬁnes the genre cries out for a more developed 178 American Literature analysis of the liberatory characteristics of African American women’s writ- ing. Although Mitchell may be strategically wary of an essentialist reading of all...

View articletitled, Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature

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The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature

Kenyon Gradert

American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 372–376.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267804

Published: 01 June 2020

... Literary Imagination . By Farrell O’Gorman . Notre Dame, IN : Univ. of Notre Dame Press . 2017 . xi, 326 pp. Cloth, $ 60.00 ; e-book, $ 47.99 . Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature . By Erin Michael Salius . Gainesville : Univ...

View articletitled, The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature

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The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life the Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms

Mark Chiang

American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 844–847.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811694

Published: 01 December 2014

...Mark Chiang The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American . By Song Min Hyoung . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . 284 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 ; e-book , $23.95 . 844 American Literature order to remake them. In an important sense...

View articletitled, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life the Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms

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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord

American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 172–174.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-068

Published: 01 March 2008

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Arthur Riss. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. viii, 238 pp. $80.00. Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860 . By Maurice S. Lee...

View articletitled, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord

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Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature Industry and the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

Jennifer Brady

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 621–623.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717308

Published: 01 September 2014

...Jennifer Brady Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature . By Widiss Benjamin . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 208 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper , $21.95 ; e-book , $21.95 . Industry and the Creative Mind...

View articletitled, Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature Industry and the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

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Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America

Joseph Helminski

American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 422–424.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-014

Published: 01 June 2008

...Joseph Helminski © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture . By Carlyle Van Thompson. New York: Peter Lang. 2006. xiii, 231 pp. Paper, $29.95. Deans and Truants: Race and Realism...

View articletitled, Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America

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Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

James Salazar

American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 877–879.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901499

Published: 01 December 2012

...James Salazar Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Borgstrom Michael . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2010 . xv , 183 pp. $84.00 . Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America...

View articletitled, Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

Stephen Knadler

American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 651–654.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650331

Published: 01 September 2016

...Stephen Knadler Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership . By Edwards Erica R. . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2012 . xii, 249 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 , e-book available. Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature...

View articletitled, Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

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Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans; Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race; Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 167–169.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-066

Published: 01 March 2008

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans . By Michael J. Colacurcio. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2006. xix, 650 pp. $50.00. Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race . By Gay Gibson Cima. New...

View articletitled, Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans; Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race; Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

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Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969

Jennifer Glaser

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 625–628.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717326

Published: 01 September 2014

...Jennifer Glaser Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers . By Chametzky Jules . 2012 . Cambridge : Meredith Winter Press . $23.95 . American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States . By Weingrad Michael...

View articletitled, Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969

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Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature; Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform; Henry James Goes to Paris; Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time

Allen Hibbard

American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 427–430.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-016

Published: 01 June 2008

...Allen Hibbard © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature . By Paul Giles. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 419 pp. $115.00. Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform...

View articletitled, Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature; Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform; Henry James Goes to Paris; Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time

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Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging

Waleed F. Mahdi

American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 431–433.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3861614

Published: 01 June 2017

...-American Literature advances this transnational framework in four thematic clusters. Fadda-Conrey first examines representations of distant memories of the Arab homelands as initially shared by first-generation immigrants and later recorded in literary forms by a long list of second- and third-generation...

View articletitled, Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging

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Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Robert McRuer

American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 624–626.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-029

Published: 01 September 2008

...Robert McRuer © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature . Ed. H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, and Heidi M. Rose. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2006. xxviii, 264 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper...

View articletitled, Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

Mark Rifkin

American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 399–401.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079206

Published: 01 June 2013

...Mark Rifkin Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature . By Rasmussen Birgit Brander . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xiv, 207 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause...

View articletitled, Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

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“Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales

Alfred Hornung

American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-055

Published: 01 December 2006

... Southern and Spanish American Fiction . By Deborah N. Cohn. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt Univ. Press. 1999. x, 236 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95. Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales . By Keith Cartwright. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press. 2004. 270 pp...

View articletitled, “Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales

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A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

Coleman Hutchison

American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 414–416.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646964

Published: 01 June 2014

... Melanie . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2008 . xiv , 263 pp. Cloth , $71.95 ; paper , $25.95 . Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 . By Wells Jeremy . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 238 pp...

View articletitled, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

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Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917

Caroline Levander

American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 213–215.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-090

Published: 01 March 2007

... American Culture . By Karen Sánchez-Eppler. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xxviii, 260 pp. $35.00. Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900 . By Jennifer Mason. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. 240 pp. $55.00...

View articletitled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917

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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance

American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 177–180.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-070

Published: 01 March 2008

... American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku . By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature . By John K. Young...

View articletitled, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance

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Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 415–418.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533434

Published: 01 June 2016

... and the Making of an Interracial Left . By Battat Erin Royston . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2014 . xv, 233 pp. Paper , $32.95 ; e-book, $25.99 . Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature . By Hardison Ayesha K. . Charlottesville...

View articletitled, Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature

The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life the Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms

Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord

Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature Industry and the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America

Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans; Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race; Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969

Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature; Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform; Henry James Goes to Paris; Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time

Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging

Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

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