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Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 461–493.
Published: 01 September 2018
...R. J. Boutelle Abstract This article details how John Greenleaf Whittier accidentally assumed two different Cuban poets of color (Juan Francisco Manzano and Plácido) were one and the same person, resulting in an unwittingly combinatory sketch of “Juan Placido.” The resulting syncretic personage...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the free black people of the United States might activate the volcanic latency of racial discontent in their country just as Ogé had in his. At the same time, Vashon’s revision of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Toussaint L’Ouverture” (1833) offsets the way in which Louverture’s name had become...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2018
... introduced into the literary landscape a complicated view of what readers and writers increasingly saw as a suspect “free” market. Writers such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, and John Greenleaf Whittier imagined a world of goods haunted by the touch of enslaved laborers—goods...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 271–304.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in the historiography of wartime culture. Cohen analyzes a series of contraband works: abolitionist poems by John Greenleaf Whittier; African American spirituals like “O Let My People Go”; minstrel songs like “Kingdom Coming”; and an assortment of anonymous poems published as broadsides and in periodicals...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 683–711.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of Angels, and Their Ministries . . . . London : Printed by R. E. for Henry Brome . Carpenter George Rice . 1903 . John Greenleaf Whittier . Boston : Houghton Mifflin . Castiglia Christopher . 2008 . Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 880–882.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... They were also copied in letters and recorded in albums that were given as gifts. Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier runs through every chapter as the premiere example of what poems meant to their readership. Whittier’s poems were affective in the sense that the emotional experience of sharing, copying...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 603–605.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., William Gilmore
Simms’s theory of a pre-American Indian Norse past, the poetic musings of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier about a Nordic pre-
history of North America, Native American oral traditions, and even twentieth-
and twenty-first-century ideas about Vikings to trace...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., a move
that would guarantee the plantation holdings of Cuba’s Creole elite.
López’s connection to plantation owners led opponents of slavery
and runaway expansionism to brand him a filibuster. The U.S. vit-
riol against filibustering is evident in John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem
‘‘The Haschish...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 417–426.
Published: 01 June 2014
... and abolitionism, Grant’s study instead focuses on how this litera-
ture interacted with political antislavery discourse. Grant argues that authors
such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Parker
Willis, and Walt Whitman participated in the political antislavery movement
by drawing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 701–724.
Published: 01 December 2010
... itself. Early in the war, Child began
enlisting support for her project by appealing to fellow abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith, and John Greenleaf Whittier,
among others. Jacobs herself wrote Child with some regularity about
her reform work among the black population...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 91–119.
Published: 01 March 2010
... “blood-red” in John Greenleaf
Whittier’s 1837 poem about Toussaint L’Ouverture to the insights
into rebellion offered by Frederick Douglass in his 1857 poem “The
Tyrants’ Jubilee the volcano proved a useful vehicle for reflection
on the relations between racial violence, temporal...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
... cable (1854–1858), the new technology was politically promoted as a tool of “unity, peace, and good-will among men” (291), and often attached itself to commonly held beliefs in mesmerism or spiritualism. 14 Fireside poet John Greenleaf Whittier, in his poem “The Telegraph” ( Atlantic Monthly...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 283–305.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... Yet while Dickinson’s aesthetic undoubtedly emerged from late Romantic culture, it is different from her peers’, speaking to our era in a way that has captured the popular imagination, whereas Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Lydia Sigourney and John Greenleaf Whittier have not. Even Walt Whitman...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 662–664.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... It also reveals the transatlantic scope of the movement. Jones ties
the popularization of American anti-gallows poetry to the work of editor John
O’Sullivan, whose Democratic Review vilified Wordsworth’s British verse, con-
trasting it against the democratic politics of John Greenleaf Whittier’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 657–659.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... It also reveals the transatlantic scope of the movement. Jones ties
the popularization of American anti-gallows poetry to the work of editor John
O’Sullivan, whose Democratic Review vilified Wordsworth’s British verse, con-
trasting it against the democratic politics of John Greenleaf Whittier’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 659–661.
Published: 01 September 2012
...-
trasting it against the democratic politics of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poetic
attacks upon capital hanging. In another instructive chapter, Jones charts
the circulation of popular crime literature from Britain to the United States,
where the genre’s sympathetic criminal antiheroes...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 664–666.
Published: 01 September 2012
...
the popularization of American anti-gallows poetry to the work of editor John
O’Sullivan, whose Democratic Review vilified Wordsworth’s British verse, con-
trasting it against the democratic politics of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poetic
attacks upon capital hanging. In another instructive chapter, Jones...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... It also reveals the transatlantic scope of the movement. Jones ties
the popularization of American anti-gallows poetry to the work of editor John
O’Sullivan, whose Democratic Review vilified Wordsworth’s British verse, con-
trasting it against the democratic politics of John Greenleaf Whittier’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 668–670.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... It also reveals the transatlantic scope of the movement. Jones ties
the popularization of American anti-gallows poetry to the work of editor John
O’Sullivan, whose Democratic Review vilified Wordsworth’s British verse, con-
trasting it against the democratic politics of John Greenleaf Whittier’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 670–672.
Published: 01 September 2012
...-
trasting it against the democratic politics of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poetic
attacks upon capital hanging. In another instructive chapter, Jones charts
the circulation of popular crime literature from Britain to the United States,
where the genre’s sympathetic criminal antiheroes...
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