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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2009
...David M. Stewart © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870 . By Trish Loughran. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2007. xxv, 537 pp. Cloth, $46.50; paper, $24.50. The Business of Letters: Authorial...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 745–757.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and as members of a ‘risk group’—that neutral-sounding, bureaucratic category which also revives the archaic idea of a tainted community that illness has judged.” In terms of aging, the Social Security Act of 1935 created the over-sixty-five bureaucratic category. 4 In terms of judgment, our current...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 528–531.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in the Age of Atlantic Slavery . By Jared Hickman . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 528 pp. Cloth, $81.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 The two books under review explore how the racial formations of background...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 852–854.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development . By Guy Reynolds. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2008. 268 pp. $50.00. Book Reviews The Captive’s Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England. By Teresa A. Toulouse. Philadelphia...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 434–436.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form . By Judith Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xiv, 199 pp. $39.95. Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age . By Marsha Orgeron...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2010
...John Hellmann © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam . By William V. Spanos. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2008. xx, 321 pp. Cloth, $89.50; paper, $29.95. Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Lisa Swanstrom © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Machine-Age Comedy . By Michael North. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 222 pp. Paper, $27.95. Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path . By Terry Harpold. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2009...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Barbara Shell Shaker and Indigenous Representation Siebert in the Age of Multiculturalism LeAnne Howe’s 2001 novel Shell Shaker opens with an idyllic image of an ancient Choctaw village where food is plentiful and life is “[l]ike a party,” “a series of games...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Stephanie LeMenager Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963 . By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 564 pp. $34.95. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature . By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature . By Funchion John . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 252 pp. Cloth , $62.95 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book, $19.95 . Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe . By Kennedy J. Gerald . New...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 904–907.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Weiner, Haroldo de Campos, and many others. And like any aging master, Bernstein’s take on poetry and poetics reprises again the conflicts of his youth, as many of the interviews in the book feature him defending the innovative mantle of Language poetry, the poststructuralist movement in experimental...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 283–313.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the resistance to heteronormative logics of age categorization, “adult-erated age” names the ways that childhoods in the texts are adult oriented but also characterizes how they, in their respective contexts, revise and reflect notions of impurity and being worsened as singularly queer ways of being...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 911–913.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Gerry Canavan Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . By Scott Selisker . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth, $91.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 180–183.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Mark Scroggins Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age . By Peter O’Leary . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2017 . xiii, 260 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book, $59.99 . The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Brent Ryan Bellamy The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism . By Tim Jelfs . Morgantown : West Virginia Univ. Press . 2018 . xii, 198 pp. Cloth, $99.99 ; paper, $29.99 ; e-book, $29.99 . The Half-Life of Deindustrialization...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 412–415.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Matthew D. Sutton Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll . By Florence Dore . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2018 . xiii, 178 pp. Cloth, $ 85.00 ; paper, $ 28.00 ; e-book, $ 27.99 . The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 517–545.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Sari Edelstein This essay draws attention to how the institutionalization of childhood studies in American literary criticism unwittingly privileges youth over all other ages and reifies the stages of life themselves as essential categories rather than as cultural constructs. Given that age emerged...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Michelle Neely Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution . By Rozbicki Michal Jan . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2011 . x , 288 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; paper , $24.50 ; e-book , $24.50 . The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Benjamin Mangrum This essay charts the development of two entwined intellectual threads during the 1950s: the translation of European existentialism into an American idiom and what Nathan Hale describes as the “golden age of popularization” for psychoanalysis in the United States. I argue...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 359–385.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of Experience: Jarhead and the Geography of the Persian Gulf War .” PMLA 124 , no. 5 : 1677 – 89 . Brian J. The Desert of Anatopism: Williams War in the Age of Globalization Two-thirds of the way in, Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War movie The Hurt Locker (2008) suddenly...