Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 1881
Search Results for also
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Image
Image 40 (recto) from “‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,’ trial lines,” also known ...
Available to Purchase
in Writing with Pencils in the Antebellum United States: Language, Instrument, Gesture
> American Literature
Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 4 Image 40 (recto) from “‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,’ trial lines,” also known as George Walker. Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, box 37, MSS18630
More
Image
in Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging in Papers, Please
> American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2 At the end of each in-game day in Papers, Please (Lucas Pope, 2013 ), players are given a salary and must decide how to allocate those earnings to support their family as well as pay for other incidentals. The payment screen also displays the various achievement tokens and booth
More
Journal Article
Reading Democratically: Pedagogies of Difference and Practices of Listening in The House of Mirth and Passing
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2009
... primarily in terms of its communicative practices. On the one hand, a deliberative democracy would appear to need some minimal “common standards” of what constitutes reasoned communication. On the other, it also seeks to allow as much genuine difference to enter into democratic deliberations as possible...
Journal Article
Metadata, Metafiction, and the Stakes of Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 155–184.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the historically male-centered canon of US metafiction, Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) conscientiously engages the power relations of watching. In the background of the novel and at its chronological center are the 9/11 attacks and also, incidentally, the launch of the iPod. In a sense, these two events...
Journal Article
State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's sense, the political unconscious of American literature. As a celebrated example of political theater, The Exonerated also provides a forum...
Journal Article
Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass's “The Heroic Slave”
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
... these ideas in his only novella, “The Heroic Slave” (1853), in which Madison Washington, leader of the 1841 Creole mutiny, declares his independence in a forest glade that functions as a chapel of natural rights. This kind of radical republican pastoralism also shapes My Bondage, My Freedom (1855...
Journal Article
Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., to the passive objects of measurement and administration. More surprisingly, though, these books also display the role that children’s literature played in placing children themselves in a relationship with numerical data collection, either as enthusiastic and active participants or wary counteragents. While...
View articletitled, Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler
View
PDF
for article titled, Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Journal Article
Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
Published: 01 December 2023
... studies, and digital humanities, this article adds alternative dimensions to the ongoing legacy of incarceration by inviting readers to create new constellations of meaning through examining temporal and embodied disorder. Reading the physical book and digital archives together also acts as a model...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory
View
PDF
for article titled, Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory
Journal Article
“A form of life in which art is not art”: “Life in the Iron Mills” and the Artist as Worker in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Sandra Tomc Abstract This essay examines early nineteenth-century US literature that fought for increased compensation and copyright protection for authors. Instead of dismissing this literature as a form of complaint, as many scholars do, I take writers’ concerns seriously, but I also look...
View articletitled, “A form of life in which art is not art”: “Life in the Iron Mills” and the Artist as Worker in the Nineteenth-Century United States
View
PDF
for article titled, “A form of life in which art is not art”: “Life in the Iron Mills” and the Artist as Worker in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Journal Article
How to Make a Queer: The Erotics of Begging; or, Down and Out in the Great Depression
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 91–119.
Published: 01 March 2019
... for money or food, for example, took a variety of forms, and they also took on erotic connotations. This article reads the erotics of begging in little-known literature from the Great Depression, especially Tom Kromer’s Waiting for Nothing (1935), and argues that when a man on the down and out “makes...
Journal Article
The Sounds of Black Laughter and the Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 57–81.
Published: 01 March 2008
... with the acoustics of white power, this laughter also found a significant place in the poetry of Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes. In what Emily Thompson has called an “increasingly `sound-conscious'” era, these poets registered and analyzed the emergence of this new, combative black laugh...
Journal Article
The Biology of Intimacy: Lamarckian Evolution and the Sentimental Novel
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
Published: 01 September 2020
... heroines of domestic plots not only function as tropes of domestic and national belonging, as has been widely recognized, but also of population regulation at the biological level of species. Sentimentalism functions as a mode of evolutionary theory, one that articulated the Lamarckian belief that sensory...
Journal Article
The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2022
... this period, which also represented a boom in video game development. However, documentation remains of only a handful of early video games that mention HIV/AIDS. This article argues that, far from being absent from video game history, HIV/AIDS and the US AIDS crisis were actually influential in shaping...
Journal Article
Richard Wright's Oneiropolitics
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 151–179.
Published: 01 March 2010
...)coloniality. It also links his thinking to Western philosophy, including Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, in which the task of thought is frequently understood in terms of an awakening. Tuhkanen suggests that in Wright and Husserl the slippery distinction between dreaming and wakefulness is best represented...
Journal Article
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Avery Slater Abstract This article examines early Cold War attempts to generate poetry using computers. Set between the end of World War II and the rise of personal computing, computer-generated poetry from this period was shaped not only by artists but also the university lab, the defense...
Journal Article
“Some Queer Freak of Taste”: Gender, Authorship, and the “Rock Me to Sleep” Controversy
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 769–795.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Jennifer Putzi Published in 1860 under the pseudonym “Florence Percy,” “Rock Me to Sleep” quickly became one of the most popular and widely circulated poems of the nineteenth century. It also became the subject of a heated literary controversy, with multiple claimants coming forward to insist...
Journal Article
Embodied Eloquence, the Sumner Assault, and the Transatlantic Cable
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Northern and Southern commentators as a form of political discourse, Brooks's caning of Sumner also reverberated with a broad set of concerns over telegraphic communication. Many noted that the cane with which Brooks assaulted Sumner was constructed of gutta-percha, the substance that was used to insulate...
Journal Article
Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, and Postsecular Violence
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2010
... American fascination with the figure of the Muslim terrorist as a symptom of the modern West's own contradictory and incomplete process of secularization. At the same time, also under the influence of John Brown and his volunteer army, Emerson articulated a model for practical action that depended neither...
Journal Article
The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter
Available to Purchase
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
... ” not only provides a more accurate picture of Lin's transnational literary development; it also opens a space for a reading of Lin's novel Chinatown Family that dramatically alters the typical Asian American understanding of his work and offers an important contribution to the larger critical discourse...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
... leaders face little resistance from faculty in perpetuating the current funding system? In part this is because faculty mistakenly believe that their own interests are served by the current system. In fact, Newfield shows, the current funding model also creates inequities in research funding that have...
1
