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Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880; Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America

Renée Bergland
American Literature (1 December 2005) 77 (4): 850–852.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-850
Published: 01 December 2005
...Renée Bergland 2005 Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America . By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. x, 305 pp. $55.00; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789...
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Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America; Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America

Duncan Faherty
American Literature (1 March 2010) 82 (1): 186–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-075
Published: 01 March 2010
...Duncan Faherty © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America . By Elisa Tamarkin. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xxxiii, 400 pp. $35.00. Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth...
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Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America; Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America; Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction

Dana D. Nelson
American Literature (1 March 2011) 83 (1): 198–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-073
Published: 01 March 2011
...Dana D. Nelson © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America. By Richard Stott. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2009. 376 pp. $55.00. Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum...
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A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar Literature

Sean Metzger
American Literature (1 June 2019) 91 (2): 426–428.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529239
Published: 01 June 2019
...Sean Metzger A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific . By Hua Hsu . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 276 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network . By Richard Jean So . New...
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America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars; Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America

Patricia Kennedy Bostian
American Literature (1 September 2008) 80 (3): 615–617.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-026
Published: 01 September 2008
...Patricia Kennedy Bostian © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars . By Jaime Harker. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. viii, 208 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95. Driving...
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Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America; The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America

Jeffory A. Clymer
American Literature (1 September 2006) 78 (3): 622–624.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-031
Published: 01 September 2006
...Jeffory A. Clymer Duke University Press 2006 Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America . By Todd Vogel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2004. x, 194 pp. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $22.95. The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in...
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Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898; The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America

Russ Castronovo
American Literature (1 March 2005) 77 (1): 179–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-179
Published: 01 March 2005
... Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898. By Elizabeth D. Samet. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 273 pp. $55.00. The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America.By David Kazanjian. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xii, 311 pp. Cloth...
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Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America; The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America

Duncan Faherty
American Literature (1 September 2007) 79 (3): 605–607.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-022
Published: 01 September 2007
...Duncan Faherty Duke University Press 2007 Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America . By Jennifer J. Baker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. x, 218 pp. $50.00. The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in...
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Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic; Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative; What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers

Michelle A. Stephens
American Literature (1 September 2007) 79 (3): 623–625.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-029
Published: 01 September 2007
...Michelle A. Stephens Duke University Press 2007 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic . By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and...
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Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America; Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America

Lance Newman
American Literature (1 December 2007) 79 (4): 821–823.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-041
Published: 01 December 2007
...Lance Newman Duke University Press 2007 Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America . By Anne Baker. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2006. 173 pp. $60.00. Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America . By Susan Clair Imbarrato...
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Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America

Dennis Moore
American Literature (1 June 2016) 88 (2): 391–394.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533350
Published: 01 June 2016
...Dennis Moore Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England . By Neuman Meredith Marie . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2013 . x, 265 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; e-book, $69.95 . Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America . By...
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Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography

Kevin Modestino
American Literature (1 June 2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533470
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kevin Modestino Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy . By Mark Rebecca . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2014 . xiii, 300 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 . America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National...
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Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America / Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction / Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

Daniel Pecchenino
American Literature (1 September 2012) 84 (3): 673–675.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664818
Published: 01 September 2012
...Daniel Pecchenino Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America . By Cheever Abigail . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2010 . viii , 312 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; paper , $24.95 . Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World...
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in “Flesh-to-Flesh Contact”: Marvel Comics’ Rogue and the Queer Feminist Imagination > American Literature
Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 3 Rogue’s sexualized and vampiric absorption of Captain America via a stolen kiss features a textbook example of Kirby Krackles. From Claremont and Golden ( 1981 ), Avengers Annual #10 Figure 3 Rogue’s sexualized and vampiric absorption of Captain America via a stolen kiss features a More
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Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America; America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology

Wendy Graham
American Literature (1 September 2010) 82 (3): 644–646.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-030
Published: 01 September 2010
...Wendy Graham © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America . By Dohra Ahmad. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 250 pp. $65.00. America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology . By Cynthia H. Tolentino. Minneapolis...
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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture; Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space

Virginia Kennedy
American Literature (1 December 2010) 82 (4): 837–839.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-048
Published: 01 December 2010
...Virginia Kennedy © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture . By Shari M. Huhndorf. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xii, 202 pp. $39.95. Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S...
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America's Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre; Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

Mary Loeffelholz
American Literature (1 December 2001) 73 (4): 866–868.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-866
Published: 01 December 2001
... ‘‘dialogic a cross-fertilizing relationship whose potential was invented on one side of the Atlantic and actualized on the other. If it required Whitman’s 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass to characterize America as a great poem, Gravil’s study contends that this great poem had, in effect, been written...
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Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America; Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic

American Literature (1 March 2008) 80 (1): 170–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-067
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America . By Angela Vietto. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2005. ix, 147 pp. $89.95. Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic . By Mary Kelley. Chapel Hill: Univ...
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The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950; The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives; America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945.

Crystal Parikh
American Literature (1 March 2006) 78 (1): 192–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-1-192
Published: 01 March 2006
...Crystal Parikh The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 142 pp. Paper, $35.00. The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American...
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Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

Cristobal Silva
American Literature (1 December 2015) 87 (4): 825–827.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329650
Published: 01 December 2015
...Cristobal Silva Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America . By Chiles Katy L. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2014 . xi , 315 pp. Cloth, $65.00 ; e-book available. Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes...
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