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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 850–852.
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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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 198–201.
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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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
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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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 179–181.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., and the 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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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 615–617.
Published: 01 September 2008
... array of materials about the culture from which Whitman’s work sprung, as well as excellent new readings of the tensions marking the emergence of Whitman’s complex and often contradiction-laden persona. Harold K. Bush Jr., Saint Louis University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-025 America...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 622–624.
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...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 673–675.
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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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 186–188.
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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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 605–607.
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...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 623–625.
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...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 821–823.
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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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2019
... (if not always that of the Pacific basin). What advantages does the longue durée of East-West contact and an expanded transpacific analytical optic afford? Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar Literature . By Heidi Kim . Oxford : Oxford...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 391–394.
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...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... $59.95. Eric Wertheimer’s Imagined Empires explores the U.S. American appropria- tions of Peru’s and Mexico’s pre-Columbian past in Philip Freneau’s ‘‘The RisingGlory of America’’ (1771), Joel Barlow’s...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 218–219.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... Eric Wertheimer’s Imagined Empires explores the U.S. American appropria- tions of Peru’s and Mexico’s pre-Columbian past in Philip Freneau’s ‘‘The RisingGlory of America’’ (1771), Joel Barlow’s Vision of Columbus (1787...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Christoph Irmscher’s The Poetics of Natural History now joins such books as Pamela Regis’s Describing Early America (1992) and Margaret Welch’s The Book of Nature (1998) as a major contribution to our understanding of Ameri...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 654–655.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Christoph Irmscher’s The Poetics of Natural History now joins such books as Pamela Regis’s Describing Early America (1992) and Margaret Welch’s The Book of Nature (1998) as a major contribution to our understanding of Ameri...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Paul Gutjahr By Robert Blair St. George. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. xii,417 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. 2001 Book Reviews Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America. By Robert Blair St. George. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. xii, 417 pp. Cloth...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 895–896.
Published: 01 December 2000
... A. Reid, University of Florida-Gainesville Hitchcock’s America. Ed. Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 192 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $17.95. It is difficult...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Susan M. Ryan By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2000. x, 216 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $16.00. 2001 Book Reviews Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America. By Robert Blair St. George. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. xii, 417 pp. Cloth, $55.00...