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“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
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
... alongside Rebecca Harding Davis’s tale of tragic artistic labor, “Life in the Iron Mills.” Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 aesthetic regime romantic authorship genius copyright intellectual labor author compensation Jacques Rancière In his extended and alluring discussions...
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The Shining and the Media Conglomerate; or, How All Work and No Play Made Jack a Creative Artist in the 1970s
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
... as a narrative of artistic production will ultimately help us understand not only the interlocking structure of the publishing and film industries in the late 1970s but also the ways in which the inequality in the media industries during that time prefigured and helped to justify the growing social inequality...
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The Wilderness Within: American Women Writers and Spiritual Quest; Artist and Attic: A Study of Poetic Space in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 438–439.
Published: 01 June 2000
... primary sources as well, sometimes distorting Twain’s texts beyond
recognition. So it is that all of Twain’s characters become ‘‘robots that both
Tom Sawyer and Injun Joe are (if alternately) ‘‘Romantic Artists mesmer...
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The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 203–204.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., beyond a quantitative presence, of the African American voice in
the public arena.
Stephen Knadler, Spelman College
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The Artist as Outsider in the Novels...
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Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 647–648.
Published: 01 September 2001
...’’ and not as ‘‘artists as Smith argues (31). Ham-
mett and Chandler definitely saw themselves as artists, and the difference
this makes in their works might well have been illuminated by contrasting
their efforts with those of the Black Mask contingent. It would have been
especially interesting to study the differences...
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Women as nodes (artist unknown; Barnard, “-.- .-—. An Electro-Mechanical Ro...
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Figure 4 Women as nodes (artist unknown; Barnard, “-.- .-—. An Electro-Mechanical Romance,” Scribner’s Monthly , May 1875, 41)
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The Sacred Cod , pine carving of a New England codfish by an unknown artist...
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Figure 1 The Sacred Cod , pine carving of a New England codfish by an unknown artist, 1784. Massachusetts State House. Photo © Arthur Griffin 2017. Image courtesy of the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
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Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 650–653.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2015 . 199 pp. Cloth , $87.50 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists . By Posnock Ross . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 415 pp. Cloth , $46.50 ; e-book available...
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Artistic Liberties: American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880–1905 Immersive Words: Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 863–866.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Martha J. Cutter Artistic Liberties: American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880–1905 . By Adam Sonstegard . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2014 . xiv, 230 pages. Cloth, $49.95 ; e-book, $49.95 . Immersive Words: Mass Media, Visuality, and American...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Tyler Nickl Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . By Schuyler David . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 206 pp. $29.95 . Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition . By Sachs Aaron . New...
View articletitled, Sanctified Landscape: Writers, <span class="search-highlight">Artists</span>, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language
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Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity; Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920–1950
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 856–858.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity . By Kevin Bell. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. x, 252 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Modernism on File: Writers, Artists...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jordan Alexander Stein © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America . Ed. Thomas A. Foster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 405 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Gay Artists in Modern American Culture...
View articletitled, Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America; Gay <span class="search-highlight">Artists</span> in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy; Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
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Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 10 The artist’s physical state as character extension. From Bushmiller, Nancy , September 23, 1949
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Marianne Moore’s Depression Collectives
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
Published: 01 June 2013
... as words “we” said rather than words put in the mouths of others. Subtle changes in Moore’s well-known poem “Silence” show her questioning the kind of artistic superiority displayed in the act of quotation, while her letters to various correspondents allow us to connect her changing notion of quotation...
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“An Art That Won't Behave”: Film and the Seven Arts , 1907-21
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Michael Devine In the first two decades of the twentieth century, American artists connected to the journal the Seven Arts sought to transform the cinema into an indigenous art free from European influence. Precisely because the cinema was “an art that won't behave,” as the journal's first essay...
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Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba’s Affirmative Movements in History
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 135–150.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and in relationship to the artistic and political communities she organized. While working in Greenwich Village, Hansberry crossed paths with and learned from an international cadre of intellectuals and performing artists, including South African singer Miriam Makeba, how to shift the body to shape reality. The essay...
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Transatlantic Picture Stories: Experiments in the Antebellum American Comic Strip
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 455–488.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Alex Beringer It is widely assumed that the American comic strip “begins” in the 1890s with the multipanel sequences appearing in Sunday newspapers. This essay challenges this periodization by looking to an archive of humor magazines from the 1850s and 60s. As early as 1852, artists including Frank...
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Science, Nature Work, and the Kinaesthetic Body in Cather and Stein
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 799–830.
Published: 01 December 2008
... notions of rhythm and kinaesthetic performance that originated in the new sciences of psychology and anthropology and were popularized by artists and intellectuals such as Isadora Duncan and Mary Austin. Using Duncan and the opera singer Olive Fremstad as models, Stein and Cather developed rhythmic...
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“If You Want to Know the Truth”: Fair Use, Authenticity, and J. D. Salinger
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 597–619.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of limited monopoly rights to artists, and also to protect art (and by extension, artists) from unfair uses by the public. These two aims, which we might loosely categorize as public and private, find useful analogues in Lionel Trilling's concepts of “sincerity” and “authenticity.” The essay then turns...
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Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... itself. I understand Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992) and Chuck Hogan’s The Blood Artists (1998) to think, in submerged literary form, an incremental embrace of virality as, ironically, the most viable vehicle for conserving the fantasies of both neoliberal competency and racial containment reified...
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