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Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics

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Claudia Sadowski-Smith
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 162–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056644
Published: 01 March 2020
...Claudia Sadowski-Smith Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence . By Sonja Schillings . Lebanon, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2017 . xi, 287 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $40.00 ; e-book, $7.99 . Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics...
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Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America

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Britt Rusert
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-076
Published: 01 March 2010
...Britt Rusert © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture . By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs...
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The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!

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Melissa Ryan
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 275–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-275
Published: 01 June 2003
... emotional investment in the values of the old world, Alexandra is unruffled: she jokingly proposes her own household as an ‘‘asylum for old-time people’’ (OP, 64). The threat of confinement is then fully realized in the Nebraska...
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New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott; Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995; Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics

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Alan Golding
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 220–222.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-090
Published: 01 March 2010
... of literature, Sánchez contends, the era of reformist fiction drew to a close. Duncan Faherty, Queens College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2009-075 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp...
View articletitled, New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott; Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995; Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics View PDF for article titled, New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott; Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995; Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics
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Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction; Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women

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Kenneth M. Roemer
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 223–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-091
Published: 01 March 2010
...: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst: Univ...
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The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South; James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile

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Shane Vogel
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 225–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-092
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South; James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile View PDF for article titled, The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South; James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile
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Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England

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Leonard Tennenhouse
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 181–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-073
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England View PDF for article titled, Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
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Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature; The Transatlantic Indian, 1776–1930; All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression

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Shari M. Huhndorf
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 183–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-074
Published: 01 March 2010
... of literature, Sánchez contends, the era of reformist fiction drew to a close. Duncan Faherty, Queens College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2009-075 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp...
View articletitled, Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature; The Transatlantic Indian, 1776–1930; All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression View PDF for article titled, Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature; The Transatlantic Indian, 1776–1930; All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression
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Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America; Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America

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Duncan Faherty
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 186–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-075
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America; Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America View PDF for article titled, Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America; Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America
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Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works; African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in “Benito Cereno” and “Moby-Dick.”

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Robert K. Wallace
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 190–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-077
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works; African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in “Benito Cereno” and “Moby-Dick.” View PDF for article titled, Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works; African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in “Benito Cereno” and “Moby-Dick.”
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Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics; The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture; Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading; Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after “Moby-Dick,” 1851–1857

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Jennifer Gurley
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 192–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-078
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics; The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture; Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading; Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after “Moby-Dick,” 1851–1857 View PDF for article titled, Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics; The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture; Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading; Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after “Moby-Dick,” 1851–1857
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The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism; Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age

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Jordan Alexander Stein
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 196–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-079
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism; Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age View PDF for article titled, The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism; Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age
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Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration; Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State

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Paula Rabinowitz
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 198–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-080
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration; Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State View PDF for article titled, Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration; Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State
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Love and Marriage in Early African America; Reading Marriage in the American Romance: Remembering Love as Destiny

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Jean M. Lutes
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 200–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-081
Published: 01 March 2010
...: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst: Univ...
View articletitled, Love and Marriage in Early African America; Reading Marriage in the American Romance: Remembering Love as Destiny View PDF for article titled, Love and Marriage in Early African America; Reading Marriage in the American Romance: Remembering Love as Destiny
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Imagining the African American West; Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West

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Krista Comer
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 202–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-082
Published: 01 March 2010
...: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst: Univ...
View articletitled, Imagining the African American West; Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West View PDF for article titled, Imagining the African American West; Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West
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The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865–1915; A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism; Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935–1947

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Frederick Luis Aldama
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 204–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-083
Published: 01 March 2010
... of literature, Sánchez contends, the era of reformist fiction drew to a close. Duncan Faherty, Queens College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2009-075 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp...
View articletitled, The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865–1915; A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism; Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935–1947 View PDF for article titled, The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865–1915; A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism; Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935–1947
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Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s.; The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920

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Josephine Lee
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 206–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-084
Published: 01 March 2010
...: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst: Univ...
View articletitled, Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s.; The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920 View PDF for article titled, Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s.; The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920
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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos; Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States; Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas

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Claire F. Fox
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 209–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-085
Published: 01 March 2010
... to reformist concerns. With this shift in atti- tude toward the function of literature, Sánchez contends, the era of reformist fiction drew to a close. Duncan Faherty, Queens College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2009-075 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture...
View articletitled, Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos; Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States; Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas View PDF for article titled, Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos; Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States; Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas
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Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression; Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars

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Michael Tavel Clarke
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 211–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-086
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression; Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars View PDF for article titled, Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression; Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars
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Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature; Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968

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Matthew Wynn Sivils
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 214–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-087
Published: 01 March 2010
... Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America. By Thomas A. Horrocks. Amherst...
View articletitled, Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature; Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 View PDF for article titled, Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature; Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968