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Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

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Edwin J. Barton
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-418
Published: 01 June 2001
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Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism; Modernism: A Cultural History; Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction

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Edwin J. Barton
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 874–876.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-058
Published: 01 December 2006
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Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science; Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community

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Edwin J. Barton
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 438–439.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-438
Published: 01 June 2003
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Writing with Pencils in the Antebellum United States: Language, Instrument, Gesture

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Blake Bronson-Bartlett
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 199–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267708
Published: 01 June 2020
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A Queer Form of Trauma: Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love

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Dona Yarbrough
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 367–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-367
Published: 01 June 2003
.... Eventually she meets Bart when she is involved in a car accident that kills Bart’s wife. Bart and the narrator, bound by their similar losses, fall in love and marry. Years later, in grief again after Bart’s death...
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Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne's “The Little Room” and Elia Wilkinson Peattie's “The House That Was Not”

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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 501–525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-018
Published: 01 September 2007
... in a capitalist system. In the straightforward plot of “The House That Was Not,” Bart Fleming takes his seventeen-year-old bride to his ranch on the Western plains. Entirely isolated, Flora becomes preoccupied with a home that she spies off in the distance, “something like her own,” of which...
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The Biological Clock: Edith Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood

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Jennifer L. Fleissner
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 519–548.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-024
Published: 01 September 2006
... and fade. This image is much more prevalent in Whar- ton’smorecelebratedworkoftheperiod,The House of Mirth (1905), with its heroine ‘‘Lily’’ Bart, although even here, a tension emerges between the older figuration and the newer sense of female tempo- rality imposed by the clock. That the more...
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How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative

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Ralph James Savarese
American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 194–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453744
Published: 01 March 2016
..., and Bart Vervaeck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2013. vii, 236 pp. Paper, $30.00. In the epilogue to How Literature Plays with the Brain, Paul Armstrong tells us that he “probably would not have written this book if [he] hadn’t spent a dozen years as a dean.” Interacting with scientists taught...
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Misreading The House of Mirth

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Amy L. Blair
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 149–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-149
Published: 01 March 2004
... in the milliner’s shop. Wharton’s Lenox neighbor was not alone in her dismay. The death of Lily Bart seems to have fundamentally affronted Wharton’s 1905 readership, and there were many readers to affront. The book sold 30,000 copies during the first three weeks, a number that doubled to 60,000 within a month...
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Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness

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Monica Huerta
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 381–410.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11398663
Published: 01 September 2024
... readings focus on the novels by Chesnutt, Howells, and Wharton; Lily Bart receives the mountain-lion’s share of attention because financialization is at every turn implicated in her characterization. It needn’t be that any of these authors would have recognized the analytic or accumulated ongoing...
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Reading Democratically: Pedagogies of Difference and Practices of Listening in The House of Mirth and Passing

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Nick Bromell
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 281–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-003
Published: 01 June 2009
... read that “Miss Bart shrank” and “Lily stiffened”—until we realize that now we are actually seeing Lily through the eyes of a man who is standing on the sidewalk look- ing up at her, “a man of the blond Jewish type.” For several sentences our consciousness is subtly routed through what...
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Heroism and Comics Form: Feminist and Queer Speculations

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Shelley Streeby
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 449–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4564382
Published: 01 June 2018
... . xiii, 276 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper, $27.95 ; e-book, $27.95 . Hellboy’s World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins . By Bukatman Scott . Berkeley : Univ. of California Press . 2016 . 263 pp. Paper , $24.95 ; e-book, $24.95 . Twelve-Cent Archie . By Beaty Bart . New...
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Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism

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Cecilia Tichi
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 828–830.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329662
Published: 01 December 2015
...) and their livelihood dependent on “trickle-down” benevolence (61). Such “benevolence” proves nonexistent in The House of Mirth, in which the orphaned, impecunious Lily Bart finds that her beauty, flawless manners, and personal loyalty are unavail- ing in a lethally treacherous social world of newly rich...
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Transatlantic Picture Stories: Experiments in the Antebellum American Comic Strip

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Alex Beringer
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 455–488.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149333
Published: 01 September 2015
... . American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals . Westport, CT : Greenwood Press . Smolderen Thierry . 2014 . The Origins of Comics from William Hogarth to Winsor McCay . Translated by Beaty Bart Nguyen Nick . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . Strong Thomas W. 1846...
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“The Ache of the Actual”: Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism

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Cynthia J. Davis
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 547–574.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149369
Published: 01 September 2015
... and aesthetic superiority over other less perceptive, more pain-averse characters. For example, in The House of Mirth, Lily Bart’s “own fierce revulsions from pain” help “The Ache of the Actual”  557 explain her proclivity for the “darkness . . . at any cost...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 675–689.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-675
Published: 01 September 2003
... an argument about the limits of knowledge in O’Connor’s fiction. 6903 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:3 / sheet 198 of 209 Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing. By Bart Eeckhout. Columbia: Univ...
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Louisa May Alcott's Age

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Sari Edelstein
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 517–545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149357
Published: 01 September 2015
... of twenty-two or twenty-three in the mid-nineteenth century (see Cott 1977, 13–14). This same sense of thirty as a woman’s marriage deadline serves as the pri- mary anxiety of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905); Lily Bart, we learn on the first page, “was nine-and-twenty...
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Readerly Revisions: Letters to the Editor in the Crisis

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William Reed Quinn
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 257–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267732
Published: 01 June 2020
... , no. 4 : 661 – 88 . Latham Sean . 2017 . “ Unpacking My Digital Library .” In Making Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and New Media , edited by Irvine Dean , Vautour Bart , and Lent Vanessa , 31 – 60 . Toronto : Univ. of Toronto Press . Lindsay Nicholas Vachel...
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“The Complexity of Loss Itself”: The Comics Form and Fun Home ’s Queer Reparative Temporality

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Kate McCullough
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 377–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4564346
Published: 01 June 2018
... . The System of Comics . Translated by Beaty Bart and Nguyen Nick . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . Luciano Dana . 2007 . Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America . New York : New York Univ. Press . Mautner Chris . 2008 . “ Graphic Lit...
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Antebellum Coral

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Michele Currie Navakas
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 263–293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529143
Published: 01 June 2019
... Press . Spicer Joneath . 2016 . “ The Personification of Africa with an Elephant-Head Crest in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (1603) .” In Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion , edited by Melion Walter S. and Ramakers Bart , 675 – 715 . Leiden : Brill . Spillers...
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