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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 867–868.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Michael Moon Ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xxiv, 638 pp. $125.00. 2000 Book Reviews 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 177 of238 A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlan...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 627–628.
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 (2022) 94 (4): 651–676.
Published: 01 December 2022
... takeover of American publishers and the rise of Black studies programs, this article reconstructs a lost moment in both cultural history and business history. Starting with the story of The Black Book , a “scrapbook-history” of African American experience edited by Morrison and published by Random House...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Joseph Helminski 2006 Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies . By Joseph Csicsila. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xx, 262 pp. $38.50. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 . By Carl...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 657–659.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Mark Rifkin Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880 . By Round Phillip H. . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2010 . xii , 275 pp. $24.95 . Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America . By Snyder...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 842–844.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of fifty journals kept by young women in New England between 1780 and 1830 is a social history of the emotions that yields tremendous rewards for literary history, espe- Book Reviews  835 cially inasmuch as several...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 219–244.
Published: 01 June 2022
... can teach us about the antebellum book market and our scholarly evaluations of it. The first section of the article illuminates the publishing histories of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Jacobs and the third edition of Leaves of Grass by Whitman (1860) from the vantage of Thayer...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 727–759.
Published: 01 December 2017
... , 291 – 98 . Winship Michael . 1995 . American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 print culture book history illustration poetry...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 671–699.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Services Editions during World War II, one of the largest enterprises in the history of publishing. The essay traces the selections of the council, the networks of soldier-readers created by the books themselves, and the acts of reading constrained and made possible by these attachments across front lines...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., as media technologies operated by men. Drawing on Michel Foucault and the history of the book, this article uses the example of Hefner to theorize the editorial subject. Like Foucault’s author function, the editor function represents a position of legal, moral, and authorial responsibility that binds...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
Published: 01 June 2019
... invoking the divisiveness of US racial history. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 picture books Asian American literature critical race studies transracial adoption biodiversity Deep puritanical distrust of fantasy . . . comes out often among people truly and seriously...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 87–115.
Published: 01 March 2014
... that. The book reads as a modernist collage, a compendium of oral history, essays, reportage, monologues, tall tales, literary sketches, and autobi- ography recounted in Brown’s voice but composed of many disparate speakers. In this heterogeneous expression of black Southern historic- ity, Brown opens up...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 767–797.
Published: 01 December 2014
...: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . Kalaidjian Walter . 1992 . “ Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetics of Specific Critique: Rereading ‘The Book of the Dead.’ ” Cultural Critique , no. 20 : 65 – 88 . Lowney John . 2006 . History...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 103–131.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Arthur Z. Wang Abstract Calculated sexual games play out across contemporary American popular media, from self-help books and advice columns to dating apps and reality television. This article argues that economic game theory subtends the saturation of popular culture with lay theories of sex...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
...J. Peter Moore Abstract The present essay grows out of an engagement with a single line from Amiri Baraka’s 1964 book, The Dead Lecturer . In the poem “Rhythm and Blues,” Baraka writes, “The people of my life / caressed with a silence that only they understand.” The line appears amid a long...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 709–737.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of histori- cal readers. To observe that the library building at Tuskegee stocked more books on agriculture and industry than it did works of fiction and poetry does not mean that an industrious young student could not manage to get her hands on Hard Times through some other means (though no public...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 June 2008
... closing the split self of republican publicity. He does this by joining reading and eating in the history of his dis- ciplining. His uncle beat him for reading books and stealing food, a pairing of crimes that reflects values applied jointly to eating and reading in the lives...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 243–269.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., his hands and face clasped in a Bow” (TC, 47). This plot is repeated precisely in the Mather, Hendley, and Moseley Token books as well as in Sunday school publishers’ first smash hit, Sherwood’s History of Little Henry and His Bearer. Repetition is an important aspect of both...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2019
... is a unique literary-historical study that attempts to conceive connections between literary analysis and the study of book history and between theories in African American and Asian American literary criticisms. In her opening methodological remarks, Magosaki proposes to approach “the production of the Asian...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 651–653.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Freeman ’s insistent eschewal of a black identity for a Canadian one, and finally the Weekly Anglo-African ’s changing wartime rhetorics of race and nation. A tremendously readable example of how book history methodologies can enliven literary criticism, Fagan’s study is the rare monograph that lends...