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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 443–447.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Mark Scroggins © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery . By Helen Vendler. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. 95 pp. Cloth, $32.95; paper, $14.95. The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 645–647.
Published: 01 September 2002
... is the Puritan elegy, the ‘‘most ubiquitous form of popular verbal art, apart from the sermon’’ in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth- century America (3). His introduction and first two chapters clearly (if some- times a bit repetitiously) describe the difficulty modern readers of early lit- erature often...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Gretchen Murphy Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania. By Scott Trafton. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2004. xix, 384 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Stephanie...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 182–185.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Carolyn Sorisio From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. By Mary Loeffelholz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 866–868.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., Tennessee Technical University America’s Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre.By Kristie Hamilton. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 1998. xiii, 190 pp. $29.95. Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth- Century America. By Mary Louise Kete...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Paul Grimstad © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century . By Theo Davis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. vi, 203 pp. $85.00. One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Century . By Weir David . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2011 . x , 304 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $26.95 . American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary . By Berman Jacob Rama . New York : New York Univ. Press 2012 . xiv , 269 pp...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 420–422.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Lucia Hodgson Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America . By Patricia Crain . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2016 . 247 pp. Cloth, $69.95 ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Schooling Readers: Reading...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Susan Kurjiaka Duke University Press 2007 Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Cindy Weinstein. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 243 pp. $ 80.00. Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction . By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 606–608.
Published: 01 September 2020
...” for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course on feminisms in young adult literature, with each chapter illuminating the examples under discussion. Moreover, the approach to writing and analysis is a model of how to engage in twenty-first century feminist criticism of girl-centered books. Trites cogently...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Carol Colatrella [email protected] Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual Realm . By Kay Yandell . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2019 . x, 209 pp. Cloth, $78.00 ; e-book available. Modernizing Solitude...
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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 (2006) 78 (3): 624–627.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Claudia Sadowski-Smith Duke University Press 2006 Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building . By Debra J. Rosenthal. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. 182 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 872–874.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Shirley Samuels Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing . By Beam Dorri . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2010 . 260 , viii pp. $85.00 . Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 877–879.
Published: 01 December 2012
...James Salazar Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Borgstrom Michael . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2010 . xv , 183 pp. $84.00 . Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 423–425.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Sarah E. Chinn Emergent US Literatures: From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century . By Patell Cyrus R. K. . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2014 . ix, 285 pp. Cloth , $79.00 ; paper, $24.00 ; e-book available. Toward the Geopolitical Novel: US...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 438–439.
Published: 01 June 2000
... demonstrates the lasting affinity of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and even nineteenth-century American authors for the subject of divine intervention. The book begins with a chapter on the New England captivity narrative...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 628–629.
Published: 01 September 2000
...- tory during the nineteenth century transformed the naturalist’s cabinet from scientific tool to sensational entertainment. Somewhat less cohesive, the second half of Irmscher’s book, which is orga- nized under...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 200–201.
Published: 01 March 2000
... in Seventeenth-Century NewEngland Writing . By Jim Egan. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 182 pp. $37.50. Jim Egan has a deceptive sentence nestled in the last paragraph of his book’s...