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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... In prizing restoration, these nineteenth-century texts of trauma work toward conclusion, even arriving at happy endings. Their plots and structures do not imitate mental breakdown so much as the coherent operation of integrated organs. I propose that these texts constitute an unrecognized first chapter...
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Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 2 The concluding passages of chapter 15 of Winona , where the narrator meditates on Judah’s “act” of “simple justice.” Colored American Magazine , October 1902. Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives, Howard University, Washington, DC
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in A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 6 “Booker T. Washington,” one of Meow’s kittens. Image from Chapter XXVIII. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library
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in A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 7 Serena “lecturing” to a group of country cats. Image from Chapter XIV. Note that her face is mostly white. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2014
... contend that it was more likely conceived as an appropriation and revision of Southworth, whose pivotal chapter is titled “The New Medea.” Anxiously competing for the role of moral and cultural advisor to female readers, Howells writes his own deserted wife novel, in which he vanquishes Southworth...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 743–768.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Caleb Smith This essay examines previously unexplored divisions within the antislavery movement’s published responses to Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . Revisiting Jacobs’s conflict with her editor, Lydia Maria Child, over the suppressed chapter about John Brown, Smith...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 65–91.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Todd Barosky Abstract This article examines the US Secret Service, a federal agency created during the Civil War to protect the greenback against counterfeiters, and its literary origins. It explores an overlooked chapter in the history of American crime and detective fiction, one that has special...
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in A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 5 Meow with Jack, one of her cat companions and presumably one of the fathers of her kittens (including “Booker T. Washington”). Image from Chapter XIII. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 403–405.
Published: 01 June 2015
... and macro. Influential texts both remembered and forgot-
ten get smart treatment, and another of the book’s strengths is the identifi-
cation of key genres and modes of discourse. Early abolitionist writing for
children, she notes in chapter 1, falls into three categories: radical (insists on
full...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 664–666.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Exhibition (chapter 1), Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963; chapter 2), the fiction of Alice Childress and Natalya Baranskaya (chapter 3), Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959; chapter 4), and high fashion (chapter 5). Although the chapters sometimes wander, as it seems that there is no part...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2019
... in the context of several China hands prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. Chapter 1 examines Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth (1931) and the ways it activated certain transpacific dynamics, setting certain conditions of possibility for China commentary within the middlebrow publishing industry. Chapter 2 looks...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and the Language of Community in Early
Pennsylvania. By Patrick M. Erben. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press.
2012. xvi, 335 pp. $45.00.
Jared Gardner’s account of the early American magazine opens with a provoc-
ative chapter on the fits and starts of the early eighteenth century. Addison...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 434–437.
Published: 01 June 2017
...” (6). This might seem anachronistic if not for Beal’s extraordinarily attentive “archaeology of network discourses” in modernist texts (25). The opening chapter reads Randolph Bourne’s 1916 essay, “Trans-National America,” as an effort to position “the network as a utopian political model for managing...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 June 2021
... seem equally fluid; chapter 5, where sympathy is a vehicle of black women’s enforced carework and emotional labor, interprets sympathy biopolitically; while in chapters 1 and 4, sympathy encompasses Indigenous ideas of animism and ecokinship. The book’s larger argument, that sympathy could be put...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 389–398.
Published: 01 June 2013
... There Will Be Blood (2007) and of Amiri Baraka’s
poem “Das Kapital” that the market comes to be imagined as a place
that can produce that freedom. What follows is a series of forcefully
argued chapters that locate “the economic fiction” in aesthetic works
that imagine the market not as a place in which...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 381–395.
Published: 01 June 2023
... surrounding the idea of artificiality itself (26). Drawing on a large variety of examples, Kakoudaki deftly places contemporary works of literature, television, and film in conversation with older narratives and myths about artificial people. The first chapter, focusing on artificial births, draws connections...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 417–419.
Published: 01 June 2019
... what followed it and how vibrant and complexly meaningful it was on its own terms. In the first chapter, Walsh analyzes what amounts to a kind of primal scene in the history of the American illustrated book, Benjamin Franklin’s account in his Autobiography (1791) of his encounter as a runaway...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 647–650.
Published: 01 September 2018
... slavery and its threat to render the white Atlantic a culture of apostasy. Over four chapters, Wheelock traces several writers: Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, James Albert Gronniosaw, David Walker, and Maria Stewart. In the first chapter, he discusses how Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 657–660.
Published: 01 September 2018
... or transatlantic, as a mode to consolidate and manage difference. In eight richly textured and deeply historical chapters, Apap charts three major developments of this mode. He first tracks its emergence in the literature of the 1820s, including geographical textbooks, Thomas Cole’s paintings, novels by Catharine...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 415–416.
Published: 01 June 2001
... women such as Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Free-
man, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Sarah Orne Jewett. Three types of re-
lationships are explored in the three main chapters. The first is ‘‘Family Se-
crets which...
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