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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 (2010) 82 (2): 430–432.
Published: 01 June 2010
...John Morán González © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification . By Marcial González. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2009. viii, 270 pp. Paper, $29.95. Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 335–365.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Andrew Lawson Duke University Press 2003 Andrew ‘‘Spending for Vast Returns Lawson Sex, Class, and Commerce in the First Leaves of Grass 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 93...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 680–682.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of the game’’ (57). Read- ing class privilege into this persona enables Pollak to analyze Whitman’s ego- synthesizing goals in more or less convincing terms, but nagging uncertainty 642 American Literature about the validity of her earlier interpretation remains. Later in the book, when Pollak argues...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 661–663.
Published: 01 September 2003
...: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West. By Sharon L. Jones. West- port, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. ix, 159 pp. $62.95. The study of all literatures depends...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 458–460.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., $25.95. Class, Language, and American Film Comedy. By Christopher Beach. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 241 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.00. These two studies take essentially literary...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 March 2005
... American Literature Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult. By Susan K. Gillman. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xi, 245 pp. Paper, $19.00. Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro. By Barbara Foley. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. x...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Schocket, Hampshire College Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance. By A. B. Christa Schwarz. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 2003. x, 209 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95. Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought. By Michael Trask. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell...
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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 (2001) 73 (3): 642–643.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833), which speaks to these very issues of race and national identity, is not. Because ‘‘the literary history of the intersections between race and nation in antebellum America has important resonances for contemporary debates about national identity’’ (11...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2001
... early Ap- peal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833), which speaks to these very issues of race and national identity, is not. Because ‘‘the literary history of the intersections between race and nation in antebellum America has important resonances for contemporary debates...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 613–615.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Harold K. Bush, Jr. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity . By David Haven Blake. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2006. xv, 251 pp. $35.00. Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle . By Andrew Lawson. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 596–598.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Alan Nadel Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” . By Foley Barbara . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 386 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper , $29.95 . A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 833–835.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Lynne Feeley The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Murison Justine . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2011 . ix , 215 pp. $90.00 . Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction . By Williams Andreá N. . Ann Arbor : Univ...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2015
...John Ernest To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class . By Ball Erica L. . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2012 . xv , 175 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 394–396.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Frank Donoghue Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Literary Scholarship . By Anesko Michael . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2012 . xvi , 248 pp. $35.00 . Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century...
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 4 Readings, book talks, and other activities during class visits to the Children’s Room at the Harlem Branch library, February 1928. Detail from Monthly logs. 135th Street Branch records, Sc MG 219 Box 4. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts More
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 877–879.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Carolin Benack The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel . By Joe Shapiro . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . 278 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; paper, $35.00 ; e-book, $75.00 . Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2020
...: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring . By Sherry Lee Linkon . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2018 . xvii, 200 pp. Cloth, $70.00 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $24.95 . Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End . By Margaret Ronda . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 218–219.
Published: 01 March 2001
... is able to tell. One can’t help but sense that at this book’s heart is a concern with the place of the university within U.S. culture. From its first chapter, which focuses on Book Reviews 187 the role of colleges in creating a class...