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The Biological Clock: Edith Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 519–548.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Jennifer L. Fleissner Duke University Press 2006 Jennifer L. The Biological Clock:
Fleissner Edith Wharton, Naturalism, and
the Temporality of Womanhood
‘‘You’reveryskilfulbutwomen are not quite as simple
as clocks...
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Stealing Time: Poe's Confidence Men and the “ Rush of the Age”
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 259–289.
Published: 01 June 2005
... that the machinations of this figure were often identified with
American Literature, Volume 77, Number 2, June 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke
University Press.
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the clocks, watches, and industrial machinery that were regulating
and accelerating the tempo of American life as they displaced...
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“Time Enough, but None to Spare”: The Indispensable Temporalities of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in the riot that forms the book’s climax. Chesnutt’s novel mobilizes a wide array of tempos, timescales, and orientations toward time. Chief among these are clock time and promptness; delay, retrogression, and looping; the slow, deliberate time of proper justice (in contrast to the quick reactivity...
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Hawthorne’s Distillery: Time and Temperance in “The Birth-Mark” And Other Tales
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 723–753.
Published: 01 December 2016
... by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . Solnit Rebecca . 2003 . River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West . New York : Viking Penguin . Sontag Susan . 1977 . On Photography . New York...
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Sleeping at Walden Pond: Thoreau, Abnormal Temporality, and the Modern Body
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 March 2013
... as disruptions to sleep:
factory whistles, alarm clocks, shrieking trains, caffeine, heavy food,
stimulating gossip, fear of spirits, anxiety, the cries of newsboys.
While this rhetoric is often metaphorical (“moral reform is the
effort to throw off sleep”) (85), my contention is that we can see a new...
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Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 911–931.
Published: 01 December 2002
.... Against
that regime—against Anderson’s account of national time as ‘‘homo-
geneous empty timemeasured by clock and calendar’’10—Bha-
bha calls attention to many alternate temporalities: ‘‘disjunctive’’ nar-
ratives, written at the margins of the nation and challenging its ability
to standardize...
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“Out of Joint”: Passing, Haunting, and the Time of Slavery in Hagar's Daughter
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 335–361.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Mikko Tuhkanen Duke University Press 2007 Mikko “Out of Joint”: Passing, Haunting, and
Tuhkanen the Time of Slavery in Hagar’s Daughter
. . . that mystic clock, whose ticking is rarely heard in the
slaveholder’s breast.—Harriet Jacobs...
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Transforming Geographies of Black Time: How the Free Southern Theater Used the Plantation for Civil Rights Activism
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., sharecropping, the chain gang, and other racialized regimes of labor domination, the black-south body has consistently been forced to work quickly—to move to the crushing clock of racial capitalism. Theorizing what he calls “clock-regulated slave labor,” historian Mark M. Smith ( 1997 : 2) explains...
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On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 166–169.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... In this light, Fearing’s murder mystery The Big Clock (1946) appears as a meditation on the inescapability of the logic of office work. Even Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) exemplifies the all-encompassing power of the corporation to shape literary ventures in that his lyric expressivity ends up...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 419–422.
Published: 01 June 2016
... material, but as a distinctly African American temporality that schooled modern fiction by disrupting the “machinations of objective clock time” (7). Deep in the weeds of individual texts, Barnhart’s musically sophisticated effort to show how jazz “talks back to the novel” (1) pays interpretive dividends...
View articletitled, Sounding Real: Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Jazz in the Time of the Novel: The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America
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Artificial Bloom
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 429–433.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and quantified; she has categorized seashells and produced GAN-generated flower clocks. Here, however, she explores the speculation of the Dutch Golden Age, when the unpredictability of the tulips’ delicate streaking and flaring of color—a result of a mosaic virus, rather than natural selection—made them...
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Salvaging History: Modern Philosophies of Memory and Time in The Age of Innocence
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 555–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
... clock on the white marble
mantelpiece [grow] as loud as a minute-gun” (72, 74). A minute gun,
shot at intervals of one minute at funerals of state, ceremonially com-
memorates the past for the living; the glacier freezes a moment in
time, indefinitely extending the present. Yet even...
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Forcibly Impressed: Reform Games and the Avatar Figure in Milton Bradley and Walt Whitman
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2011
... a player has scored toward
the one-hundred-point goal (via a small swiveling arm that points to
an arc of numbers like the minute-hand of a clock). This adjustment
leaves the board open to new functional interpretations. If the count-
ing operations of the game have now been moved...
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Racial Currency: Zora Neale Hurston's “The Gilded Six-Bits” and the Gold-Standard Debate
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 761–785.
Published: 01 December 2005
...). As
she sits in the bathtub with ‘‘her stiff young breasts thrust forward
aggressively’’ and her ‘‘dark brown skin [glistening] under the soap-
suds she hears the voices of the approaching men. Glancing] at
the dollar clock she realizes that she is ‘‘way behind time t’day she
needs to make haste...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 667–674.
Published: 01 September 2018
... on a scholarly edition of The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and seeing the many fingerprints of Scribner’s compositors, Anesko better appreciated James’s errors and the hybrid endeavor of his authorship. From consistency errors in clock time to the fact that Lord Warburton ages seven years instead of the correct...
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The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
... industrial life,” he argues, is that it “imposes upon us
a different conception of time as measured by the clock, and eventu-
ally turns the human being into a clock himself.”17 People in the West
have begun to “degenerate into automatons” (58), such that the “glori-
ously scamp-like qualities...
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Resisting the Cultural “Steamroller”: Susan Wheeler's Source Codes
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 143–175.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the
combined resources of several aesthetics.3 The section comes from
a children’s story from 1950 titled “The Very Mischief,” in which two
siblings, Elinor and Lee, take apart the piano keyboard, the victrola,
Susan Wheeler's Source Codes 145
and the clock...
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Within and without Raced Nations: Intratextuality, Martin Delany, and Blake; or the Huts of America
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 323–352.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., however, Blake’s narrative compression
enacts an innovative way to structure and produce the black “nation
within a nation.” While Blake’s periodical publication does indeed
serve as what Anderson calls the “vivid figure for the secular, histori-
cally clocked, imagined community” (IC, 35...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of spatial (usually west-
ward) expansion but through transformations in the imagination of tempo-
rality. Finding compelling links between material culture and philosophies
of time, Allen argues that factors as diverse as the manufacture of clocks and
the emergence of the science of geology...
View articletitled, Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America; Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy; Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
... between material culture and philosophies
of time, Allen argues that factors as diverse as the manufacture of clocks and
the emergence of the science of geology should compel us to see the growth
of the American republic through a notion of “deep time” (a term borrowed
from Wai Chee Dimock’s...
View articletitled, Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic; A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
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