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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Kimberly Lamm © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing. By Daneen Wardrop. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2009. xii, 246 pp. $30.00. Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion...
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in Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship
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Published: 01 September 2023
with long hair in a dress who appears above the seated figure. The figure on the right is not wearing clothing and has horns on his head. Dotted lines extend from the spirits’ hands to the medium’s head. From Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan’s From Matter to Spirit: Ten Years’ Experience in Spirit Manifestations
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 914–921.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom: History, Poetry, and the Ideals of the American Revolution . By G. J. Barker-Benfield. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2018. xi, 221 pp. Cloth, $39.00. In 1774, a recently emancipated Wheatley...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 667–674.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 The American Elsewhere: Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion . By Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas. 2017. x, 393 pp. Cloth, $39.95; e-book available. Before the 1820s, US political leaders were largely...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 187–195.
Published: 01 March 2018
... writers such as Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust. Understanding James, Understanding Modernism . Ed. David H. Evans. New York: Bloomsbury. 2017. vi, 315 pp. Cloth, $120.00; e-book, $107.99. This study explores how, in the wake of 9/11, African...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 882–890.
Published: 01 December 2018
.... vii, 176 pp. Cloth, $40.00. From The Portrait of a Lady (1881) to The Wings of the Dove (1902), the motif of art figures prominently in the work of Henry James. This curated book includes images of photographs, paintings, and sculptures from James’s social milieu by artists such as John La...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 853–861.
Published: 01 December 2014
... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Brief Mention
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Native Memoirs from the War of 1812: Black Hawk and William Apess. By Carl
Benn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2014. xiv, 184 pp. Cloth, $55.00;
paper, $29.95; e-book available.
Aside from letters, interviews...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 825–830.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History . By Christopher Tomlins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. 2020. xvii, 352. Cloth, $29.95; e-book available. This “intellectual history” aims to recover the mindset and identity...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 837–844.
Published: 01 December 2013
... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Brief Mention
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A Journey through American Literature. By Kevin J. Hayes. New York: Oxford
Univ. Press. 2012. xvi, 220 pp. Cloth, $74.00; paper, $17.95.
Hayes’s book is dedicated to the development of specific genres—travel writ-
ing...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 857–863.
Published: 01 December 2015
... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Brief Mention
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Phillis Wheatley’s Miltonic Poetics. By Paula Loscocco. New York: Palgrave Mac-
millan. 2014. xiv, 154 pp. Cloth, $67.50; e-book available.
In this study, Loscocco asserts that scholars of African American literature...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 613–618.
Published: 01 September 2020
... with other scholars reflecting on See’s work and legacy. Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies . By Sam See. Ed. Christopher Looby and Michael North. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2020. 323 pp. Cloth, $105.00; paper, $30.00; e-book available. Compiled in response to fascism’s recent “loud return...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 637–644.
Published: 01 September 2014
... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Brief Mention
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Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of
King Philip’s War. By Billy J. Stratton. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2013. xvi,
203 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $26.95.
At once a focused...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 230–234.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Henry David Thoreau: A Life . By Laura Dassow Walls. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2017. xx, 615 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $20.00; e-book, $21.00. Published more than three decades after the last major Thoreau biography, this book...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 189–193.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing . By Donna M. Campbell. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2016. xiv, 386 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $34.95; e-book, $64.95. This study revises the critical...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 438–446.
Published: 01 June 2019
... marriage or formed same-sex relationships. London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800–1850 . By Joseph Rezek. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2015. 286 pp. Cloth, $59.95. From Washington Irving to Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 430–438.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Transnational Na(rra)tion: Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By John Dolis. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2015. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $75.00; e-book, $74.99. Eschewing literary criticism...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 449–460.
Published: 01 June 2000
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‘‘Harlem Gallery’’ and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson. Ed. Raymond Nelson. Char-
lottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 1999. xxviii, 473 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $18.95.
‘‘Poor Boy Blue / the Great White World / and the Black Bourgeoisie...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 633–641.
Published: 01 September 2015
... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Brief Mention
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Melville: Fashioning in Modernity. By Stephen Matterson. New York: Bloomsbury.
2014. 232 pp. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $29.95.
This study is intended as a way for the general reader to explore Melville’s
lesser-known books...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 421–427.
Published: 01 June 2015
... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Brief Mention
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Poe and the Visual Arts. By Barbara Cantalupo. University Park: Pennsylvania
State Univ. Press. 2014. xii, 197 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $24.95.
Tracing the relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and visual culture...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 678–686.
Published: 01 September 2019
... shifted the balance of power. Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples . By Kerry Driscoll. Oakland: Univ. of California Press. 2018. xvi, 448 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $34.95; e-book, $95.00. Drawing from a vast archive of letters, sketches, marginalia, and manuscripts...
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