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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
... Tompkins. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2018. xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $27.95; e-book, $27.95. Unexpectedly sick, author and professor Tompkins found herself reading Sir Vidia’s Shadow (1998), Paul Theroux’s account of his friendship with V. S. Naipaul. This memoir documents how the chance...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 667–674.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Culture . By Daniel S. Traber. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2017. xxxiii, 239 pp. Cloth, $105.00; e-book, $99.50. Ostman examines the ways in which Díaz enlists linguistic and genre-based strategies to reframe the immigrant narrative. After an initial chapter contextualizing the historical...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 187–195.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Formation of the Abolitionist Discourse, 1841–1851 . By Nilgün Anadolu-Okur. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2016. xii, 330 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Although scholarship of the abolition movement is robust, scholars tend to overlook the friendship between Douglass...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 882–890.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 The Book of Esther and the Typology of Female Transfiguration in American Literature . By Ariel Clark Silver. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2018. ix, 229 pp. Cloth, $95.00; e-book, $90.00. According to this study, nineteenth-century...
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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. Intervening in pop culture scholarship by balancing a “freewheeling...
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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
... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America . By Peter John Brownlee. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 249 pp. Cloth, $45.00; e-book available. Integrating cultural history, material history...
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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 (2020) 92 (1): 189–193.
Published: 01 March 2020
... that the zombie helps us rethink possible futures and the significance of genre fiction. Books of the Dead: Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature . By Tim Lanzendörfer. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2018. x, 215 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $30.00. Attempting to avoid considering David...
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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 (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. Girls on Fire: Transformative Heroines in Young Adult...
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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 (2019) 91 (3): 678–686.
Published: 01 September 2019
... poet Phillis Wheatley, and Quaker poet Milcah Martha Moore, illustrating how these women conceptualized community and even 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...
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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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