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Strange Beauty: The Politics of Ungenre in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills

Dana Seitler
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 523–549.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717398
Published: 01 September 2014
... Davis’s 1861 novella Life in the Iron Mills presents an apposite case study for the constitutive relation of art and politics in the nineteenth-century American context. The text’s efforts culminate in its central figure: the korl woman statue carved by Hugh Wolf out of the waste material...
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War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism; The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture

Eric Solomon
American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 615–617.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-615
Published: 01 September 2004
... of form and formality. Alex Feerst, Duke University War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. By John Seelye. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2003. xv, 341 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. By Amy Kaplan. Cambridge...
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“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling

Cynthia J. Davis
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 213–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218879
Published: 01 June 2024
...Cynthia J. Davis Abstract In this essay, novels by Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton serve to elucidate more widely resonant value-laden distinctions between publicly embodied and quietly internalized responses to pain and pleasure. This fictional archive denigrates the demonstrativeness it associates...
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The Game Theory of Sex

Arthur Z. Wang
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 103–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697015
Published: 01 March 2022
... as a “numbers game.” Game theorists contribute to the invisible ubiquity of this phenomenon by using sexual examples to demonstrate the range of their discipline’s models while downplaying the significance of exemplification. Lydia Davis’s short fiction—by taking for granted the economization of intimate...
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Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture: Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature

Michael A. Chaney
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 57–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-069
Published: 01 March 2010
... discourse—even when, after the outbreak of the Civil War, the political sensibilities of the British periodical were no longer sympathetic to the cause of abolition. Reading the ekphrastic relation between Punch cartoons of Shakespearean mock-ups of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and Douglass's...
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“A form of life in which art is not art”: “Life in the Iron Mills” and the Artist as Worker in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Sandra Tomc
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160870
Published: 01 September 2017
... alongside Rebecca Harding Davis’s tale of tragic artistic labor, “Life in the Iron Mills.” Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 aesthetic regime romantic authorship genius copyright intellectual labor author compensation Jacques Rancière In his extended and alluring discussions...
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Preface: Under Water

M. Allewaert, Michael Ziser
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 233–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587332
Published: 01 June 2012
..., if not their political executives. Closer to our academic homes in Madison, Wisconsin, and Davis, California, some of the most significant American public protests in many years have highlighted accelerating trends of economic inequality resulting from a variety of interlinked causes ranging...
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American Niceness: A Cultural History Mania for Freedom: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

Cynthia J. Davis
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 369–372.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267792
Published: 01 June 2020
...Cynthia J. Davis Schuller explores the ramifications of her argument in chapters on Lamarckism, black feminism, female gynecologists, child welfare movements, and black uplift movements. Intriguingly, given her insistence on her paradigm’s sway, her key figures are relatively marginal...
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“The Ache of the Actual”: Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism

Cynthia J. Davis
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 547–574.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149369
Published: 01 September 2015
...Cynthia J. Davis This essay examines the cultural pursuit of a painless ideal as a neglected context for US literary realism. Advances in anesthesia in the final decades of the nineteenth century shared with influential religious ideologies including the New Thought an assumption that a comfortable...
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Into the Breach: Poetics in Post-Millennial Poetry Criticism

Michael Davidson
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 855–866.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901463
Published: 01 December 2012
... of the ethical individual and the good soci­ ety.” In each case, questions of value are historicized in relationship to specific stages in modernity, whether it is Robert Frost’s early fas- cination with tramp culture during the Progressive era (Mikkelsen) or Kevin Davies’s invocation of the “lateral...
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Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America

Cynthia Davis
American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 634–635.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-634
Published: 01 September 2000
...Cynthia Davis By Mary Klages. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 1999. 250 pp.$36.50. 2000 Book Reviews 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 169 of 237 Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New En...
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Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century

Kathe Davis
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 893–894.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-893
Published: 01 December 2001
...Kathe Davis By Bernard W. Quetchenbach. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2000. xv, 189 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $18.50. 2002 Reviews Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776–1862. By Richard Gravil. New York: St. Martin’s. 2000. xx, 250 pp. $49.95. Richard...
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“No! In Thunder”

Cathy N. Davidson
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 665–675.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-665
Published: 01 December 2004
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Mad To Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film

Michael Davidson
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 650–651.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-650
Published: 01 September 2001
...’’ (Letter 132, 1939). The Selected Letters is a very useful book for any student of Tennessee Williams and his plays. Peter L. Hays, University of California, Davis Eugene O’Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. By Stephen A. Black. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1999. xxiv, 543 pp. $29.95. More...
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Faulkner and the Politics of Reading; Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's “Go Down, Moses”

Jason Gary Horn
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-194
Published: 01 March 2005
...Jason Gary Horn By Karl F. Zender. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xviii,179 pp. $29.95. By Thadious M. Davis. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 339 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95. 2005 194 American Literature times psychotic, and although Jones delights...
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The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman

Audrey Raden
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 880–882.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917380
Published: 01 December 2019
... . By Theo Davis . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . 245 pp. Cloth, $73.00 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 The new materiality studies in nineteenth-century American literature and culture has blossomed in the last decade or so. For example, Jodi...
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Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Aaron Kashtan
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 908–910.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917490
Published: 01 December 2019
...Aaron Kashtan Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics . By Kate Polak . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2017 . xiii, 238 pp. Cloth, $134.95 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book, $19.95 . Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page . By Blair Davis...
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Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon

Michael P. Bibler
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 382–384.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267840
Published: 01 June 2020
...Michael P. Bibler Reading Pugh next to Davis, I wish he had considered works by queer writers of color such as Alice Walker, Ann Allen Shockley, or Pat Parker. (While his chapter on King offers, to me, the sharpest analysis in the book, I also wonder about his use of José Esteban Muñoz’s theory...
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Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity

Bernadine Hernández
American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 154–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878590
Published: 01 March 2021
... retelling of Mexican American history, but I couldn’t find where the main thread was. Davis-Undiano’s discussions on mestizaje are outdated, and a discussion of Latinidad should have been coupled with the theorization of race, colonialism, and mestizaje. However, this book is essential for undergrads...
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Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence

Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 301–329.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9779050
Published: 01 June 2022
... . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Danziger Kurt . 1997 . Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language . London : Sage Publications . Davis Lennard J. 1995 . Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body . London : Verso . Douglass Frederick . (1851...
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