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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 463–492.
Published: 01 September 2014
... demonstrates how tales used the developing forms of plot and dialogue to argue for biblical precepts by reading several shorter works as well as Helen Cross Knight’s 1846 tract tale Robert Dawson; or, The Brave Spirit . In closing, Howard considers the formal analogies between this work and the century’s best...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 867–869.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hildegard Hoeller Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations beyond Sympathy . By Melanie V. Dawson . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2015 . vi, 309 pp. Cloth, $85.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book available. Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 777–806.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Duke University Press 2004 Rosemarie The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: ‘‘Sad Garland- Fancyings’’ in Herman Melville’s ‘‘Bartleby’’ Thomson On 26 February 1998, Roosevelt Dawson, a twenty- one-year-old, African American college...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 181–191.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 311 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $22.95. Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. Ed. Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. vi, 304 pp. Cloth...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 149–175.
Published: 01 March 2004
... manuals, instructed their middle- brow readers in highbrow aesthetics—Melanie Dawson has argued that Lily’s career demonstrates the ineffectiveness of attempts to wield cultural capital as a means of upward mobility. But Dawson also points out that in the writing of this fable, Wharton ‘‘cannily...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 553–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to existential enrichment and remuneration.22 Other novels and tracts depict soldiers’ deaths as splendid reenactments of Christ’s crucifixion. In Coningsby Dawson’s unctuousThe Glory of the Trenches (1917), soldiers are “soiled unconscious Christs,” martyrs fighting on European hills...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 195–203.
Published: 01 March 2006
...’’ are often trans- formed in other countries, repackaged, and sold back to America. William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life. By Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2005. xxvi, 519 pp. $34.95. The first biographical study of Howells to be published in the last...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
... : 420 – 49 . Dawson P. M. S. 1980 . The Unacknowledged Legislator: Shelley and Politics . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Earle Jonathan Halperin . 2004 . Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854 . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . Equal...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 June 2024
... what Hartman calls “a truer picture” of those multidimensional illnesses we call trauma emerge? I am not arguing that Dawson required a story of the heart, that sentimental tropes would have been convincing. The story of the heart is not a script to take to the dismissive doctor, but a text...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 321–355.
Published: 01 June 2000
... waned. Using the idea of expertise in craft as a wedge to enter into an artistic con- versation was attractive to Ellison. At Tuskegee he had been drilled for three years by William Dawson in the importance...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 547–574.
Published: 01 September 2015
...) 1893 . Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures . Boston : E. J. F. Eddy . Glazener Nancy . 1997 . Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Goodman Susan Dawson Carl . 2005 . William Dean Howells: A Writer's...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 221–228.
Published: 01 March 2001
... few chapters touch on eco-, black, and queer feminism. Anthologies The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader. Ed. Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xv, 468 pp. Paper, $22.95. This collection of magazine articles and fiction from the 1890s features...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 517–545.
Published: 01 September 2015
... . Davis Cathlin M. 2011 . “An Easy and Well-Ordered Way to Learn: Schooling at Home in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill.” Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly 42 , no. 4 : 340 – 53 . Dawson Melanie . 2003 . “The Miniaturizing of Girlhood...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 391–416.
Published: 01 September 2021
... extract. Cross’s infrastructures lay the foundation of what Ashley Dawson ( 2017 : 231) characterizes as the planet’s emerging regime of “climate apartheid,” in which “those who are least responsible for climate chaos are made to pay the most dearly”—a demographic that tends to be drawn around racial...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... This relationality of the rhetorical assemblage is embodied by the significance of interdependence within critical disability studies and disability advocacy, a connection drawn by several activists and scholars working in these fields (Dawson 2019 ; Gibson et al. 2012 ; Mingus 2010 ). In these conversations...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
Published: 01 December 2017
... fisheries. 2 On the distinction between wildlife and “wild food,” see Greenberg 2010 , 189–241. 3 On the mass extinction event currently unfolding, see Dirzo et al. 2014 , Kolbert 2014 , Ceballos et al. 2015 , and Dawson 2016 . 4 The centrality of commodification and profit...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., revolt, wildness, sexual license, and hallucinatory derangement (Dawson 2018 ; Jay 2019 ; Nesvig 2018 ; Snow 2016 ). Modern campaigns against “peyote worship” (Pierson 1915 ) conducted by government bureaucrats, progressive reformers, and sensationalist press exploited similarly paranoid scripts...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 643–670.
Published: 01 December 2024
... might have felt in this moment and others. 25 See, most notably, Dawson 2018 : 20–21; Bell 2016 : 1; Nevius 2016 : 12n19; Diouf 2014 : 85, 94–95, 151; Williams 2014 : 67–68; Millett 2013 : 5–6; Scott 2009 : 12–14, 1999: 114; Jung 2006 : 50; Cowan 2001 : 70–71, 79–80; Booker 2000 : 76–77...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... .” Women’s Studies Quarterly 37 , nos. 1–2 : 101 – 24 . Dawson Lindsey , and Kates Jennifer . 2018 . “ HIV and the Opioid Epidemic: 5 Key Points .” Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation , March 27 . www.kff.org/hivaids/issue-brief/hiv-and-the-opioid-epidemic-5-key-points/ . Derrida...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 603–618.
Published: 01 September 2002
... chapters in this collection, only one addresses noncanonical writers—and it is a reprint of Am- mons’s essay from The Cambridge Companion. Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson’s meticulous cultural analysis of the end of the cen- tury, The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader, though not specifically...