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Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and(Black) Subjectivity
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 683–685.
Published: 01 September 2002
... judgment and wisdom, a denial of the ‘‘re-
demptive use’’ of grief in the sin-repentance sequence (90). Chapter 4 notes
the popularity of the ‘‘self-elegy’’ (102), that is, the poem anticipating and wel-
coming death at different, even early, stages of a poet’s life. These ‘‘homilies of
salvific hope...
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Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death; Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 425–427.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Kwakiutl L. Dreher © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death . By Laura E. Tanner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $19.95. Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body...
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Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 June 2011
...: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany’s
Reid-Pharr Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Far from apologizing for their promiscuity as a failure to
maintain a loving relationship, far from welcoming the
return to monogamy as a beneficent...
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Mavericks on the Border: The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film; The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... efforts by
the Ipswich community but especially by minister John Rogers, who, focus-
ing on maternal killing rather than on illicit sexuality, granted her ‘‘a spiritual
dignity’’ others had withheld (44). His three public sermons on the occasion
appeared in Death the Wages of Sin, an account compiled...
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Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination; The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2003
....
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2001. xi, 289 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.00.
The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America.By
Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2001. x, 267 pp. Cloth, $29.95...
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Monumental Melville: The Formation of a Literary Career; So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death; To Walt Whitman, America
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Long! Walt Whitman’s Poetry of Death. By Harold Aspiz. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of
Alabama Press. 2004. xi, 294 pp. $42.50.
To Walt Whitman, America. By Kenneth M. Price. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Caro-
lina Press. 2004. ix, 182 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Is close reading a dying art...
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Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 418.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Edwin J. Barton By John Evangelist Walsh. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. xii, 199 pp. Paper,$14.95. 2001 418 American Literature
Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. By John Evangelist...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., $24.95. Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity . By Christopher Peterson. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Book Reviews
Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. Ed.
Thomas...
View articletitled, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: <span class="search-highlight">Death</span>, Mourning, and American Affinity
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Tyler Nickl Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . By Schuyler David . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 206 pp. $29.95 . Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition . By Sachs Aaron . New...
View articletitled, Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 Arcadian America: The <span class="search-highlight">Death</span> and Life of an Environmental Tradition Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language
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Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 650–653.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Daniel Chaskes Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction . By Konstantinou Lee . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 368 pp. Cloth , $39.95 ; e-book available. Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference . By Hong Grace Kyungwon...
View articletitled, Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction <span class="search-highlight">Death</span> beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists
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The New Death: American Modernism and World War I The Politics of Irony in American Modernism Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2018
... ourselves. Pearl James’s The New Death is the most tightly focused and, in a sense, traditional of the studies, as it focuses on a limited number of novels of the 1920s, which James presents not as war novels but as after-the-war novels. Her central thesis is that World War I presented Americans...
View articletitled, The New <span class="search-highlight">Death</span>: American Modernism and World War I The Politics of Irony in American Modernism Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 647–650.
Published: 01 September 2018
...-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature . By Andrea Stone . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2016 . xiv, 238 pp. Cloth , $79.95 . Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death . By Courtney R. Baker . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois...
View articletitled, Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic Black Well-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and <span class="search-highlight">Death</span>
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“Greater Still in Death”: Race, Martyrology, and the Reanimation of Juan Placido
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 461–493.
Published: 01 September 2018
... efforts, and the proliferation of meditations on the subject exposes such movements’ tendencies to recenter whiteness, just as Whittier’s martyrology pays such careful attention to conciliating white men, while overlooking the impact his portrait of Juan Placido’s death would have on black readers (see...
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Choosing Death: The Making of Martyrs in Early American Criminal Narratives
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 691–719.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Mary Kathleen Eyring Abstract In 1701 Puritan minister John Rogers published the criminal narrative of Esther Rodgers, who had been convicted of infanticide and executed. Esther Rodgers appears in Rogers’s Death the Certain Wages of Sin not as a depraved criminal or even a repentant sinner...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 823–826.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Dawn Keetley Duke University Press 2007 The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America . By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 176 pp. $40.00. The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital...
View articletitled, The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America; The Spectacle of <span class="search-highlight">Death</span>: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases; Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867
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Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time; Life between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 857–859.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Andrew Hoberek © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time . By Mitchum Huehls. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. x, 226 pp. $44.95. Life between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties . By Phillip E. Wegner...
View articletitled, Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time; Life between Two <span class="search-highlight">Deaths</span>, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties
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Signifyin(g) on Reparation in Toni Morrison's Jazz
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 583–609.
Published: 01 September 2008
... have been scarred by maternal abandonment, suicide, or early death. Joe and Violet share an object relation with Golden Gray, the white-raised son of Hunter's Hunter who is present at Joe's birth. Golden is also the boy who haunts Violet's childhood, as True Belle tells Violet stories about him when...
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Dehumanizing Slave Personhood
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 491–521.
Published: 01 September 2019
... person rather than the human or the citizen, United States v. Amy alerts us to the lethal legacy of slave personhood as a debilitating mixture of civil death and criminal culpability. Nowhere, perhaps, is that legacy more evident than in viral videos of police misconduct. And nowhere do we see a more...
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Arrested in the Moment of Dying: Science, Fiction, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Stefan Andriopoulos Abstract How was it possible that numerous nineteenth-century readers believed in the authenticity of a made-up sensational story about a mesmerist experiment that supposedly arrested its subject between life and death? By juxtaposing Edgar Allan Poe’s “Facts in the Case of M...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 243–269.
Published: 01 June 2010
.... These token stories revolve around dying child “saints,” of whom Stowe's character Eva is one iteration. Upon death, these ideal children leave a powerful emotional memory that can transform incorrigible children into eager students. As the example of Mary Martha Sherwood's The History of Little Henry and His...
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