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Weapons of Democracy: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas

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Katherine Biers
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 656–659.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722188
Published: 01 September 2019
...Katherine Biers Weapons of Democracy: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion . By Jonathan Auerbach . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2015 . ix, 232 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery . By Gregory Laski...
View articletitled, Weapons of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion Untimely <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: The Politics of Progress after Slavery Direct <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas View PDF for article titled, Weapons of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion Untimely <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: The Politics of Progress after Slavery Direct <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos; Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States; Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas

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Claire F. Fox
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 209–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-085
Published: 01 March 2010
... Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States . By David Luis-Brown. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. ix, 340 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas . By Zita Nunes. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. xx, 218...
View articletitled, Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos; Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States; Cannibal <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas View PDF for article titled, Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos; Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States; Cannibal <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas
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Pragmatic Modernism Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison

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Jonathan Levin
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 841–844.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811682
Published: 01 December 2014
...Jonathan Levin Pragmatic Modernism . By Schoenbach Lisi . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . xv , 197 pp. $45.00 . Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy . By McGowan John . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2012 . xxxii , 231 pp...
View articletitled, Pragmatic Modernism Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison View PDF for article titled, Pragmatic Modernism Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison
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Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum United States Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature

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Evie Shockley
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 593–596.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2296695
Published: 01 September 2013
...Evie Shockley Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic . By Ongiri Amy Abugo . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2010 . x, 223 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Specters of Democracy...
View articletitled, Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic Specters of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum United States Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature View PDF for article titled, Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic Specters of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum United States Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature
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Ventriloquizing Nation: Voice, Identity, and Radical Democracy in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland

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Eric A. Wolfe
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 431–457.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-021
Published: 01 September 2006
...Eric A. Wolfe Duke University Press 2006 Eric A. Ventriloquizing Nation: Wolfe Voice, Identity, and Radical Democracy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like...
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Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution the Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States

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Michelle Neely
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865247
Published: 01 March 2015
...Michelle Neely Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution . By Rozbicki Michal Jan . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2011 . x , 288 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; paper , $24.50 ; e-book , $24.50 . The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender...
View articletitled, Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution the Genius of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States View PDF for article titled, Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution the Genius of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States
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Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–civil Rights Imagination Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960

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Alys Eve Weinbaum
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 396–398.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886223
Published: 01 June 2015
...Alys Eve Weinbaum Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination . By Tillet Salamishah . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xvi , 224 pp. $23.95 ; e-book , $23.99 . Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows...
View articletitled, Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> in the Post–civil Rights Imagination Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960 View PDF for article titled, Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> in the Post–civil Rights Imagination Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960
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The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977–1993 the Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy

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Irvin J. Hunt
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 622–624.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149489
Published: 01 September 2015
...Irvin J. Hunt The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977–1993 . By Hill Michael DeRell . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2013 . ix , 195 pp. Cloth, $51.95 ; CD, $14.95 . The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy...
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Writing and Democracy in the Early United States

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Shirley Samuels
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 571–584.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616199
Published: 01 September 2020
.... Cloth, $46.50 ; e-book, $38.76 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 There could not have been a stranger time to write about how recent books treat democracy and American culture than while listening to the impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives. As though they were...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

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P. Ryan Schneider
American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 652–653.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-652
Published: 01 September 2000
... of California-Los Angeles Tseng 2000.8.30 14:28 OCV:0 652 American Literature From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest. By Anita Haya Patterson. New...
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Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance

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Nina Baym
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 192–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-192
Published: 01 March 2001
..., nation, and deliverance promise to enrich our readings of slave narratives, abolitionist novels, and other politically potent genres. Susan M. Ryan, University of Louisville Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance. By Timothy B. Powell. Princeton, N.J...
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Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850; Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States

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Elizabeth Freeman
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-070
Published: 01 March 2011
.... Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States. By Christopher Castiglia. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. x, 366 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American...
View articletitled, Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850; Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> in the Antebellum United States View PDF for article titled, Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770–1850; Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> in the Antebellum United States
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Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois

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Laura Henigman
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 404–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079224
Published: 01 June 2013
...Laura Henigman Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction . By Tricomi Albert H. . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2011 . xii, 263 pp. $74.95 . Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature...
View articletitled, Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois View PDF for article titled, Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois
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“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions

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Anna Muenchrath
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 671–699.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950753
Published: 01 December 2023
... clearly onto the geopolitical crisis of the war itself, in which two alliances—Allied and Axis, associated with liberal democracy and authoritarianism respectively—struggled for dominance. Although the Axis powers were experiencing setbacks at the date of the council’s founding in 1943, France—at least...
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Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image

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Dana D. Nelson
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 217–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-217
Published: 01 March 2001
..., nation, and deliverance promise to enrich our readings of slave narratives, abolitionist novels, and other politically potent genres. Susan M. Ryan, University of Louisville Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance. By Timothy B. Powell. Princeton, N.J...
View articletitled, Sentimental <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: The Evolution of America&#x27;s Romantic Self-Image View PDF for article titled, Sentimental <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span>: The Evolution of America&#x27;s Romantic Self-Image
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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650-1800; Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

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Joanne van der Woude
American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 603–605.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-603
Published: 01 September 2004
..., 1650–1800. By Ruth H. Bloch. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2003. x, 225 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95. Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature. By Paul Downes. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 239 pp. $55.00. The recent flurry...
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The Barbarous Voice of Democracy: American Captivity in Barbary and the Multicultural Specter

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Jacob Rama Berman
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 1–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-069
Published: 01 March 2007
...Jacob Rama Berman Duke University Press 2007 ­Jacob The Barbarous Voice of Democracy: Rama American Captivity in Barbary and the Berman Multicultural Specter On 25 July 1785, a Boston schooner named the Maria, bound...
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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

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John Funchion
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 643–646.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994907
Published: 01 September 2018
...John Funchion Historically rigorous, formally astute, and theoretically provocative, these latest books by Downes and Margolis assuredly will shape discussions surrounding democracy’s place in nineteenth-century US literature and culture in the years to come. Margolis surveys work by Charles...
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The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature

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Joseph Darda
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 664–666.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994979
Published: 01 September 2018
..., Democracy, and Cold War Literature . By Kristin L. Matthews . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2016 . ix, 207 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 A model kitchen served as the venue for one of the defining events of the Cold War...
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Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography

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Kevin Modestino
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533470
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kevin Modestino Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy . By Mark Rebecca . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2014 . xiii, 300 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 . America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National...
View articletitled, Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography View PDF for article titled, Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of <span class="search-highlight">Democracy</span> America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography