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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 525–562.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Dana Seitler Duke University Press 2001 Dana Seitler Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes [T]here is truly a brute brain within the man’s, and when the latter...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Leonard Cassuto 2006 To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel . By Jeff Abernathy. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 . By Michele Birnbaum. New York...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 487–517.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Denise Cruz Duke University Press 2006 Denise Reconsidering McTeague’s ‘‘Mark’’ and ‘‘Mac Cruz Intersections of U.S. Naturalism, Imperial Masculinities, and Desire between Men In a scene that seems out of place amid McTeague’s minutely...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2002
... England excavates their voices from docu- ments created by ministers for purposes of their own and restores these voices to specific dialogues, within a cultural space threatened by centrifugal social and political forces and filled with the concomitant desires for community and security. Henigman...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses. 2002. 223 pp. $42.50. Sublime Desire: History and Post–1960s Fiction. By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2001...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 621–624.
Published: 01 September 2008
... . By Katherine Henninger. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xix, 232 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961 . By Gary Richards. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. 256 pp. $44.95. Desire, Violence...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
...? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America . By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 200. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel . By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. Book...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 833–836.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814 . By Karen A. Weyler. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. Cloth, $41.00; paper, $21.00. The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830 . By Martha Tom-have Blauvelt. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xi, 275 pp...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 188–189.
Published: 01 March 2001
... division and graduate) will find The National Uncanny accessible, useful, and interesting. Its pairings of authors can stand alone to complement the primary texts of a survey course or seminar. Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex...
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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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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 March 2001
... division and graduate) will find The National Uncanny accessible, useful, and interesting. Its pairings of authors can stand alone to complement the primary texts of a survey course or seminar. Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 160–161.
Published: 01 March 2002
... their voices from docu- ments created by ministers for purposes of their own and restores these voices to specific dialogues, within a cultural space threatened by centrifugal social and political forces and filled with the concomitant desires for community and security. Henigman constructs her first...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $25.00. A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships be- tween Women. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. An infant and mother gaze into each...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and the soldier. Pérez examines these figures in the first two chapters, deftly demonstrating their reliance on imperialist discourses to mediate desire between men. Chapter 1 examines Herman Melville’s Billy Budd (1924), arguing that the “primitive, brown body” is used to cement Victorian homoeroticism...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 221–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... ( 2016 ) of the title character’s black female comrades-in-arms, this reading interrogates how race consciousness and colonial legacies inform the discourses of desire operating within the text. The term desiring blackness describes an orientation to reading that defers to African Americanist and black...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 June 2010
... about empathy that defined this concept quite differently from current usages. Rather than designating an interpersonal dynamic, this discourse considered empathy as a relation among bodies, objects, and desire within capitalism. Yezierska's fashion-conscious characters reveal a United States...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as a celebratory model of either an ideal embodied pluralism or a free-floating deconstructive signifier. It presents an alternative model in Islas's use of hybridity for critiquing readerly desires for identity representation and common, everyday habits of thinking of identity in terms of a one-to-one relation...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.
Published: 01 December 2024
... familial claims and materially contain the fragmentary echoes of a collective set of desires. These testimonials refuse a racial and colonial conception of belonging. The article argues that the collaborative political labor of submitting claims captures the plurality of expression in the documents. What...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 553–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jonathan Vincent Vincent considers the way U.S. literature of the 1920s and 1930s used the rhetorical occasion of World War I to promote revisions of U.S. liberalism and its prevailing ideologies of citizenship. Urged on by desires for a more cohesive polity, Vincent argues, numerous war novelists...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... By the end of the novel, both Sommers and The Web of Life have been forced to acknowledge if not the desirability, then the practical necessity, of the orthodox profession’s monopoly on health care. This reluctant endorsement on Herrick’s part also offers an important perspective on why large-scale systemic...