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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 3 Detail of “Map of the State of Wisconsin” from Increase Lapham, The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described (1855). Dots indicate Native earthwork sites, many of which are on Carver’s route. Image courtesy of Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries More
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 6 Detail from Carver’s now faded hand-drawn and -colored map. © British Library Board (Add. MS 8949 f041r) More
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Published: 01 June 2016
Figure 2 Detail from W. L. Jumel, “Stuart’s Cavalry Cutting Telegraph Wires” (Northrop 1893 , 752) More
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1 Anna Ridler, Myriad (Tulips) . Installation view (detail), AI: More than Human exhibition, Barbican Centre, London, May 16 to August 26, 2019. Photograph: Emily Grundon More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 2 Boys club debate. Detail from Nella Larsen’s Children’s Room Report (January 5, 1925). 135th Street Branch records, Sc MG 219 Box 5. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 3 February birthday events in the Harlem Branch Library. Detail from Nella Larsen’s Children’s Room Report of March 7, 1925. 135th Street Branch records, Sc MG 219 Box 5. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 6 Diversity in the Harlem Branch library. Detail from an unsigned, handwritten Children’s Room Report (March 1923). 135th Street Branch records, Sc MG 219 Box 5. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York More
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Published: 01 December 2018
Figure 1 “Meditation 8,” first series, manuscript detail from the Edward Taylor Papers, GEN MSS 1476. Image courtesy of the General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University More
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Published: 01 September 2017
Figure 2 Detail of “Map 1.” From John Snow’s ( 1855 ) On the Mode of Communication of Cholera . Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia More
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 551–581.
Published: 01 September 2014
... that its primary purpose within realism was not the delineation of regions, but rather the production of an affective and aesthetic engagement with the cosmopolitan project of self-cultivation. The local-color detail was generally not used as a representative detail of a place, but rather, by the late...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 59–91.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Susan M. Ryan The media firestorm that followed Harriet Beecher Stowe's exposé of Lord Byron's supposed incest (which she first detailed in an 1869 Atlantic Monthly article and later in the book Lady Byron Vindicated [1870]) provides an apt cultural site for analyzing the intersections among...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... colonial boundaries, continue active relationships with land in spite of colonialism, and resist colonialism alongside land. Through literature of landed resistance, this article shows how Mohegan leaders Uncas, Appageese, and Samson Occom detail responsibility to land that allows them to represent land’s...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Allison S. Curseen Abstract Focusing on the minor details of suffering cats, I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as an exemplary illustration of the way in which American novels of individual development destabilize around the movement of minor bodies and minor characters. This destabilization...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 461–493.
Published: 01 September 2018
...R. J. Boutelle Abstract This article details how John Greenleaf Whittier accidentally assumed two different Cuban poets of color (Juan Francisco Manzano and Plácido) were one and the same person, resulting in an unwittingly combinatory sketch of “Juan Placido.” The resulting syncretic personage...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 831–857.
Published: 01 December 2011
...; the figure of the superhero more generally is also figured in these works as a symbol of arrested maturity, both within the fictions and within a larger metafiction about the genre. Works discussed in detail include Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns (1986), Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen (1986...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 555–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., tradition and change coexist. For most readers, the novel's genre, style, setting, and author preclude it from being considered a modernist text; however, this essay argues that Wharton's subtle manipulation of historical detail along with her engagement with the philosophy of memory and the physics of time...
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1 David Gingry Jr., “The Empty Sleeve” and “The Wounded Soldier’s Appeal,” printed by McCrum and Dern, in Altoona, PA, circa 1865. The notes at the top of the poems indicate their price and relevant details of Gingry’s history. Source: the Library Company of Philadelphia More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 4 Readings, book talks, and other activities during class visits to the Children’s Room at the Harlem Branch library, February 1928. Detail from Monthly logs. 135th Street Branch records, Sc MG 219 Box 4. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts More
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in this study is Houchin’s ability to connect theater history to a larger cultural history. Houchin manages to do this effectively by constructing a coherent narrative through detailed research. The amount of information packed into this study is simply impressive without being over- whelming. Houchin does...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2005
...D. Quentin Miller By William Beverly. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003. xvii, 236 pp. $40.00. By John Houchin. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. ix, 332 pp.$60.00. 2005 196 American Literature well detailed and ideologies labeled and defined, but little of Faulkner...