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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Victor Román Mendoza © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility. By Christine So. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2007. x, 178 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $26.95. Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Economic</span> Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility; Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Xiomara Santamarina Abstract This essay engages with the civic possibilities African Americans perceived in the social, economic, and political transformations associated with the antebellum market revolution. Against the emerging nineteenth-century hegemony of political and economic liberalism...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 877–879.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Liberalism . By Christopher Taylor . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018 . 320 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $26.95 . The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction . By Alison Shonkwiler . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2017 . 200 pp...
View articletitled, The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism The Financial Imaginary: <span class="search-highlight">Economic</span> Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction
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for article titled, The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism The Financial Imaginary: <span class="search-highlight">Economic</span> Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2020
...: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring . By Sherry Lee Linkon . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2018 . xvii, 200 pp. Cloth, $70.00 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $24.95 . Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End . By Margaret Ronda . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ...
View articletitled, The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about <span class="search-highlight">Economic</span> Restructuring Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End
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for article titled, The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about <span class="search-highlight">Economic</span> Restructuring Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End
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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...
View articletitled, The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England; Intricate Relations: Sexual and <span class="search-highlight">Economic</span> Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814; The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830; Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies
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for article titled, The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England; Intricate Relations: Sexual and <span class="search-highlight">Economic</span> Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814; The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830; Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Henry B. Wonham Abstract This essay argues that late nineteenth-century American fiction, as exemplified by William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (1900), is entangled in the period’s embrace of a new understanding of economic conditions, one...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 543–570.
Published: 01 December 2021
... it enabled, particularly where poor and working-class readers were concerned. Robinson Crusoe ’s circulation among economically marginalized audiences becomes especially important when we consider the frequency with which issues of upward mobility and wealth acquisition are foregrounded in American...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Mark Fulk © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Spaces of Violence . By James R. Giles. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. xv, 209 pp. $42.50. The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature . By Sharon Stockton. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 695–720.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Michelle Burnham Duke University Press 2000 Michelle Merchants, Money, and the Economics of
Burnham ‘‘Plain Style’’ in William Bradford’s
Of Plymouth Plantation
6218 American...
View articletitled, Merchants, Money, and the <span class="search-highlight">Economics</span> of “Plain Style” in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 414–416.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Coleman Hutchison A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature . By Gray Richard . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2007 . xii , 283 pp. $34.95 . Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 . By Benson...
View articletitled, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The <span class="search-highlight">Economics</span> of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936
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for article titled, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The <span class="search-highlight">Economics</span> of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Jean Franzino Abstract This article considers texts written or sold by disabled Civil War veterans for their economic support as an understudied precursor to twentieth-century disability memoir and an instructive subgenre of the literature of poverty. These so-called mendicant texts challenged...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 103–131.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Arthur Z. Wang Abstract Calculated sexual games play out across contemporary American popular media, from self-help books and advice columns to dating apps and reality television. This article argues that economic game theory subtends the saturation of popular culture with lay theories of sex...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 113–137.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Patrick S. Lawrence Abstract US economic policy in the late twentieth century privileged the financial sector by advancing generous tax breaks for wealthy Americans and traders and prioritizing union-busting and cuts to social programs, producing a violence of deprivation against the poor...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 295–322.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., in particular as they stage economic tensions between the North and the South. On the one hand, the Jew as depicted in this work embodies the threat of Northern capitalism, which many in the South viewed as an overwhelmingly powerful force. On the other hand, the Jew of these novels acts as a figure...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of montage to splice the sounds of their local New York neighborhoods. Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred and Schwartz’s “New York 19” tape-recording projects locate a crisis in listening in New York’s postwar urban geography of race and economics. Although their projects differ in significant ways, both...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Christopher Findeisen This essay argues that in its opposition to the business of college sports, the American campus novel has undergone very few changes over the past century. Debates about college sports replicate, either literally or metonymically, the assumed economic and social functions...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 203–231.
Published: 01 June 2008
... reliance on the conception of self-interest as a way of managing conflicting beliefs about the world. Taking Franklin as an influential early proponent of “interest-thinking”—the view that a self automatically or naturally possesses interests that fit an economic model, even if the interests are not solely...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as mass-market consumerism and corporate culture were the counterpoints against which both writers articulated their modernist values. Furthermore, each text figures its author as an American modernist via a nationalized economic imaginary that emphasizes progress, risk, and perseverance as distinguishing...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 March 2022
... suggests particular ways that developers might conceive of diverse representation as simply a design issue under neoliberal logics of economic opportunity, commercial risk, and fetishized innovation—without meaningful consideration of political significance. Opposing this instrumentalization of frustrated...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and Nature’s God.” However, this aesthetic and political framework intersected uneasily with the early nineteenth century’s racially and economically diverse electoral public sphere. This public sphere was rife with fear that electoral “combinations” would so badly misrepresent the electorate that the United...
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