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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
Published: 01 September 2020
... as they translated and commented on Indigenous languages: these translation projects range from seventeenth-century assessments of Indigenous languages as possessing aesthetic and spiritual value to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classifications of those languages as archeological and archival resources. The arc...
View articletitled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span> to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span> <span class="search-highlight">Century</span>
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The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 847–849.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Ed White 2005 The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity . By Ralph Bauer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 295 pp. $65.00; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Philip Gould...
View articletitled, The Cultural Geography of Colonial American <span class="search-highlight">Literatures</span>: Empire, Travel, Modernity; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Century</span> Atlantic World
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The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology
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American Literature 11792427.
Published: 07 March 2025
... on bare patches of land. This article argues that eighteenth-century ornithology inherits this biblical bias against the raven, confining natural historical depictions of the bird to a terrestrial plane to demarcate unregenerative nature. When read in relation to the oral literature of the Indigenous...
View articletitled, The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Century</span> Ornithology
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2010
... on the unfreedom of enslaved men and women like Wheatley—and ultimately to evade their responsibility to the poet herself. This essay, then, explores the racialized and gendered dynamics of sentimentality in eighteenth-century American literature as well as their continuation in late twentieth- and twenty-first...
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Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
...–8) has argued that the Supreme Court’s decision in City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York has its roots in antebellum literature and law, the origin of Ginsburg’s rhetoric goes back much farther, to eighteenth-century colonial courts. The ruling in Sherrill v. Oneida has its precedent...
View articletitled, Toward a <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span> of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span>, Law, and History
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The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Leila Mansouri Abstract This essay examines how a literary genre called the character sketch shaped the ways Americans came to understand electoral representation as representative. Now little known but central to eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century literary culture in the US and Britain...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 899–907.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790–1890. By Malini Johar
Schueller. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 1998. xii, 248 pp. $44.50.
Beginning with readings of eighteenth-century literature of the ‘‘Barbary...
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The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 325–353.
Published: 01 September 2024
...; Altschuler 2018 : 26–37; Pernick 2002 : 859–62. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 information silos sentimental fiction eighteenth-century literature American literature infection On January 6, 2021, President Trump’s supporters stormed...
View articletitled, The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span>
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Announcements
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 461.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., awarded biennially to the author of a scholarly, book-length
manuscript in eighteenth-century studies in history, literature, philosophy, or
the arts. The $4,000 award and publication of the manuscript by the University...
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Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
... that accept the notion
of dynamic unconscious mental activity must trace their roots, not to
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Freud, but to those animal-magnetic practitioners who preceded him
by a century.” Animal magnetism, meanwhile, emerged out of the
eighteenth-century culture of sensibility (Riskin...
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Bodies in Labor: Sole Proprietorship and the Labor of Conduct in The Coquette
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 315–344.
Published: 01 June 2002
... congruent the relationship between her
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presumed (invisible) moral sensibility and rationality and her (visible)
bodily performance of these virtues.
Lucy Freeman’s emphasis on the rational body as visual evidence
of moral interiority is grounded in the eighteenth century’s...
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Spirits of Emulation: Readers, Samplers, and the Republican Girl, 1787–1810
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2009
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American Literature 75 ( June 2003): 247–74.
22 Jay Fliegelman persuasively argues that in the eighteenth-century
United States, “the universality of language lay less in the features of
language than in the features of delivery and countenance.” According to
his...
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Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Madeline Zehnder Abstract This essay attends to the presence of a small portrait carried by an enslaved character, Georges, in Victor Séjour’s 1837 sketch “Le Mulâtre” (“The Mulatto”). While most eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction deploys miniature portraits to mediate social ties...
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Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 395–397.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the emerging discipline of media studies to revisit and rethink canonical texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Print Technology in Scotland and America and The Camera and the Press are both solid efforts in this direction, as they draw on recent scholarship on media and mediation to explore...
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The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans
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American Literature 11792395.
Published: 07 March 2025
..., a discipline of study in the eighteenth century that accumulated information about the natural world as intelligence gathering for empire. In addition to the gridded UNCORRECTED PROOFS 278 American Literature map, Du Pratz represented the ora and fauna that surrounded the colonial capital in Histoire de la...
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Federalist Criticism and the Fate of Genius
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 687–717.
Published: 01 December 2004
... and the Public Sphere
Early American magazine content was largely defined by eclecticism,
but while Addisonian-style essays on manners, morals, and politics
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were a chief staple, literary criticism and reviews were rare.7 Toward
the end of the eighteenth century, however, monthly...
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Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700–1900 Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 387–389.
Published: 01 June 2015
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Manning’s Poetics of Character aims explicitly to dispel lingering uncer-
tainties about the value of transatlantic reading practices. To achieve this,
Manning posits a new approach to transatlantic inquiry, which she argues
first emerged in the eighteenth century, but which was obscured by the same...
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“It Spoke Itself”: Women's Genius and Eccentric Politics
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in a pattern of effort to forge a more just democracy that
includes women’s participation.
Toward a Genealogy of Women’s Genius in America
It has become a critical commonplace that the definition of genius,
as it developed in the eighteenth century, categorically excluded
women.4 The literature...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 825–827.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of race from its eighteenth-century valence as
a mutable external phenomenon to the more familiar internal “‘biologized’
truth” (109) that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chiles
underscores the “transformable” quality of race by drawing on early medical
writers and natural...
View articletitled, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span> of Early America Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span> Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
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Disseminating Common Sense : Thomas Paine and the Problem of the Early National Bestseller
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Philadelphia. Distribu-
tion, however, along more far-flung parts of the post route was only as
reliable as the eighteenth-century mails—which, if we credit the per-
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vasive anxiety expressed in surviving correspondences about postal
miscarriages, was not very reliable at all.36...
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