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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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 430  American Literature 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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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 315–344.
Published: 01 June 2002
... congruent the relationship between her 318 American Literature 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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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2009
...,” 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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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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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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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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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 690 American Literature were a chief staple, literary criticism and reviews were rare.7 Toward the end of the eighteenth century, however, monthly...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 387–389.
Published: 01 June 2015
.... 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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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...
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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- 12 American Literature vasive anxiety expressed in surviving correspondences about postal miscarriages, was not very reliable at all.36...