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Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations beyond Sympathy Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 867–869.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hildegard Hoeller Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations beyond Sympathy . By Melanie V. Dawson . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2015 . vi, 309 pp. Cloth, $85.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book available. Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag...
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Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 661–662.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Maura Spiegel © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions . By Kathleen Woodward. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2009. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. Book Reviews
Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 446–448.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Marianne Noble Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism . By Jane F. Thrailkill. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2007. 312 pp. $45.00. American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman . By Max Cavitch. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press...
View articletitled, Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and <span class="search-highlight">Emotion</span> in American Literary Realism; American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman; Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy
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Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 634–636.
Published: 01 September 2017
... on a provocative glimpse of modernist poetry as read through the oil economy. The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Schuster Joshua . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2015 . xv, 216 pp. Paper , $39.95 ; e-book, $39.95 . Fallen Forests: Emotion...
View articletitled, Fallen Forests: <span class="search-highlight">Emotion</span>, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 390–393.
Published: 01 June 2020
... . By Sonya Posmentier . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2017 . xiv, 282. Cloth, $ 49.95 ; e-book, $ 49.95 . Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative . By Alexa Weik von Mossner . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 269. Cloth, $ 149.95...
View articletitled, Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature Affective Ecologies: Empathy, <span class="search-highlight">Emotion</span>, and Environmental Narrative
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for article titled, Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature Affective Ecologies: Empathy, <span class="search-highlight">Emotion</span>, and Environmental Narrative
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Unquiet Tropes: Form, Race, and Asian American Literature Racial Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 859–862.
Published: 01 December 2016
... narrative, film, and advertising. Santa Ana draws on popular culture to excavate the materialization of sensory perception into sensible racial forms and their mass circulation, purposely deploying affect and emotion interchangeably throughout this study. However, the sheer range of materials presented here...
View articletitled, Unquiet Tropes: Form, Race, and Asian American Literature Racial Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of <span class="search-highlight">Emotion</span> The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
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for article titled, Unquiet Tropes: Form, Race, and Asian American Literature Racial Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of <span class="search-highlight">Emotion</span> The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
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Wondrous Strange: Eco-Sickness, Emotion, and The Echo Maker
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 381–408.
Published: 01 June 2012
...-Sickness,
Houser Emotion, and The Echo Maker
Twelve percent of bird species worldwide face
extinction. Over twenty-five percent of land- and sea-based mammals
are in similar distress.1 The prognostications of Rachel Carson and
fellow biologist Paul...
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“Ha-Ha and Again Ha-Ha”: Laughter, Affect, and Emotion in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 541–568.
Published: 01 September 2016
... not in critical theory, but in literature. Focusing in particular on the spasmodic howls and jarring barks of laughter that populate Nathanael West’s final novel, The Day of the Locust (1939), I examine laughter not as an emotional response to humor, but as a form of affect capable of convulsing being. To do so...
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Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity; Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 460–462.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... By Lisa
Walker. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2001. xvii, 279 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper,
$18.50.
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall. By Christopher...
View articletitled, Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity; Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical <span class="search-highlight">Emotion</span> before Stonewall
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Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 719–747.
Published: 01 December 2004
...David Anthony Duke University Press 2004 David Banking on Emotion:
Anthony Financial Panic and the Logic of Male
Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic
I love the paper money and the paper money men
They ought to pay...
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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 Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814; The Work of the Heart: Young Women and <span class="search-highlight">Emotion</span>, 1780–1830; Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies
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Salvaging History: Modern Philosophies of Memory and Time in The Age of Innocence
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 555–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the emotional trauma wrought by the war and a proposal for how the modern world might recover and move forward. Cannily manipulating time within the accessible form of the historical novel, Wharton makes readable a version of modern consciousness in which behavior and emotion, public time and private time...
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The Biology of Intimacy: Lamarckian Evolution and the Sentimental Novel
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
Published: 01 September 2020
... for regulating the growth of the population. Sentimental novels about orphans are not just about children who transform through their experiences; they were also directed at children readers and crafted to elicit emotional identification that could spur similar changes off the page. Copyright © 2020 by Duke...
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Unsentimental Historicizing: The Neo-Slave Narrative Tradition and the Refusal of Feeling
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Gabriella Friedman Abstract Rooted partially in the US sentimental tradition, neo-slave narratives often feature lyrical language, emphasize the emotional experience of enslaved characters, and evoke the reader’s sympathy and empathy. Highlighting the use of sentimental conventions in neo-slave...
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State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the play accessible, emotional, and persuasive also sets real limits on how audience members are asked think about personal and social responsibility. Some of these efforts include a focus on the wrongly convicted instead of the guilty, a balance of white and black interviewees in the face of a racially...
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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
... and signal emotional connection, in “Le Mulâtre” the carrying of a miniature departs from this trope, marking alienation, not affiliation. Reading Séjour’s text against popular depictions and material histories of ivory portrait miniatures, I demonstrate that these familiar objects of eighteenth...
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Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 June 2024
... indexes emotional pain addressing the reader’s sympathy—and, at the same time, to literalize these instances, so that each one refers to a specific episode in the history of a circulatory system? This essay attempts to hold both in tension, even as they resist each other. Attending to texts by Harriet...
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Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
... system. However, the protagonist’s corporeal development of a new consciousness through racist injury has unintended consequences; his resilient brain charts new pathways of thought, undermining his domination through emotional self-awareness. This essay argues that the protagonist’s patient narrative...
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Antebellum Apathy: A Study of Indifference in Melville
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., and response that have enjoyed critical favor in recent years as a broadly conceived affect studies. If apathy is not a foil for the study of affect, it does extend the emotional range of our criticism by modeling a way to formulate feelings—those associated with the literary subjects of our scholarship...
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Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 229–255.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., doubt that present institutional arrangements are adequate to deal with this pain and humiliation.” Howells felt these doubts profoundly, and yet he understood liberal guilt as a productive emotional and intellectual predicament. Put simply, Howells viewed liberal guilt, like realism itself...
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