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Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940 Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Andrea Stone Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940 . By Nihad M. Farooq New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xiv, 343 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $30.00 . Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture...
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Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . Zeisberger David . 1816 . A Grammar of the Language of the Lenni Lennape or Delaware Indians , translated by Du Ponceau Peter . American Philosophical Society , Philadelphia, PA . Sarah Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic
Rivett...
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The Gothic Origins of Global Health
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Sari Altschuler Abstract Global health traces its origins back to a single moment in 1854 when John Snow eradicated cholera with a map. It is a nice story, but it’s a myth, a fantasy of empiricism. The modern global health approach did begin with the nineteenth-century, worldwide cholera pandemics...
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Can You Tell by Looking? A Postvisible Definition of Asian American Literature
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 543–569.
Published: 01 September 2020
... exactitude and empiricism in substantiating a new category of art called Asian American literature, to an anti-definition in the 1990s, and to the pluralist, nonnormative definition since 2000 in which identifying a text as Asian American is an exercise in persuasively situating the text within the Asian...
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Index to Volume 87 (March 2015–December 2015)
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., 1962–2007
by Sally Bachner; Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narra-
tives by David Seed, 843–45.
Rivett, Sarah. “Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas
Jefferson’s Indian Vocabulary Project,” 645–80.
Rodriguez, Ralph E. Review: Buenas Noches, American...
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Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making
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American Literature 11845230.
Published: 07 March 2025
... of colonial expansion and the Scienti c Revolution. This shift began with brief gestures toward the fact that Columbus s 1492 discovery exacerbated doubts about the infallibility of text-bound ancient wisdom and accelerated the rise of empiricism as the cornerstone of the scienti c method (Shapin 1996; Dear...
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Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2005
... empiricism, Latour would trope
our critical project in more positive terms as a renewal of empiricism; instead
of dismantling the real, we might see ourselves as tenderly reassembling it.
Personally,I’mnotyetreadytorelinquishmysneerforthisperkiermode
of critique. But I do appreciate Latour’s explicit...
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Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO
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American Literature 11792403.
Published: 07 March 2025
... of how Francis Bacon, himself deeply involved in Virginia plantations by 1620, renders Harriot s intervention into philosophy, in his famous pronouncement in the New Organon that knowledge and power . . . really come to the same thing. Keywords plantation, empiricism, Francis Bacon, Walter Ralegh...
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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
... was an aesthetics of moral and social empiricism that, as Deidre Shauna Lynch ( 1998 : 54) shows, “use[d] the device of the character to fabricate a sense of the typical and so a sense of social coherence.” This empiricism had two key elements. First, character sketches aspired not to fiction, invention, or whimsy...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2009
... to empiricism, and mystical moist nights to learned lectures in
astronomy. But if for better or for worse romantics have helped sepa-
rate science and literature, the story of this estrangement, like all
stories of estrangement, cannot be reduced to irreconcilable dualisms.
Not only did some...
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Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science; Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 438–439.
Published: 01 June 2003
... at Harvard Psychological
Laboratory and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where she studied and
worked. At Harvard, Stein was influenced by her work with William James,
whose radical empiricism emphasized...
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Jim Crow Pragmatism: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and the Legal Logic of Race
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 301–330.
Published: 01 June 2016
... with the pragmatism of his era. In a collection of essays called Pragmatism, Nation, and Race , Robert Brandom ( 2009 ) tracks the Darwinian logic that distinguishes pragmatist empiricism from the seventeenth-century empiricism of John Locke. As he observes, the novelty inherent in the pragmatism that emerged...
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Market Nation: Forging Economic Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century African America
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 December 2024
... In this respect, Philadelphia mirrored the social/class stratification of other Northern cities (Ball 2012 : 7–9; Harris 2003 : 218–19; Peterson 2011 : 138–39). Willson’s decision to shape the generic language of a “sketch” into a vehicle for vernacular empiricism perhaps reflects his reluctance to add...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 681–686.
Published: 01 September 2011
...;
and Paul Grimstad explores Emerson’s radical empiricism by way of William
James and Gilles Deleuze.
686 American Literature
The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal. Ed. Geary Hobson,
Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2010. xii,
349 pp...
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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
...; Wisecup 2013). Americanists began to accept the premise that religion was not a thing of the past but, rather, a constitutive facet of modernity that modernized along with reason-based empiricism and the public sphere (Asad 2003; Coviello and Hickman 2014; Modern 2011). Considering religion as an entwined...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 678–686.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the experimental and constraint-escaping inquiries of William James and John Dewey, including such topics as ontological skepticism and the impact of James’s radical empiricism on the Kyoto school. Henry James’s Feminist Afterlives: Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras . By Kathryn Wichelns. Cham...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 421–427.
Published: 01 June 2015
... and yet assigned the imag-
ination’s transcendence to the eye, creating a tension between empiricism and
imagination. She argues that vision is key to American literature not merely as
a way to justify national ambitions, but also as a way to work through the very
process and practice...
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“I’m Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community”: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home , Digital Photography, and George W. Bush
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 121–154.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 187–195.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... This collection of essays provides a foothold by dividing the book into two parts, as the title suggests. The first section explicates his most important works, from The Principles of Psychology in 1890 to Essays in Radical Empiricism in 1912. The second section analyzes the way James influenced modernist...
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Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic: Reading Surface Meaning in Thoreau
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2013
... empiricism even
as he leaned ever more toward scientific naturalism and ecological
study in later years. Yet, Thoreau remained “true” to Emerson’s “art of
life” with Walden. He ritually evokes a meaningful equivalent of non-
depth by treading the “slippery sliding surfaces” of signification...
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