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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 759–766.
Published: 01 December 2020
... (1939) to Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1992–95), this essay situates their discussions of plague time within broader traditions stretching from Thucydides to Daniel Defoe to Albert Camus. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 temporality epidemics in literature contagion...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 614–616.
Published: 01 September 2015
... . By Castiglia Christopher and Reed Christopher . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2011 . xvii , 294 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 614 American Literature
Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America. By Peter...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
Published: 01 September 2017
... for global health today. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 history of medicine cholera gothic literature nineteenth century Modern epidemiology, public health, and global health all trace their origins to one moment. It is one of the best-known stories in medical history. In 1854...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
...’: The Ethics of Epidemic Evolution in Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio .” Literature and Medicine 20 , no. 1 : 71 – 93 . Markley Robert . 1996 . Introduction to Virtual Realities and Their Discontents , edited by Markley Robert , 1 – 10 . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 681–688.
Published: 01 December 2020
... ourselves in strangely similar times. As a viral pandemic and an epidemic of racial violence collide, we, too, face undeniably world-changing events, rife with uncertainty. How are we to read this moment? Both of this forum’s editors have in the past identified and sought new ways of narrating, thinking...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 853–855.
Published: 01 December 2015
... descriptive, these studies open fascinating
vistas for students of literature even as they raise an unasked question: when
we read under the sign of media studies, whither literary interpretation?
For Kate Marshall, literary approaches to modernism necessarily bring
built-in limitations, blind spots...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the medium of video games more broadly is not absolute. In more recent decades, video games have emerged that are indeed about HIV/AIDS—though they approach the subject in a very different register than many works of film and literature that have grappled with the AIDS epidemic. Most examples of these twenty...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 815–845.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in
Hawaii dying from ‘‘bang-utot [sic ‘‘The Men with Deadly Dreams
Saturday Evening Post, December 1955, 20–21, 140–43.
56 See Dean, ‘‘Germs of Empire 322.
57 For the HIV-AIDS epidemic in the Philippines visvis socioeconomic
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and political conditions in the 1980s...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 229–230.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Griffin (Chair),
Leonard Cassuto, and Kristie Hamilton.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of American Literature:
‘‘Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges’’
From the HIV epidemic to the Human Genome Project, from the computer
revolution to the burgeoning reproductive...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2013
... biomediated image that functioned as part of a politics of risk and affect to preempt women's freedom: the (un)sanitized woman who was said to endanger the health of her family and the community at a time when many African American neighborhoods were experiencing epidemics of diseases as a result of health...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 325–353.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of Philadelphia’s Great Yellow Fever Epidemic .” Pennsylvania History 51 , no. 3 : 189 – 205 . Korobkin Laura H. 2000 . “ Murder by Madman: Criminal Responsibility, Law, and Judgment in Wieland .” American Literature 72 , no. 4 : 721 – 50 . Kounang Nadia , and Wild Whitney...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Censures Thrown Upon Them in Some Late Publications . Philadelphia : Printed for the authors, by William W. Woodward . Grimké Francis J. 1918 . Some Reflections: Growing Out of the Recent Epidemic of Influenza That Afflicted Our City . Washington, DC : s.n . Grimsley Ronald . 1956...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 61–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
...David A. Zimmerman Duke University Press 2003 David A. Frank Norris, Market Panic,
Zimmerman and the Mesmeric Sublime
6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 65 of 252 As the oracle gave place to the astrologer...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 687–689.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 American Literature and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities invite submissions for a joint special issue titled “The Infrastructure of Emergency,” coedited by John Levi Barnard, Stephanie Foote, Jessica Hurley...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 922–924.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 American Literature and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities invite submissions for a joint special issue titled “The Infrastructure of Emergency,” coedited by John Levi Barnard, Stephanie Foote, Jessica Hurley...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 June 2024
... as the fundamental differences between epidemic contagion and endemic, or chronic, racism in the United States—what W. J. T. Mitchell ( 2021 : 377–78) calls the “ dis-analogy between the virus and racism,” that is, the imbrication and compounding of nonidentical pains. 4 Furthermore, the BLM protests urged...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
... literature classroom can help us respond to the current predicament of higher education from within, by reconceiving the very terms by which our teaching and learning are disciplined, codified, and normalized. By understanding the communicativity of the pedagogical scene not in terms of the commodified...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 767–779.
Published: 01 December 2020
... . 1949 . Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History . Chicago, IL : Univ. of Chicago Press . Lynteris Christos . 2016 . “ The Prophetic Faculty of Epidemic Photography: Chinese Wet Markets and the Imagination of the Next Pandemic .” Visual Anthropology...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 830–833.
Published: 01 December 2013
... . Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century . By Perloff Marjorie . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2010 . xv, 201 pp . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 830 American Literature
have received less critical attention than the High Modernists. And yet, the
work...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and iconographies drawn from past outbreaks, as they attempt to construct facts out of the uncertainty of an invisible threat. As Paula A. Treichler ( 1987 : 32) argued in the context of AIDS, global disease outbreaks produce “an epidemic of signification”, and COVID-19, with its abundance of data visualizations...
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