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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 463–465.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Nancy McCabe The American Essay in the American Century . By Stuckey-French Ned . Columbia : Univ. of Missouri Press . 2011 . xiv, 256 pp. $60.00 . Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans . By Aubry Timothy . Iowa City : Univ...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 333–335.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Noelle Dubay noelledubay@gmail.com On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay . By Cheryl A. Wall Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2018 . x, 276 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. Empire of Ruin: Black...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 414–416.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Susan Rosenbaum © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem . By Robert M. Dowling. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2007. ix, 200 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $20.00. Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 643–646.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Patrick Jagoda © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Postmodern American Literature and Its Other . By W. Lawrence Hogue. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. xvi, 212 pp. $45.00. Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database . By Alan Liu. Chicago...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 659–661.
Published: 01 September 2010
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with the reemergence of visual evidence produced by the mob itself. Because
whites took most of these pictures, and appear in them, the photographs have
become testimony that simply cannot be ignored. Many current studies of
racial violence are inspired by this archive, including the essays by Shawn...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 830–833.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Adalaide Morris Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions . By Bernstein Charles . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2011 . 282 pp . Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life . By Goble Mark . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2010 . xiii, 374 pp...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 413–416.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Jed Rasula Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics . By Reed Brian M. . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2012 . xxvii, 249 pp. Paper , $29.95 , e-book , $29.95 . Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing since the 1960s . By Houen Alex...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2002
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to articulating the life of consciousness. The drama of her poetry and letters
records the testing of the possibilities and permutations of belief and doubt in
the ferocious pressures of the particular moment.
This extreme tension creates what Allen Tate, in his marvelous 1932 essay
about Dickinson, says...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 668–670.
Published: 01 September 2002
... through aesthetics.
When Connor pairs Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison in the chapter ‘‘Af-
firming the Unity she practices some unifying work of her own, using Elli-
son’s essays to corroborate Wright’s endeavors. Of course, at least since the
essays of Irving Howe, these authors have been...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 191–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... American Literature between the Wars: A New
Pandora’s Box. By Anthony Dawahare. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003.
xix, 161 pp. $37.00.
South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature. By Trudier Harris-Lopez.
Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2002. xv, 230 pp. $24.95.
The Harlem...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2004
...—newspaper essays, congressional speeches, merchants’
memorials, credit reports, private letters, novels [and] short stories’’ (6).
Where Critical Fictions falters is in its account of the mediations between
the emotional and the economic that made their analogy plausible to Ameri-
cans. To explain...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Rafael Pérez-Torres Duke University Press 2006 Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders . By Héctor Calderón. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2004. 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Life in Search of Readers: Reading...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 624–626.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Robert McRuer © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature . Ed. H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, and Heidi M. Rose. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2006. xxviii, 264 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 621–623.
Published: 01 September 2009
... University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2009-030
Passive Constitutions, or, 7 1/2 Times Bartleby. By Branka Arsić. Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. 210 pp. $60.00.
Impersonality: Seven Essays. By Sharon Cameron. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press. 2007. xx, 260 pp. Cloth, $65.00...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 623–625.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Hugh Egan © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Melville: The Making of the Poet . By Hershel Parker. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2008. x, 238 pp. $32.95. Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation . Ed. Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter. Chapel...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 607–609.
Published: 01 September 2007
...: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse . Ed. Paula C. Barnes and Australia Tarver. Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2006. 300 pp. $52.50. Book Reviews
Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of
Early America. By Jennifer J. Baker...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 850–853.
Published: 01 December 2015
...R. John Williams Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia . By Wegner Phillip E. . New York : Peter Lang . 2014 . xix , 308 pp. Paper, $55.95 ; e-book, $55.95 . The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 419–422.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the contours of American literary history. None of these books outlines a newer, more inclusively musical New Musicology, but all point the way. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America . By Rubin Joan...
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Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 3 Robert W. Carter calls for “simple justice” in his Colored American Magazine essay “Suggestive Thoughts on the Race Question,” which appears pages after the final lines of Winona . Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives, Howard University
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 413–441.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Everett Hamner Hamner's essay analyzes Richard Powers's novel Generosity: An Enhancement as an example of genomic fiction, a genre-bending science fiction subgenre focused on relationships between biology and identity. Prefacing this study with brief readings of novels by Michael Crichton...
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