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The American Essay in the American Century / Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans

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Nancy McCabe
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 463–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587746
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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On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature

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Noelle Dubay
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 333–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003638
Published: 01 June 2021
...Noelle Dubay [email protected] 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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Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders; Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature

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Rafael Pérez-Torres
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 892–894.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-066
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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Sounding Real: Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Jazz in the Time of the Novel: The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America

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William J. Maxwell
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 419–422.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533446
Published: 01 June 2016
... of American Race and Culture . By Barnhart Bruce . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2013 . 252 pp. Cloth , $49.95 ; e-book, $49.99 . Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America . By Rubin Joan Shelley . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts...
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Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation: Selected Essays on American Literature

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Ian Frederick Finseth
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-194
Published: 01 March 2002
... 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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Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology; Pynchon Notes 42-43: Approach and Avoid: Essays on “Gravity's Rainbow ”

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Don L. Cook
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 668–670.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-668
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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Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Robert McRuer
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 624–626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-029
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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Passive Constitutions, or, 7 1/2 Times Bartleby; Impersonality: Seven Essays

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Franny Nudelman
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 621–623.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-031
Published: 01 September 2009
...Franny Nudelman © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 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...
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Melville: The Making of the Poet; Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation

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Hugh Egan
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 623–625.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-032
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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Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem; Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School

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Susan Rosenbaum
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 414–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-018
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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Postmodern American Literature and Its Other; Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database; From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction

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Patrick Jagoda
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 643–646.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-041
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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Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia the Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood Neocybernetics and Narrative

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R. John Williams
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 850–853.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329734
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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Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights; New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse

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Alisha Gaines
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 607–609.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-023
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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Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism; Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities

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Rebecca Wanzo
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 659–661.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-037
Published: 01 September 2010
...Rebecca Wanzo © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism . By bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press. 2006. 145 pp. Paper, $15.00. Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities . By Michael Bérubé...
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Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

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Adalaide Morris
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 830–833.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370176
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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Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing Since the 1960s on the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry

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Jed Rasula
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 413–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079251
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...
View articletitled, Phenomenal Reading: <span class="search-highlight">Essays</span> on Modern and Contemporary Poetics Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing Since the 1960s on the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry View PDF for article titled, Phenomenal Reading: <span class="search-highlight">Essays</span> on Modern and Contemporary Poetics Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing Since the 1960s on the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry
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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature

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Stephen P. Knadler
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 191–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-191
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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The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America; Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature

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Michael Lundblad
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 409–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-409
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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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, Washington, DC

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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 More
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The Predisposed Agency of Genomic Fiction

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Everett Hamner
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 413–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266108
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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