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“Indelicate Exposure”: Sentiment and Law in Fall River: An Authentic Narrative
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Jeanne Elders DeWaard Duke University Press 2002 Jeanne ‘‘Indelicate Exposure Sentiment and Law in
Elders Fall River: An Authentic Narrative
DeWaard
In one of the many pamphlets published in the nine-
teenth century about the infamous ‘‘haystack murder...
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Relative Strangers: Contracting Kinship in the Queer Ecology Classroom
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Sarah Ensor Abstract This article argues that pedagogy may help us respond to the precarity of higher education by reclaiming the forms of provisionality, accident, and exposure endemic to collaborative learning. Putting kinship theory into contact with studies of contagion, I suggest...
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“A Climate . . . More Prolific . . . in Sorcery”: The Black Vampyre and the Hemispheric Gothic
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Katie Bray “‘A Climate . . . More Prolific . . . in Sorcery’: The Black Vampyre and the Hemispheric Gothic” proposes that Uriah Derick D’Arcy’s pseudonymous The Black Vampyre ( 1819 ) exemplifies the hemispheric gothic through its exposure of the connected, but disavowed histories of the Haitian...
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“The Ache of the Actual”: Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 547–574.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and William Dean Howells espouse an aesthetic sensibility premised on a sensitive yet restrained engagement with pain. They thereby challenge the prevalent association of superiority with a sensitive revulsion from pain while simultaneously evincing a deep skepticism about whether exposure to physical...
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Lines in the Dirt (c. 1969): Postwar Literalism and the Failure of Technology
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 385–416.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the Aristotelian conception of the artifact. Through the lines in the dirt they feature, the works discussed in this essay bracket off the axes of the subject, the human, and the machine. To that end, they generate “failed artifacts” by isolating the exposures of human-made things to their environments...
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Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2018
.... Building on the concept of “trans-corporeality” that structured her 2010 book Bodily Natures , Alaimo’s monograph theorizes exposure as the manifestation of “a material feminist sense of the human as undeniably corporeal” (5). To be exposed, Alaimo suggests, or rather to recognize all matter as mutually...
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Naturalist Smellscapes and Environmental Justice
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 787–814.
Published: 01 December 2016
... engagement with questions of uncertainty, habituation, and pervasiveness arising from everyday low-level exposures to environmental toxins. Vandover stages a tension between visual and olfactory aesthetics, pitting the aspiring painter’s control of lines and color against his susceptibility to San...
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Edith Wharton's Alchemy of Publicity
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 725–751.
Published: 01 December 2007
... may not be able to look in.”6 Wharton seeks to neutralize
the threat of public exposure infecting every misguided attempt at
architectural innovation—oversized doorways, plate glass, the lack
of an antechamber to separate bedroom from hallway—by reminding...
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Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and Narrative in the Contemporary Novel
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 747–778.
Published: 01 December 2002
... textual and visual repre-
sentations of exposure to hazardous chemicals. But even in his work,
the notion of risk and the social scientific theories that have evolved
around it play only a relatively minor role.1 My essay will discuss con-
nections among ecocriticism, risk theory, and narrative...
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Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Flegel ( 2009 : 15–16) observes, “while the necessity for children of the very poor to beg or go hungry was largely accepted as a fact of life a century earlier,” by the mid-nineteenth century, “such a necessity was deemed unacceptable, and by the 1890s criminal”: “begging,” “exposure,” and “improper...
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“The Public Heart”: Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 749–775.
Published: 01 December 2004
... flaneur
and ultimately gestures toward a new, more inclusive and multicul-
tural ‘‘Christian cosmopolitanism 15 Yet the experiences Child re-
counts so vividly in her New York letters also expose the potential
limits of her politics of sympathy. Her letters witness the dangerous
exposure for a truly...
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Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
... racism requires not just an acknowledgment of relatively recent policy decisions leading to unevenly distributed environmental exposure, but also an acknowledgement of the long material histories of environmental and social disposability. In other words, the plantation is both so persistent and so...
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How Do We See COVID-19? Visual Iconographies of Racial Contagion
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of produce for human consumption. An early study of the first known cases to emerge in Wuhan, China linked the human cases to exposure at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the virus presumably “jumped species” (Huang et al. 2020 ). Scientists have estimated that 75 percent of EIDs are zoonotic...
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The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confession, and Community in James Baldwin
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 787–813.
Published: 01 December 2005
... a perverse form
of cowardice that masquerades as courage. If in his confessions Gide
is incapable of overcoming his guilt, he has at least taken the coura-
geous step of self-exposure. For Baldwin, confession is not everything,
but it is a necessary first step to personal and social transformation...
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Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 713–715.
Published: 01 December 2021
... covers promised the dime-store reader this same voyeuristic reverie, framing preoccupied, part-clad women through apertures, multiplying layers of exposure deferred. The pursuit of obscenity united the worlds of character and reader. Literary naturalism aligned with such regulation in portraying...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2014
... who the “folk” are and “our” investment
in this construct. Preston Sturges’s 1941 Sullivan’s Travels is a filmic example
of the genre. Performances of whiteness, market-driven ambition, and mascu-
linity lead to “burlesque”—grotesquely excessive or disturbing—exposure of
the racial, classed...
View articletitled, Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance the Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression
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The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity Disability Rhetoric Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 March 2016
... for teaching undergrad-
uates and readers without prior exposure to disability studies.
The intersection that concerns Ellen Samuels’s Fantasies of Identification
is the convergence of disability, race, and gender. Beginning in the mid-
nineteenth century, Samuels argues, the United States experienced...
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The “Mysteries and Miseries” of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 277–309.
Published: 01 June 2001
... that if even the
most virtuous girl from the artisan class were compelled, through
captivity in the urban underworld, to receive the ‘‘insult’’ of expo-
sure to illicit sex, such exposure would act as a mental rape, corrupt-
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Impostors of Freedom: Southern White Manhood, Hypodermic Morphine, and E. P. Roe's Without a Home
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 527–554.
Published: 01 September 2008
... their own masters—their potential
exposure as secret slaves becomes an overwhelming cultural and nar-
rative anxiety. This anxiety operates according to the panoptic logic of
visual modernity that Robyn Wiegman describes as organizing racial
epistemologies in the era of Reconstruction...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2009
... on
authors of slave narratives. Her essay, “Fugitive Obscura: Runaway
Slave Portraiture and Early Photographic Technology,” traces a
double exposure, showing how racism troubled the objectivity claims
of photography and, in turn, how photography exposed the dynamics
of racism. Authors of slave...
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