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Domesticity beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce

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Susan Fraiman
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 479–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339845
Published: 01 September 2011
...Susan Fraiman Fraiman's essay challenges the usual conflation—generally unquestioned in discussions of nineteenth-century U.S. culture—of domestic preoccupations with sentimental views of family and femininity. It does so by turning to Edith Wharton, whose devotion to houses and interior design...
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Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women

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Susan Fraiman
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-206
Published: 01 March 2005
...Susan Fraiman Ed. Bill Brown. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth,$49.50; paper, $25.00. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. 2005 206 American Literature Things. Ed. Bill Brown. Chicago: Univ...
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Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives

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Lisa Diedrich
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 409–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267948
Published: 01 June 2020
... personhood under patriarchy. She argues that the best response to this condition may be remaining outside while asking questions about the structure, “about both enclosure and how some are cast outside of its doors” (197). In Extreme Domesticity , Susan Fraiman asks these same kinds of questions about...
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Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post–Civil Rights Era

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Long Le-Khac
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326439
Published: 01 March 2018
... and portions of Brewster Place and The Woman Warrior to suggest ways to read against the grain of bildungsroman hermeneutics. Nina Baym ( 1981 ), Susan Fraiman ( 1993 ), and Bonnie TuSmith ( 1993 ), among others, argue that the literature produced by women and minorities is communally oriented...
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Index to Volume 83

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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 893–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1503866
Published: 01 December 2011
... of the Constitution, 188–90. Fawaz, Ramzi. “‘Where No X-­Man Has Gone Before!’ Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America,” 355–87. Fraiman, Susan. “Domesticity beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce,” 479–507. Freeman, Elizabeth. Review...
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Hard-Boiled Masculinities; Cool Men and the Second Sex; Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity; Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture

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Ryan Schneider
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 894–897.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-067
Published: 01 December 2006
...Ryan Schneider Duke University Press 2006 Hard-Boiled Masculinities . By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex . By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50...
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New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing; Popular Measures: Poetry and Church Order in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts; Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America

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Philip Gould
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 869–872.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-056
Published: 01 December 2006
... Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxviii, 286 pp. Cloth...
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Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times

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Lisa MacFarlane
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 872–873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-057
Published: 01 December 2006
... Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxviii, 286 pp. Cloth...
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Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism; Modernism: A Cultural History; Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction

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Edwin J. Barton
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 874–876.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-058
Published: 01 December 2006
... Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxviii, 286 pp. Cloth...
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Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination; Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture

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Paula Elyseu Mesquita
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 876–877.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-059
Published: 01 December 2006
.... 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif...
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Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature; Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness ; Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

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Jules Chametzky
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 878–879.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-060
Published: 01 December 2006
... Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxviii, 286 pp. Cloth...
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Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861; The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 880–882.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-061
Published: 01 December 2006
... Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph...
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Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism; Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture; Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life

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Habiba Ibrahim
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 882–884.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-062
Published: 01 December 2006
... Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxviii, 286 pp. Cloth...
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Post-slavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White; The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin

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Zita Nunes
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 885–887.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-063
Published: 01 December 2006
... Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph...
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The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction; The Mulatta and the Politics of Race

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Jené Schoenfeld
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 887–889.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-064
Published: 01 December 2006
... Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph...
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Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture; Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States

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Kirsten Silva Gruesz
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 889–891.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-065
Published: 01 December 2006
... Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph...
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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
... Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph...
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Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture; Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature

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Greg Forter
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 897–899.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-068
Published: 01 December 2006
.... 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif...
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Sidney Poitier's Civil Rights: Rewriting the Mystique of White Womanhood in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night

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Andrea Levine
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 365–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-365
Published: 01 June 2001
.... 18 Leslie Fiedler, ‘‘The New Mutants in Collected Essays: Volume 2, 391, 390. 19 Susan Fraiman urges feminist theorists to reconsider Eve Sedgwick’s groundbreaking work on male homosocial...
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The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession

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Cody C. St. Clair
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084526
Published: 01 September 2022
... is Chandler 1991 , the conclusion to which considers homelessness and housing insecurity in US literature. See also Prince 2005 . More recently, Fraiman 2017 has closed the gap in cultural studies and queer studies between nonnormative domesticities and homelessness, arguing that if we understand...
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