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Hearing Lost, Hearing Found: George Washington Cable and the Phono-Ethnographic Ear
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 519–551.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Brian Hochman Hochman's essay uses the work of George Washington Cable to examine a far-reaching set of debates about media technology, auditory perception, and cultural difference that emerged during the 1880s and 1890s. The first half focuses on Cable's classic dialect novel The Grandissimes...
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George Oppen's “`I've Seen America' Book”: Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 539–569.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Rocco Marinaccio Duke University Press 2002 Rocco George Oppen’s I’ve Seen America’ Book
Marinaccio Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative
In the late twenties, George and Mary Oppen
left George’s well-to-do San Francisco family for two long...
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The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics of Remembering George Washington
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 247–274.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Max Cavitch Duke University Press 2003 Max The Man That Was Used Up:
Cavitch Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics of
Remembering George Washington
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Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer; Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Joanna Brooks © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer . By Michael A. Elliott. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2007. vii, 336 pp. $25.00. Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature...
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“I’m Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community”: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home , Digital Photography, and George W. Bush
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 121–154.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Robin Bernstein Abstract This essay historicizes Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home in the context of the presidency of George W. Bush. Bechdel created Fun Home from 1999 through 2005—dates that corresponded with Bush’s campaign, election, and presidency. As Bechdel frequently laments...
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in Hawthorne’s Distillery: Time and Temperance in “The Birth-Mark” And Other Tales
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figure 2 Illustration from George B. Cheever’s The Dream; or, The True History of Deacon Giles’ Distillery and Deacon Jones’ Brewery ( 1848 ), originally published in 1835 as Inquire at Amos Giles’ Distillery . Made available by the Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection.
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Mendicant texts featuring a commonly circulated poem. George M. Reed, “The ...
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in Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 2 Mendicant texts featuring a commonly circulated poem. George M. Reed, “The One Arm and One Leg Soldier,” United States, s.n., not before 1865. Source: the American Antiquarian Society. “The One-Arm Soldier,” United States, s.n., circa 1870. Source: the Harvard Medical Library Rare Books
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What’s in a Name? Vincent Ogé, Toussaint Louverture, and George Boyer Vashon’s Revision of the Haitian Revolution
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Nathaniel A. Windon Abstract This essay argues that George Boyer Vashon’s epic poem, “Vincent Ogé” (1854), reframes the Haitian Revolution by aligning two moments of imminent revolution—Saint-Domingue in the late eighteenth century and the United States in the mid-nineteenth century—to suggest...
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The Anti- corrido of George Washington Gómez: A Narrative of Emergent Subject Formation
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Leif Sorensen This essay argues that Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez is structured by a dynamic tension between the forms of the corrido and the bildungsroman. Drawing on recent studies of the Chicano/a literary-historical recovery and accounts of late modernism, this essay calls...
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Colored Empires in the 1930s: Black Internationalism, the U.S. Black Press, and George Samuel Schuyler
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 121–149.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Etsuko Taketani First in the chronological table of world affairs relevant to any argument concerning the black internationalism of the 1930s is the Italo-Ethiopian War. George Samuel Schuyler, then the most prominent black journalist in the United States, stood in for international-minded black...
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Consuming George Thompson
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 June 2008
... that pervaded the culture of antebellum reform, directly targeting bodies to re-form their conduct. In a parody of Benjamin Franklin, My Life; or, The Adventures of Geo. Thompson (1854), pornographer and sensationalist George Thompson attributes his large size to his being “somewhat of a gourmand...
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The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Robert Blair St. George By Laura Rigal. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 253 pp.$32.50. 2001 Book Reviews
Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America. By Robert Blair St. George.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. xii, 417 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper...
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Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Madeline Zehnder Abstract This essay attends to the presence of a small portrait carried by an enslaved character, Georges, in Victor Séjour’s 1837 sketch “Le Mulâtre” (“The Mulatto”). While most eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction deploys miniature portraits to mediate social ties...
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Henry James's Legacy: The Afterlife of His Figure and Fiction
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 638–639.
Published: 01 September 2000
...George Monteiro By Adeline R. Tintner. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1998. xxxii, 468 pp. $45.00. 2000 Book Reviews
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Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia...
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Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 204–205.
Published: 01 March 2001
...George S. Lensing By Ronald Schuchard. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xiii, 268 pp.$45.00. 2001 Book Reviews
Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America. By Robert Blair St. George.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. xii, 417 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.
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On American Cross-Pollinations
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 717–719.
Published: 01 December 2006
...George B. Handley Duke University Press 2006 The U.S. South in Global Contexts:
A Collection of Position Statements
The following collection of position statements seeks to probe the
academic possibilities of ‘‘a new Southern studies’’ as an intellectual
enterprise that aims...
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Afro-Orientalism; Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels; Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 June 2006
...George Uba 2006 Afro-Orientalism . By Bill V. Mullen. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. xliv, 240 pp. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $18.95. Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels . By Jennifer Ann Ho. New York: Routledge. 2005. 202 pp. $75.00...
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“It’s Good to Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies of Old Southwestern Humor
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 June 2013
...D. Berton Emerson Emerson’s essay reassesses representative texts of the popular antebellum tradition known as Old Southwestern Humor—among them Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes (1835), Johnson Jones Hooper’s Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845), and George Washington Harris’s Sut...
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Seriality and Settlement: Southworth, Lippard, and The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 31–59.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Melissa Gniadek This essay reads George Lippard’s ’Bel of Prairie Eden (1848), E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand (1859), and a moving panorama, The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley (ca. 1850), to show how the serial structures and temporalities of these particular...
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Reading Playboy for the Science Fiction
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 June 2015
... rationality of scientific management. In addition to offering close readings of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and “The Fly” by George Langelaan, this essay demonstrates that Playboy editor and publisher Hugh Hefner himself was a science-fictional figure, representing the fantasy of a human merging...
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