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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 435–437.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Russ Castronovo Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species . By Neel Ahuja . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2016 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth, $89.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $14.49 . The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in the 1850s. Although a certain kind of albino elephant ( chang pheuak ) was regarded as auspicious in Siam, these animals were not white, nor were they given as gifts by the king of Siam in order to ruin his rivals. Bullen traces the emergence of the white elephant as a figure for value in European...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 355–377.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Andrew Donnelly Abstract This article contrasts the reading pedagogy inspired by the “talking book” and the reading pedagogy described by Frederick Douglass. The talking book offers literacy as a thing to be acquired that can be traded for freedom. “Literacy as a gift” inculcates in students a view...
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Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 9 If Nancy Was Abraham Lincoln (1972), mixed media on paper, 12 by 9 inches, Colby College Museum of Art, gift of the Alex Katz Foundation, 2008.190. Used by permission of the Estate of Joe Brainard and courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
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Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 8 Joe Brainard, If Nancy Was President Rosevelt (1972), mixed media on paper, 12 by 9 inches, Colby College Museum of Art, gift of the Alex Katz Foundation, 2008.189. Used by permission of the Estate of Joe Brainard and courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in Cultural Practices and Poetics , edited by Trimbur John , 107 – 27 . Pittsburgh, PA : Univ. of Pittsburgh Press . Goddard Mary , Album. 16572.Q . Library Company of Philadelphia . Hall James . 1929 . The Western Souvenir: A Christmas and New Year's Gift . Cincinnati, OH : N...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 629–654.
Published: 01 December 2021
...” in “gift-giving societies” and “today’s commercial societies” have not “ceased giving gifts.” For work that explores the intertwined representations of gifts and markets in modern literature, see Hoeller 2012b and Colesworthy 2018 . 4 For other histories of the modern hospital, see Oshinsky 2016...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 761–785.
Published: 01 December 2005
... silver money to a playful, working-
Hurston and the Gold-Standard Debate 763
class, gift-giving community and gold money to the deceptively seduc-
tive lures of the city and its corporate structure. But her story does not
quite yield to such a schematic interpretation...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 357–383.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., the country that we called home, was to me already a memory. I preferred it that way. A “memory” was for me another way of saying a “story.” A “story” was another way of saying a “gift.” The man on the bridge was a memory, he was a story, he was a gift. Paris gave him to me. And in Paris I will stay, I...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 207–214.
Published: 01 March 2014
... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Brief Mention
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From Gift to Commodity: Capitalism and Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century American
Fiction. By Hildegard Hoeller. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press. 2012. xiii,
279 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $40.00; e-book, $39.99...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 89–113.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the gift, she asks “whether he thought the Indians would let me read? he answered, yes” (Rowlandson 1682a : 14). From one perspective, we might say this brusque yes lightly mocks her. By giving her the holy book, he implicitly acknowledges her right to read: yes, you can read it; why else would I...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 445–473.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of the Iroquois, with fourteen gifts
each of which had their own meaning and carried their own words”
( JR, 27:266). Here, and throughout this passage, Vimont’s writing is
marked by the presence of Iroquois modes of communication and rep-
resentation: wampum can carry words to which one replies. Vimont’s...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 893–914.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature,
868–70.
Brady, Jennifer L. “Theorizing a Reading Public: Sentimentality and Advice
about Novel Reading in the Antebellum United States,” 719–46.
Bullen, Ross. “‘This Alarming Generosity’: White Elephants and the Logic of
the Gift,” 747...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 227–240.
Published: 01 March 2000
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have the quality of gifts: disturbing gifts, perhaps, inept, inadequate gifts, but
gifts just the same: he feels he is giving something For Dickey fans, Henry
Hart supplies the gift of a reader, offering selections from the author’s poems...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 501–526.
Published: 01 September 2008
... work that, in fact, did so much to
ensure that this gift would be not only a thoughtful gesture but also
a good investment.36 Another painting dealing with slavery, Auguste-
François Biard’s Slave Trade (shown in the same Academy exhibition)
was given as a gift to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Fairfield gifts a miniature of Merton to his daughter, Olivia Fairfield, who promises to travel to England and marry her cousin. For Olivia, the portrait assists her in maintaining focus on marrying Merton and securing her inheritance. “I really think the miniature of Augustus has been serviceable to me...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 629–652.
Published: 01 September 2003
...’’ Christmas wish list and more, is an attempt to compensate
Lolita’s doubled state of mourning for herself (the lost innocent) and
for her mother. Just as the scene classifies these gifts as Humbert’s
method of absolution...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 March 2021
... longitudinal studies of high-IQ (“gifted”) children that such children grew up to be “normal” adults distinguished only by their academic achievements (Bates 2011 : 378). By the 1920s, some school systems were experimenting with special classes for gifted children (though such programs would not truly take...
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American Literature 11792427.
Published: 07 March 2025
..., the mound rescripts Boston s highly visible colonial setting, the location of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the legacies of Anglo-Calvinist settlement that ensued. The mound recognizes the raven s agency as a shaper of history by gifting the corn. The mound also represents a site of human and nonhuman...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 851–852.
Published: 01 December 2008
... engagement with what she read. We
welcome studies of still-unexhausted warhorses like hymnody and the Bible;
perennially rich areas such as contemporary fiction and poetry; juvenilia such
as primers, textbooks, conduct manuals, and gift books; as well as any dis-
courses in the wider world...
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