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Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 638–640.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Gaspar, Duke University
Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition. By Kim-
berly Rae Connor. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xi, 311 pp. $34.95.
Kimberly Connor’s Imagining Grace unveils the far-reaching importance of
theological aesthetics to the American...
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“To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand”: Marianne Moore's Interdisciplinary Digressions
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 451–481.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Srikanth Reddy Duke University Press 2005 Srikanth ‘‘To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand
Reddy Marianne Moore’s Interdisciplinary Digressions
For, what tho’ his Head be empty, provided his Common-
place-Book befull...
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Memory’s Ends: Thinking as Grace in Thomas Hooker’s New England
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 693–722.
Published: 01 December 2018
...,” it discovers a Puritan theory of grace that sought to come closer to God by escaping idolatrous thinking, on the one hand, and mechanistic cognition, on the other. Reconceiving Hooker’s preparation as a memorial style and placing that ars memoria at the center of transatlantic Puritan controversies about grace...
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Infidel America: Puritan Legacy and Antebellum Religious Persecution in Frederick Douglass’s Transatlantic Speeches, 1841–49
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 723–752.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Daniel Grace Abstract This essay examines Frederick Douglass’s oratory of the 1840s, when religious appeals drove his abolitionist rhetoric. In addressing the lack of critical attention paid to his early oratory and evangelism, the essay argues that these speeches, which he delivered to audiences...
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Uncle Tom across the Sea (and Back): Pierre Faubert and the Haitian Response to Harriet Beecher Stowe
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 755–786.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Mary Grace Albanese Abstract The transnational material network of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) has enjoyed substantial critical analysis: however, most scholarship tends to focus on the novel’s influence in Europe. Haiti plays a much greater role in the novel than any European...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 609–612.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Jenna Grace Sciuto Where the New World Is focuses primarily on novels by US-based authors— Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, and Cynthia Shearer—as well as Jamaican writer Erna Brodber. Connections with previously discussed writers are woven into this comprehensive...
View articletitled, Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales
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Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Jenna Grace Sciuto Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature . By Lowe John Wharton . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2016 . xvii, 443 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book, $29.99 . Finding Purple America: The South...
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Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”: The Translational Politics of the American Yiddish Theater and Its Afterlife
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 273–299.
Published: 01 June 2022
... by familial descent and dissent but rather is open to alternative modes of kinship. Specifically, this late nineteenth-century strategy is carried forward by authors such as Anzia Yezierska and Grace Paley, who turn to the Yiddish theater’s proclaimed improvement of Shakespeare in their multilingual English...
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Consuming George Thompson
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 June 2008
... forms of display that aspired as much to grace and intimacy as vulgarity and intimidation. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 David M. Consuming George Thompson
Stewart
George Thompson was a fat man. In his 1854
memoir, My Life: Or the Adventures of Geo...
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Response: Postexceptionalist Puritanism: Rocking the Foundations
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 841–854.
Published: 01 December 2018
... “a more egalitarian language of alliances, coalitions, and solidarity, instead of salvation” ( 2002 , 789). Daniel Grace’s essay on the early oratory of Fredrick Douglass and its vehement criticism of Protestant Christianity for its refusal to reject slavery makes interventions similar to those...
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From Wall Street to Astor Place: Historicizing Melville's“ Bartleby”
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 March 2000
... in constructingboth a new buildingat the Trinity site and
Grace Church, a luxurious church at Broadway and Tenth Street that
was to be patronized by wealthy parishioners. Trinity had, moreover,
extended long-term leases at below...
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Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 195–196.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination . By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Brief Mention
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Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher
Castiglia and Glenn...
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Announcements
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and the Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in Black Nationalist Literature” (88:3, 477–507). Honorable mentions were awarded to Mary Grace Albanese for her essay “Uncle Tom across the Sea (and Back): Pierre Faubert and the Haitian Response to Harriet Beecher Stowe” (88:4, 755–82) and to James Dawes...
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Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 650–653.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Daniel Chaskes Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction . By Konstantinou Lee . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 368 pp. Cloth , $39.95 ; e-book available. Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference . By Hong Grace Kyungwon...
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“Never Allowed for Property”: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 331–355.
Published: 01 June 2022
... on connections of love, joy, and spirit. 3 Each of these two seemingly disparate texts performs what I term an antinomian practice: they reject the very premise of secular law in favor of an abiding belief in a variation on free grace—in this case, maternal care. Antinomianism describes the idea...
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Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference/Homosexuality/Topography; The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender,Space, and Reading
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 877–879.
Published: 01 December 2003
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and unassailable resistance to solution In other words, she creates a critical
hyperscape to describe the poetic hyperscape she finds in the poetry.
Smith consequently invents and borrows critical neologisms hyper-
grace...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 400–403.
Published: 01 June 2020
... whose work has been recognized in recent years by scholars such as Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace in their groundbreaking edited collection, Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2002), are largely ignored by Calonne. Likewise, while...
View articletitled, The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory
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Resistance, Silence, and Placées : Charles Bon's Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 85–112.
Published: 01 March 2007
... beauty, grace, and sophistica-
tion. Frances Trollope described them as “exquisitely beautiful, grace-
ful, gentle, and amiable,”11 while Frederick Law Olmsted considered
them superior to other American women:
They are generally pretty, often handsome. I have rarely, if ever,
met more...
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Invisible Labor: Puritan Servitude and the Demonic Possession of Elizabeth Knapp
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 263–292.
Published: 01 June 2006
... progeny of Adam’s bro-
ken covenant with God, Man’s only chance for salvation lay in obe-
dience to the terms of God’s contract with Abraham, the covenant
of grace. Willard grimly reminded his audience that the covenant of
grace could be an instrument of damnation as well as salvation...
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Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 191.
Published: 01 March 2008
...,
moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of
Southern and Western culture.
Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95.
Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry and prose to consider the role...
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