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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 September 2015
... a serious contribution to the Western philosophical tradition's consideration of the concept of friendship. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 philosophy of friendship handwriting history of the book popular verse nineteenth-century American literature References Agamben Giorgio...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2009
... with one’s former self by returning
Readers, Samplers, and the Republican Girl 507
to thoughts and feelings that may not have been fully “treasure[d] up”
in one’s mind.30
Good handwriting, then, is the sine qua non of public and histori-
cal sentiments: when written out...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 833–857.
Published: 01 December 2002
... was a printed corporealization. In other words, Dickinson
critics have characteristically imagined her poems as print objects,
assuming that any variable in the handwriting that does not cohere
with the regularizations of print is due to her personal writing uten-
sils and that such accidents need...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the “vibrating cord” that arrested Thoreau’s fancy. With the incessant ticking of telegraph keys, the nineteenth century entered the age of digital communication. 4 Instead of, say, the tone of a singer’s voice or the flow of handwriting, 5 messages now had to be expressed using an on-off signal...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
... an alphabetic or other rapid system for organizing the
characters on the drums, typists often had to spend months memo-
rizing where the characters were, and even then the machines were
not as fast as simply handwriting individual characters. Such type-
writers, Lin knew, could hardly be used...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 553–574.
Published: 01 September 2000
... it. Jefferson’s
interest in the superficial appearance of the document is important:
the handwriting of Franklin’s document is ‘‘very like’’ but not nec-
essarily Franklin’s own.16 This is Jefferson’s first observation...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 199–227.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the gestures in her handwriting, allowing for scribbled jottings as well as more composed forms. The more that Fuller writes in pencil—the closer she approaches the author of “The Great Lawsuit” and Woman in the Nineteenth Century —the more her composure turns to the urgent pursuit of new voice, new thought...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
...
Chronocanon,” by Nicholas Hengen Fox, 159–86.
Handwriting. “The Work of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century American
Friendship Album Verses,” by Laura Zebuhr, 433–54.
Harlem Renaissance. “Head and Hands Together: Booker T. Washington’s
Vocational Realism,” by Laura R. Fisher, 709–37.
Harlem...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 779–806.
Published: 01 December 2002
...
technologies include film, video, photography, tattoos, typewriters,
telegraphy, handwriting, and digital computers. The inscription sur-
Remediation in HouseofLeaves 781
faces are no less varied, as Johnny Truant observes about Zampanò’s
notes, which include writings...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 459–490.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Francophone elites’ modes of expression, the capacity to decipher eighteenth-century handwriting, and the academic affiliation necessary to enter the archive at all. The method of interpretation here involves locating, consulting, and cross-referencing multiple accounts of the same event that are themselves...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 785–813.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., they were whole, they went back to their families or their military careers or their high school cheerleading squads, they sent him Christmas cards at the end of the year and told him in their own handwriting how grateful they were” (Gorney 1998 , 303). In response to these internal emotional and cognitive...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 407–438.
Published: 01 June 2018
... For (1986) These literary figures evoke the range of opinions that surround them on the letters page. The first image in the October 1983 issue of WomaNews shows an agitated woman, biting the tip of her pen while mulling over the next words to add to two pages of vigorously scrawled handwriting...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 753–784.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., are looking at the same textual material, no more or less. 12 The manuscript bears the note “Sacramental Meditations for 35 y. from 1682 to 1717 1725,” in the handwriting of Ezra Stiles, and Sacramental Meditations is the title favored by Johnson. The note continues in Taylor’s hand: “Preparatory...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
... alphabet worksheet. This description of hands and ป (the twenty-seventh consonant of the Thai alphabet) paired with the visual of a language worksheet recalls the many diagrams, images, and facsimiles of handwriting scattered throughout Dictée ’s pages. In both trespasses and แล้ว and then entwine...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 589–615.
Published: 01 September 2012
... reproduces various discoveries
of America, beginning with that of Jacques Cartier. He starts with a
single artifact of his brother’s, a postcard with a text that turns out to
be a reproduction, mimicking the original handwriting, of an excerpt
from Cartier’s travelogue marking the moment when...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 461–488.
Published: 01 September 2010
....2
The NYAFS was an institution poised at a crucial moment in New York
City’s movement from slavery to manumission, and its records contain
handwriting and drawing exercises as well as the poems and scripted
performances recited on the school’s annual examination day. These
records, largely...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 143–175.
Published: 01 March 2007
... becomes, the
more we may learn to value the materiality of writing. The aura of
the prior stages of linguistic production and reproduction increases
as each is displaced.”25 These prior stages might be associated with
SCRIPT, as the handwriting that appears on the photocopied drafts...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2008
... nationhood, patriotism, militarism, and
multiculturalism.
Drawing on ethnography and historiography, Elliott conducts a kind of lit-
erary fieldwork, exploring in each chapter the “generations of handwriting”
at commemorative sites (10): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu-
ment Indian...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 613–615.
Published: 01 September 2008
... nationhood, patriotism, militarism, and
multiculturalism.
Drawing on ethnography and historiography, Elliott conducts a kind of lit-
erary fieldwork, exploring in each chapter the “generations of handwriting”
at commemorative sites (10): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu-
ment Indian...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 615–617.
Published: 01 September 2008
... nationhood, patriotism, militarism, and
multiculturalism.
Drawing on ethnography and historiography, Elliott conducts a kind of lit-
erary fieldwork, exploring in each chapter the “generations of handwriting”
at commemorative sites (10): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu-
ment Indian...
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