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“My Childhood Is Ruined!”: Harper Lee and Racial Innocence

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Katherine Henninger
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 597–626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650259
Published: 01 September 2016
... had she done that she must spend the rest of her years reaching out with yearning for them, making secret trips to long ago, making no journey to the present? —Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman (2015) The news in February 2015 that a “lost” 1957 novel by Harper Lee—a sequel of sorts to her 1960...
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Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper

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Julie Cary Nerad
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 813–841.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-813
Published: 01 December 2003
...Julie Cary Nerad Duke University Press 2003 Julie Cary Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: Nerad The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper...
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Crossing Harpers Ferry: Liberal Education and John Brown's Corpus

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Evan Carton
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 837–863.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-837
Published: 01 December 2001
...Evan Carton Duke University Press 2002 Evan Crossing Harpers Ferry: Liberal Education and Carton John Brown’s Corpus On the afternoon of his capture at Harpers Ferry, John Brown lay on a bloody pallet in the arsenal paymaster’s office and conducted...
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Figure 1 Cover of Harper’s Weekly, July 29, 1865

Cover of Harper’s Weekly , July 29, 1865

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in Region, Capitalism, and the Jew in the Post- Tom Plantation Novel > American Literature
Published: 01 June 2019
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“Polluted Luxuries”: Consumer Resistance, the Senses of Horror, and Abolitionist Boycott Literature

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Jessica Conrad
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326379
Published: 01 March 2018
... introduced into the literary landscape a complicated view of what readers and writers increasingly saw as a suspect “free” market. Writers such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, and John Greenleaf Whittier imagined a world of goods haunted by the touch of enslaved laborers—goods...
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Harriet Jacobs among the Militants: Transformations in Abolition’s Public Sphere, 1859–61

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Caleb Smith
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 743–768.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901427
Published: 01 December 2012
... emphasizes reception rather than authorial intention to show how the militant abolitionist James Redpath and his journal, the Anglo-African , aligned Jacobs’s book with the legacy of Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. While Garrisonian pacifists like Child emphasized the moral influence of Jacobs’s testimony...
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“what Is Your Mother’s Name?”: Maternal Disavowal and the Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in Black Nationalist Literature

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Meina Yates-Richard
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 477–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650211
Published: 01 September 2016
... to audible traces of black maternity in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative , Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy (1892), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977), the essay unearths the sonic frameworks through which black male subjectivity and ideologies of black...
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Tapping the Wire: A Telegraphic Discourse

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Stefan Schöberlein
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533302
Published: 01 June 2016
..., and embodiedness to the gothic gloom of war and surveillance, finding its end in a subgenre of regressive telegraphic romances. Discussing short journal pieces from periodicals such as the Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s as well as more canonical texts (from Walt Whitman to Emily Dickinson), “Tapping the Wire...
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Publishing the Family; The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors

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Claudia Stokes
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 183–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-183
Published: 01 March 2003
... Elizabeth Jordan, editor of Harper’s Bazar (as it was then spelled), with an idea for a serialized novel composed of twelve installments, each authored by a different writer. As he conceived it, the novel would...
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Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife

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Valerie Sirenko
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345337
Published: 01 March 2023
...), Linda’s grandmother is sold despite being freed in her enslaver’s will. In Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy (1892), Iola is disinherited and sold into slavery after a white judge invalidates her father’s will and her mother’s emancipation papers and marriage license. In Charles Chesnutt’s Marrow...
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The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction

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Lynne Feeley
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 833–835.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811646
Published: 01 December 2014
... Reviews  835 If Murison depicts antebellum US literature as permeated by notions of nervousness, Williams delineates the great pains Frances E. W. Harper, Sut- ton Griggs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt took to describe class divisions within black communities...
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Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century American Tomboys, 1850–1915

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Allison S. Curseen
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 883–885.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917392
Published: 01 December 2019
...” the column upheld. For Wright, Bustill’s column, like Frances E. W. Harper’s 1888–89 novel Trial and Triumph (discussed in chapter 4), “promote[d] models of public citizenship that widened the boundaries of black female purposefulness” (94). As Wright’s reading of one 1880s conduct manual suggests (chapter...
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The Civil War Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White

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Timothy Sweet
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616247
Published: 01 September 2020
... complex case is the commemoration of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth and its famed assault on Fort Wagner. This commemoration took two poetic forms: songs (including Harper’s) for the African American soldiers and sonnets and odes on the white commander, Robert Gould Shaw. The former allowed for political...
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Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War

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Philip Gould
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 874.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-874
Published: 01 December 2000
...- der roles and cultural values. Ultimately, the language of maternity is used to encompass both slave mistresses and those they enslaved. In chapter 4, Patton turns her analysis to the novels of Frances Harper...
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The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South,1861-1865

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Kathleen Diffley
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 869–870.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-869
Published: 01 December 2003
...- diers were so ready to pose for Homer and a wood engraving in Harper’s Weekly (14 June 1862) they would subsequently see for themselves. Homer’s drawings, assembled by the Harper’s art department into a composite, melded...
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The Painting of Modern Light: Local Color Before Regionalism

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Jonathan David Shelly Schroeder
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 551–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717407
Published: 01 September 2014
.... 1906-1907 . Harper’s Novelettes . 8 vols . London : Harper and Brothers . Allen James Lane . 1886 . “ Local Color .” Critic , January 9 . Baldwin Charles Sears . 1904 . American Short Stories . New York : Longmans, Green . Barrish Phillip . 2011 . The Cambridge...
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The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-Modernism in the 1940s

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Timo Müller
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 253–273.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886115
Published: 01 June 2015
... to Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes , by Rollins Charlemae H. , 11 – 13 . Chicago : Rand McNally . ———. (1945) 1971 . “ Gay Chaps at the Bar .” In The World of Gwendolyn Brooks , 48 – 59 . New York : Harper and Row . Brown Sterling A. 1980 . The Collected Poems of Sterling...
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Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction

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Catherine A. John
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 873–874.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-873
Published: 01 December 2000
... to encompass both slave mistresses and those they enslaved. In chapter 4, Patton turns her analysis to the novels of Frances Harper and Pauline Hopkins, maintaining that both authors try to revise notions of ‘‘true...
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American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation

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Bernice L. Hausman
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 181–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-181
Published: 01 March 2003
... by Twelve Authors. By William Dean Howells et al. Dur- ham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. li, 341 pp. Paper, $18.95. In early 1906, William Dean Howells approached Elizabeth Jordan, editor of Harper’s Bazar...
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The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self

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Eric Ashley Hairston
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 431–433.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-431
Published: 01 June 2003
... about the development of these men’s political sensibilities. Allies from the late 1840s until Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, Smith, Douglass, McCune Smith, and Brown worked together to realize a pluralistic, tolerant...
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