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“My Childhood Is Ruined!”: Harper Lee and Racial Innocence
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 597–626.
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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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 813–841.
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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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 837–863.
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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“Polluted Luxuries”: Consumer Resistance, the Senses of Horror, and Abolitionist Boycott Literature
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
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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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 743–768.
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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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 477–507.
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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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
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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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 183–185.
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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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 1–28.
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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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 833–835.
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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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 883–885.
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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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.
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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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 874.
Published: 01 December 2000
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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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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 869–870.
Published: 01 December 2003
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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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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 551–581.
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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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 253–273.
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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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 873–874.
Published: 01 December 2000
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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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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 181–183.
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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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 431–433.
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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