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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 835–837.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Keith Byerman © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States . By Christopher L. Hill. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2004
...-
liams’s Dessa Rose, J. California Cooper’s Family,LoreneCary’sThe Price of a
Child, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Mitchell focuses on black female agency
and freedom and challenges readings that position slavery’s history at the cen-
ter of the black female ‘‘self
At the heart of The Freedom...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 660–661.
Published: 01 September 2000
....
Jerome D. DeNuccio, Graceland University
The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. By Christoph
Irmscher. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 1999. xvii, 354 pp. $42.00...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 217–243.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of print in this period was at times incommensurate with the values and practices of Native historiography. Through an analysis of Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827), Radus argues that Cusick, a Tuscarora historian, used various rhetorical and narrative techniques to alter...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 June 2020
... with the black power movement—precisely the kind of change-heralding activity that virtually defined various 1960s social movements. In History Comes Alive , Rymsza-Pawlowska’s fascinating study, the foundational premise is that such present- and future-oriented social energy dissipated in the 1970s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
Published: 01 March 2019
... literature, and cross-cultural, multilingual, and transnational approaches (7). Tellingly, the anxiety staged by this revisionary move, which coarticulates Jewish American literary history with a vocabulary and ethics of marginalization, repeats the formative history of the professional field. The trope...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kevin Modestino Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy . By Mark Rebecca . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2014 . xiii, 300 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 . America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jordan Alexander Stein © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America . Ed. Thomas A. Foster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 405 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Gay Artists in Modern American Culture...
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in The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War
> American Literature
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1 Portrait of Thyra J. Edwards. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-062478
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in Hawthorne’s Distillery: Time and Temperance in “The Birth-Mark” And Other Tales
> American Literature
Published: 01 December 2016
Figure 2 Illustration from George B. Cheever’s The Dream; or, The True History of Deacon Giles’ Distillery and Deacon Jones’ Brewery ( 1848 ), originally published in 1835 as Inquire at Amos Giles’ Distillery . Made available by the Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection.
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 899–901.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Indian Ways of History. By Peter Nabokov. New York:
Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. x, 246 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00.
While House’s and Nabokov’s books raise issues of importance to Native
American...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2004
... within liberal consensus. Emerson’s life, once read as the story of a
radical idealist’s growth toward serene confidence in history as progress, was
retold as a decline into cosmic Whiggery. This last has been the conventional
wisdom for some time. Three books have now appeared on the two-hundredth...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 407–409.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of ritualistic
dissent within liberal consensus. Emerson’s life, once read as the story of a
radical idealist’s growth toward serene confidence in history as progress, was
retold as a decline into cosmic Whiggery. This last has been the conventional
wisdom for some time. Three books have now appeared...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 291–317.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Claudia Stokes Duke University Press 2005 Claudia Copyrighting American History:
Stokes International Copyright and the
Periodization of the Nineteenth Century
With the publication in 1930 of the third and final
volume of his Main Currents...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2004
...
resourcefulness of this indomitable ex-slave.
Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi
Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War. By Lisa A. Long.
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 344 pp. $49.95.
Mark Twain and Medicine: ‘‘Any Mummery Will Cure By K. Patrick Ober...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of Modernity. By John
Timberman Newcomb. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxix, 296 pp. Cloth,
$74.95; paper, $22.95; CD, $9.95.
Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada. By Amelia Jones.
Cambridge: MIT Press. 2004. ix, 334 pp. $39.95.
Being modern has never been easy...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 666–667.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Called Africans (1833), which speaks
to these very issues of race and national identity, is not.
Because ‘‘the literary history of the intersections between race and nation
in antebellum America has important resonances for contemporary debates
about national identity’’ (11) and, as Gardner writes...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 603–618.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Sharon M. Harris Duke University Press 2002 Sharon M. ‘‘A New Era in Female History
Harris Ninteenth-Century U.S. Women Writers
The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature. By Marianne Noble. Prince-
ton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2000. 240 pp. Cloth, $57.50...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2002
... and surprising juxtaposition char-
acteristic of a book that denies nationalist distinctions, Bach follows up with
a discussion of John Smith’s Generall Historie, which, she shows, joins that
colonial enterprise by rewriting his earlier account of a Native American
women’s dance as a Jonsonian masque. Bach’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of inquiry to include secular
history and culture. This secular-nonsecular distinction that plagues much of
theological discourse and literary criticism is an intricate one that Connor
negotiates effectively. Finally, she shows us how the religious potency of the
slave narrative tradition extends beyond...
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