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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 (2012) 84 (3): 533–561.
Published: 01 September 2012
... histories in which sign talk played a significant role. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Kay The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk
Yandell Autobiography and Pretty-shield, Medicine
Woman of the Crows
Over several cold and windy days in March...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and transdisciplinary vision of anachronism that provides for a fruitful analysis” of earlier times “precisely because it defamiliarizes narrative histories” that, in this study, separate modern disciplines like medicine and literature (12). 4 At the end of the twentieth century, medical institutions began...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 39 , no. 2 : 173 – 97 . Berlant Jeffrey Lionel . 1975 . Profession and Monopoly: A Study of Medicine in the United States and Great Britain . Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press . Blake Clarence J. 1898 . “ The Citizen...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 629–654.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Grounding of Modern Medicine .” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88 , no. 1 : 1 – 47 . Weingarten Karen . 2014 . Abortion in the American Imagination, Before Life and Choice, 1880–1940 . New Brunswick : Rutgers Univ. Press . ...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and feminist studies, not to mention the confusing array of disability studies, history of medicine, health and medical humanities, and bioethics . . . But bear in mind, dear reader: you must journey through reading literature to get there. ...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
... into the Natural History of Medicine among the Indians in North-America . Philadelphia : Joseph Crukshank . ———. 1981 . Benjamin Rush’s Lectures on the Mind . Edited by Carlson Eric T. Wollock Jeffrey L. Noel Patricia S. . Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society . Smith-Rosenberg...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... suffering at the level of the family and positions healthiness as the responsibility of the individual, skirts both the troubled history of race and genomics as well as the limits of precision medicine to date. While Obama’s postracial “we” in part marks the royal “we” ( pluralis majestatis...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Stephen Knadler “Unsanitized Domestic Allegories” begins the work of recovering the complex history linking Progressive-Era biomedicalization, gender expectations, and ideologies of racial uplift within African American culture. Through a close reading of early-twentieth-century African American...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 891–894.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the Twain family illnesses is interlaced with an
engaging history of nineteenth-century medicine and Twain’s writings about
the topic. In addition to his meticulous research on Twain’s life and writings,
Ober brings the scientific and psychological knowledge of a medical professor
who has thought about...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of the Plantationocene. Turning to the historical revolutionary figure of François Makandal, the essay explores alternative knowledge systems that help us to understand modes of human-environmental connection, semiotics of relation, and text networks of literature and oral history. These alternative ways of knowing...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
Published: 01 December 2012
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Fabre, Cara. Review: Hames-García, identity complex: Making the Case for
Multiplicity, 894–96.
Review: Obourn, Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism
and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature, 894–96.
Ferraro, Tom. Review: Marcus and Sollors, eds., A New Literary History...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 777–806.
Published: 01 December 2004
... medicine’s domination and consolidation of its authority in
the late nineteenth century. These new corporeal management prac-
tices unmoor suffering from the narrow berth of pain as liberal indi-
vidualism comes to expect a more easeful life and less uncertainty
about the fate and management of the body...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . Dowling William C. 2006 . Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table . Hanover, NH : Univ. Press of New England . Felman Shoshana , and Laub Dori . 1991 . Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 833–835.
Published: 01 December 2014
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Dividing Lines. Given Murison’s focus on discourses of the nervous system in
nineteenth-century medicine and literature, one might initially puzzle over
her decision to name her book The Politics of Anxiety rather than The Poli-
tics of Nervousness, but anxiety turns out to be central to Murison’s...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 527–554.
Published: 01 September 2008
... account, see Norman Howard-
Jones, “A Critical Study of the Origins and Early Development of Hypo-
dermic Medication,” Journal of the History of Medicine 2 (spring 1947):
201–49.
20 According to Silas Weir Mitchell, “insatiate commerce” had compro-
mised mental...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 887–889.
Published: 01 December 2004
... sight: a brilliant intellectual with an uncanny ability
to stake out tactical positions on the racial politics of his day that left him
blindsided by history and forced to reassess.
The watershed moment for the slave-born Tubman and the free-born De-
lany came in South Carolina during the Civil...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of evolution following the Civil War (Couser and Mintz 2019 : xli). 5 As foundational disability studies scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ( 1997 : 35) puts it, “Perhaps the most enduring form of segregation [for disabled people] has been economic: the history of begging is nearly synonymous...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 881–884.
Published: 01 December 2017
... as an intellectual and literary historian, and suggests that his “convictions that ideas shape the course of history and that the study of literature allows readers to reconstruct that otherwise irrecoverable influence” are “out of favor among some scholars of American literature and culture” (4). Sharing with Van...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Crane’s Toys .” American Literary History 7 , no. 3 : 443 – 76 . Brown Gillian . 2003 . “ Child’s Play .” In The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader , edited by Levander Caroline F. and Singley Carol J. , 13 – 39 . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press...
