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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2004
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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...
View articletitled, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, <span class="search-highlight">History</span>, and the American Civil War; Mark Twain and <span class="search-highlight">Medicine</span>: “Any Mummery Will Cure”
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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...
View articletitled, The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk Autobiography and Pretty-shield, <span class="search-highlight">Medicine</span> Woman of the Crows
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 629–654.
Published: 01 December 2021
... , no. 3 : 507 – 25 . Warner John . 2014 . “ The Fielding H. Garrison Lecture: The Aesthetic 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...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... 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 ) of a single state official, he also invokes the author’s “we,” in this case the “we” of the American...
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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...
View articletitled, The Sticky Web of Medical Professionalism: Robert Herrick’s The Web of Life and the Political Economy of Health Care at the Turn of the Century
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American Literature 11845230.
Published: 07 March 2025
... the predisciplinarity of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the interdisciplinarity of the eighteenth and nineteenth, these scholars have examined recognizably scienti c discourses such as natural history, medicine, astronomy, and mineralogy, as well as ones we would regard today as theological, occult...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Disease on the Map: The Early Use of Spot Maps in the Study of Yellow Fever .” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 20 , no. 3 : 226 – 61 . Stowe Harriet Beecher . 2000 . Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp . Edited by Levine Robert S. . Chapel Hill : Univ...
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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...
View articletitled, Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States; Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry,1800-1900
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... Press . Adler-Bolton Beatrice , and Vierkant Artie . 2022 . Health Communism . New York : Verso . Alberti Fay Bound . 2010 . Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Altschuler Sari . 2018 . The Medical Imagination...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
... and interpreting it, and the essay concludes by suggesting that by bringing into focus the process of perceiving another’s pain, the study of portraiture offers an important complement to both the field of narrative medicine and health humanities approaches to studying visual art. Importantly, such images...
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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
..., before the history of trauma is generally understood to begin, American writers imagined the healing of mental suffering in ways that undermine both of these suppositions. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s 1867 The Guardian Angel represents a woman whose mental condition resembles the dissociation later...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 June 2024
... on the failures of medical knowing during the early pandemic, see my (Altschuler’s) “Learning from Crisis: Narrative and the History of Medicine” ( 2020 ). See Charles E. Rosenberg’s The Cholera Years ( 1962 ) for the definitive study of how pandemics challenge and remake medical knowledge. 6 In all...
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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 (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 (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...
View articletitled, Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by marginalized subjects, such as their task of communicating personal history across divides of social position, their economic function situates them in a distinct relationship to the society that produced them. 7 The particular relationship in the mendicant narrative between material circumstances...
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