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Jim Crow Pragmatism: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and the Legal Logic of Race

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Hannah Wells
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 301–330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533314
Published: 01 June 2016
...Hannah Wells Abstract In The Common Law (1881), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote famously, “the life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” This essay turns to this seminal work of American legal pragmatism to reconsider the stakes of pragmatism for contemporary studies of race...
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Figure 1 “Nervous Function,” diagram from Holmes’s anatomy lecture notebook, 1852. Courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

“Nervous Function,” diagram from Holmes’s anatomy lecture notebook, 1852. C...

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Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 1 “Nervous Function,” diagram from Holmes’s anatomy lecture notebook, 1852. Courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine More
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A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma: Narratives of Bodily Healing from 1860s America

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Shari Goldberg
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917284
Published: 01 December 2019
...Figure 1 “Nervous Function,” diagram from Holmes’s anatomy lecture notebook, 1852. Courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine ...
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The Marriage Trap in the Free-Love Novel and Queer Critique

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Holly Jackson
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 681–708.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329554
Published: 01 December 2015
... Lyndon (1855), Marie Howland's Papa's Own Girl (1874), and Lizzie Holmes's Hagar Lyndon (1893; published under the pen name May Huntley). In their denunciation of marriage and their investment in alternative forms of kinship, intimacy, and sociality, these novels suggest an important and overlooked...
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American Literary Realism and Nervous “Reflexion”

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Randall Knoper
American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 715–745.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-715
Published: 01 December 2002
... Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Holmes, a kind of protorealist novelist as well as a profes- sor of physiology, had the most full-fledged ideas about literary cre- ation as ‘‘reflex action of the brain 2 And his writing and ideas clearly influenced Twain and Howells. The latter two...
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The Novelist as Organic Intellectual: William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy , Reconsidered

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David Lawrimore
American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 695–721.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711090
Published: 01 December 2016
... of the lovers—Reverend Holmes, his daughter-in-law Mrs. Holmes, and Mr. Worthy—educate a young mother, Mrs. Bourn, in proper reading habits for her teenage daughter. Reverend Holmes dominates the conversation, offering a laundry list of arguments against novels that parallel criticisms by Timothy Dwight, Noah...
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The African American Experience in Crime Fiction: A Critical Study The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

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Paul Grimstad
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 898–900.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257964
Published: 01 December 2017
... needling repartee with the Parisian police in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” to Sherlock Holmes’s insinuating banter with Lestrade, Hercule Poirot’s passive-aggressive one-upmanship with Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard, hard-boiled Sam Spade’s agon with the district attorney in The Maltese...
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The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana

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Tony Trigilio
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 878–880.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437315
Published: 01 December 2011
...Tony Trigilio The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana . By Tietchen Todd F. . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2010 . xiii, 194 pp. $29.95 . Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation . By Charters Ann Charters Samuel...
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Our South: Geographical Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature

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Suzanne W. Jones
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 859–861.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437243
Published: 01 December 2011
... 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters...
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Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America

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Ben Railton
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 861–863.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437252
Published: 01 December 2011
... 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters...
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Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market

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Leonard Cassuto
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 863–866.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437261
Published: 01 December 2011
... Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2010. xvi, 441 pp. $35.00. Both...
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Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

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Sean Metzger
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 866–868.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437270
Published: 01 December 2011
... 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters...
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Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture

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Martyn Bone
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 868–870.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437279
Published: 01 December 2011
... 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters...
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War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861–1914

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Karsten H. Piep
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 871–873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437288
Published: 01 December 2011
... Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2010. xvi, 441 pp. $35.00. Both...
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Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture

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Ann Keniston
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 873–875.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437297
Published: 01 December 2011
... 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters...
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Embattled Home Fronts: Domestic Politics and the American Novel of World War I

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Kathleen McClancy
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 875–877.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437306
Published: 01 December 2011
... 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters...
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Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

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Kevin J. White
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 880–882.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437324
Published: 01 December 2011
... 878 American Literature The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters...
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Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies

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Anne Gulick
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 882–884.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437333
Published: 01 December 2011
... Havana. By Todd F. Tietchen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2010. xiii, 194 pp. $29.95. Brother-­Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation. By Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2010. xvi, 441 pp. $35.00. Both...
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Resonant Presence: Legal Narratives and Literary Space in the Poetry of Early Chinese Immigrants

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Peter Kvidera
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 511–539.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-511
Published: 01 September 2005
...,oneofthe last significant cases addressing Chinese exclusion, relies on equally strict interpretations of Chinese legal personhood. Even more force- fully than Chae Chan Ping and Fong Yue Ting, the decision written 520 American Literature by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Sing Tuck debilitated...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 687–701.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-687
Published: 01 September 2002
.... Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation. By Peter Gibian. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001. xi, 398 pp. $74.95. Uniting his activities in diverse spheres is Holmes’s captivation with, and apti- tude for, conversation. Gibian begins by situating the importance of conversa...
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