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in Touching The Scarlet Letter : What Disability History Can Teach Us about Literature
> American Literature
Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 2 Title page of The Scarlet Letter (Howe Memorial Press, 1885). Description: An unadorned Boston Line Type title page. A double-line rectangle frames the print. Courtesy of the Perkins School for the Blind Archives
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 887–909.
Published: 01 December 2002
...Stephanie S. Turner Duke University Press 2002 Stephanie S. Jurassic Park Technology in the Bioinformatics
Turner Economy: How Cloning Narratives Negotiate the
Telos of DNA
The problem was that all known dinosaurs were fossils...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 517–538.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Celena E. Kusch Duke University Press 2002 Celena E. How the West Was One:
Kusch American Modernism’s Song of Itself
Still [Aziz] couldn’t quite fit in Afghans at Mau, and, find-
ing he was in a corner, made his horse rear again until he...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 458–460.
Published: 01 June 2003
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Christina Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became ‘‘Our Gang By
Chris Messenger. Albany: SUNY Press. 2002. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $75.50; paper...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 852–854.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Carol Farley Kessler 2005 Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere . By Kenneth M. Roemer. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2003. xiv, 295 pp. $39.95; Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia . By Sterling F. Delano. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 428 pp. $29.95...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Gretchen Murphy Duke University Press 2007 Gretchen How the Irish Became Japanese:
Murphy Winnifred Eaton’s Racial Reconstructions
in a Transnational Context
In Winnifred Eaton’s 1906 novel A Japanese Blossom,
American and Japanese...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Monika Barbara Siebert Surprisingly for a novel evidently invested in representations of contemporary Choctaw traditionalism as a viable alternative to settler society, LeAnne Howe's 2001 Shell Shaker gives unrelenting play to the gruesomeness, horror even, of the traditional rituals it depicts...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe. By Peter Y. Paik. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. 207 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 819–821.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jesse Alemán From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature . By Fuller Randall . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . x, 251 pp . $29.95 . The Literatures of the US-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity . By Rodríguez Jaime Javier...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 827–830.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Dean Rader How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse . By Newcomb John Timberman . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2012 . xi, 338 pp . $75.00 . Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry . By Marsh John...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 596–598.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Alan Nadel Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” . By Foley Barbara . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 386 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper , $29.95 . A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Kelly L. Bezio Abstract This essay establishes similarities between control over Black bodies’ movement under chattel slavery and social distancing measures employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its primary concern is how protecting public health necessitates undesired movement on the part...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... organizations create visual imagery to teach the public to imagine we can see and therefore avoid contaminants that are invisible to the naked eye. Comparison of COVID-19 with other global disease outbreaks shows how a core set of contagion media visualizations are repeatedly deployed with subtle adaptations...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 585–594.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... If you’re poor it’s a constant thing, everyday, everyday. In some ways it’s almost more constant than race . . . ” —Beverly Smith, “Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue” ( 1981 ) In response to the implicit inquiry driving this special issue—how does American literature understand...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 383–397.
Published: 01 September 2022
...: as “a discrete and singular category,” as apprehensible and governable (Goldstein 2018 : 83). This special issue is a call to reflect on interpretive approaches: to consider how the very attempt to govern people betrays the way poverty poses a problem not only for governance but also, by exuberant extension...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., somewhat surprisingly, involves the “Auto-Beatnik project of Librascope, a division of General Precision, Inc” (Garvin 1962 : 387). General Precision, Inc. was a company that specialized in aircraft navigation controls and did work for the US space program. How did a company researching aerospace...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 630–633.
Published: 01 September 2017
... privilege than those published during the war. The nurse memoir genre followed the general trend in Civil War literature noted by Fahs and others, with extensive publication through the 1860s, a comparative drought in the 1870s, and resurgence in a more conciliatory vein in the 1880s. How that general trend...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Lee Konstantinou American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street . By Rabinowitz Paula . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . 2014 . xv, 390 pp. Cloth , $29.95 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book available. Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity . By Roh...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 873–875.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Nancy McCabe Octavia E. Butler . By Gerry Canavan . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2016 . xvii, 225 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $22.00 ; e-book, $19.80 . How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production . By John K. Young . Iowa City...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 753–784.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Jordan Alexander Stein Abstract This essay establishes how the scholarly labors that brought Edward Taylor’s works to light in the 1930s foreclosed any understanding of them as queer. The absence of a queer critical reception history is this essay’s subject, and to trace that absence, it focuses...
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