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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 555–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Betsy Klimasmith This essay reads Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) not as an escapist response to the First World War but, in its exploration of modern scientific and philosophical conceptions of time and memory as articulated by Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson, an exploration...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Katy Ryan Ryan's essay analyzes the coordination of the innocence argument and sentimentality in Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's The Exonerated (2003), a documentary play based on interviews with people sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. The play's composition, performance...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Allison S. Curseen Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Bernstein Robin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . 318 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.00 . Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 597–626.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Katherine Henninger Abstract This essay uses insights from Southern and childhood studies—particularly Robin Bernstein’s performative theories of racial innocence—to analyze Lee’s newly complicated contributions to understanding US racial histories. I argue that where To Kill a Mockingbird (1960...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 886–888.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Robert McParland F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction: “An Almost Theatrical Innocence” . By John T. Irwin Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2014 . x, 233 pp. Cloth, $42.95 . F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene . By Ronald Berman . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association . By Gray Jonathan W. . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2013 . ix , 164 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $30.00 . Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 215–216.
Published: 01 March 2001
... scholarship throughout its eight chap- ters and, in an extended epilogue, suggests exciting analogues with rap music and comic books. Ira Dworkin, City University of New York Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence. By James R. Giles. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
... University Press 2022 poverty childhood photography realism The lingering nineteenth century moment when the cult of childhood blossomed in literature and the visual media [was defined by] the innocent eye in search of the innocent subject. —Patricia Holland, Picturing Childhood (2004: 8–9...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 March 2003
... shattered myths of childhood innocence yet bear traces of a romantic sensi- bility. Informed by Freudian psychology, James’s fictions register both con- scious and unconscious awareness of the sexual self. Maisie—vigorous, full...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 387–412.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of the Innocents (1991)— texts by non–Central American U.S. Latinas—are among the first U.S. Latina literary texts to provide accounts of the immigration of Cen- tral American women to the United States and to propose a textual...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
...: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States . Athens : Ohio Univ. Press . Bernstein Robin . 2011 . Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights . New York : New York Univ. Press . Brown Bill . “ Thing Theory .” Critical Inquiry...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 691–719.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., but Mather’s commentary on the passage reveals tensions between guilt and innocence in relation to consent and constraint, which were at the heart of Puritan law and the literature supporting it. The episode in Judges, Mather’s commentary, and criminal narratives each reveal a deep engagement with the issue...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 883–885.
Published: 01 December 2019
... publics. Wright’s attention to themes of respectability, womanhood, and prematurely denied innocence are all the more salient in conversation with Sentilles’s American Tomboys, 1850–1915 . Sentilles traces the tomboy figure through the rise of a US modernity marked by rapid geographic, economic...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 March 2013
.../00029831-1959607 Book Reviews  193 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. 318 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Adopting America: Childhood...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the world. Sarah Schiff, Georgia Institute of Technology DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959607 Book Reviews  193 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2013
.../00029831-1959607 Book Reviews  193 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. 318 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Adopting America: Childhood...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 195–197.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the world. Sarah Schiff, Georgia Institute of Technology DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959607 Book Reviews  193 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the world. Sarah Schiff, Georgia Institute of Technology DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959607 Book Reviews  193 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in ways that do not simply justify our own ways of see- ing the world. Sarah Schiff, Georgia Institute of Technology DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959607 Book Reviews  193 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 202–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the world. Sarah Schiff, Georgia Institute of Technology DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959607 Book Reviews  193 Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Robin Bernstein. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011...