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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 647–650.
Published: 01 September 2018
...-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature . By Andrea Stone . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2016 . xiv, 238 pp. Cloth , $79.95 . Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death . By Courtney R. Baker . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois...
View articletitled, Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic Black Well-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature Humane <span class="search-highlight">Insight</span>: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death
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Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 93–120.
Published: 01 March 2025
... contestation of S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure with Mitchell’s writings, as well as the archival records of the WRTA’s innovative rest tour, reveals the roots of white women’s self-care practices and their biopolitical investments. We also gain insight into how white queer communities have long leveraged...
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Agonistic Audiences: Comic Play in the Early National Theater
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 429–455.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in excess of rational-critical public discourse. The comic mode has long been undertheorized in literary and cultural studies of the early United States, yet it holds key insight into the practices of both early national theater and early national politics. By way of example, I offer a comic reading...
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Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... insights into the rigid constraints upon acceptable disability presentation in this era, as well as the creative choices made by veterans who peddled literature in order to survive. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 disability mendicant Civil War life...
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“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”: Dictée ’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
... trespasses (2006) and Jai Arun Ravine’s แล้ว and then entwine (2011a). Thai American cultural production is uniquely situated to offer aesthetic insights into the history of US presence in Southeast Asia from the mid-twentieth century onward, which in Thailand took the form of allyship and soft power...
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Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
Published: 01 December 2022
... reading reveals the network of historically inflected obligations that can produce or intensify the expectation that reading should be pleasurable. This insight comes to view in the writing and reading practices of Samson Occom, late eighteenth-century Mohegan minister, theologian, and hymnodist...
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Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO
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American Literature 11792403.
Published: 07 March 2025
...Jennifer Rae Greeson Abstract This article proposes that Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of 1588 is the first initial public offering (IPO) in history and that understanding it as such provides new insight into how plantation capitalism and scientific method were conceptualized...
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Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition
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American Literature 11792419.
Published: 07 March 2025
...Kimberly Takahata Abstract In 1796, John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam was published in London, claiming new insights into the natural world of the colony. Although Stedman generated some reports of Suriname, many of his natural...
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Irving’s Columbus and Hemispheric American History
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 463–496.
Published: 01 September 2017
... comprised of nation-states with entangled nationalist rhetorics and narratives—including Columbus’s “discovery”—underwrites the biography’s unprecedented critiques of nationalist historiography. Examining the politics motivating this work offers new insights for discussions of the textual morphologies...
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Frances Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge, and the Politics of Interracial Collaboration
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that despite the rhetorical failures in both texts that ensue from Whipple's complicated race politics, contemporary scholars of American literature should not ignore the biographies' sociopolitical and economic underpinnings, as the latter provide crucial insights into the study of early African American...
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“My Childhood Is Ruined!”: Harper Lee and Racial Innocence
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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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“Like a Motherless Child”: Racial Education at the New York African Free School and in My Bondage and My Freedom
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 461–488.
Published: 01 September 2010
... performances of the NYAFS students offer insight into a set of overlapping cultural metaphors that structured black-white relations throughout the nineteenth century and beyond. The interaction between black students and white teachers anticipates the treatment that many early black abolitionists received from...
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Spirits of Emulation: Readers, Samplers, and the Republican Girl, 1787–1810
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2009
... imitative and derivative aesthetics with sympathy and intersubjectivity, the essay argues that texts created by and for young women can offer critical insight into the twinned processes of individuation and deindividuation at the heart of “republican” theories of the subject. That is, it contends...
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The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Visualizations of the “Indian” in Black, White, and Native Educational Contexts
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 509–545.
Published: 01 September 2011
... educational ideology. By elucidating how the image of the “Indian” functions as a shifting signifier in these photos, this essay offers insight into how educational institutions for black, white, and native students taught them to acquire different subject positions in the process of adopting U.S. citizenship...
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COVID-19: Pandemic Reading
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 681–688.
Published: 01 December 2020
... began to adjust to the dark realization of the uncertainty we were living through, we sought illumination from the insights of the scholarly work in which we are engaged. We imagined this forum as a place where scholars in the field of American literary and cultural studies could begin to engage in new...
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Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 395–397.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype . By Dinius Marcy J. . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2012 . 308 pp. Cloth , $49.95 ; e-book, $49.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 For at least the past two decades, literary scholars have used insights from...
View articletitled, Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype
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Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 336–338.
Published: 01 June 2021
... with the ‘material’ vectors of understanding that existed alongside the semantic vectors of a text” (197). A lofty goal, and one that yields interesting and surprising insights. Both are strong examples of interdisciplinary research pulling together an admixture of cultural studies, games studies, digital media...
View articletitled, Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life
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East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post–Civil Rights Era Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2017
... into an argumentative whole. Although the book is primarily concerned with notions of masculinity, the first sustained exploration of gender does not appear until chapter 2’s discussion of Asian athletes Ichiro Suzuki and Yao Ming. The opening chapter on the Asian American writing movement offers keen insights...
View articletitled, East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post–Civil Rights Era Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 881–884.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and moral upper hand” (135). Van Engen illuminates Rowlandson’s efforts to discipline her sympathy, as “fellow-feeling with the wrong people could threaten one’s identity,” offering insight into the denunciations of Praying Indians that punctuate her narrative. Indeed, he argues, “sympathy, once invoked...
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 (2020) 92 (2): 394–397.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., $ 45.00 ; e-book, $ 45.00 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 How can the insights of the new modernist studies invigorate American literary studies and vice versa? Three recent books employ interdisciplinary methodologies to produce striking new understandings of both modernism...
View articletitled, Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America
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