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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 315–344.
Published: 01 June 2002
...C. Leiren Mower Duke University Press 2002 C. Leiren Bodies in Labor: Sole Proprietorship and the
Mower Labor of Conduct in The Coquette
The human body came under increased scrutiny
during the Enlightenment as natural scientists attempted to apply...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 255–278.
Published: 01 June 2017
... open access and have operated in opposition to hierarchically controlled content distribution and educational systems. Both analog and digital forms of open-access woman of color pedagogy promote the free circulation of knowledge and call attention to the literary and social labor of networked...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 753–779.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Martyn Bone Duke University Press 2007 Martyn The (Extended) South of Black Folk:
Bone Intraregional and Transnational Migrant Labor
in Jonah’s Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were
Watching God
Times have changed for Zora...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2001
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figures to a problematic national history and consciousness.
Lisa M. Logan, University of Central Florida
The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Re-
public. By Laura Rigal. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 253 pp.
$32.50.
At first glance...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 263–292.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Elisabeth Ceppi Duke University Press 2006 Elisabeth Invisible Labor:
Ceppi Puritan Servitude and the Demonic
Possession of Elizabeth Knapp
And who can tell, what ye Servant of the Lord, who was as
a Dead man, almost forty...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 843–845.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Jodi Melamed Duke University Press 2007 The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor . By Grace Kyungwon Hong. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxxiv, 190 pp. Cloth, $58.50; paper, $19.50. Incorporations: Race...
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in War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1 Perham Wilhelm Nahl’s lithograph The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules . Created for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, this poster was selected as the exposition’s official image. 100 Years: Panama–Pacific International Exposition 1915–2015 (website)
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Will Norman Abstract In this article I argue for a new understanding of the term hard-boiled by tracing the relationship between literary style and historical shifts in intellectual labor in the mid-twentieth-century United States. Novels representing the culture industry, such as Raymond...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 473–499.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Rebecca N. Liu Abstract This article examines the central role that the work contract plays in the production and reproduction of Asian diasporic worlds. In light of the history of Asian indentured contract labor in the Americas, the article proposes that the “Asian American contract” emerges...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2011
... and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2009. vii, 210 pp. $24.95. Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor. By Adam Tuchinsky. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2010. xv, 312 pp. $59.95. Book Reviews
Beyond Douglass: New...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 898–900.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Press . 2015 . xi, 208 pp. Cloth , $59.50 ; paper, $24.50 ; e-book, $24.50 . Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction . By Robinson M. Michelle . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; e-book available...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 809–812.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of sympathy in the antebellum era: indeed, they remind us that sympathy had a (class) politics” (29, original emphasis). In Archives of Labor , Lori Merish shows the importance of working women—factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers—even prostitutes—as vital contributors to literary culture...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Kimberly Lamm © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing. By Daneen Wardrop. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2009. xii, 246 pp. $30.00. Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion...
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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 (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... Tracing the Cotton Farmer ’s hemispheric circulation from the Mississippi delta to Panama, this essay explores the intersections of labor, literacy, and diaspora in the global black south. What do we make of a reading public among black tenant farmers on a corporate cotton plantation in the Mississippi...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 June 2023
... developments. As Atanasoski and Vora explain, “The technoliberal desire to resolutely see technology as magical rather than the product of human work relies on the liberal notion of labor as that performed by the recognizably human autonomous subject, and not those obscured labors supporting it” (6...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2016
... as an antislavery document. Douglass pointed out that the fugitive
slave clause never mentions slaves or slavery but instead refers only to those
who might be “held to Service or Labor.” Phan quotes Douglass’s reply to crit-
ics who asked who were those “held to Service or Labor,” if not slaves? Dou-
glass...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 219–244.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of a Slave Girl by herself. The second section of the article leaves Whitman and Thayer and Eldridge behind to follow Jacobs on her postpublication book tour—a prolonged circuit of literary labor Whitman did not have to take on himself (because his publishers did it for him). Jacobs’s efforts in these years...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 151–177.
Published: 01 March 2005
... as an income-generating beauty
industry.8 By foregrounding her working agency, Potter subordinates
racialized concerns and recasts the exploitation of African American
women’s labor. It is her unapologetic refusal to depict herself as a vic-
tim of racial and sexual domination in the antebellum United...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 767–797.
Published: 01 December 2014
... labor, technologically concretized, finds its demand for justice depicted through the retelling of an industrial disaster. Focusing on technology’s both literal and figural sources of social transmission, Rukeyser’s poem redirects our attention from assured Communist redemption toward more transitional...
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