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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
... alongside Rebecca Harding Davis’s tale of tragic artistic labor, “Life in the Iron Mills.” Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 aesthetic regime romantic authorship genius copyright intellectual labor author compensation Jacques Rancière In his extended and alluring discussions...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 887–889.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Adam Gussow By Jean M. Humez. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2003. xii, 471 pp.$45.00. By Tunde Adeleke. Jackson: Univ. of Mississippi Press. 2003. xxxiii, 274 pp. $42.00. 2004 Book Reviews Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories. By Jean M. Humez. Madison: Univ...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of temporal and sensorial animacy created in the episodic narration of The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian (1920), the life story of a Ho-Chunk man named Sam Blowsnake. Apprehended by settler governance as a “craze,” anti-assimilationist currents of the Peyote movement met with intensifying attempts...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... challenges to scholars studying life writing from the perspectives of US literary studies, disability studies, and poverty studies. While mendicant narratives’ ambiguous authorship and departures from the truth trouble expectations of authentic and resistant self-representation, these elements offer new...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 419.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Paul Baender By Everett Emerson. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. xiii,386 pp. $34.95. 2001 Book Reviews 419 Mark Twain, A Literary Life. By Everett Emerson...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 866–868.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., Tennessee Technical University America’s Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre.By Kristie Hamilton. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 1998. xiii, 190 pp. $29.95. Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth- Century America. By Mary Louise Kete...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 882–884.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 199 pp. $27.95. Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life . By William L. Van Deburg. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. xiv, 283 pp. $29.00. Book Reviews New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Rafael Pérez-Torres Duke University Press 2006 Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders . By Héctor Calderón. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2004. 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Life in Search of Readers: Reading...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America . By Angela Vietto. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2005. ix, 147 pp. $89.95. Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic . By Mary Kelley. Chapel Hill: Univ...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 425–427.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Kwakiutl L. Dreher © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death . By Laura E. Tanner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $19.95. Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2010
...John Hellmann © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam . By William V. Spanos. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2008. xx, 321 pp. Cloth, $89.50; paper, $29.95. Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Phillip Barrish Robert Herrick’s novel The Web of Life (1900), a self-proclaimed work of literary realism, opens a critical window onto an urban “web” of intersecting practices, institutions, and professional formations at a moment when key dimensions of the US health-care system as we know...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Tyler Nickl Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . By Schuyler David . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 206 pp. $29.95 . Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition . By Sachs Aaron . New...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 844–847.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., as an Asian American. By Min Hyoung Song. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2013. 284 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95; e-book, $23.95. Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life. By Yoon Sun Lee. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2013. ix, 226 pp. Cloth, $78.00; e-book available...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 828–830.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Jennifer Greeson Duke University Press 2007 Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South . By Catherine Kerrison. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xiii, 265 pp. $49.95. American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 . By Melissa J...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ed White The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture . By Gardner Jared . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2012 . xiv , 205 pp. $50.00 . The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin . By Anderson Douglas . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2012 . xiv...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Davis’s 1861 novella Life in the Iron Mills presents an apposite case study for the constitutive relation of art and politics in the nineteenth-century American context. The text’s efforts culminate in its central figure: the korl woman statue carved by Hugh Wolf out of the waste material...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 838–840.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Koritha Mitchell Duke University Press 2007 Lynching in the West, 1850-1935 . By Ken Gonzales-Day. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 299 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature . By Jacqueline Goldsby. Chicago...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 855–858.
Published: 01 December 2016
... offers a model of “social and somatic incorporation” that undercuts the Lockean conceit of self-possession and individual determination (70), when and how do models of exuberant collectivity delimit, rather than enable, desirable forms of political change? Geoff Hamilton’s The Life and Undeath...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 863–865.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Fustec’s work, he would certainly agree with some of her animating premises: “[These] religious books illuminate nonliterary ways of reading that assume that literature and life are connected and that the right kind of reading can inspire the faithful to build a better world” (3). Perhaps Le Fustec would...