...Melissa Gniadek This essay reads George Lippard’s ’Bel of Prairie Eden (1848), E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand (1859), and a moving panorama, The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley (ca. 1850), to show how the serial structures and temporalities of these particular...

... sensationalism? Eyes bulging, hair standing on end, often in flight from the persecutions of a malevolent (inevitably male) enemy, this figure predominates in the fiction of sensationalist writers such as George Lippard and Edgar Allan Poe, but he is also a mainstay of the seemingly limitless pro- duction...

...  American Literature Review: Franco, Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Litera- ture since 1969, 625–28. Review: Weingrad, American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States, 625–28. Gniadek, Melissa. “Seriality and Settlement: Southworth, Lippard...

... Deal” (86:1, 61–86); and to Melissa Gniadek, “Seriality and Settlement: Southworth, Lippard, and The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley” (86:1, 31–59). Members of the judging committee were Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University (chair); Russ Castronovo...

... confidence man as a publicly esteemed but privately cor- rupt businessman who operated with the regularity of clockwork. The central villain of George Lippard’s The Empire City (1850), for instance, is a pious businessman by day and a slumlord and procurer of prostitutes by night, whose secret...

... Moore Tarter Michele Lise , eds. 2001 . A Center of Wonders: The Body in Early America . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . Lippard George . ( 1845 ) 1995 . The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall , edited by Reynolds David S. . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press...

... in the United States than in Europe. The book explores two major types of female poisoners: the romantic poisoner, depicted by John Keats and Edgar Allan Poe, and the democratic poisoner, depicted by Nathaniel Hawthorne and George Lippard. Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd...

... reparation to the wounded and dead, but the material form of reparation—territory— offered what Frederick Jackson Turner would call “perennial rebirth” to the northeastern proletariat suffering in the manufacturing cities.57 George Lippard’s epigraph for his Legends of Mexico (1847)—Thomas Paine’s...

... examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Wil­ liam Dean Howells. Another strength of Preaching and the Rise of the Ameri- can Novel is its recovery of what Coleman calls the “half-forgotten...

... book’s greatest successes lies in her meticulous reading of early American sermon culture and the embodied practice of Protestant preaching. Coleman expands on her proposition in chapter-length examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville...

... examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Wil­ liam Dean Howells. Another strength of Preaching and the Rise of the Ameri- can Novel is its recovery of what Coleman calls the “half-forgotten...

... of the book’s greatest successes lies in her meticulous reading of early American sermon culture and the embodied practice of Protestant preaching. Coleman expands on her proposition in chapter-length examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne...

...-length examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Wil­ liam Dean Howells. Another strength of Preaching and the Rise of the Ameri- can Novel is its recovery of what Coleman calls the “half...

... of the book’s greatest successes lies in her meticulous reading of early American sermon culture and the embodied practice of Protestant preaching. Coleman expands on her proposition in chapter-length examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne...

...-length examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Wil­ liam Dean Howells. Another strength of Preaching and the Rise of the Ameri- can Novel is its recovery of what Coleman calls the “half...

... book’s greatest successes lies in her meticulous reading of early American sermon culture and the embodied practice of Protestant preaching. Coleman expands on her proposition in chapter-length examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville...

... book’s greatest successes lies in her meticulous reading of early American sermon culture and the embodied practice of Protestant preaching. Coleman expands on her proposition in chapter-length examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville...

...-length examina­ tions of the most well-known novels by George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Wil­ liam Dean Howells. Another strength of Preaching and the Rise of the Ameri- can Novel is its recovery of what Coleman calls the “half...

... came of age in the 1840s with the sensational city novels of George Lippard, who dedicated his 1845 bestseller The Quaker City to Brown). By giving thematic and analytical priority to the action nets in which moral responsibility is cast—that is, in which persons gain legibility as moral beings—Brown...