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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 894–897.
Published: 01 December 2004
.... Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture.By Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. 422 pp. $44.95. Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region.By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2002...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Etsuko Taketani Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Tricksters and Cosmopolitans and East-West Literary Imagination reflect on obscured cross-cultural connections in the histories and geographies of literary productions that span the globe. Both Magosaki and Hakutani identify...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 372–376.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Kenyon Gradert The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction . By Jeffrey Einboden . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xv, 216 pp. Cloth, $ 87.00 ; e-book available. Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Kelly Wisecup Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War . By Lisa Brooks . New Haven : Yale Univ. Press . 2018 . xv, 431 pp. Cloth, $35.00 ; paper, $22.00 . Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 . By Angela Calcaterra...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Sonya Posmentier The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism . By Moya Paula M. L. . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 206 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book available. Race and the Literary Encounter: Black...
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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 (2003) 75 (4): 888–890.
Published: 01 December 2003
... The White African American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration. By Charles D. Martin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 221. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $22.00. Passing and the Rise...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 890–892.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Mixed Race Literature. Ed. Jonathan Brennan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 234 pp. Paper, $21.95. Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nine...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2004
...’’ (74). Emerson articulated his ideal of the scholar or public intellectual in explicitly transnational terms. And rather than being regarded as exceptionally American, Buell argues, Emer- son should be read in the transatlantic company of ‘‘the Victorian sages . . . who also turned to literary...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 June 2004
...’’ (74). Emerson articulated his ideal of the scholar or public intellectual in explicitly transnational terms. And rather than being regarded as exceptionally American, Buell argues, Emer- son should be read in the transatlantic company of ‘‘the Victorian sages . . . who also turned to literary...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 407–409.
Published: 01 June 2004
...’’ (74). Emerson articulated his ideal of the scholar or public intellectual in explicitly transnational terms. And rather than being regarded as exceptionally American, Buell argues, Emer- son should be read in the transatlantic company of ‘‘the Victorian sages . . . who also turned to literary...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 617–619.
Published: 01 September 2004
... argue for the importance of previously overlooked fac- tors for subject formation and early nationalism in the new republic. Seeking to (re)introduce the concepts of gender and monarchism into the equation, Bloch and Downes rely on readings of literary and legal texts as well as other eighteenth...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 871–886.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Claire F. Fox Duke University Press 2004 Claire F. Comparative Literary Studies of the Americas Fox Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar ‘‘Zeta’’ Acosta, Ana Cas- tillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie. By Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin: Univ...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... In The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe, Scott Peeples canvasses and arranges hun- dreds of critical responses to Poe as they have been developed within vari- ous schools of literary criticism. Cavell’s book is utterly idiosyncratic, while Peeples works in a familiar compendium format designed for classroom use...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 March 2005
... ‘‘professing per- formance desiring ‘‘to place the vocabularies, goals, assumptions, and ob- jects of inquiry of various critical schools in conversation with each other’’ (3)—those of rhetoricians, literary critics, sociologists, anthropologists, and students and practitioners of theater. Her six chapters...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 511–539.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Peter Kvidera Duke University Press 2005 Peter Resonant Presence: Kvidera Legal Narratives and Literary Space in the Poetry of Early Chinese Immigrants Etched into a barracks wall of San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island Immigration Station...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship. By Nathaniel Lewis. Lin- coln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 297 pp. $49.95. In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830–1930. By Joel Daehnke. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2003...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 850–852.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Renée Bergland 2005 Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America . By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. x, 305 pp. $55.00; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 864–867.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Megan Sweeney 2005 Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice . By Michael Hames-García. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. lii, 352 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Hildegard Hoeller A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism. By John Dudley. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. viii, 222 pp. $35.00. Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. By Jennifer L. Fleissner. Chicago: Univ...