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Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Amardeep Singh Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire . By Abravanel Genevieve . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 206 pp. $65.00 . Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism . By White Eric B...
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The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception,1905-1920
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 164–165.
Published: 01 March 2002
... to an otherwise convinc-
ing and compelling book. Shedding so much light on sources that have re-
ceived so little attention, Writing Indians helps us to more thoroughly appreci-
ate the lives of Native Americans who lived in an exciting but troubling time
in American history.
Scott Andrews, California State...
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Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s; Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity; Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 854–856.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Sarah Eden Schiff Duke University Press 2007 Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s . By Janet Handler Burstein. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2006. xv, 264 pp. $45.00. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity . By Ross Posnock...
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Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne's “The Little Room” and Elia Wilkinson Peattie's “The House That Was Not”
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 501–525.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Duke University Press 2007 Jeffrey Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne’s
Andrew “The Little Room” and Elia Wilkinson Peattie’s
Weinstock “The House That Was Not”
Most ghost stories revolve around the apparition...
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Little Brothers of the Rich: Queer Families in the Gilded Age
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 701–724.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2007 Stephanie Little Brothers of the Rich:
Foote Queer Families in the Gilded Age
Elizabeth Drexel Lehr’s “King Lehr” and the Gilded
Age (1935) took its title from the name gossip columnists had given
her husband...
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Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 1. “Mr. Rabbit Fell Kerthump.” Frontispiece by Oliver Herford from Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There (Harris 1894 ).
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“Little Eva Converting Topsy,” featuring Topsy in red coral necklace, litho...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 June 2019
Figure 6 “Little Eva Converting Topsy,” featuring Topsy in red coral necklace, lithograph created between 1880 and 1930, likely from earlier print. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
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The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture; Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 648–651.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Arthur L. Little, Jr. By David Bergman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xviii, 304 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. By Roderick A. Ferguson. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. x,175 pp. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $18.95. 2005 Book Reviews
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The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk Autobiography and Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 533–561.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the sign language to scout for General George Armstrong Custer at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn; Pretty Shield’s account of the sign language in this battle additionally provides a rare and understudied interpretation of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and of the larger American frontier...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 243–269.
Published: 01 June 2010
.... These token stories revolve around dying child “saints,” of whom Stowe's character Eva is one iteration. Upon death, these ideal children leave a powerful emotional memory that can transform incorrigible children into eager students. As the example of Mary Martha Sherwood's The History of Little Henry and His...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
... leaders face little resistance from faculty in perpetuating the current funding system? In part this is because faculty mistakenly believe that their own interests are served by the current system. In fact, Newfield shows, the current funding model also creates inequities in research funding that have...
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Changing the Subject: Adrienne Rich and the Poetics of Activist Pedagogy
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2017
... sought to redistribute institutional power and resources. Although Rich’s poetry and essays have been widely praised for their contributions to feminism, little attention has been paid to the way she changed her life course, moving from Columbia to City College, to participate in one of the most...
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“The General Practice of the Nation”: Walt Whitman, Language, and Computerized Search in the Nineteenth-Century Archive
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 447–475.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Jeffrey M. Binder Abstract Word-search technologies have played a significant role in literary scholarship for decades, yet they have received little attention from literary theorists. This paper considers how we might more thoughtfully approach the use of search in navigating cultural material...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 647–675.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Jeffrey H. Richards David Humphreys's 1790 play, The Widow of Malabar , has been little studied, but it demonstrates surprising complexity as a cultural artifact of the American new republic. Written as a close adaptation of Antoine-Marin Lemierre's La Veuve du Malabar (1770), Humphreys's version...
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Inventing Queer: Portals, Hauntings, and Other Fantastic Tricks in the Collected Folklore of Joel Chandler Harris and Charles Chesnutt
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Figure 1. “Mr. Rabbit Fell Kerthump.” Frontispiece by Oliver Herford from Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There (Harris 1894 ). ...
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The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Leila Mansouri Abstract This essay examines how a literary genre called the character sketch shaped the ways Americans came to understand electoral representation as representative. Now little known but central to eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century literary culture in the US and Britain...
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Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
... structures depend on racialized distributions of affections. In the concluding portion of this essay, I turn to the “little buckskin pouch” containing Alfred’s miniature and consider how its resemblance to Afro-Atlantic folk charms recasts the racialized binaries traditionally advanced by miniature portraits...
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Hard-Boiled Literary History: Labor and Style in Fictions of the Culture Industry
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Chandler’s The Little Sister (1949), Budd Schulberg’s What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), and Frederic Wakeman’s The Hucksters (1946), describe the intellectual labor of producing the commodities on which the industry subsisted, while at the same time struggling to identify and preserve regions of culture as yet...
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A Poetics of Dissociability: Poetry and Punk in Los Angeles, 1976–83
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 183–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Coast in orientation: the so-called punk poets of LA, who are the subject of this article, revered the New York school poetry of John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, and Joe Brainard but also idolized downtown punks like Patti Smith. Focusing in particular on Dennis Cooper, his punk poetry periodical, Little...
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“The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 407–438.
Published: 01 June 2018
... comparatively little attention. By focusing on the grassroots context of DTWOF , this essay demonstrates how Bechdel’s participation in grassroots periodicals shaped her work. Through the development of new reading practices and the notion of queer comics archives, I show how queer communities influenced...
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