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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 660–662.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Joshua Logan Wall The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Jeanne Heuving . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2016 . xv, 240 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature . By Naomi...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Jean M. Lutes © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Love and Marriage in Early African America . Ed. Frances Smith Foster. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press. 2008. xxvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. Reading Marriage in the American Romance: Remembering Love as Destiny...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 639–640.
Published: 01 September 2000
... 633 of us came to love: Dickinson with the long dashes strutting arrogantly across the page. By 1981, however, when R. W. Franklin published The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, it began to seem...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 879.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Juliana Spahr By Nina Miller. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 292 pp. Paper,$19.95. 2000 Book Reviews 879 Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 896–897.
Published: 01 December 2000
... no shortage, however, of alternative places to go on that issue. Allan Langdale, University of California, Santa Cruz Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice. By Andrew Ross. New York: New York Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 198–201.
Published: 01 March 2011
... America. By David Anthony. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. xii, 225 pp. $43.95. Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction. By Axel Nissen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. x, 229 pp. $45.00. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Dona Yarbrough Duke University Press 2003 Dona A Queer Form of Trauma: Yarbrough Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 125 of 246 The destruction of records and memorabilia...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 339–366.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Norman W. Jones Duke University Press 2004 Norman W. Coming Out through History’s Hidden Love Jones Letters in Absalom, Absalom! At a Faulkner conference not long ago, a scholar posed the question, ‘‘Why Absalom, Absalom!? Why do we keep return- ing...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 651–652.
Published: 01 September 2001
...)—and in Wharton’s love letters to Morton Fullerton. Chapter 4 focuses on two more stories, ‘‘April Showers’’ (1900) and ‘‘Expiation’’ (1904), as critiques of sen- timental excess in Fast and Loose. Chapter 5, ‘‘The Triumphant Plasticity of The House of Mirth describes Wharton’s first masterpiece as a novel...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 596–598.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Alan Nadel Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” . By Foley Barbara . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 386 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper , $29.95 . A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 681–708.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Holly Jackson This essay aims to restore the vital intellectual and political movement of free love to the study of American literature and culture, offering a brief overview of its major currents and analyzing three examples from a neglected archive of free-love novels, Mary Gove Nichols's Mary...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 207–209.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Jennifer A. . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2014 . 232 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $26.95 ; web PDF , $26.95 . The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories . By Weisser Susan Ostrov . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2013 . xiii , 235 pp. Cloth , $80.00...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 849–851.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Stephanie A. Smith © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 . By Karen Woods Weierman. x, 214 pp. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $34.95. Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 826–828.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Jeannine Marie DeLombard Duke University Press 2007 The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence . By Susan M. Ryan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 237 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 219–250.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Susan Scheckel Duke University Press 2002 Susan Home on the Train: Race and Mobility in Scheckel The Life and Adventures of Nat Love [I]t would be terrible not to be able to suppose that you are as yet but an instalment, a current number...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 638–640.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Shirley Samuels The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion . By Stokes Claudia . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2014 . 281 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; e-book, $59.95 . Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 509–540.
Published: 01 September 2016
... has already made. Kelli Larson ( 2007 , 90) argues that Mrs. Adis’s son Tom has remained loyal to his n’er-do-well childhood friend (aptly named Crouch) because Tom “lives the Christian edict to love one’s neighbors as oneself.” Larson claims that Mrs. Adis protects the culprit out of Christian...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 123–149.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of a mouse and Richard Wright’s rat killing in Native Son (1940b) to a young Maud Martha’s focus on the self-liberation of a nonhuman primate, this essay’s titular loved gorilla, we see the possibility of affirming African American and animal affiliations within segregation literature and black literary...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
Published: 01 June 2012
... . By Knutson Andrea . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . ix, 200 pp. $65.00 . Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination . By Barnes Elizabeth . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2011 . vii, 211 pp. $49.95 . Revolutionary Deists...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Heather Love © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature . By Mitchell Breitwieser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 322 pp. $60.00. Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth...