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Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years

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Victor Strandberg
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 186–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-186
Published: 01 March 2005
..., slighted, or failed to recognize, Lystra claims, is the significance of Jean Clemens’s involuntary incarceration for sev- eral years in a sanitarium toward the end of her father’s life, thanks to the machinations of Isabel Lyon, Twain’s private secretary. Lyon first won her boss’s absolute trust...
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Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity; From Girl to Woman: American Women's Coming-of-Age Narratives

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Richard S. Lowry
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 184–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-184
Published: 01 March 2005
... of Isabel Lyon, Twain’s private secretary. Lyon first won her boss’s absolute trust and dependence over a seven-year period by becoming totally subservient to his every wish and whimsy. Midway through this time period, she convinced both Jean and her father that seclusion in the sanitar- ium was the only...
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Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England; Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History; X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent

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Mark Rifkin
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 449–451.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266135
Published: 01 June 2011
...: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent . By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible. By Robert...
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Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible; Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction; Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible

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Claudia Stokes
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 443–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266117
Published: 01 June 2011
.... By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space of the exception, as that which negatively defines what counts as “modern,” and these three studies all contribute in different ways to tracing how Indians have been subjected...
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Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism; American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman; Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy

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Marianne Noble
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 446–448.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266126
Published: 01 June 2011
.... 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space of the exception, as that which negatively defines what counts as “modern,” and these three studies all contribute...
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The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism; Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing

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Michael Soto
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 451–453.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266144
Published: 01 June 2011
... and Livelihood in Native American History. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space of the exception...
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Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945; Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation

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Katie McKee
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 454–456.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266153
Published: 01 June 2011
... Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space...
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Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963; Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature

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Stephanie LeMenager
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 456–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266162
Published: 01 June 2011
... and Livelihood in Native American History. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space of the exception...
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Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze; Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic

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Anne Gulick
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 458–460.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266171
Published: 01 June 2011
... Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space...
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Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South; Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War; Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives

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Patricia E. Chu
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 461–463.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266180
Published: 01 June 2011
.... 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space of the exception, as that which negatively defines what counts as “modern,” and these three studies all contribute...
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Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance; Writing Indian, Native Conversations; Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective

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Elizabeth Archuleta
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 463–466.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266189
Published: 01 June 2011
.... By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space of the exception, as that which negatively defines what counts as “modern,” and these three studies all contribute in different ways to tracing how Indians have been subjected...
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From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts; Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now; Poetic Acts and New Media

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Lisa Swanstrom
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 466–468.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266198
Published: 01 June 2011
.... 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space of the exception, as that which negatively defines what counts as “modern,” and these three studies all contribute...
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The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction; The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University

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Victor Bascara
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 468–471.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266207
Published: 01 June 2011
... Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space...
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Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel; American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives

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Elisabeth Anker
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 471–474.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266216
Published: 01 June 2011
... and Livelihood in Native American History. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95. X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50. Indians inhabit the space of the exception...
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On the Make: Truman Capote, Seriality, and the Performance of Celebrity

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Ben Bolling
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 569–595.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650247
Published: 01 September 2016
... to hardboiled New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons, who inserts himself into the event at every turn as a choreographer of history. Capote writes, “Lyons had gone so far as to discuss with the cast the kind of action he would like. He wanted them to traipse around Brest Litovsk singing spirituals. ‘It’s...
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Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project

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Sarah Rivett
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329542
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . Lyons Scott Richard . 2010 . “There's No Translation for It.” In Cross-Language Relations in Composition , edited by Horner Bruce Lu Min-Zhan Matsuda Paul Kei , 127 – 41 . Carbondale : Southern Illinois Univ. Press . Miller Charles...
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Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze

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Sylvie Boulette
American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10679209
Published: 01 September 2023
...: the disappearance of Native peoples. In its diffusion across the Northern Plains from the 1890s forward, Peyote’s lines of transport carried enduring affinities with the same wave of “pan-Indian cultural resistance” to US assimilationism that, Scott Richard Lyons (Ojibwe/Dakota) ( 2010 : 63) argues, coalesced...
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Counterfeit Detectors: The Literary Origins of the US Secret Service

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Todd Barosky
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 65–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597513
Published: 01 March 2025
... utility. And the fact that banknotes could be readily counterfeited undercut their claim to be reliable repositories of value. Unlike the aristocratic bankers, Lyman Parkes is represented laboring over his engravings like a latter-day Pat Lyon at his forge. 5 Biddle, in a desperate attempt to capture...
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Printing Native History in David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations

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Daniel M. Radus
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 217–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646910
Published: 01 June 2014
... Univ. Press . Lyons Scott Richard . 2010 . X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . McGill Meredith L. 2003 . American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . McKenney...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 607–614.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2334158
Published: 01 September 2013
... generally. Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation. Edited by Stephen Collis and Graham Lyons. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2012. xxii, 272 pp. Paper, $45.00. Positioning Duncan’s derivative poetics as a political view of poetry, as an approach to the common...
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