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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 821–824.
Published: 01 December 2013
... : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . x, 239 pp . $65.00 . Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussion of Mass Media, “Moby-Dick,” Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Timothy Sweet The Civil War Dead and American Modernity . By Ian Finseth . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2018 . x, 286 pp. Cloth, $69.00 ; e-book available. Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War . By Eliza Richards . Philadelphia : Univ...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 863–866.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Immersive Words: Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893 . By Shelly Jarenski . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2015 . 233 pp. Cloth, $54.95 ; e-book, $54.95 . Artistic Liberties: American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880–1905 . By Adam...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 159–186.
Published: 01 March 2015
... republication can help ground such claims in praxis. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 poetry September 11 politics mass media Habermas References Amichai Yehuda . 1986 . “ God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children .” In The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai , 1 . Translated...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2019
... operates” (246). Seltzer’s key concept is not feeling (or affect) but system (or mass media system). This report on “a self-reporting world” (1) and argument that “a modern world comes to itself by staging its own conditions” (6) engages most intensively with Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 629–636.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., commerce, poli- tics, art, science, and the discourses of race, sex, and history in America. Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation. By Quentin J. Schultze. East Lansing: Michigan State Univ. Press. 2003. viii, 440 pp. $84.95. Schultze outlines five concepts...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 624–627.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-based cultural production, these books provide complementary and richly textured perspectives on print cul- ture, literature, folklore, performance, music, and mass media. Moreover, all Book Reviews  625 are concerned with distinct phases...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2005
... less use.) These are slim pickings, and Newcomb’s method doesn’t help. Rather than follow an individual artist, Newcomb examines how various writers repre- sent particular modern themes such as mass media, urbanization, and colonial wars. Newcomb is unconcerned with formal changes in the poetry...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 June 2007
... in recent criticism has been to document the important role that advertising played in American culture at this time and to track James’s response to it. A common assumption is that James’s concern about the negative impact of the mass media—a concern perhaps most famously documented...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 March 2019
...-mediated experience. If this is true—and I think it is—then ongoing critical attempts to grasp that experience must reexamine, with fewer misguided assumptions, the historical emergence of mass media genres like advice to the lovelorn. To that end, I juxtapose West’s brutal, brilliant riff...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 143–175.
Published: 01 March 2007
... by the mass media or the truisms to which high culture sometimes retreats. In an era when the national culture is dangerously attracted to simplicity—to belief in simple ideas of good and evil empires, in simple solutions for even the most complicated social or environmental problems, or, within...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 315–345.
Published: 01 June 2018
... to “less an identity than an ongoing effort of divestiture, a practice of undoing” (Berlant and Edelman 2014 , 19) by playfully coopting highbrow cultural narratives in conversation with his Nancy appropriations. Brainard’s infusion of mass media and the pictorial comic form into his work challenges...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 901–903.
Published: 01 December 2004
... for an analysis of violence in the United States up through 1920. It examines the necessarily simultaneous emergence of the modern mass media and terrorism as a spectacle for the masses, covering a range of examples including labor disputes, sabotage, lynchings, anarchist calls to revolution, and state...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 615–628.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and American literature, which are rarely put in the same sentence except, of course, as opposites. “New media,” stemming from “mass media,” carries with it connotations of entertainment, quick communication, and ephemeral information—that is, something other than litera- ture, which implies ineffable...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 June 2013
... that frames Nancy’s crime, how- ever; Temple’s very act of confession evinces an indeterminate bound- ary between private and public produced in part by the rise of prying media and the mass-consumer publics they generate and serve. Requi- em’s confession scenes invest themselves in a notion of private...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 845–862.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, 821–24. Review: Modern, Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and their Metaphors; Featuring Dis- cussion of Mass Media, Moby-Dick, Spirituality...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 899–901.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of Terrorism is a tightly focused work of literary and cultural history that takes the 1886 Haymarket bombing as the starting point for an analysis of violence in the United States up through 1920. It examines the necessarily simultaneous emergence of the modern mass media and terrorism as a spectacle...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 911–913.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of figurations of human programmability are a dreadfully overlooked component of mainstream US literary and mass media culture that have helped shape the United States’ conception of itself (often in quite pernicious ways)—offering novel and necessary critical purchase on the irresolvable paradoxes that still...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 169–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and restaurant signs, Speedy Gonzales, and the Hollywood film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre . The next chapter—on nativist uses of Aztlán in the mass media—is the most astute in the book. Still, the fact that the Aztlán story is a 1960s political construct complicates today’s anti-immigrant narratives...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
... performers were being winnowed out. Rosen traced the origin of the superstar to the expanding audience of mass media—of television, publishing, radio, and cinema (Rosen 1981 , 846, 857). Rosen’s paper suggests that some people deserved to make more money because their incomes were what these new markets...
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