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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Susan Kurjiaka By Susan M. Stabile. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 284 pp.$34.95. By Janet Gray. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. viii, 324 pp.$44.95. 2005 Book Reviews
Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century
America...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2006
...William Scott Duke University Press 2006 William Material Resistance and the Agency of
Scott the Body in Ann Petry’s The Street
Like Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright’s Native
Son, Lutie Johnson, the protagonist of Ann Petry’s first novel, The
Street...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 867–869.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Bob Perelman 2005 Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy . By Marjorie Perloff. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xxxiv, 307 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95; The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics . By Barrett Watten. Middletown, Conn...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Dean Franco Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America . By Koltun-Fromm Ken . Bloomington : Univ. of Indiana Press . 2010 . xi , 342 pp. Paper , $28.00 ; e-book , $22.90 . Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness . By Myers Helene...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 641–644.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Marcia Klotz; Lee Medovoi The Insistence of the Material . By Breu Christopher . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2014 . x, 264 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 617–619.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Lauren Coats Duke University Press 2006 Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination . By Bridget T. Heneghan. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003. xxvii, 204 pp. $45.00. Abolition's Public Sphere . By Robert Fanuzzi. Minneapolis: Univ...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 411–413.
Published: 01 June 2002
... attends to the mechanisms by which ideas and tropes are circulated, thus
specifying and making material the traditional literary topics of influence and
intertextuality.
Rebecca Ann Bach’s Colonial Transformations proposes an important re-
organization of knowledge, claiming not just transatlantic...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 June 2004
... in the South and in the slave narrative as a genre.
McGill’s study begins with her gaze turned firmly away from the traditional
materials of literary history, examining in her first two chapters Wheaton v.
Peters, the first Supreme Court copyright decision, and petitions to Congress
from publishers...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 March 2005
...
Houchin describes are observable in our time and will be well into the future,
as long as drama remains an important cultural force.
D. Quentin Miller, Suffolk University
A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater. By David Savran.
Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2003. xii...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 629–660.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Craig Carey Reveling in the language and logic of markup thrown into relief by digital media, Carey’s essay calls for a renewed scholarly focus on the material histories of markup encoded in literary and cultural history. The essay relocates Ambrose Bierce’s stylistic operations at the intersection...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2015
... scholarship’s investment in the unresolved (and perhaps unresolvable) questions of inanimate agency raised by such works was gradually eclipsed by other concerns. Recently, however, a vigorous interest in such metaphysical questions has resurfaced in the discourse of new materialism, an interdisciplinary...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 815–817.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Andrew Epstein Postmodernism in Pieces: Materializing the Social in U.S. Fiction . By Matthew Mullins . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 230 pp. Cloth, $87.00 ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. Lyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 384–387.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Christopher Breu The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous . By Erin E. Edwards . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2018 . xii, 227 pp. Cloth, $ 108.00 ; paper, $ 27.00 . Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 253–279.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Mark Noble Noble's essay examines Walt Whitman's investment in an often radical materialization of subjectivity, which both underlies his earliest claims to reinvent embodied experience and brings his poetic project to crisis. In the 1855 Leaves , Whitman's enthusiasm for the popular science of his...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jane F. Thrailkill © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism . By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Univ. Press. 2001. 237 pp. $52.50.
Three new books in colonial studies present new constellations of texts by
breaking down conventional national and generic boundaries. Each in its own
way attends to the mechanisms by which ideas and tropes are circulated, thus
specifying and making material...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 467–494.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Paul Gilmore Duke University 2004 Paul Romantic Electricity, or the
Gilmore Materiality of Aesthetics
Perhaps the central problem for contemporary crit-
ics who address aesthetics is defining exactly what we mean by the
term. In addition to the abundance...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 727–759.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Katie McGettigan Abstract This article uses Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s experience in the transatlantic literary market to analyze how British publishers constructed antebellum American literature as a cultural commodity and an aesthetically valuable tradition through their material texts...
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Published: 01 September 2019
Figure 5 This demonstrates Courtin’s practice of adding content to the left margin with a star in the margin and in the text indicating where the added material should be inserted. Courtesy of Les Archives Nationales d’Outre Mer
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., particularly during the material processes involved in a document’s creation and execution. Focusing on law’s materiality, this article uncovers an understudied literary vein in which Black authors represent documents as materially fragile and vulnerable to destruction in order to theorize law as a series...
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