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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 192–195.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Jennifer Gurley © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics . By Larry J. Reynolds. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2008. xix, 313 pp. $55.00. The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 623–625.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Hugh Egan © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Melville: The Making of the Poet . By Hershel Parker. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2008. x, 238 pp. $32.95. Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation . Ed. Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter. Chapel...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 June 2005
... American Literature
for other readers, and both constitute labors of love for the authors they
engage.
Nina Baym, University of Illinois at Urbana
Monumental Melville: The Formation of a Literary Career. By Edgar A. Dryden.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 230 pp. $49.50.
So...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Jeffrey Hole As works which had similarly evoked slave-ship revolt as topics for their prose fictions in the mid-1850s, Douglass’s The Heroic Slave and Melville’s Benito Cereno , Hole’s essay argues, offer noticeably distinct aesthetic, rhetorical, and stylistic presentations of slave rebellion...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 404–407.
Published: 01 June 2013
... and Culture . By Fenton Elizabeth . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xi, 178 pp. $65.00 . Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois . By Stewart Carole Lynn . Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 842–844.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Sean McCann © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America . By Sarah Wadsworth. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2006. viii, 278 pp. Paper, $24.95. Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 305–332.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Christopher Hager In a standard narrative of Herman Melville's career, the author's initial tendency toward cultural nationalism—most famously displayed in his 1850 essay “Hawthorne and His Mosses”—gave way during the early 1850s to political misgivings and increasingly dark novels. The Democratic...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Carpenter. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press.
2007. x, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95.
The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Haw-
thorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman. By Les Harrison. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Ala-
bama Press. 2007. xxv, 272 pp. $42.50...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2008
...: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity . By Robin Miskolcze. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2008. xxii, 220 pp. $45.00. “Whole Oceans Away”: Melville and the Pacific . Ed. Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 350 pp. $65.00...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 668–670.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Whitman, and Herman Melville
register the narrowing range of authorial expression. Albion Tourgée, Henry
James, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt show how hard it
is to write freely about race after the Civil War, not only because of outright
oppression and market coercion...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
Published: 01 September 2017
... culture normalized the possession and display of feelings. The antebellum writings of author Herman Melville are hardly alone in demonstrating apathy’s hermeneutic and aesthetic uses; they nevertheless suggest a concentrated encounter with apathy, given how the author thematically foregrounds unfeeling...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., masculinist styles of thinking, given their concerns with autonomy, enclosed spaces, and mise en abyme. Our ongoing critical thickets. American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville . By Paul Hurh . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2015 . xi, 298 pp. Cloth, $60.00...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 607–609.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Wyn Kelley “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen . By Schell Jennifer . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2013 . xiv , 262 pp. Cloth, $80.00 ; paper, $28.95 . Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Sean X. Goudie The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion . By Gruesser John Cullen . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2012 . viii, 159 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book, $22.95 . Melville and the Idea...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 643–644.
Published: 01 September 2002
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Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival. By Clare L.
Spark. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2001. x, 730 pp. $55.00.
In Hunting Captain Ahab, Clare Spark replicates Ahab’s obsession as she pur-
sues the psychology and politics behind the Melville revival of the early...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Deak Nabers Duke University Press 2003 Deak ‘‘Victory of LAW Melville and Reconstruction
Nabers
6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 5 of 252 In his famous ‘‘Supplement’’ to Battle-Pieces...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 423–424.
Published: 01 June 2000
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Melville’s fiction in light of postcolonial theories, primarily Homi Bhaba’s re-
flections on mimicry. Focusing on Typee, Moby-Dick, and ‘‘Benito Cereno
Sanborn argues that Melville treated cannibalism not as a collection of em...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. Obsession with
‘‘origins’’ and ‘‘transcendental wordplay’’ among such a motley group compli-
cates our very definitions of transcendentalism and romanticism. West con-
siders Thoreau ‘‘a witty moralist, satirist, and social critic and he declares...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 59–87.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Sarah Wilson Duke University Press 2004 Sarah Melville and the Architecture of
Wilson Antebellum Masculinity
The sphere of Herman Melville’s work has, not
unreasonably, been understood as masculine.1 Iusesphere advisedly
here, for it alludes...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., and the environmental humanities—and considering cultural artifacts from Smith’s tracts and Herman Melville’s fiction to Cheryl Savageau’s poetry and the underwater sculpture of Jason deCaires Taylor—the essay reads the commodification and consumption of these creatures as constitutive elements of an extinction...
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