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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2015
...John Ernest To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class . By Ball Erica L. . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2012 . xv , 175 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 394–396.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Frank Donoghue Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Literary Scholarship . By Anesko Michael . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2012 . xvi , 248 pp. $35.00 . Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 866–868.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., Tennessee Technical University
America’s Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre.By
Kristie Hamilton. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 1998. xiii, 190 pp. $29.95.
Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-
Century America. By Mary Louise Kete...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 835–838.
Published: 01 December 2007
... in the Great Depression . By Susan Currell. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 235 pp. $39.95. The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work . By Andrew Hoberek. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. x, 158 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 414–416.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Thomas W. Devine © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s . By James Gilbert. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...
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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 (2020) 92 (2): 387–390.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Ryanson Alessandro Ku The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade . By Kendall A. Johnson . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2017 . x, 371 pp. Cloth, $ 64.95 ; e-book, $ 64.95 . East-West Exchange and Late Modernism: Williams, Moore, Pound...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 463–465.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Nancy McCabe The American Essay in the American Century . By Stuckey-French Ned . Columbia : Univ. of Missouri Press . 2011 . xiv, 256 pp. $60.00 . Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans . By Aubry Timothy . Iowa City : Univ...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Paul Giles Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry . By Quinn Justin . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . x, 218 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; e-book available. After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East . By Edwards Brian T. . New...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 680–682.
Published: 01 September 2002
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about working- and middle-class bodies engaged in urban industrialization
and insurgent labor politics. And we discover that frontier myths were re-
written not only in the 1970s genre of the western (as Hall might say) but
also in the language used to represent the feminized lunar ‘‘frontier’’ after...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 677–705.
Published: 01 December 2008
... no place either in the atomizing political geography of Indian policy or the hybridized critical imaginary of the “middle ground.” © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Mark Documenting Tradition:
Rifkin Territoriality and Textuality in
Black Hawk’s Narrative...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 547–570.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to the vexed proximity of the Middle East and the United States, proposing that we explore the broader archive of immigrant Americanism that subtends, but also redefines, the terms of American hegemony. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Swati The Production of Nativity in
Rana...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in order to conceal the regressive barbarisms of racist violence, a violence understood as the resilient legacy of convulsive, psychoaffective white supremacy; as a conspiratorial compromise between a reunited North and South; or as a response to the rise of an African American middle-class in the wake...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 137–157.
Published: 01 March 2015
... surveys contemporary fictions of alternate history, particularly Philip Roth’s The Plot against America ( 2004 ). The essay contends that historical fantasy offers a particular mode of engagement with the past—one that steers a middle course between nationalist chauvinism and revisionist debunking. ©...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 301–329.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Blackness in the critical genealogy of modern neurodiversity, which has largely been associated with recent movements to recognize people with autism or ADHD and has focused on the middle-class white child. Through an examination of Pauline Hopkins’s essay series for the Colored American Magazine , “Famous...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Laura Soderberg Abstract The turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century marked a time of intensified data collection in the United States focused especially on childhood. This article explores how two children’s narratives, Francis La Flesche’s The Middle Five (1900) and Francis Rolt...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
Published: 01 September 2017
...David Faflik Abstract This essay makes a pair of interrelated claims about apathy. One of these is literary-historical, the other critical-literary. During the turbulent middle decades of the nineteenth century, a number of US writers resorted to the emotionless state of apathy even as the wider...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
... improvisation on the iconography of black vernacular life. In the middle of this cacophony of frantic chant and scream, Baraka posits silence, and not speech, as the condition of black cultural distinctiveness. In doing so, he presents a vision of black vernacular culture that does not privilege orality...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 229–255.
Published: 01 June 2020
... predicament of middle-class complicity in social arrangements that entail the widespread suffering of others. I provide a summary of theoretical positions on liberal guilt as a structure of feeling that entails what Richard Rorty calls “doubt about [one’s] own sensitivity to the pain and humiliation of others...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to a “winner-take-all” labor market with a few superstar earners and many struggling unknowns. Both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick used their respective versions of The Shining to describe the conditions of the 1970s media industries. Each told the story of a would-be middle-class writer grappling...
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