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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

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Kelly Wisecup
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616211
Published: 01 September 2020
... Modernity and Its Other , an English translation of the first, French-language edition published in 2008, reads British and French travel narratives, poems, novels, captivity narratives, and natural historical texts to examine how modernity—defined for Sayre as a capitalist economic structure—emerged...
View articletitled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century View PDF for article titled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
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The Civil War Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White

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Timothy Sweet
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616247
Published: 01 September 2020
..., the national imaginary, as manifest in four “epistemic ‘predicaments’” of modernity that map onto four categories of media (21). Eyewitness observations recorded in diaries and letters searched for an authentic understanding of death but found this understanding inevitably mediated. The war’s multimedia visual...
View articletitled, The Civil War Dead and American <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White View PDF for article titled, The Civil War Dead and American <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White
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Ethnic Modernism; Modernism, Race, and Manifestos; Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development

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Daniel Chaskes
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 852–854.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-055
Published: 01 December 2009
...Daniel Chaskes © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ethnic Modernism . By Werner Sollors. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 324 pp. Paper, $18.95. Modernism, Race, and Manifestos . By Laura Winkiel. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2008. x, 242 pp. $99.00...
View articletitled, Ethnic <span class="search-highlight">Modernism</span>; <span class="search-highlight">Modernism</span>, Race, and Manifestos; Apostles of <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>: American Writers in the Age of Development View PDF for article titled, Ethnic <span class="search-highlight">Modernism</span>; <span class="search-highlight">Modernism</span>, Race, and Manifestos; Apostles of <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>: American Writers in the Age of Development
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Globalizing the U.S. South: Modernity and Modernism

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John T. Matthews
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 719–722.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-4-719
Published: 01 December 2006
... to assessing the relevance to and future of postcolonial theory in studies of the South, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Indiana University, Bloomington Jon Smith The Rhetoric of Uneven Modernization: Hybrid Cultures in ‘‘The South’’ No idea has influenced...
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Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality; Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

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Stephanie A. Smith
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-074
Published: 01 March 2011
...Stephanie A. Smith © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality. By Valerie Rohy. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2009. xvi, 178 pp. $70.00. Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century...
View articletitled, Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality; Archives of American Time: Literature and <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> in the Nineteenth Century View PDF for article titled, Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality; Archives of American Time: Literature and <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> in the Nineteenth Century
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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
...Anne Gulick Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze . By Maria Cristina Fumagalli. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2009. x, 198 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $22.50. Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic . By Heather Russell. Athens: Univ...
View articletitled, Caribbean Perspectives on <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>: Returning Medusa&#x27;s Gaze; Legba&#x27;s Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic View PDF for article titled, Caribbean Perspectives on <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>: Returning Medusa&#x27;s Gaze; Legba&#x27;s Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic
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Plantation Modernity: Gone with the Wind and Irish-Southern Culture

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Amy Clukey
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 505–530.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079305
Published: 01 September 2013
... to be a defiantly local literary expression, it is in fact a product of the global socioeconomic and cultural matrix of what Clukey calls plantation modernity . In this essay, Clukey seeks to move past cultural similarities between Ireland and the South in order to establish the Anglo-Irish big house...
View articletitled, Plantation <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>: Gone with the Wind and Irish-Southern Culture View PDF for article titled, Plantation <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>: Gone with the Wind and Irish-Southern Culture
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A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

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Stefanie K. Dunning
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994943
Published: 01 September 2018
... this critique of queer theory by arguing not only that the field has failed to analyze its own racial unconscious but that gay modernity is dependent on “brown bodies” to constitute itself. Pérez writes, “I propose a longstanding synergy among capital, whiteness, and homoerotic nationalism” (16). The extent...
View articletitled, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis View PDF for article titled, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
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Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700–1900 Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity

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Deanna P. Koretsky
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 387–389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886175
Published: 01 June 2015
... in Atlantic Modernity . By Lilley James D. . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2014 . ix , 239 pp. Cloth , $45.00 ; e-book , $33.99 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700–1900. By Susan Manning. Cambridge, UK...
View articletitled, Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700–1900 Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> View PDF for article titled, Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700–1900 Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>
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The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature the Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde

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Jeanne Heuving
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 618–622.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149477
Published: 01 September 2015
...Jeanne Heuving The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly . By McCaffery Steve . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2012 . xii , 282 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry . By Reddy...
View articletitled, The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly Changing Subjects: Digressions in <span class="search-highlight">Modern</span> American Poetry A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature the Zukofsky Era: <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>, Margins, and the Avant-Garde View PDF for article titled, The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly Changing Subjects: Digressions in <span class="search-highlight">Modern</span> American Poetry A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature the Zukofsky Era: <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>, Margins, and the Avant-Garde
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Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation

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Stephanie Foote
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 615–618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-026
Published: 01 September 2007
... pp. $39.50. Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation . By Robert Jackson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. x, 174 pp. $44.95. Book Reviews Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making...
View articletitled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>, Dissidence, Innovation View PDF for article titled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>, Dissidence, Innovation
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Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson

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Michael J. Hoffman
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 207–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-207
Published: 01 March 2000
... of the book, even as he notes challenges to the book’s ontological status. The remainder of his study is a series of related considerations of Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer and Brackenridge’s Modern Chivalry.The...
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Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity

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David Tomkins
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 402–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079215
Published: 01 June 2013
...–1893 . By Noonan Mark J. . Kent, OH : Kent State Univ. Press . 2010 . xix, 235 pp. $65.00 . Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity . By de Beeck Nathalie op . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2010 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth , $82.50...
View articletitled, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> View PDF for article titled, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>
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American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900; Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000; Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space; Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas

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Lauren Coats
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 863–866.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-060
Published: 01 December 2009
...Lauren Coats © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900 . Ed. Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press. 2007. 367 pp. $65.00. Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial...
View articletitled, American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900; Novels, Maps, <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000; Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space; Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas View PDF for article titled, American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900; Novels, Maps, <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000; Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space; Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas
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Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression; Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars

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Michael Tavel Clarke
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 211–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-086
Published: 01 March 2010
...Michael Tavel Clarke © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression . By Jani Scandura. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xix, 321 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture...
View articletitled, Down in the Dumps: Place, <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>, American Depression; Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars View PDF for article titled, Down in the Dumps: Place, <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>, American Depression; Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars
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Henry James and Queer Modernity; Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity

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John Dudley
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 188–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-188
Published: 01 March 2005
...John Dudley By Eric Haralson. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 265 pp.$60.00. By Leland S. Person. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 207 pp. $38.50. 2005 188 American Literature Henry James and Queer Modernity. By Eric Haralson. New York: Cambridge Univ...
View articletitled, Henry James and Queer <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>; Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity View PDF for article titled, Henry James and Queer <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>; Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity
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Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity; Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada

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David Bergman
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 192–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-192
Published: 01 March 2005
... of Modernity. By John Timberman Newcomb. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxix, 296 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $22.95; CD, $9.95. Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada. By Amelia Jones. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2004. ix, 334 pp. $39.95. Being modern has never been easy...
View articletitled, Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>; Irrational <span class="search-highlight">Modernism</span>: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada View PDF for article titled, Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>; Irrational <span class="search-highlight">Modernism</span>: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada
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Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America; Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity

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Susan Kurjiaka
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 637–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-637
Published: 01 September 2005
.... By Susan M. Stabile. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 284 pp. $34.95. Race and Time: American Women’s Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity. By Janet Gray. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. viii, 324 pp. $44.95. These two books present arguments about poetics, material...
View articletitled, Memory&#x27;s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America; Race and Time: American Women&#x27;s Poetics from Antislavery to Racial <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span> View PDF for article titled, Memory&#x27;s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America; Race and Time: American Women&#x27;s Poetics from Antislavery to Racial <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>
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The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

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Ed White
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 847–849.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-847
Published: 01 December 2005
...Ed White 2005 The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity . By Ralph Bauer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 295 pp. $65.00; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Philip Gould...
View articletitled, The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World View PDF for article titled, The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, <span class="search-highlight">Modernity</span>; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism; Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism.

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Hildegard Hoeller
American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-1-187
Published: 01 March 2006
...Hildegard Hoeller A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism. By John Dudley. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. viii, 222 pp. $35.00. Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. By Jennifer L. Fleissner. Chicago: Univ...
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