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The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse

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Jared Hickman
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 429–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717371
Published: 01 September 2014
...Jared Hickman The Book of Mormon is perhaps best known in Americanist circles as a version of the Indians-as-Israelites theory. It features the racialized division of the progeny of the text’s founding diasporic Jewish figure, Lehi, into wicked “Lamanites,” who are cursed with “a skin of blackness...
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Plague Time (Again)

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Bryan Waterman
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 759–766.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780971
Published: 01 December 2020
...-century America’s westward course of empire folds back on itself with the plague in tow: migration means an inevitable spread of traditions, ideas, sexual desire, and viruses, among other things. As Kushner’s Mormon characters, a substantial portion of the dramatis personae, retrace their ancestors...
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Index to Volume 86 (March 2013–December 2013)

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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 865–886.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2881062
Published: 01 December 2014
...–829. Hickman, Jared, and Peter Coviello. “Introduction: After the Postsecular,” 645–54. Hickman, Jared. “The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse,” 429–61. Howard, Kathleen. “Tract Tales, Literary Aesthetics, and American Fiction,” 463–92. Hutchison, Coleman. Review: Benson, Disturbing...
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The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature

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Shirley Samuels
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 638–640.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650283
Published: 01 September 2016
.... The singular role of religion in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) has long been noted; what Stokes does is extend the inquiry not only into Stowe’s other fictions, such as The Minister’s Wooing (1859), but also into Mormon identifications and the Christian Science writings of Mary Baker Eddy. To consider...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 647–655.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-81-3-647
Published: 01 September 2009
.... of Wisconsin Press. 2008. xx, 369 pp. Paper, $29.95. This collection of essays on religion and American print culture from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries focuses on Anglo-Protestant, Jew- ish, Mormon, and New Age literary materials. Looking at “imagined commu- nities” brought together...
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The Biology of Intimacy: Lamarckian Evolution and the Sentimental Novel

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Kyla Schuller
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616151
Published: 01 September 2020
...’ sexual feelings stem from self-control and a disciplinary imperative so thoroughly impressed on the heroine by her brother/father/lover that (informal) adoption frequently culminates with copulation. So pervasive was the expected happy ending of fraternal marriage that the 1882 anti-Mormon...
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Lines in the Dirt (c. 1969): Postwar Literalism and the Failure of Technology

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Jason Gladstone
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 385–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529191
Published: 01 June 2019
..., crawler drills, air compressors, D-8 Caterpillar tractors, and other industrial-grade equipment to displace some 240,000 tons of rhyolite and sandstone from the edge of Nevada’s Mormon Mesa (see Vincent 1973 and Heizer 1991 ). This process further destabilized the mesa edge by amplifying...
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Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

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Elizabeth Freeman
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 737–765.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811730
Published: 01 December 2014
... American spirituality to Mormonism to the “science” of Spiritualism— refuse to accede to the techniques whereby acts become identities through the medium of speech.1 Yet this work inspires me to ask: what of Catholicism itself, a minority religion in the United States? To what extent is Catholic...
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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

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Joni Adamson
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 189–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1540995
Published: 01 March 2012
..., this study turns to a trio of lesser-­known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John...
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Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

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Karen Sánchez-Eppler
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541004
Published: 01 March 2012
..., Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John Rollin Ridge each put marginalized cultural identities in the ser- vice of a literary nationalism. Whitfield, Snow, and Ridge reproduce the logic according to which the “representative poet” manages to recast apparent cul- tural...
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American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet

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Mark Noble
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 193–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541013
Published: 01 March 2012
... its generic link to Whitman, this study turns to a trio of lesser-­known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R...
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Henry James's Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception, and Cognition

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Kendall Johnson
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 196–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541022
Published: 01 March 2012
... its generic link to Whitman, this study turns to a trio of lesser-­known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R...
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Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture

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Kevin R. McNamara
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 198–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541031
Published: 01 March 2012
...-­known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John Rollin Ridge each put...
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World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization

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Joshua Miller
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541040
Published: 01 March 2012
..., Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John Rollin Ridge each put marginalized cultural identities in the ser- vice of a literary nationalism. Whitfield, Snow, and Ridge reproduce the logic according to which the “representative poet” manages to recast apparent cul- tural...
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Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.d., Loy, and Toomer

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Maeera Y. Shreiber
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 203–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541049
Published: 01 March 2012
... its generic link to Whitman, this study turns to a trio of lesser-­known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R...
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The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-Us Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959

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Vera M. Kutzinski
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 206–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541058
Published: 01 March 2012
..., this study turns to a trio of lesser-­known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John...
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Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life

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J. Peter Moore
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 209–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541067
Published: 01 March 2012
.... Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John Rollin Ridge each put marginalized cultural identities in the ser- vice of a literary nationalism. Whitfield, Snow, and Ridge...
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Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age

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Kimberly Lamm
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 212–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541076
Published: 01 March 2012
... its generic link to Whitman, this study turns to a trio of lesser-­known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R...
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A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction

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James Dawes
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 215–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541085
Published: 01 March 2012
... its generic link to Whitman, this study turns to a trio of lesser-­known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R...
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Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture

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David Yaffe
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 217–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541094
Published: 01 March 2012
..., Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John Rollin Ridge each put marginalized cultural identities in the ser- vice of a literary nationalism. Whitfield, Snow, and Ridge reproduce the logic according to which the “representative poet” manages to recast apparent cul- tural...
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