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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 877–879.
Published: 01 December 2012
...James Salazar Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Borgstrom Michael . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2010 . xv , 183 pp. $84.00 . Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2009
...David M. Stewart © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870 . By Trish Loughran. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2007. xxv, 537 pp. Cloth, $46.50; paper, $24.50. The Business of Letters: Authorial...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Caroline Levander Duke University Press 2004 Caroline ‘‘Let Her White Progeny Offset Her Levander Dark One The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making In his famous critique of slavery, Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 182–185.
Published: 01 March 2004
...-reaching effects of what is all too often seen as a limited, parochial moment in American literary history. Beck succeeds admirably in showing the Fugitives’ impact on the national literary scene (especially in the pages of the Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and Hound and Horn...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2004
... account seeks to widen our knowledge of both groups and to demonstrate the far-reaching effects of what is all too often seen as a limited, parochial moment in American literary history. Beck succeeds admirably in showing the Fugitives’ impact on the national literary scene (especially in the pages...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 525–547.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Wai Chee Dimock Duke University 2004 Wai Chee Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Dimock Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review How powerful is the nation as a taxonomic (rather thanjurisdictional)unit?Whogetstoclassify,whogetstonamethe phenomena...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 617–619.
Published: 01 September 2004
... argue for the importance of previously overlooked fac- tors for subject formation and early nationalism in the new republic. Seeking to (re)introduce the concepts of gender and monarchism into the equation, Bloch and Downes rely on readings of literary and legal texts as well as other eighteenth...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., and the Nation: Staging American Identities.ByS.E.Wilmer.New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. vii, 281 pp. $60.00. The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study. By Barry B. Witham. New York: Cam- bridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 190 pp. $60.00. In the opening pages of Theatre, Society, and the Nation, S. E...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 March 2005
... American Literature Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult. By Susan K. Gillman. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xi, 245 pp. Paper, $19.00. Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro. By Barbara Foley. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. x...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Rodrigo Lazo Duke University Press 2002 Rodrigo Filibustering Cuba: Cecilia Valdés and a Memory Lazo of Nation in the Americas In 1883 the New York-based, Spanish-language newspaper El Espejo printed an advertisement promoting Cirilo Villa- verde’s...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 647–649.
Published: 01 September 2002
... balancing the artistic narrative form of ex- slaves with the overt political initiatives of black theology, Connor’s study of the legacy of slave narratives invites us to shift the focus of scholarly fasci- Book Reviews 639 nation from...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 March 2000
... for reading Dreis- er’s An American Tragedy (1925) as a belated product of turn-of-the- century naturalism, it was utterly contemporary in the claims it made on the national experience. The twenties were the salad days...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 868–869.
Published: 01 December 2000
... will find this volume an indispensable aid to their research in a myriad of ways. Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation: A Call for Socio-Political Reform...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 874.
Published: 01 December 2000
...). Catherine A. John, University of Oklahoma Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the American Civil War. By Elizabeth Young. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1999. xvi, 389 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 658–659.
Published: 01 September 2000
... cultural text revealing the incessant energy, attention to detail, and incipient nationalism that characterized the Bartrames’ approach to studying the Creation. Irmscher’s superb analysis of Charles Willson Peale’s Philadel...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 188–189.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of Letters’’ that would facilitate and promote the nation’s intellectual reputation (75). Ostrander’s book adopts both Bel- knap’s phrase (and, more covertly, his agenda) in its history of various groups of literary intellectuals that came into being between Independence and the Civil War, and that might...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of Letters’’ that would facilitate and promote the nation’s intellectual reputation (75). Ostrander’s book adopts both Bel- knap’s phrase (and, more covertly, his agenda) in its history of various groups of literary intellectuals that came into being between Independence and the Civil War, and that might...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 212–213.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of Letters’’ that would facilitate and promote the nation’s intellectual reputation (75). Ostrander’s book adopts both Bel- knap’s phrase (and, more covertly, his agenda) in its history of various groups of literary intellectuals that came into being between Independence and the Civil War, and that might...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 459–496.
Published: 01 September 2001
...David Kazanjian Duke University Press 2001 David Charles Brockden Brown’s Biloquial Nation: Kazanjian National Culture and White Settler Colonialism in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist Toward the beginning of Charles Brockden Brown’s...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Charles Scruggs Duke University Press 2007 The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s . By James Edward Smethurst. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. xv, 471 pp. $59.95. The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century...