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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World; John Burroughs and the Place of Nature; Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 179–181.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Timothy Sweet Duke University Press 2007 American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World . By Susan Scott Parrish. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. xii, 344 pp. $49.95. John Burroughs and the Place of Nature . By James...
View articletitled, American Curiosity: Cultures of <span class="search-highlight">Natural</span> <span class="search-highlight">History</span> in the Colonial British Atlantic World; John Burroughs and the Place of <span class="search-highlight">Nature</span>; Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 825–827.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Cristobal Silva Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America . By Chiles Katy L. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2014 . xi , 315 pp. Cloth, $65.00 ; e-book available. Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes...
View articletitled, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America Fatal Revolutions: <span class="search-highlight">Natural</span> <span class="search-highlight">History</span>, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
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for article titled, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America Fatal Revolutions: <span class="search-highlight">Natural</span> <span class="search-highlight">History</span>, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
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The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 626–627.
Published: 01 September 2000
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Jerome D. DeNuccio, Graceland University
The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. By Christoph
Irmscher. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 1999. xvii, 354 pp. $42.00...
View articletitled, The Poetics of <span class="search-highlight">Natural</span> <span class="search-highlight">History</span>: From John Bartram to William James
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Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California; Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2007
... Madison University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2006-075
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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic
World. By Susan Scott Parrish. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006...
View articletitled, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California; Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and <span class="search-highlight">Natural</span> <span class="search-highlight">History</span> of the California Crest
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Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels; Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner; The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2004
... University
Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels. By Teresa M. Towner. Jackson: Univ.
Press of Mississippi. 2000. 179 pp. $35.00.
Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner.By
Kevin Railey. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1999. ix, 213 pp. $29.95...
View articletitled, Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels; <span class="search-highlight">Natural</span> Aristocracy: <span class="search-highlight">History</span>, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner; The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical <span class="search-highlight">History</span>
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Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 871–873.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Taylor Black Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds . By Leo Braudy . New Haven, CT : Yale Univ. Press . 2016 . xii, 306 pp. Cloth, $30.00 ; paper, $22.00 . Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism...
View articletitled, Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the <span class="search-highlight">Natural</span> and Supernatural Worlds Credulity: A Cultural <span class="search-highlight">History</span> of US Mesmerism
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Antebellum Coral
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 263–293.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the recognition that there are limits to our capacity to know, describe, predict, classify, and rank nature, both human and nonhuman. “Antebellum Coral” assembles several written and visual reflections on coral beads and reveals how the cultural and natural history of these small everyday objects challenged...
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Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition
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American Literature 11792419.
Published: 07 March 2025
... world descriptions were added once he returned to England. As such, this article shows how by engaging in citational practices inherent to the natural history genre, especially when discussing Kalina, Lokono, and other Indigenous peoples, the Narrative reveals the mundane violence of colonial references...
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The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology
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American Literature 11792427.
Published: 07 March 2025
..., raven, theology, natural history Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither before us; while thick in our rear ew the inscrutable sea-ravens. And every morning, perched on our stays, rows of these birds were seen; and spite of our hootings, for a long time obstinately clung...
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Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the jungle, that has intertwined
the history of sexuality with the history of animality at least since the
confluence of Darwin and Sigmund Freud. My primary concern is the
naturalization of heterosexuality that is produced by the discourse
of the jungle, the geneaology of which I trace...
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The Language of the Stones: The Agency of the Inanimate in Literary Naturalism and the New Materialism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2015
... in Sister Carrie .” Studies in American Naturalism 4 , no. 1 : 41 – 55 . Morton Timothy . 2012 . “ An Object-Oriented Defense of Poetry .” New Literary History 43 , no. 2 : 205 – 24 . ———. 2013 . Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Minneapolis...
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Printing Native History in David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 217–243.
Published: 01 June 2014
... shown, Sketches attempted to
affirm Haudenosaunee territorial sovereignty as those sovereign rights
were being rapidly and illegally eroded. Cusick defended Haudenosau
nee territory by printing a history that placed those rights in the deep
past. However, given the nature of Sketches’s...
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Tarzan's White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2011
... were published contemporaneously with the popular “airmindedness” that accompanied the invention of the airplane, and Tarzan's ability to “fly” expresses the types of fantasy by which this advance was popularly understood. For Burroughs, Tarzan's flight signified the white race's “natural” superiority...
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“Just Like Home”: Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the New Deal
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 61–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Susan Louise Edmunds This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages...
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The Game Theory of Sex
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 103–131.
Published: 01 March 2022
... relationships without disavowing, naturalizing, or objecting to it—registers the cultural footprint and vernacular intellectual history of the game theory of sex, and elaborates its key modes of fictionality, antinarrativity, and self-fulfilling prophecy. Ultimately, the game theory of sex offers a prehistory...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the Transatlantic Materials of American Literature
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 727–759.
Published: 01 December 2017
... transatlantic circulation and British books are integral to the founding of the United States and American writing. Ultimately, this essay repositions British reprints as complex acts of reception that intervened in debates over the nature of American literature, and it argues for a recentering of US literary...
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The Ordering Power of Disorder: Henry Adams and the Return of the Darwinian Era
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 March 2012
... (1904), and his “Letter to American Teachers of History” (1910)—in relation to the philosophical writings of Hans Blumenberg and Hans Jonas on the status of nature in modernity, Fleissner argues that recent Darwinisms, including those adopted by “Darwinist literary criticism,” conceive of an “ordering...
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John Neal, American Romance, and International Romanticism
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 477–504.
Published: 01 September 2012
... an account of literature, in theory
and practice, that constantly destabilizes the potential of nature or
consciousness to enable individuals to transcend the sociopolitical
and the material.28 Yet American literary history and, perhaps more
notably, transatlantic literary studies...
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Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 333–359.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of the Vanishing American is inevitably natural-
ized in haiku when that form is understood as transcending personal
experience and history through the contemplation of nature. The
supposed natural decline of Native peoples received its fullest treat-
ment in haiku in a sustained elegiac...
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“To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand”: Marianne Moore's Interdisciplinary Digressions
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 451–481.
Published: 01 September 2005
... material from
sources easily available to anybody living in the precincts of New York
City in the period. The Pratt Free Library, the American Museum of
Natural History, the NewYorkTimes, and the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences are only a few of her archives of curious matter.
(Moore even...
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