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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
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...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 643–646.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Patrick Jagoda © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Postmodern American Literature and Its Other . By W. Lawrence Hogue. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. xvi, 212 pp. $45.00. Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database . By Alan Liu. Chicago...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 646–648.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Eric Solomon © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900 . By Martin Griffin. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2009. 265 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $29.95. The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 830–833.
Published: 01 December 2013
... . Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century . By Perloff Marjorie . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2010 . xv, 201 pp . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 830  American Literature have received less critical attention than the High Modernists. And yet, the work...
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 1 A visualization of the similarities of “fiction” to other genres in the Crisis , 1911–17. In 1913, “articles,” “letters,” and “poetry” became more similar to “fiction,” before separating again. The scale, 0 to 1, indicates the degree of dissimilarity or similarity, respectively. Figure More
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 2 A visualization of the similarities of “articles” and “letters” to other genres in the Crisis , 1911–17. “Articles” and “letters” share a high degree of similarity. Figure courtesy of author More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 4 Readings, book talks, and other activities during class visits to the Children’s Room at the Harlem Branch library, February 1928. Detail from Monthly logs. 135th Street Branch records, Sc MG 219 Box 4. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 2 Whitfield’s “To Cinque,” in America and Other Poems (1853). Hathi Trust More
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 697–726.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., and inartistic in construction”) and excoriated Melville at length for its incest plot. Yet unlike Melville’s other critics, Peck did not call on him to return to the Pacific. “A few years back,” he explains, Melville “gave to the world a story of romantic adventure; this was untrue in its painting, coarse...
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Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 1 Siblings teach each other about their bodies in Joyce Farmer Sutton’s “Doin’ It!” Originally appeared in Wimmen’s Comix #5 ( 1975 ). Reprinted from Tina Robbins, ed. (2016), The Complete Wimmen’s Comix , vol. 1, 193 More
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 435–437.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Russ Castronovo Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species . By Neel Ahuja . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2016 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth, $89.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $14.49 . The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages...
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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...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 403–406.
Published: 01 June 2020
... and its analyses to Cold War political concerns. Most telling, perhaps, is Blaustein’s definition of “nightmare envy,” which suggests that even as there is considerable value in the American ideals championed by Castiglia, among others, the United States also drew inspiration and insight from Europe...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Don James McLaughlin Abstract Through an analysis of Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country (1894) by Joel Chandler Harris and The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales (1899) by Charles Chesnutt, this essay attempts to account for a late nineteenth-century genre termed the queer fantastic...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 723–753.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... of Pennsylvania Press . Longfellow Henry Wadsworth . 2000 . “ The Village Blacksmith .” In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings , edited by McClatchy J. D. , 15 . New York : Library of America . First published 1842. Marsh Clayton . 1990 . “ Sabbath Whaling in Moby...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 620–622.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Peter Kvidera Duke University Press 2007 Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935 . By Ron Ebest. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2005. xi, 319 pp. Cloth, $58.00; paper, $25.00. Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Mark Noble American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet . By Whitley Edward . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2010 . xiv, 248 pp. $49.95 . Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries . By Vendler Helen . Cambridge : Harvard...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 655–657.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., and Other Difficult Positions . By Lennard J. Davis. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 200 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.00. Book Reviews ‘‘A Hideous Monster of the Mind American Race Theory in the Early Republic.By Bruce Dain. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. x, 321 pp. $29.95...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2016
... : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2014 . xii, 281 pp. Cloth , $29.50 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $65.00 . The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s . By Washington Mary Helen . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2014 . xviii, 347 pp. Cloth , $35.00...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 875–876.
Published: 01 December 2000
..., Daniel Aaron, and many others, Disarming the Nation provides the other side of the story. And it is a complex and eminently interesting one. Philip Gould, Brown University The Other Henry James. By John Carlos...