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Figure 1 A scene of automatic writing in the mid-nineteenth century. A person wearing a suit is seated at a round table with a feather pen in their right hand and a paper beneath their arm. Two spirit-like figures place their hands near the writer’s head. The figure on the left is a woman with long hair in a dress who appears above the seated figure. The figure on the right is not wearing clothing and has horns on his head. Dotted lines extend from the spirits’ hands to the medium’s head. From Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan’s From Matter to Spirit: Ten Years’ Experience in Spirit Manifestations (1863: 54)

A scene of automatic writing in the mid-nineteenth century. A person wearin...

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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 1 A scene of automatic writing in the mid-nineteenth century. A person wearing a suit is seated at a round table with a feather pen in their right hand and a paper beneath their arm. Two spirit-like figures place their hands near the writer’s head. The figure on the left is a woman More
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“Prismatic and Profitable”: Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's “The Jolly Corner”

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Nicola Nixon
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 807–831.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-807
Published: 01 December 2004
...Nicola Nixon Duke University Press 2004 Nicola ‘‘Prismatic and Profitable Commerce and the Nixon Corporate Person in James’s ‘‘The Jolly Corner’’ In 1904 William James wrote excitedly to his brother Henry about a chance lunchtime sighting, in a New Jersey...
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870

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Timothy Sweet
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 630–633.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160930
Published: 01 September 2017
... (including visual materials), Gallman identifies a “set of coherent cultural messages” according to which duty did not necessarily require enlistment or great personal sacrifice but did require conscientious, enthusiastic support of the Union cause (20). Among Gallman’s sources are novels by Henry Morford...
View articletitled, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War Defining Duty in the Civil War: <span class="search-highlight">Personal</span> Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870 View PDF for article titled, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War Defining Duty in the Civil War: <span class="search-highlight">Personal</span> Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870
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To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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John Ernest
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 192–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865271
Published: 01 March 2015
...John Ernest To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class . By Ball Erica L. . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2012 . xv , 175 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth...
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Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers / Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography

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Katherine Snyder
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 666–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664791
Published: 01 September 2012
...Katherine Snyder Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers . By Porter Roger J. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 202 pp. $35.00 . Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography . By Prenshaw Peggy Whitman . Baton Rouge...
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Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography

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Donald Gibson
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 661–662.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-661
Published: 01 September 2001
... Innocents Abroad. My reservations reflect nothing more, perhaps, than personal preju- dice and preference. Like most contemporary criticism, Obenzinger’s book is primarily a study of historical, sociological, and ideological contexts with Book Reviews...
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The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America

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Lynn Z. Bloom
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 639–640.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-639
Published: 01 September 2001
... personal preju- dice and preference. Like most contemporary criticism, Obenzinger’s book is primarily a study of historical, sociological, and ideological contexts with Book Reviews 639 secondary attention given to the texts as such. In general...
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Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women

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Eric Henderson
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 872–873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-872
Published: 01 December 2001
..., that mix of qualities we recognize as distinctively his own: patience, generosity, comradeship, pride, toughness, social consciousness, and love of the language. Charles L. Crow, Bowling Green State University Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women. By Margit Stange...
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State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated

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Katy Ryan
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-065
Published: 01 March 2011
... the play accessible, emotional, and persuasive also sets real limits on how audience members are asked think about personal and social responsibility. Some of these efforts include a focus on the wrongly convicted instead of the guilty, a balance of white and black interviewees in the face of a racially...
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Marianne Moore’s Depression Collectives

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Odile Harter
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079179
Published: 01 June 2013
...Odile Harter The Great Depression engendered a special kind of first-person plural, which drove fundamental changes in Marianne Moore’s quoting practice during the period. She moved toward a quotation practice that was less dense, drawn increasingly from mottoes and collective speech, and couched...
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“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling

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Cynthia J. Davis
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 213–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218879
Published: 01 June 2024
... and conformist incarnations. Conceptions of selfhood and otherness hinge on distinctions between a subject afforded a purportedly uncommon, deeply vibrant affect molded by an equally uncommon responsiveness to hedonic stimuli and a person or set of persons whose discernable, often simulated or conventional...
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Obeah’s Sensations: Rethinking Religion at the Transnational Turn

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Toni Wall Jaudon
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 715–741.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901418
Published: 01 December 2012
... representations of obeah, a creole religion practiced by enslaved persons in the British Caribbean, arguing that such narratives use religious experience to craft an alternative transnationalism. Works such as William Earle’s 1800 novel Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack and similar chapbooks, penny...
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“The Best of Me Is There”: Emerson as Lecturer and Celebrity

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Bonnie Carr O'Neill
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 739–767.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-037
Published: 01 December 2008
... in the public arena of the lecture hall, as compared with the private arena of intimate relationships, carries mixed results when attention to his body rather than his ideas becomes the focus of his success. Second, celebrity accentuates the tension between interest in public persons and the social conformity...
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“If You Want to Know the Truth”: Fair Use, Authenticity, and J. D. Salinger

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Daniel Pecchenino
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 597–619.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339881
Published: 01 September 2011
...Daniel Pecchenino In this essay, Pecchenino uses Salinger's 1986 lawsuit against his unauthorized biographer, Ian Hamilton, and Random House, Inc. (over Hamilton's use of quotations from Salinger's personal and previously unpublished letters) to explore the highly interpretive natures of U.S...
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Dave Eggers's What Is the What : Fictionalizing Trauma in the Era of Misery Lit

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Elizabeth Twitchell
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 621–648.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339890
Published: 01 September 2011
... it ethically possible for an American writer to offer a first-person account of African trauma? By sketching the recent critical histories of depictions of Africa and memoirs of trauma—each of which have been haunted by the specters of narcissism and fraudulence—Twitchell argues that two seemingly antagonistic...
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An Ethics Debate for the Ages: American Individualism and the Dilemma of the Healthy Carrier

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Kari Nixon
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 737–743.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780947
Published: 01 December 2020
... competing rights, this essay argues that such debates are first about competing visions of reality, in which the individual is asked to substitute a collective understanding of their body for their own personal experience of their body. Understanding this first layer of the ethics debate in such healthy...
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National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times

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Alex O’Connell
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 269–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218893
Published: 01 June 2024
.... In a moment when abortion legislation faces continued assaults, these narratives invite a consideration of how the embodied, personal pain of abortion can facilitate creative models of community that rethink the power structures that restrict reproductive autonomy. [email protected] Copyright © 2024...
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Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle

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Arielle Zibrak
American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 601–628.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9520194
Published: 01 December 2021
... and Madeline Yale Wynne. Although their values were antithetical, Arts and Crafts and New Thought shared striking similarities in the ways they yoked consumption habits to personal well-being and used fiction to understand and endorse popular secular philosophies. These women-led movements shaped enduring...
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Muriel Rukeyser “among Wars”: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave

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Sam Huber
American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 655–683.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9520222
Published: 01 December 2021
... to a domestic scene of women’s oppression, feminist internationalists politicized personal life by confronting the entanglement of home, family, and the frontlines of a distant war in Vietnam. Key poems from Rukeyser’s 1968 collection The Speed of Darkness were excerpted widely and embraced as authorizing...
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Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates

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Sam V. H. Reese
American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 357–380.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9779078
Published: 01 June 2022
... collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness —but Yates’s deliberate framing of his stories as “eleven kinds” implies a second object of critique. Reading Yates’s work for social and psychological types, this article proposes that personality tests, corporate typing, and social typologies had a major role...
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