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Hearing Lost, Hearing Found: George Washington Cable and the Phono-Ethnographic Ear

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Brian Hochman
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 519–551.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-023
Published: 01 September 2010
... turns to the work of three prominent U.S. ethnographers (Franz Boas, Jesse Walter Fewkes, and Benjamin Ives Gilman) who posited the newly invented phonograph as a more ideal form of cultural listening and writing. “Hearing Lost, Hearing Found” combines literary and media history to advance two...
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And : Marks, Maps, Media, and the Materiality of Ambrose Bierce’s Style

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Craig Carey
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 629–660.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367301
Published: 01 December 2013
... of Edison’s phonograph in “A Benign Invention” (1889), an essay com- piled and remixed from records previously cut in his biweekly editorial columns in San Francisco periodicals, his home in print for nearly forty years. Like the digital humanities, the electrifying power of the Edison name was partly...
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Announcements

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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 687–688.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339989
Published: 01 September 2011
... the formal and political dimensions of contemporary American literature? How have prose styles and aesthetics, at different historical moments, been influenced by new commu- nications technologies from the telegraph to the phonograph to cinema to the digital computer to mobile phones? Moreover, do...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 231–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541112
Published: 01 March 2012
...- munications technologies from the telegraph to the phonograph to cinema to the digital computer to mobile phones? Moreover, do the transmedia dimen- sions of such technologies suggest a scope that surpasses the geopolitical boundaries of the United States? Finally, how do American studies...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 889–891.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437351
Published: 01 December 2011
... of contemporary American literature? How have prose styles and aesthetics, at different historical moments, been influenced by new com- munications technologies from the telegraph to the phonograph to cinema to the digital computer to mobile phones? Moreover, do the transmedia dimen- sions...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction: “An Almost Theatrical Innocence” F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene

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Robert McParland
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 886–888.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917404
Published: 01 December 2019
... of social and cultural shifts, a beginning for modern America marked by relative prosperity, the movement to cities, consumerism and advertising, new media like radio and phonographs, and the flouting of prohibition and the Volstead Act by flappers, partiers, and bootleggers. Disillusionment following...
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American Literary Realism and Nervous “Reflexion”

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Randall Knoper
American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 715–745.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-715
Published: 01 December 2002
... will imitate ‘‘the experimenter’’ mechanically and will ‘‘echo’’ utterances ‘‘as if he were transformed into a phonograph’’ (AM, 283–84, 143). Like the cataleptics, hysterics and hypnotized subjects may mechanically imi- tate what strikes their senses—though, unlike cataleptics, they retain signs...
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Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

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Adalaide Morris
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 830–833.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370176
Published: 01 December 2013
... through which information circulates. Like Perloff and Bernstein, Goble sit- uates literary texts not in opposition to but within the networks constituted by the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, magnetic tape recordings, Book Reviews  831...
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How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry the Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America

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Dean Rader
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 827–830.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370167
Published: 01 December 2013
..., coherence, and emphasis—the beauty—of traditional aesthetics into the technologies through which information circulates. Like Perloff and Bernstein, Goble sit- uates literary texts not in opposition to but within the networks constituted by the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, magnetic tape...
View articletitled, How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry the Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America View PDF for article titled, How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry the Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America
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New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620-1860

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Laura Henigman
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 177–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-075
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
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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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Timothy Sweet
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 179–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-076
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
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Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America; Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather

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Elsa Nettels
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 181–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-077
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
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Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau; Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature; Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K

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Ellen Weinauer
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 184–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-078
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
View articletitled, Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau; Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature; Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K View PDF for article titled, Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau; Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature; Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K
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Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

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Susan Kurjiaka
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 186–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-079
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
View articletitled, Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers View PDF for article titled, Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
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Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915

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Patricia Kalayjian
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 189–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-080
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
View articletitled, Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915 View PDF for article titled, Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915
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The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s; The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity

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Charles Scruggs
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-081
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
View articletitled, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s; The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity View PDF for article titled, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s; The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
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Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives; Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery; Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery

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Shawn Salvant
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-082
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
View articletitled, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives; Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery; Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery View PDF for article titled, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives; Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery; Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity; Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative

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Mendi Lewis Obadike
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 197–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-083
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
View articletitled, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity; Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative View PDF for article titled, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity; Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative
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Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity; Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000

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Frederick Luis Aldama
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 199–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-084
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
View articletitled, Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity; Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000 View PDF for article titled, Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity; Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000
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Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture; Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War

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Sean Metzger
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-085
Published: 01 March 2007
... from literary narra- tives. In a chapter on Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, Weheliye describes the protagonist’s engagements with the recorded voice of Louis Armstrong via the phonograph to demonstrate how his subject position (as present but invisible man) and identity (as black man...
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