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Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture: Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature

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Michael A. Chaney
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 57–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-069
Published: 01 March 2010
... University Press 2010 Michael A. Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture: Chaney Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature In the 1840s and 1850s, black abolitionism embraced satirical British cartooning as a visceral...
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Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity

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David Tomkins
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 402–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079215
Published: 01 June 2013
...–1893 . By Noonan Mark J. . Kent, OH : Kent State Univ. Press . 2010 . xix, 235 pp. $65.00 . Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity . By de Beeck Nathalie op . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2010 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth , $82.50...
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Transatlantic Picture Stories: Experiments in the Antebellum American Comic Strip

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Alex Beringer
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 455–488.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149333
Published: 01 September 2015
... Bellew, John McLenan, and Augustus Hoppin experimented with the multipanel sequences they encountered in the Francophone “picture story.” However, rather than replicating the Francophone genre, these artists sought to adapt it in ways that conveyed the rhythms and cadences of everyday American life. What...
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Rethinking Authorship: Jack London and the Motion Picture Industry

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Marsha Orgeron
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 91–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-91
Published: 01 March 2003
...Marsha Orgeron Duke University Press 2003 Marsha Rethinking Authorship: Jack London and the Orgeron Motion Picture Industry 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 95 of 252 In the middle of June 1913, a person in New...
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Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors

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June Hee Chung
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 307–333.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-003
Published: 01 June 2007
...June Hee Chung Duke University Press 2007 June Hee Getting the Picture: American Corporate Chung Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors It may be counterintuitive to assert that Henry James...
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Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Lori Merish
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084498
Published: 01 September 2022
...Lori Merish Abstract “Picturing Poverty” addresses the striking absence of discussion of poverty in US cultural criticism by turning to the archive to examine historically significant and influential, but previously neglected, early photographs of the poor alongside more familiar literary texts...
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Figure 2 “Snow-Flakes—No. 1” (1853). From John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character (1886)

“Snow-Flakes—No. 1” (1853). From John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Charact...

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in Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2022
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Figure 2 Thyra J. Edwards (pictured far left behind the counter) at a Country Store fundraiser sponsored by the Negro People’s Committee to Aid Spain to support the purchase of an ambulance and supplies for the Spanish Second Republic. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-051578

Thyra J. Edwards (pictured far left behind the counter) at a Country Store ...

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in The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 2 Thyra J. Edwards (pictured far left behind the counter) at a Country Store fundraiser sponsored by the Negro People’s Committee to Aid Spain to support the purchase of an ambulance and supplies for the Spanish Second Republic. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-051578 More
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Figure 4 Prefatory pictures from Daisy, Pussy Meow, and Pussy Black-Face. Original texts housed at New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and New York Public Library, respectively. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Libary

Prefatory pictures from Daisy , Pussy Meow , and Pussy Black-Face . Orig...

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in A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 4 Prefatory pictures from Daisy , Pussy Meow , and Pussy Black-Face . Original texts housed at New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and New York Public Library, respectively. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Libary More
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From Sympathy to Empathy: Anzia Yezierska and the Transformation of the American Subject

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Ann Mikkelsen
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-005
Published: 01 June 2010
... with the garment industry and high fashion as imagined in Salome of the Tenements (1922); and concludes with early theorizations of aesthetic empathy's role in motion pictures such as Hungry Hearts (1922), the film made of Yezierska's short stories. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Ann From...
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The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter

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R. John Williams
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-006
Published: 01 June 2010
... ” not only provides a more accurate picture of Lin's transnational literary development; it also opens a space for a reading of Lin's novel Chinatown Family that dramatically alters the typical Asian American understanding of his work and offers an important contribution to the larger critical discourse...
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Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in “Multicultural” Children’s Literature

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Leslie Bow
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529167
Published: 01 June 2019
... abstraction, the essay contextualizes “multicultural” picture books that enlist animal surrogates within the “here and now” innovations of Lucy Sprague Mitchell’s Bank Street Writers Lab and the animal stories of Margaret Wise Brown. In keeping with studies in developmental psychology that explain how...
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Figure 3 Starting from left: Rick Dangerous in Rick Dangerous (Core Design, 1989), Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (Core Design, 1996), Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Paramount Pictures, 2001), Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics, 2013), and Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (Warner Brothers Pictures, 2018). Screenshots taken and arranged by author

Starting from left: Rick Dangerous in Rick Dangerous (Core Design, 1989 ...

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in Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 3 Starting from left: Rick Dangerous in Rick Dangerous (Core Design, 1989 ), Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (Core Design, 1996 ), Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Paramount Pictures, 2001), Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics, 2013 ), and Alicia More
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The Visual Art of Invisible Man : Ellison's Portrait of Blackness

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Lena M. Hill
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 775–803.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-046
Published: 01 December 2009
... definition of African American humanity. In particular, the novel’s manipulation of visual art theory and plastic art objects—pieces of visual art notable for their multidimensional presence and malleability, such as framed pictures, sculptures, and handled artifacts—plays...
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Ugly Data in the Age of Weather Satellites

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Sara J. Grossman
American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 815–837.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711138
Published: 01 December 2016
... , edited by Chun Wendy H. K. , Fisher Anna Watkins , and Keenan Thomas , 265 – 76 . New York : Routledge . Winston Jay W. 1960 . “ Satellite Pictures of a Cut-Off Cyclone over the Eastern Pacific .” Monthly Weather Review . 88 , no. 12 : 295 – 313 . 9 Chun uses...
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“Dark Spot” in the Picturesque: The Aesthetics of Polygenism and Henry James's “A Landscape-Painter”

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Kendall Johnson
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 59–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-59
Published: 01 March 2002
... Given Louis Agassiz’s scientific reputation, it is somewhat surprising that AJourneyinBra- zil is full of pictures of the landscape and, like James’s story, replete with ekphrastic reflections as well as constant notice of ‘‘picturesque’’ scenes of landscapes and people. In other articles...
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W. E. B. DuBois's Family Crisis

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Daylanne English
American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 291–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-291
Published: 01 June 2000
... of eu- genic ‘‘family album a visual and literary blueprint for the ideal, mod- ern black individual. The journal’s many photographs of degreed and pedigreed African Americans disclose a middle class actively pictur...
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Melville in the Customhouse Attic

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Christopher Hager
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 305–332.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-003
Published: 01 June 2010
... a merchant vessel bound for Liverpool. He takes with him a leather- bound volume from the family library—a remnant of their fiscal glory days—called The Picture of Liverpool, a guidebook his father had used on a visit to the city. On his voyage, Redburn studies the book exten- sively, eagerly preparing...
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“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois

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Benjamin J. Murphy
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 195–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003554
Published: 01 June 2021
... to the Oxford English Dictionary , the term “visualization” emerged in 1883 to describe the psychological process of “forming a mental picture or vision of something not actually present to sight.” 5 Only in the following century did the term shift from mentalized to externalized imaging and come...
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Fictions of American Prehistory: Indians, Archeology, and National Origin Myths

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Annette Kolodny
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 693–721.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-693
Published: 01 December 2003
... George Catlin, who lived among and painted the plains tribes from 1832 to 1840, described in some detail Sioux, Pawnee, and Crow ‘‘picture writings on the rocks, and on their robes It wasn’t ‘‘anything like a system...
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