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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

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...
View articletitled, 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 <span class="search-highlight">Picture</span> <span class="search-highlight">Books</span> and the Fairy Tale of Modernity View PDF for article titled, 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 <span class="search-highlight">Picture</span> <span class="search-highlight">Books</span> and the Fairy Tale of Modernity
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Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in “Multicultural” Children’s Literature

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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Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing Since the 1960s on the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry

Jed Rasula
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 413–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079251
Published: 01 June 2013
... Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity. By Nathalie op de Beeck. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. xix, 262 pp. Cloth, $82.50; paper, $27.50. What do appearances tell us? How does the cultivation of appearance affect the authenticity of a given thing or individual? What...
View articletitled, Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing Since the 1960s on the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry View PDF for article titled, Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing Since the 1960s on the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry
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Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

Mark Rifkin
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 399–401.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079206
Published: 01 June 2013
...” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893. By Mark J. Noonan. 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 Nathalie op de Beeck. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. xix, 262...
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Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois

Laura Henigman
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 404–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079224
Published: 01 June 2013
...” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893. By Mark J. Noonan. 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 Nathalie op de Beeck. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. xix, 262...
View articletitled, Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois View PDF for article titled, Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois
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Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction Since 1878 Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature

Stephanie Foote
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 407–409.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079233
Published: 01 June 2013
.... $45.00. Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893. By Mark J. Noonan. 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 Nathalie op de Beeck...
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Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire on Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War

Christian Moraru
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 409–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079242
Published: 01 June 2013
.... $45.00. Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893. By Mark J. Noonan. 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 Nathalie op de Beeck...
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The Weather in Proust

Gregory Tomso
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 416–417.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079260
Published: 01 June 2013
..., 235 pp. $65.00. Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity. By Nathalie op de Beeck. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. xix, 262 pp. Cloth, $82.50; paper, $27.50. What do appearances tell us? How does the cultivation of appearance affect...
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A Literature of Questions: Nonfiction for the Critical Child Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

Kenneth Kidd
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 672–674.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722248
Published: 01 September 2019
... authority and amplify as much as satisfy reader curiosity. Sanders is quick to acknowledge that matters can be complicated, noting that some invitations to engagement may not be as unconditional as they seem. This is conveyed in chapter 6, a case study of Tanya Lee Stone’s 2009 picture book Almost...
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Brief Mention

American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 213–220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865367
Published: 01 March 2015
... of poverty in the picture books of Eve Bunting. Brief Mention  219 The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities. Ed. Anna Mae Duane. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2013. viii, 265 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $24.95; e-book, $24.95...
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Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities

Barbara Hochman
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597539
Published: 01 March 2025
... coming-of-age novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) and Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s picture book Love in the Library (2022) depict racialized outsiders trying to combat stigmatization and violence. Both texts gesture toward the significance of libraries—but not really...
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Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Lori Merish
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084498
Published: 01 September 2022
... photographs by Halliday’s organization, see Bethel 1994 : 21. 14 Samuel Wood’s The Cries of New York (1808), an early American edition of street cries, has been called “the first distinctly American picture book” (Anderson 2005 : 39). On trades as “ethnographic units” in poverty writing, see...
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Index to Volume 85 (March 2013-December 2013)

American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 845–862.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2379740
Published: 01 December 2013
... of Appearance in Early America, 402–4. Review: Noonan, Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Maga- zine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893, 402–4. Review: op de Beeck, Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity, 402–4. Tomso, Gregory. Review...
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Rethinking Authorship: Jack London and the Motion Picture Industry

Marsha Orgeron
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 91–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-91
Published: 01 March 2003
... was a celebrity, and the movies promised to substantially augment his renown. Through print media coverage, his own book and magazine publications, and eventu- 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 102 of 252 ally motion pictures, London became known...
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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” And the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America

Janet Dean
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 397–400.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647054
Published: 01 June 2014
... Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon to J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and picture books about the 9/11 terror- ist attacks. The result is an enlightening, highly engaging “big picture” repre- senting the creative energies, intellectual strategies, and therapeutic orienta- tions mutually animating...
View articletitled, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” And the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Bodies and <span class="search-highlight">Books</span>: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America View PDF for article titled, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” And the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Bodies and <span class="search-highlight">Books</span>: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America
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Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative

Sarah Wadsworth
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 405–408.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646937
Published: 01 June 2014
... Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon to J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and picture books about the 9/11 terror- ist attacks. The result is an enlightening, highly engaging “big picture” repre- senting the creative energies, intellectual strategies, and therapeutic orienta- tions mutually animating...
View articletitled, Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic <span class="search-highlight">Book</span> Narrative View PDF for article titled, Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic <span class="search-highlight">Book</span> Narrative
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Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in US Drama and Fiction

Clare Callahan
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 394–396.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647045
Published: 01 June 2014
... strategies of key authors of children’s books, and the psychological work performed by an array of children’s books, spanning a gamut from classic fairy tales and Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon to J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and picture books about the 9/11 terror- ist attacks...
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The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

Kate McCullough
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 391–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647036
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and the psychological work performed by an array of children’s books, spanning a gamut from classic fairy tales and Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon to J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and picture books about the 9/11 terror- ist attacks. The result is an enlightening, highly engaging “big picture...
View articletitled, The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading View PDF for article titled, The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
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Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance

Jennifer Greeson
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 400–402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646919
Published: 01 June 2014
... Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon to J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and picture books about the 9/11 terror- ist attacks. The result is an enlightening, highly engaging “big picture” repre- senting the creative energies, intellectual strategies, and therapeutic orienta- tions mutually animating...
View articletitled, Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance View PDF for article titled, Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance
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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary

Sonnet Retman
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 402–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646928
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and the psychological work performed by an array of children’s books, spanning a gamut from classic fairy tales and Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon to J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and picture books about the 9/11 terror- ist attacks. The result is an enlightening, highly engaging “big picture...
View articletitled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary View PDF for article titled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary