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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 649–650.
Published: 01 September 2001
... for American literature—and perhaps a little
more analysis would convince us.
Gardner argues that race is fundamental not only for American identity but
for writing itself, and certainly for American literature: ‘‘When the question of
race took its prominent place in the discourse and literature...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 651–652.
Published: 01 September 2001
... foundation for American literature—and perhaps a little
more analysis would convince us.
Gardner argues that race is fundamental not only for American identity but
for writing itself, and certainly for American literature: ‘‘When the question of
race took its prominent place in the discourse...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 876–877.
Published: 01 December 2009
...James Applewhite © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry . By J. Scott Bryson. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. 156 pp. $28.00. Book Reviews
The Captive’s Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Michael Tavel Clarke © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression . By Jani Scandura. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xix, 321 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture...
View articletitled, Down in the Dumps: <span class="search-highlight">Place</span>, Modernity, American Depression; Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 March 2007
.... Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917 . By Angela Sorby. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2005. xlv, 232 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews
New England’s Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion,
1620...
View articletitled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> of American Poetry, 1865-1917
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for article titled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> of American Poetry, 1865-1917
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 171–181.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Rodrigo Lazo © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Rodrigo The Place of Hemispheric American Studies
Lazo
Cuba’s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente. By Peter Hulme. Liver-
pool, UK: Liverpool Univ. Press. 2011. 455 pp. $120.00.
Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 March 2000
... by relations of economic power. But repression is work-
ingin ‘‘Bartleby’’ on another level as well. The Astor Place riot of 1849,
I hypothesize, provides a covert historical subtext—one that is denied
not so much...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 857–859.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Philip Joseph Duke University Press 2007 The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland . By William Barillas. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2006. xviii, 258 pp. $39.95. Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology...
View articletitled, The Midwestern Pastoral: <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland; Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing; How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
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for article titled, The Midwestern Pastoral: <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland; Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing; How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 301–325.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Janet Fiskio In light of Ursula Heise’s recent critiques of the concept of a “sense of place” in ecocriticism as well as the vibrant social movement for food justice emerging in the United States, Fiskio asks whether the concept of place can be reformulated in ways that are inclusive of communities...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 691–714.
Published: 01 December 2012
...” matters and of Native geopolitical claims. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Mark Rifkin Shadows of Mashantucket:
William Apess and the Representation
of Pequot Place
Native studies has insisted that Indigenous peo
ples need...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 674–677.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Senior’’ (xix). Pollak’s
project is bolstered by the care with which she avoids a too-easy Freudian
reading of the Whitman family’s problems; in its place, though, she often
seems to work from an implicit (and ahistorical) version of family systems
theory, in which Whitman’s grandfather, an early...
View articletitled, A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry; Not One of Them in <span class="search-highlight">Place</span>: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity; Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America
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for article titled, A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry; Not One of Them in <span class="search-highlight">Place</span>: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity; Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 621–624.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Annette Trefzer © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction . By Martyn Bone. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. xvi, 275 pp. $49.95. Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing...
View articletitled, The Postsouthern Sense of <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> in Contemporary Fiction; Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing; Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961; Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
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for article titled, The Postsouthern Sense of <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> in Contemporary Fiction; Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing; Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961; Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 555–582.
Published: 01 September 2009
... “Geographical Morality”: Place and the
LeMenager Problem of Patriotism in John W. De Forest’s
Civil War Realism
Writing from his powerful position as editor of
the Atlantic Monthly, William Dean Howells notes in 1874 that John
William De Forest “is really...
View articletitled, “Geographical Morality”: <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> and the Problem of Patriotism in John W. De Forest's Civil War Realism
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for article titled, “Geographical Morality”: <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> and the Problem of Patriotism in John W. De Forest's Civil War Realism
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Press . Zimbalist Andrew S. 1999 . Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . Christopher “The One Place Where Money
Findeisen Makes No Difference”:
The Campus Novel from...
View articletitled, “The One <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> Where Money Makes No Difference”: The Campus Novel from Stover at Yale Through The Art of Fielding
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 475–500.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Stephen Germic Duke University Press 2007 Stephen Land Claims, Natives, and Nativism:
Germic Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Fealty to Place
A flock of wild pigeons wheeling beautifully over the
mountain this afternoon. We have had but few...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 615–618.
Published: 01 September 2007
... . By Betsy Klimasmith. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2005. xii, 293 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.00. Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970 . By Melanie L. Simo. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2005. xv, 271...
View articletitled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of <span class="search-highlight">Place</span>: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation
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for article titled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of <span class="search-highlight">Place</span>: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Caroline Wigginton Abstract This essay recognizes the totality of practices by which Native peoples of the upper Mississippi River valley for centuries oriented themselves to place as an Indigenous map. After limning the map and its material and nonmaterial components, I then place it at the center...
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View articletitled, A Storied <span class="search-highlight">Place</span>: Jonathan Carver’s Travel Narrative and the Indigenous Map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 5 Benny offering to take the place of a boy about to be sacrificed in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Cyberdreams Interactive Entertainment, 1995 ). Screenshot taken by author
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Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 844–846.
Published: 01 December 2010
...: A Feminist View . Ed. Barbara J. Cook. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. viii, 144 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California's Imperial Valley . By Phillip H. Round. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2008. xii, 192 pp. Paper, $19.95. Book...
View articletitled, The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century; Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View; The Impossible Land: Story and <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> in California's Imperial Valley
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for article titled, The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century; Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View; The Impossible Land: Story and <span class="search-highlight">Place</span> in California's Imperial Valley
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 454–456.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Katie McKee Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945 . By Nghana Tamu Lewis. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2007. xiv, 208 pp. $37.95. Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation . By Jessica Adams...
View articletitled, Entitled to the Pedestal: <span class="search-highlight">Place</span>, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945; Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation
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