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The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane

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Susan Edmunds
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 141–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-141
Published: 01 March 2003
...Susan Edmunds Duke University Press 2003 Susan The Race Question and the ‘‘Question of the Edmunds Home Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer’s Cane...
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The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature

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Joshua Logan Wall
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 660–662.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722200
Published: 01 September 2019
...Joshua Logan Wall The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Jeanne Heuving . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2016 . xv, 240 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature . By Naomi...
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Plots and Proposals: American Women's Fiction, 1850-1890

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Susan Albertine
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 193–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-193
Published: 01 March 2001
... for their supposed dedication to democratic ideals but also for their formal excellence are found seriously defective on both counts. Nina Baym, University of Illinois, Urbana Plots and Proposals: American Women’s Fiction, 1850–1890. By Karen Tracey. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. ix, 206 pp. Cloth...
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Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Jewish Writer

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Stephanie Foote
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 119–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-119
Published: 01 March 2003
...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2003 Stephanie Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Foote Jewish Writer lmost no one reads Henry Harland’s novels any- 6815...
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Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature,1787-1845

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Susan Kurjiaka
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 633–634.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-633
Published: 01 September 2001
...Susan Kurjiaka By Jared Gardner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1998. xvii, 238 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95. 2001 Reviews Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845.By Jared Gardner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1998. xvii, 238 pp...
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The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture After 9/11

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Jane Anna Gordon
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 633–636.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717353
Published: 01 September 2014
... , $87.95 ; paper , $29.95 ; e-book , $29.95 . Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture after 9/11 . By Banita Georgiana . 2012 . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . xiv , 357 pp. $60.00 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews Red Ink: Native...
View articletitled, The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature Constructing the Enemy: Empathy&#x2F;Antipathy in US Literature and Law <span class="search-highlight">Plotting</span> Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture After 9&#x2F;11 View PDF for article titled, The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature Constructing the Enemy: Empathy&#x2F;Antipathy in US Literature and Law <span class="search-highlight">Plotting</span> Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture After 9&#x2F;11
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Impostors of Freedom: Southern White Manhood, Hypodermic Morphine, and E. P. Roe's Without a Home

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Susan Zieger
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 527–554.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-021
Published: 01 September 2008
... time, the temperance plot was updated to include the idea that such habituations might be nervous illnesses afflicting modern professional workers. Through its addicted protagonist Martin Jocelyn, Roe's novel engages these unevenly developing medical, reform, and popular early representations...
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Tract Tales, Literary Aesthetics, and American Fiction

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Kathleen Howard
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 463–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717380
Published: 01 September 2014
... demonstrates how tales used the developing forms of plot and dialogue to argue for biblical precepts by reading several shorter works as well as Helen Cross Knight’s 1846 tract tale Robert Dawson; or, The Brave Spirit . In closing, Howard considers the formal analogies between this work and the century’s best...
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The Postsecular Turn and Muslim American Literature

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Danielle Haque
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 799–829.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811790
Published: 01 December 2014
... Kahf’s bildungsroman, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf , challenges the contemporary notion of postsecular literature, which takes a weakened, hybridized, liberal spirituality as its starting point. Although the bildungsroman conventionally plots an individual’s modernization in line with the nation’s...
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Strangely Interested: The Work of Historical Fantasy

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Michael A. Elliott
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 137–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865223
Published: 01 March 2015
... surveys contemporary fictions of alternate history, particularly Philip Roth’s The Plot against America ( 2004 ). The essay contends that historical fantasy offers a particular mode of engagement with the past—one that steers a middle course between nationalist chauvinism and revisionist debunking. ©...
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“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions

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Anna Muenchrath
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 671–699.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950753
Published: 01 December 2023
... and through bureaucratic memos. This assembly provides the backdrop for a consideration of the text of Thomas Mann’s “Mario and the Magician,” a short story published in the Armed Services Editions in 1944, whose plot not only mirrors the tension between authority and free will manifested in the geopolitical...
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A Literary Remittance: Juan C. Laya’s His Native Soil and the Rise of Realism in the Filipino Novel in English

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Paul Nadal
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 591–626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160906
Published: 01 September 2017
... into account the difference between literature and social structure in the colonial periphery, I argue that rather than viewing His Native Soil ’s improbabilities of plot and tonal dissonances as artistic flaws, they are more meaningfully read as the author’s attempt to adapt the realist protocols...
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The Political Procedural: The Novel’s Contribution to the Rise of Nonpartisanship and the Abandonment of Reconstruction

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Mary B. Hale
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 669–695.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257811
Published: 01 December 2017
...Mary B. Hale Abstract This article examines a post–Civil War trend in novels that focus on the mechanics of governmental process. Remarkable for the smallness of their concerns, these novels replace the bitter conflicts of the war and Reconstruction with plots that hinge on matters of political...
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Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post–Civil Rights Era

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Long Le-Khac
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326439
Published: 01 March 2018
... with neoconservative arguments that helped to roll back civil rights reforms and stymie government interventions. To address the inequalities enduring after civil rights we must circumvent an individual-centered template that has shaped plots of narrative and social change. Part of a broader effort to decenter...
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“Greater Still in Death”: Race, Martyrology, and the Reanimation of Juan Placido

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R. J. Boutelle
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 461–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994769
Published: 01 September 2018
...” into a transnational race man. In the essay’s second half, I demonstrate how Martin R. Delany’s Blake (1859, 1861–62) readapted Whittier’s account to appeal to black radical abolitionists. By literarily resurrecting Juan Placido as an active revolutionary in the serial novel’s plot, Delany articulated not only...
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The Biology of Intimacy: Lamarckian Evolution and the Sentimental Novel

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Kyla Schuller
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616151
Published: 01 September 2020
... heroines of domestic plots not only function as tropes of domestic and national belonging, as has been widely recognized, but also of population regulation at the biological level of species. Sentimentalism functions as a mode of evolutionary theory, one that articulated the Lamarckian belief that sensory...
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The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision

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Leila Mansouri
American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 1–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878494
Published: 01 March 2021
... or racially distinct from. As a result, this paper shows, writing for and about early US elections—including Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” (1819), whose electoral plot is often overlooked—was imbued with a disconcerting sense of double vision. Only by recovering that double vision’s embodied...
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Within and without Raced Nations: Intratextuality, Martin Delany, and Blake; or the Huts of America

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Katy Chiles
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 323–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-005
Published: 01 June 2008
... plot and disrupts Benedict Anderson's axiomatic theories of how seriality helps imagine the nation. Delany's changing views on Haiti and black emigration plans—published alongside Blake in the Weekly Anglo-African —produce a serial palimpsest of Delany's dynamic politics. In addition, the novel depicts...
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Shadows of Mashantucket: William Apess and the Representation of Pequot Place

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Mark Rifkin
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 691–714.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901409
Published: 01 December 2012
... of the Forest , the essay illustrates how Mashantucket provides a shadow referent for much of the plot of the narrative, and in this way, the essay demonstrates how Apess develops strategies for signifying Native sovereignty in the absence of treaty-like relations that could signal the presence of “political...
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One More Time with Feeling: Repetition, Reparation, and the Sentimental Subject in William Wells Brown’s Rewritings of Clotel

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Laura Soderberg
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 241–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533290
Published: 01 June 2016
... be, producing scenes that refuse to be marshalled into the discrete chronology of simple plot and a host of characters whose lives overlap and blur in their shared circumstances and joint wounds. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 reparations sentimentalism serialization William Wells...
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