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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 395–397.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Lisa Lynch Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 . By McAuley Louis Kirk . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell Univ. Press ; Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield . 2013 . xv, 327 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; e-book, $89.99 . The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print...
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in Touching The Scarlet Letter : What Disability History Can Teach Us about Literature
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 2 Title page of The Scarlet Letter (Howe Memorial Press, 1885). Description: An unadorned Boston Line Type title page. A double-line rectangle frames the print. Courtesy of the Perkins School for the Blind Archives
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 196.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the “Outsider” and Loujon Press . By Jeff Weddle. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2007. xiii, 220 pp. $28.00. Brief Mention
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Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 121–149.
Published: 01 March 2010
... University Press 2010 Etsuko Colored Empires in the 1930s:
Taketani Black Internationalism, the U.S. Black Press,
and George Samuel Schuyler
Italy’s invasion of the East African kingdom of Ethio-
pia on 3 October 1935 showcased the globe-carving...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 805–832.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Kaplan Page Harris One of the foundational scenes of Language poetry was the San Francisco Bay area in the 1970s and early 1980s, specifically the urban concentration of activist poets who—in the face of regressive national politics—curated reading and lecture series, launched independent presses...
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Published: 01 December 2018
Figure 3 “Meditation 8,” first series, as printed in The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor , edited by Thomas Johnson (Spiral Press, 1939). Image courtesy of Princeton University Press
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1 The Night Watch ’s missing panels, reconstructed with AI, are attached slightly adjacent to the original painting. Credit: Rijkmuseum/Reinier Gerritsen. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/press-releases/for-the-first-time-in-300-years-the-night-watch-is-complete-again
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Habits of the Siamese Twins” and Thomas Nast's political cartoon “The American Twins” use Chang and Eng Bunker as metaphors to discuss national unity at key moments when that unity appears to be most pressing. While these patriotic visions of unity appear to be inclusive, they are ultimately race...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
... in New York’s Broadway Temple has often been cited as evidence of his Jacksonian commitments and, by extension, of the political conservatism of his most famous dramatic roles. Close analysis of the speech and its treatment in the press, however, suggests that Forrest delivered his vision...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to constrain the biochemical flux of “intoxication” through Native bodies. Modern campaigns against “peyote worship” mounted by government agents, progressive reformers, and sensationalist press in the early twentieth century exploited scripts of revulsion and prurient fascination to target the border-crossing...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 225–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Thomas Koenigs Abstract This article explores the recent popular press debates about the Common Core State Standards and their curricular mandates about the percentage of reading that can be fiction in middle school and high school curricula. I suggest that early American arguments about fiction’s...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 669–695.
Published: 01 December 2017
... procedure. Two political journalists and early practitioners of this genre, Mark Twain and Henry Adams, deliberately turned to the novel to advance a nonpartisan perspective that existed in neither the press nor the politics of the period. I argue that Twain’s The Gilded Age , which famously named the era...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 491–521.
Published: 01 September 2019
... for understanding slavery and its carceral afterlives. This question becomes particularly pressing when we consider that today’s prison-industrial complex, like the American slaveholder of the past, extracts profits by strategically exploiting—rather than denying—the lucrative humanity of its captive black...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 281–307.
Published: 01 June 2020
...; the scholarly monographs in UNC Press’s Social Study Series; and DuBose Heyward’s popular “Negro novel” Porgy (1925). Across this interdisciplinary tradition, writers of various stripes seek by turns to celebrate and contain the threat of the free but noncapitalist black body. The latter figure, recalling...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 93–125.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Sarah Blackwood This essay expands the vital but limited critical focus on the importance (practical and thematic) of textual literacy in slave narratives and other writings that appeared in the African American press in order to apprehend more clearly how these writers, working with words during...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 527–554.
Published: 01 September 2009
... was especially notable because Delany, the African American doctor, antislavery lecturer, journalist, and author, had never set foot in Central America. Mattox's essay examines archival accounts of the actual election that took place in San Juan del Norte, including items in the African American press...
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Published: 01 December 2018
Figure 4 “Meditation 8,” first series, as printed in The Poems of Edward Taylor , edited by Donald Stanford (Yale University Press, 1960). © 1960, renewed 1988, by Donald E. Stanford. Image courtesy of Donald Stanford Jr.
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 719–744.
Published: 01 December 2013
... confrontation with Communist China in the 1950s provided the basis and impetus for developing a new model of information theory through the weaponizing of literature. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 I would like to thank the following individuals and groups for helping me write and improve...
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American Literature 11587026.
Published: 09 October 2024
...Carrie Hyde; Derrick R. Spires [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Carrie Hyde and Derrick R. Spires New Citizenship Studies: An Introduction The legal and cultural history of citizenship is fun- damentally fraught. In the popular...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 203–215.
Published: 01 March 2004
... 2004 Brief Mention
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The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition. By Upton Sinclair. Tucson, Ariz.: See Sharp
Press. 2003. xxvii, 335 pp. Paper, $12.00.
This edition of The Jungle, serialized in 1905 in the socialist journal One-Hoss
Philosophy, restores Sinclair’s original...
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