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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Susan K. Harris Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. By Alison Piepmeier. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xi, 278 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Origins of the Constitution. By Eric Slauter. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xii, 373 pp. $40.00. Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. By Jennifer Greiman. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 276 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.00...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 198–201.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... While the texts vary in publication year, context, and
community, they raise consistent concerns about the “conflicted function of
religion for these writers”; moreover, Elrod observes a “recurring significance
of experiential religion in the rhetoric, motifs, and allusion of [these] autobio...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Lisa Lynch Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics . By Holloway Karla F. C. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . 225 pp. Cloth , $79.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America . By Angela Vietto. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2005. ix, 147 pp. $89.95. Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic . By Mary Kelley. Chapel Hill: Univ...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 193.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 2: The Public Years . By Charles Capper. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 649 pp. $40.00. Brief Mention
Editions
Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 617–620.
Published: 01 September 2008
... peoples
of this continent is characterized by a “collective ambivalence” (2). According
to Elliott, public memorializations of Custer serve as points of articulation
for deeply unresolved and often contradictory feelings about U.S. imperial-
ism (past and present), indigenous...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 390–392.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Eden Osucha © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature . By Peter Coviello. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xii, 230 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 407–409.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Peter Coviello © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life . By Justus Nieland. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. x, 312 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00. Intimacies . By Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 416–419.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Michael A. Elliott © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos . By Mary Lawlor. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 234 pp. Cloth, $68.00; paper, $22.95. Disturbing Indians...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 719–746.
Published: 01 December 2011
... importantly, what it does. In conduct books, public lectures, and other printed materials, commentators argued that novel reading did not empower individual readers but made them all alike, rendering them passive by invoking passionate and often overwhelming emotions. In short, they posited novel reading...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 186–189.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... By
Martha Banta. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. 233 pp. $95.00.
Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space.
By Alice Fahs. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 376 pp. Cloth, $39.95;
e-book, $39.95.
What was the history of books? As the field changes its...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 March 2002
... community but especially by minister John Rogers, who, focus-
ing on maternal killing rather than on illicit sexuality, granted her ‘‘a spiritual
dignity’’ others had withheld (44). His three public sermons on the occasion
appeared in Death the Wages of Sin, an account compiled by six ministers in
which...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 656–659.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Katherine Biers Weapons of Democracy: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion . By Jonathan Auerbach . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2015 . ix, 232 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery . By Gregory Laski...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 June 2020
... that the American past was something to be encountered and deeply felt in the service of their own individual self-realization. And just as Emre is inclined to celebrate her bad readers for making American literature come alive in the international public sphere, Rymsza-Pawlowska defends the history-making...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... Tracing the Cotton Farmer ’s hemispheric circulation from the Mississippi delta to Panama, this essay explores the intersections of labor, literacy, and diaspora in the global black south. What do we make of a reading public among black tenant farmers on a corporate cotton plantation in the Mississippi...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 397–400.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Christopher . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2013 . 311 pp. $39.95 . Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere . By Millner Michael . Durham : Univ. of New Hampshire Press . 2012 . xxii , 188 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper , $35.00 ; e-book , $29.99...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 781–790.
Published: 01 December 2020
... be attained remotely or in isolation. Public humanities, which promotes collaboration, civic and community engagement, and inter-institutional alliances, can be one such reparative force for the reconstructed university. This essay describes the work of graduate student researchers in an interdisciplinary...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 743–768.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., Redpath saw it as a contribution to a circum-Atlantic project of black resistance, liberation, and uplift that crossed lines of race and gender. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Caleb Smith Harriet Jacobs among the Militants:
Transformations in Abolition’s Public Sphere...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 673–675.
Published: 01 September 2012
... War II American Fiction . By Schryer Stephen . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2011 . vii , 278 pp. Cloth , $79.50 ; paper , $26.50 . Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America . By Ackerman Alan . New Haven : Yale Univ...
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