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Public Humanities in the Reconstructed University
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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 (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...
View articletitled, Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic; The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution; Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Life in Antebellum American Writing
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 198–201.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Dana D. Nelson © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America. By Richard Stott. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2009. 376 pp. $55.00. Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum...
View articletitled, Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America; Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Sphere in Antebellum America; Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction
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On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 527–549.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Crystal S. Rudds Abstract This essay seeks to expand the genre of black literary urbanism by examining Frank London Brown’s Trumbull Park (1959) and Jasmon Drain’s Stateway’s Garden (2020) as literary bookends of public housing history in the United States. The essay argues that public housing...
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Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Barbara Hochman Abstract For marginalized readers in the United States, the public library has often been an icon of integration, assimilation, and self-making. At the New York Public Library (NYPL) of the 1920s, children’s librarians, mostly white and native born, assiduously drilled immigrant...
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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...
View articletitled, Weapons of Democracy: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Opinion Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
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for article titled, Weapons of Democracy: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Opinion Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 June 2020
... meaningful communication in the increasingly “internationally-minded public sphere” (11) of postwar America. Emre ends her study with a focus on John A. Williams’s 1967 novel The Man Who Cried I Am as a dynamic paraliterary text that crystallized a series of revolutionary events connected...
View articletitled, Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America History Comes Alive: <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
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A Corporate Plantation Reading Public: Labor, Literacy, and Diaspora in the Global Black South
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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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Theorizing a Reading Public: Sentimentality and Advice about Novel Reading in the Antebellum United States
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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...
View articletitled, Theorizing a Reading <span class="search-highlight">Public</span>: Sentimentality and Advice about Novel Reading in the Antebellum United States
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Matthiessen's Public Privates: Homosexual Expression and the Aesthetics of Sexual Inversion
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 235–262.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Travis M. Foster Duke University Press 2006 Travis M. Matthiessen’s Public Privates:
Foster Homosexual Expression and the
Aesthetics of Sexual Inversion
EvenbeforeMr.Fields’s] death Sarah Jewett had
begun to be a more frequent...
View articletitled, Matthiessen's <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Privates: Homosexual Expression and the Aesthetics of Sexual Inversion
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Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination; Abolition's Public Sphere; Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 617–619.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Lauren Coats Duke University Press 2006 Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination . By Bridget T. Heneghan. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003. xxvii, 204 pp. $45.00. Abolition's Public Sphere . By Robert Fanuzzi. Minneapolis: Univ...
View articletitled, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination; Abolition's <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Sphere; Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 624–627.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere . By Anna Brickhouse. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 329 pp. $70.00. Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire . By Gretchen Murphy. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. Cloth, $74.95...
View articletitled, Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building; Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Sphere; Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire
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Harriet Jacobs among the Militants: Transformations in Abolition’s Public Sphere, 1859–61
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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...
View articletitled, Harriet Jacobs among the Militants: Transformations in Abolition’s <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Sphere, 1859–61
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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...
View articletitled, Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America / Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction / Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Conversation in America
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Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 879.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Juliana Spahr By Nina Miller. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 292 pp. Paper,$19.95. 2000 Book Reviews 879
Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New...
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A Soliloquy “Lately Spoken at the African Theatre”: Race and the Public Sphere in New York City, 1821
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 1–46.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Michael Warner; Natasha Hurley; Luis Iglesias; Sonia Di Loreto; Jeffrey Scraba; Sandra Young Duke University Press 2001 Michael Warner A Soliloquy ‘‘Lately Spoken at the
with African Theatre Race and the
Natasha Hurley, Public Sphere in New York...
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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...
View articletitled, Private Bodies, <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 186–189.
Published: 01 March 2014
... . Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space . By Fahs Alice . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 376 pp. Cloth , $39.95 ; e-book , $39.95 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 186 American Literature
middle chapters, how widely...
View articletitled, The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America Words at Work in “Vanity Fair”: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Space
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for article titled, The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America Words at Work in “Vanity Fair”: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Space
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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...
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 <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Sphere Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America
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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 <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Sphere Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America
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Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and(Black) Subjectivity
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 683–685.
Published: 01 September 2002
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modern and postmodern American cultural voices. The trajectory of this cre-
ative imagination absorbs its audience in moral struggle that aims to extend
its reach from private space into public social reality and practice. This the-
matic structure emerges from within the slave narratives...
View articletitled, Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the <span class="search-highlight">Public</span> Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and(Black) Subjectivity
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