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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 397–400.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Janet Dean “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 . By Hochman Barbara . 2011 . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . xv , 377 pp. $28.95 . Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing . By Hager...
View articletitled, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” And the <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Fever <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span>: Affect and <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Bodies and Books: <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America
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Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America Schooling Readers: Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 420–422.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Lucia Hodgson Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America . By Patricia Crain . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2016 . 247 pp. Cloth, $69.95 ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Schooling Readers: Reading...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America Schooling Readers: <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
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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
...Jennifer L. Brady By reconsidering the complex, dialectical relationship that existed between novels and their detractors in the antebellum United States, Brady's essay argues that antinovel commentators aimed not simply to limit the activity of novel reading but to redefine what it is and, more...
View articletitled, Theorizing a <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> Public: Sentimentality and Advice about Novel <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> in the Antebellum United States
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Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree: Local Color, Authenticity, and Geographies of Reception
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Emily Satterwhite Duke University Press 2006 Emily Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree:
Satterwhite Local Color, Authenticity, and
Geographies of Reception
You see it had never occurred to any of us that ‘‘Craddock’’
was not a man...
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From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry; Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century.
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 182–185.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Carolyn Sorisio From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. By Mary Loeffelholz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing...
View articletitled, From School to Salon: <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry; Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span> and Writing in the Nineteenth Century.
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Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Fiction Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 592–594.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Laura Henigman Steven M. Stowe has set himself the paradoxical task of reading southern women’s war diaries with empathy while acknowledging that he censures them—“they are not sympathetic figures” (x). Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right is an unusually written book, a collection of very...
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COVID-19: Pandemic Reading
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 681–688.
Published: 01 December 2020
... ourselves in strangely similar times. As a viral pandemic and an epidemic of racial violence collide, we, too, face undeniably world-changing events, rife with uncertainty. How are we to read this moment? Both of this forum’s editors have in the past identified and sought new ways of narrating, thinking...
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The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Through a comparative reading of two games by C. M. Ralph, Caper in the Castro (1989) and Murder on Main Street (1989), this article demonstrates how HIV/AIDS has also manifested in the content and form of video games, even (and perhaps especially) when it seems absent. Derritt Mason has explained how...
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Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 357–380.
Published: 01 June 2022
... collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness —but Yates’s deliberate framing of his stories as “eleven kinds” implies a second object of critique. Reading Yates’s work for social and psychological types, this article proposes that personality tests, corporate typing, and social typologies had a major role...
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The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature; Captive Arizona, 1851–1900
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Lucy Maddox © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature . By Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. xxxiv, 363 pp. $60.00. Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 . By Victoria...
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Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Lisa Swanstrom © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Machine-Age Comedy . By Michael North. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 222 pp. Paper, $27.95. Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path . By Terry Harpold. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2009...
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A World of Difference: Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 251–278.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Mark Chia-Yon Jerng Science fiction poses particular dilemmas for referential reading practices privileged in ethnic literary studies and African American literature. Because science fiction often requires the reader to discern the governing norms and values of its constructed, alternative world...
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Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic: Reading Surface Meaning in Thoreau
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2013
...David Faflik American author Henry David Thoreau's transcendental writings are aesthetically “shallow.” To read Thoreau's signature works is to locate interpretive meaning elsewhere than the resonant “depths” with which we long have associated the transcendental text. These are the implications...
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Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 824–826.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Marianne Noble Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century . By Miller Cristanne . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2012 . x, 279 pp. Paper , $28.95 . Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics . By Socarides Alexandra . New York : Oxford Univ...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 827–830.
Published: 01 December 2013
... . Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America . By Chasar Mike . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2012 . xii, 336 pp. Cloth , $84.50 ; paper , $27.50 ; e-book , $26.99 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book...
View articletitled, How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry the Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude Everyday <span class="search-highlight">Reading</span>: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America
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Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ana Schwartz Abstract This essay introduces the concept of imperative reading as one solution to the tension between implicitly suspicious historicist methods, on one hand, and, on the other, postcritical practices of reading that prioritize readerly pleasure over readerly paranoia. Imperative...
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Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 644–646.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Michael Malouf Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology . By Moraru Christian . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2015 . viii, 248 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book available. Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s . By Marling...
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The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2017
...) and “Recitatif” offer Larkin a model for historicizing not literary texts but our students’ and our own reading practices. Moya, whose final chapter also focuses on A Mercy , perhaps maintains greater optimism in literature’s social imperative: to teach all readers “another way to be human and free” through...
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“Everything Is Alive”: Moving and Reading in Excess of American Freedom
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Allison S. Curseen Abstract Focusing on the minor details of suffering cats, I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as an exemplary illustration of the way in which American novels of individual development destabilize around the movement of minor bodies and minor characters. This destabilization...
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The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 657–660.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in Literature and Film . By Ann Brigham . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2015 . x, 262 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form . By David J. Alworth . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . 2016 . Cloth , $39.50 ; e...
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