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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 525–547.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Wai Chee Dimock Duke University 2004 Wai Chee Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation:
Dimock Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review
How powerful is the nation as a taxonomic (rather
thanjurisdictional)unit?Whogetstoclassify,whogetstonamethe
phenomena...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 641.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Erratum
Erratum for Dan Moos, book review, American Literature 79 (March 2007):
208–10.
The correct title of the book under review is Exploding the Western: Myths of
Empire on the Postmodern Frontier, not Exploding the Empire: Myths of Empire
on the Postmodern Frontier.
DOI 10.1215...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 152–154.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Allan Hepburn By Robin Hoople. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell Univ. Press. 2000. 299 pp.$46.50. 2002 Book Reviews
Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England. By Laura
Henigman. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1999. xi, 234 pp. Cloth, $54.50;
paper, $17.95...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2019
... focus on critical responses that are most readable by twenty-first-century standards (lengthy, signed reviews by readily identifiable critics in prestigious journals), paradoxically the less authoritative liminal critical forms (unsigned, unoriginal criticism circulated as reprinted reviews) displayed...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 March 2019
... review the lovelorn column’s distinctive features and situate West’s satiric novella in that context. I also examine the racial dynamics of both the novella and the genre, touching briefly on the careers of two lovelorn columnists: the well-known Dorothy Dix, who was white, and the now-obscure Princess...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 571–596.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Scott Selisker This essay considers Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) from the standpoint of its influential depiction of African Americans as automata. Through Ellison's other writings, including his review of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) and his unpublished drafts of Invisible...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 363–387.
Published: 01 June 2013
... conditions that staggered perception and belief. Despite these doubts, she traveled to Saigon in 1967 and to Hanoi a year later to report on the US war in Vietnam for the New York Review of Books . Both trips resulted in a series of essays that were quickly collected and published in book form. If Vietnam...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Megan Obourn Through a reading of Arturo Islas's posthumously published La Mollie and the King of Tears , this essay offers a critique of liberal, multicultural uses of postcolonial hybridity in the context of U.S. literature and literary criticism. The essay reviews current uses of hybridity...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
Published: 01 December 2012
... American Literature
Authors of Essays and Book Reviews
Adamson, Joni. Review: Chura, Thoreau the Land Surveyor, 189–91.
Review: Walls, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and
the Shaping of America, 189–91.
Allewaert, Monique, and Michael Ziser. “Under Water” (preface to issue...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 893–914.
Published: 01 December 2011
.../00029831-1503866 © 2011 by Duke University Press
894 American Literature
Authors of Essays and Book Reviews
Alexander, Patrick Elliot. Review: Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the
Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, 673–75.
Review: Smith, The Prison and the American Imagination...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 865–886.
Published: 01 December 2014
... American Literature
Authors of Essays and Book Reviews
Altschuler, Sari. “‘Ain’t One Limb Enough?’ Historicizing Disability in the
American Novel,” 245–74.
Bardill, Jessi. Review: Barker, Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural
Authenticity, 201–3.
Review: Piatote, Domestic Subjects...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 845–862.
Published: 01 December 2013
...
Assistant Elma Longley
Editorial Clare Callahan
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American Literature, Volume 85, Number 4, December 2013
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2379740 © 2013 by Duke University Press
846 American Literature
Authors of Essays and Book Reviews
Alemán, Jesse. Review...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
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Authors of Essays and Book Reviews
Abrams, Robert E. Review: Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary
Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses by Paul Grimstad; Fictions of Fact
and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945–
1975 by Michael LeMahieu, 611–13...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 517–538.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and the United States. A stunningly
explicit example appears in H.D.’s book review ‘‘I Sing Democracy
published in a 1937 issue of Life and Letters Today.Here,inareviewof
Edgar Lee Masters’s Whitman, H.D.’s treatment of the United States
reconstructs and reinvigorates a national history of colonial ancestry...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 393–411.
Published: 01 June 2007
... on Randall Jarrell’s
review of Bishop’s first collection of poetry as I will on the poetry itself.
This oblique approach, I hope to suggest, is perhaps the best way to
address the politics of literatures past. I want to show not only that
politics and aestheticism can coincide but that once we move...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 March 2021
... ( 1911 ), a pamphlet that encouraged the cultivation of precocity and early education for all children. Boris’s son, William James Sidis, had by the age of eight made headlines for his “strange intellectual advancement” ( North American Review 1907 : 887), and he did again upon entering Harvard...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 645–655.
Published: 01 September 2012
... 84, Number 3, September 2012
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1664746 © 2012 by Duke University Press
646 American Literature
four books under review engage questions in book history, cultural
history, and literary history from different perspectives, while point-
ing to some of the large issues...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 887–888.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Rebecca Wanzo By J. Brooks Bouson. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. x, 277 pp. $21.95. 2000 Book Reviews 887
thoughtful responses to that work in studies...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 753–778.
Published: 01 December 2010
... is a university man,” writes Harvey
Shapiro in a 1962 review, “. . . it may be that his first book can have
little organic life because it represents mainly a claim to advancement
in the academy . . . .”1 How to hold onto the “organic life” when, thanks
to limited opportunities to publish a poetic debut...
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