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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 634–637.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Kent A. Ono © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination . By Robert Markley. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. 456 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science...
View articletitled, Dying Planet: Mars in <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> and the Imagination; Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> Fiction and the Cultures of <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> in the Nineteenth Century; American <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond
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Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940 Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Andrea Stone Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940 . By Nihad M. Farooq New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xiv, 343 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $30.00 . Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture...
View articletitled, Undisciplined: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940 Fugitive <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation / The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 677–679.
Published: 01 September 2012
...David M. Higgins Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation . By Chu Seo-Young . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2010 . 306 pp. $39.95 . The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction . By Csicsery-Ronay Istvan Jr. Middletown, CT...
View articletitled, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>-Fictional Theory of Representation / The Seven Beauties of <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> Fiction
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Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthropocene
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 255–282.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Gerry Canavan Abstract This article takes up science-fictional visions of the future against the “deep time” of the Anthropocene in order to explore the possibilities for utopia that remain in an era that only seems capable of producing necrofuturological dread. The piece surveys a wide range...
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Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction; Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction . By William H. Katerberg. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas. 2008. ix, 281 pp. $45.00. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women . By Jeffrey...
View articletitled, Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> Fiction; Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women
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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction; Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor; Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 427–429.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Gerry Canavan © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction . By John Rieder. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 183 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.95. Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor...
View articletitled, Colonialism and the Emergence of <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> Fiction; Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor; Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 March 2011
... and Science. By Michael Golston. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2008. xv, 272 pp. $55.00. The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism. By Walton M. Muyumba. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xi, 216 pp. Cloth, $48.00; paper, $18.00...
View articletitled, A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary; Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>; The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism
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for article titled, A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary; Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>; The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism
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Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2011
...David M. Higgins Higgins argues that the depth of science fiction's engagement with imperial themes allows the genre to function as a critical literature of empire. As a literary mode engaged with imperial dream-work, science fiction addresses the operations of imperialism more fully than any other...
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From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe; Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe. By Peter Y. Paik. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. 207 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save...
View articletitled, From Utopia to Apocalypse: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe; Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 821–824.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Erin A. Smith Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination . By Freedman Linda . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2011 . x, 210 pp . $90.00 . Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Lee Maurice S. . New York...
View articletitled, Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination Uncertain Chances: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussion of Mass Media, “Moby-Dick,” Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex with the New Motive Power
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for article titled, Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination Uncertain Chances: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussion of Mass Media, “Moby-Dick,” Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex with the New Motive Power
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Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer Science Papers
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 423–428.
Published: 01 June 2023
... “Learning to Execute.” By Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever . arXiv preprint. 2014 . https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4615 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This review looks at two technical papers from the field of computer science that, at the time of writing, should...
View articletitled, Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> Papers
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The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 224–226.
Published: 01 March 2019
... notwithstanding, the field would do to follow up on their leads. The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention . By David Letzler . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . 2017 . vii, 303 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book, $60.00 . The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism...
View articletitled, The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> of Paying Attention The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Narrative . By Pfister Jude M. . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . 2014 . x, 205 pp. Paper , $35.00 ; e-book available. Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography . By Thiess Derek J. . New York : Lexington Books . 2015 . vii, 175...
View articletitled, Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> Fiction and Historiography
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Arrested in the Moment of Dying: Science, Fiction, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Valdemar” with Justinus Kerner’s medical case history “The Seeress of Prevorst,” this essay compares the narrative constructions of verisimilitude in science and fiction. But in exploring the viral dissemination of “Valdemar,” I also analyze how nineteenth-century print media produced content and credence...
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The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 553–584.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Taylor Evans Abstract The steam man is a trope of early US science fiction, one inaugurated by the first dime novel Edisonade, Edward Ellis’s 1868 story The Steam Man of the Prairies . Focusing on early steam man stories as well as the historical origin of the trope—Zadoc Dederick’s 1868 invention...
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Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 911–913.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Gerry Canavan Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . By Scott Selisker . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth, $91.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age...
View articletitled, Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Editing the Soul: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> and Fiction in the Genome Age
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 369–372.
Published: 01 June 2020
.... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century . By Kyla Schuller . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018 . xi, 282 pp. Cloth, $ 94.95 ; paper, $ 25.95 ; e-book, $ 25.95 . Mania for Freedom: American...
View articletitled, American Niceness: A Cultural History Mania for Freedom: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> in the Nineteenth Century
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for article titled, American Niceness: A Cultural History Mania for Freedom: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> in the Nineteenth Century
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Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative the Science of the Soul in Colonial New England
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Laura Henigman Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative . By Silva Cristobal . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 239 pp. Cloth , $74.00 . The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England . By Rivett Sarah . Chapel Hill : Univ...
View articletitled, Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative the <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> of the Soul in Colonial New England
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Reading Playboy for the Science Fiction
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Jordan S. Carroll Through an examination of some of the science-fiction stories published in Playboy magazine from 1953 to 1973, this essay shows that futuristic narratives were integral to the magazine’s editorial sensibility, which suggested that intimate life should be governed by the cool...
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