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Published: 01 March 2023
Figure 2 A close-up image of the first multiple-choice section of “trespasses” (Tuntha-obas 2006 : 57)
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To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 389–391.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Elizabeth Duquette To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War . By Barrett Faith . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2012 . xiii , 336 pp. Paper , $27.95 . America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism . By Hanlon...
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Incommensurate Labors: The Work behind the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 219–244.
Published: 01 June 2022
... can teach us about the antebellum book market and our scholarly evaluations of it. The first section of the article illuminates the publishing histories of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Jacobs and the third edition of Leaves of Grass by Whitman (1860) from the vantage of Thayer...
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With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass, L’Union , and Editorship Studies
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 245–272.
Published: 01 June 2022
... as themselves historically contingent and significant objects of inquiry. This essay analyzes a cross section of editorial practices in 1862 when a controversy during the Civil War over slavery and emancipation entangled editors from Horace Greeley and Frederick Douglass to their less conspicuous peers...
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Sleeping at Walden Pond: Thoreau, Abnormal Temporality, and the Modern Body
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of sleeping, nodding off, sleepwalking, snoring, dreaming, napping, exhaustion, and catalepsy recur throughout the text, while factory bells, the shrieks of trains, cries of newsboys, and addiction to caffeine all perturb his slumber or that of his neighbors. The first three sections of this essay situate...
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The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans
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American Literature 11792395.
Published: 07 March 2025
... uninhabitable due to coastal land loss. This article considers the ecological and gendered history of the Ursuline convent as a case study in architectural epistemology. Each section analyzes a genre of architectural epistemology—a gridded map, colonial correspondence, an architectural schema, a watercolor...
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Frances Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge, and the Politics of Interracial Collaboration
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Eldridge's life and misfortunes, Elleanor's Second Book contains only an abbreviated biography of its eponymous African and indigenous heroine. After its biographical opening section, Elleanor's Second Book shifts to several stories about white women representing a variety of class locations...
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Sacred Geographies: Religion and Race in Women's Holy Land Writings
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 471–500.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Land, especially during times of national vulnerability. In the late 1850s and 1860, when the outbreak of sectarian violence in Mount Lebanon provoked further anxiety about growing sectional and racial hostilities in the United States, women writers imagined the American woman capable of reordering...
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“Geographical Morality”: Place and the Problem of Patriotism in John W. De Forest's Civil War Realism
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 555–582.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Like Walt Whitman, who was also fascinated by the erotics of patriotism, De Forest explores the durability of local passions, of sectionalism and sex, in the face of constitutional idealism, the Unionism that became the hegemonic feeling-state decided by the Civil War. Through discussion of Miss...
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In the “Training Center of the Skillful Servants of Mankind”: Carlos Bulosan's Professional Filipinos in an Age of Benevolent Supremacy
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 381–406.
Published: 01 June 2008
... as the result of 1965 immigration policy and a reaction to the intensification of black civil rights and protest movements, the concluding sections of the essay suggest that Bulosan provides a glimpse of the emergence of a model minority discourse as it takes shape in the shadow of black pathologization...
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Published: 01 March 2023
Figure 1 The layout of the poem “Functional Shift” as an example of the standardized layout of all poems in the section “trespasses” (Tuntha-obas 2006 : 62–63)
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 675.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Section. The work of the American
Literature Section of the Modern Language Association and of American Lit-
erature could not happen without the executive coordinators, who facilitate
the many activities of the Section and keep the members informed.
Since the beginning of their terms in 2000...
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Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood Run
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 807–834.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., Squatters, Trac-
tor, Looters, Early Anthro, and Early Interpreter. The poems are
divided into formal sections that suggest a temporal movement from
a utopian distant past in sections I, “Dawning,” and II, “Origin,” to a
disrupted near past and volatile present in section III, “Intrusions...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 657–658.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language
Association.
Since moving into the position in fall 2006, Sarah has been unfailingly
thoughtful, responsive, and dedicated in all aspects of her role as facilitator
of the many activities of the Section, including the board...
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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 The Genius of Place , Apap considers the centrality of the “geographical imagination—the ways that humans view, represent, and interpret spaces both actual and imagined” in the “development of sectionalism and nationalism” between 1816 (after the War of 1812) and 1836 (the annus mirabilis, the author notes...
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How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 194–197.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and
an incipient conservatism” (2) in cognitive literary studies. Pushing back
against the notion of literary universals, these critics reject not only “subordi-
nating . . . literature to science” (6) but also the assumption of a largely
unchanging mind across time periods.
A third section, “Contemporary...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 225.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Section of the Modern Language
Association in recognition of a significant contribution to the study of
American literature.
2004 Norman Foerster Prize
The annual Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in
American Literature in 2004 was awarded by the American Literature
Section...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 205.
Published: 01 March 2006
... by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Asso-
ciation in recognition of a significant contribution to the study of American
literature.
2005 Norman Foerster Prize
The annual Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American
Literature in 2005 was awarded by the American...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 201.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Literature Section of the Modern Language Association in recognition of
a significant contribution to the field.
2007 Norman Foerster Prize
The annual Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in Ameri-
can Literature in 2007 was awarded by the American Literature Section...
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Flooded: The Excesses of Geography, Gender, and Capitalism in Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 811–835.
Published: 01 December 2001
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title attest, Jerusalem is a divided work, whose split structure is gen-
erally considered a failure. Irving Howe has explained that most crit-
ics consider the alternation of the ‘‘The Wild Palms’’ and ‘‘Old Man’’
sections unnecessary and an undeniable artistic failure. Howe notes
that Malcolm...
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