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American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville The Official World

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Adam Frank
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 889–891.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917416
Published: 01 December 2019
...Adam Frank American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville . By Paul Hurh . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2015 . xi, 298 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. The Official World . By Mark Seltzer . Durham, NC : Duke Univ...
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The Origins of the American Detective Story; Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana(o) Identity; True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-074
Published: 01 March 2008
...: Univ. of Texas Press. 2005. xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity . By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. Book Reviews Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans...
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Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans; Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race; Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 167–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-066
Published: 01 March 2008
.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...
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Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America; Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 170–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-067
Published: 01 March 2008
.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 172–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-068
Published: 01 March 2008
.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...
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Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade; Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 175–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-069
Published: 01 March 2008
.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 177–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-070
Published: 01 March 2008
.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...
View articletitled, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance View PDF for article titled, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance
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American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age; Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape; From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 180–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-071
Published: 01 March 2008
.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...
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Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival; Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 183–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-072
Published: 01 March 2008
.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...
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American Indian Literary Nationalism; Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 185–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-073
Published: 01 March 2008
.... xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95. These three books explore, in very different ways, the relation between crime fact and crime fiction...
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The Language of the Stones: The Agency of the Inanimate in Literary Naturalism and the New Materialism

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Kevin Trumpeter
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 225–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886103
Published: 01 June 2015
...: Time, Agency, and Science. Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . Pizer Donald , ed. 1998 . Documents of American Realism and Naturalism. Carbondale : Southern Illinois Univ. Press . Seltzer Mark . 1992 . Bodies and Machines. New York : Routledge . Slovic Scott...
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The Other Henry James

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Wendy Graham
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 875–876.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-875
Published: 01 December 2000
... that James subverted the discursive techniques used to legitimate the power of the bourgeoisie. Where Mark Seltzer describes James’s role in perpetuating the networks of power he abjured (Henry James and the Art of Power, 1984...
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Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism

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Robert Thacker
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 876–877.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-876
Published: 01 December 2000
... that James subverted the discursive techniques used to legitimate the power of the bourgeoisie. Where Mark Seltzer describes James’s role in perpetuating the networks of power he abjured (Henry James and the Art of Power, 1984...
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Probably Poe

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Maurice S. Lee
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 225–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-001
Published: 01 June 2009
... details that conjure the real cause of Rogers’s death—a botched abortion; and as David Probably Poe  237 Van Leer and Mark Seltzer argue, the knowledge that young women disappear with great frequency can be terribly and compellingly mod- ern.38...
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Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes

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Dana Seitler
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 525–562.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-525
Published: 01 September 2001
... for the resolution of scientific inconsistency. They did not, that is, as Amy Kaplan suggests, engage in ‘‘an enormous act of construction to orga- nize, re-form, and control the social world 15 In an argument simi- lar to Kaplan’s, Mark Seltzer proposes that ‘‘the naturalist novel man- ages late nineteenth...
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The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction

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Taylor Evans
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 553–584.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994805
Published: 01 September 2018
... century, composing an unnamed subgenre circulating as a piece of “the mass literature of boyhood, adolescence, and the making of men” (Seltzer 1992 , 4). They form an oft-unacknowledged branch of science fiction’s genealogy and represent a popular iteration of “disciplinary individualism and machine...
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Rescued Children and Unfit Mothers: Dreiser’s Social Work in the Delineator ’s Child-Rescue Campaign

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Emily Hainze
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 57–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788717
Published: 01 March 2017
... (Seltzer 2015 , 98). However, the Delineator ’s mobilization of sociological reform illuminates an alternate relationship between social science and American culture, one that turns on the burgeoning discipline’s pliable social experimentation and affective underpinnings, or its “strain of uncertainty...
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Touching a Button

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Lindsay Reckson
American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 31–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453648
Published: 01 March 2016
... . Black No More . New York : Modern Library . Sekula Allen . 1986 . “The Body and the Archive.” October 39 : 3 – 64 . Seltzer Mark . 1992 . Bodies and Machines . New York : Routledge . Smith Shawn Michelle . 2012 . “The Photographer's Touch.” In Pictures...
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“Prismatic and Profitable”: Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's “The Jolly Corner”

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Nicola Nixon
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 807–831.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-807
Published: 01 December 2004
... be part of a Nature 818 American Literature more powerful than the Chicago Board of Trade—he nevertheless articulates what Mark Seltzer aptly describes as turn-of-the-century ‘‘melodramas of uncertain agency 27 James, too, organizes his cor- ner around such a melodrama, except that Brydon’s...
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Naturalist Smellscapes and Environmental Justice

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Hsuan L. Hsu
American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 787–814.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711126
Published: 01 December 2016
... . London : Routledge . Seitler Dana . 2001 . “ Down on all Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes .” American Literature 73 , no. 3 : 525 – 62 . Seltzer Mark . 1992 . Bodies and Machines . London : Routledge . Shiner...
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