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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of Beyond Cheering and Bashing: New Perspectives on the Closing of the American Mind (Bowling Green Popular Press, 1992). Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England . By Goodman Nan . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2012 . 206 pp. Cloth...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Sonya Posmentier The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism . By Moya Paula M. L. . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 206 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book available. Race and the Literary Encounter: Black...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Elsa Nettels Duke University Press 2007 Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America . By T. Gregory Garvey. Atlanta: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xii, 263 pp. $ 39.95. Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 882–884.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 199 pp. $27.95. Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life . By William L. Van Deburg. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. xiv, 283 pp. $29.00. Book Reviews
New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
... . By Martha Banta. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2007. xxx, 306 pp. $38.00. A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America . By Thomas M. Allen. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 200. xii, 275 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95. Book Reviews
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Riché Richardson Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953 . By Stacy I. Morgan. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. x, 356 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95. Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 850–852.
Published: 01 December 2005
...-1880 . By Candy Gunther Brown. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America . By Patricia Okker. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2004. xii, 202 pp. $37.50. Book Reviews...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 880–882.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Audrey Raden The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America . By Michael C. Cohen Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2015 . 277 pp. Cloth, $55.00 ; e-book available. Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 612–615.
Published: 01 September 2004
... previously unpublished pieces. Despite this unusual format, all the chap-
ters cohere beautifully around the premise of ‘‘the overwhelming symbolic
significance of gender and family as sites of both individual identity forma-
tion and collective socialization’’ (1). Bloch is more interested in broad reli...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 151–177.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Xiomara Santamarina Duke University Press 2005 Xiomara Black Hairdresser and Social Critic:
Santamarina Eliza Potter and the Labors of Femininity
Shortly after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry,
two reviewers in Cincinnati newspapers expressed opposite...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Duncan Faherty © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America . By Elisa Tamarkin. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xxxiii, 400 pp. $35.00. Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 473–499.
Published: 01 September 2024
... ultimately transforms Asian Americans’ reproductive labor—their childbearing and child-rearing—into their social reproduction as a racialized class of useful, compliant workers. 8 For an account of the racial foundations of the social contract, the paradigmatic thought experiment of liberal political...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 647–649.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Timothy Aubry Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility . By Cotkin George . Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . viii, 433 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book available. The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy . By Michaels Walter Benn...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2005
... each book is dominated by an all-too-familiar national story,
so that they become studies, to some extent, of how an exclusive culture has
resisted the pressure for inclusiveness. All three books draw our attention to
the complex scripting of social performance both promoted and obscured...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 877–879.
Published: 01 December 2012
...James Salazar Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Borgstrom Michael . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2010 . xv , 183 pp. $84.00 . Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America...
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Rescued Children and Unfit Mothers: Dreiser’s Social Work in the Delineator ’s Child-Rescue Campaign
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 57–89.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Emily Hainze Abstract This essay explores the 1907–11 Child-Rescue Campaign run by the Delineator , a fashion magazine for women edited by Theodore Dreiser. I argue that the campaign mobilized social science to reconceptualize maternity as based in affective expertise rather than biological...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 531–533.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Christopher Bundrick [email protected] Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820–1860 . By Katharine A. Burnett , Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ. Press . 2019 . xi, 266 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Autonomy: The Social...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 657–660.
Published: 01 September 2018
... exploration of the experience of collectivity, sociality, and social form. While far from ahistorical, Alworth’s investigation of the postwar US novel emphasizes less the historicization that characterizes Apap’s and Brigham’s works than the conceptual force of literary and more broadly artistic endeavors...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 815–817.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Andrew Epstein Postmodernism in Pieces: Materializing the Social in U.S. Fiction . By Matthew Mullins . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 230 pp. Cloth, $87.00 ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. Lyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 336–338.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Brad Rittenhouse [email protected] Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America . By Douglas A. Guerra Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2018 . 253 pp. Cloth, $69.95 ; e-book available. Respawn: Gamers...
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