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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Book Reviews White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown’s African and American Theater.By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. x, 239 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Theatre, Society...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Susan K. Harris Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. By Alison Piepmeier. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xi, 278 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 892.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of challenges and limitations. Gray- son needs to problematize the encoding of West African traditions in the con- text of memory: What is lost? What is transformed? What is invented? What is rejected? Grayson also does not work through the complexity of gender re- lations in West African societies...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 411–441.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Society and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals—framed the book as able to “ have as widespread and powerful influence in abolishing cruelty to horses, as ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ had on the abolition of human slavery .” 2 Humane education focused on animal welfare—largely...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 589–591.
Published: 01 September 2020
... 2020 Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States . By Laura L. Mielke . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2019 . ix, 284 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; e-book, $59.95 . Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 203–231.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Nancy Glazener Assessments of Benjamin Franklin have often been implicit assessments of civil society, whose double character of facilitating market transactions and promoting more expansive forms of public reflection have fueled competing accounts of Franklin. This essay explores Franklin's...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 650–652.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Rebecca Wanzo Duke University Press 2006 The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects . By Charles Altieri. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.50. The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2004
.... Elizabeth McHenry’s Forgotten Readers recovers free African American readers (primarily in the North) who participated in liter- ary societies as both readers and producers of texts, challenging models of African American literary history that find origins in the ‘‘stolen’’ literacy of slaves...
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 4 James Akin. “A Philosophic Cock,” c. 1804. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. More
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1 A feline-focused “humane leaflet,” circa 1887. Courtesy of the Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Photo by author More
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Published: 01 December 2017
Figure 2 Clarissa Chapman Armstrong, “Titihuta” (Nuku Hiva, 1833). Image courtesy of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library More
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Published: 01 December 2017
Figure 3 Clarissa Chapman Armstrong, “Bartimeus” (Wailuku, Maui, 1847). Image courtesy of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library More
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figures 1, 2, and 3. Elizabeth Walker’s copy of The Wonderful Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe . Images courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society More
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figures 1, 2, and 3. Elizabeth Walker’s copy of The Wonderful Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe . Images courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society More
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figures 1, 2, and 3. Elizabeth Walker’s copy of The Wonderful Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe . Images courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society More
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 3 Engraving after Fanny Corbaux, “The Parted,” Forget Me Not (London: Ackermann and Company 1841), 156. Image credit: American Antiquarian Society More
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 5 A late nineteenth-century rebinding. Description: The cover features an impressed A , adorned by gold flourishes and a double-lined border. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society More
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figures 5a and 5b “To the people at York, and all those who are acquainted with the character of George Spangler . . . ” 1803. York, Pennsylvania: s.n. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. More
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figures 5a and 5b “To the people at York, and all those who are acquainted with the character of George Spangler . . . ” 1803. York, Pennsylvania: s.n. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. More
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figure 4 “Avery’s Portable Daguerreotype Saloon” (1847), illustration for an article that appeared on the front page of the Farmer and Mechanic (vol. 1, no. 46). Made available by The Daguerreian Society. More