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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 633–635.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Rosenberg. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 260 pp. $74.95. Cuban Currency: The Dollar and “Special Period” Fiction . By Esther Whitfield. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. 217 pp. Paper, $22.50. Book Reviews Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic...
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 6 Cover of the first volume of the Frank Reade Library (1892). From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside More
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 4 A later cover for the Beadle and Adams 1882 reprint of The Huge Hunter; or, The Steam Man of the Prairies . From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside More
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 767–779.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the implications of this ambiguous temporality, suggesting that COVID-19 has made visible a new heterotemporality, wherein real time, history, and the future intermesh. The paper concludes by focusing on Hong Kong, a former British colony and Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China since...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2011
... and limited, of a figure that continues to have special resonance in the digital age. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Douglas Forcibly Impressed: Reform Games and Guerra the Avatar Figure in Milton Bradley and Walt Whitman [W]hat I am...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Durn’d Fool (1867)— arguing for a new point of departure from the level of locality and with special attention to democratic decision making. Most nation-oriented readings portray the humor of the Old Southwest either as a regional subset supplementing nationalization via print...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Odile Harter The Great Depression engendered a special kind of first-person plural, which drove fundamental changes in Marianne Moore’s quoting practice during the period. She moved toward a quotation practice that was less dense, drawn increasingly from mottoes and collective speech, and couched...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 65–91.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Todd Barosky Abstract This article examines the US Secret Service, a federal agency created during the Civil War to protect the greenback against counterfeiters, and its literary origins. It explores an overlooked chapter in the history of American crime and detective fiction, one that has special...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 505–532.
Published: 01 September 2012
... materials of that economic sector not as a distant or vicarious consumer but, following his visit to the Old Berkshire Mill in Dalton in the winter of 1851, as a specialized purchaser. Instead of treating paper as a metonym of literary-market exchange, then, Thompson’s essay examines Melville’s experience...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 305–332.
Published: 01 June 2010
... for the deepening and darkening of Melville's work: the apparent realization of U.S. “Manifest Destiny” in 1848, with a massive territorial conquest from Mexico. Hager explores the political implications of Redburn 's spatial tropes, paying special attention to the architectural history of the New York customhouse...
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 5 PS from page 18 of the November 4, 1858, entry in John Washington’s diary. John Washington Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, box 1, MSS 1500 More
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1 “Old Indian Hymn” from Indian Melodies (1845). Courtesy of the Kim-Wait/Eisenberg Native American Literature Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library ( https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:479052 ) More
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 2 Letter from Carl Aimone dated May 30, 1946. Letters from Servicemen A-C; Council on Books in Wartime Records, MC038, Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library More
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Published: 01 September 2019
Figure 2 Engraving of the “figuier sauvage,” another name for the figuier maudit in Jean Baptiste Labat’s Nouveau voyage aux isles de l’Amerique . Courtesy of the Newberry Library’s Ayer Collection, Ayer 1000.L15 1722 Special Collections More
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1 Letter from Ed Josowitz dated March 12, 1945. Letters from Servicemen J-M; Council on Books in Wartime Records, MC038, Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library More
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 3 Detail of “Map of the State of Wisconsin” from Increase Lapham, The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described (1855). Dots indicate Native earthwork sites, many of which are on Carver’s route. Image courtesy of Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries More
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 5 Cover of the first Frank Reade story (originally published in 1876), from a reprint in the January 24, 1883, issue of the Wide Awake Library . From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside More
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 2 Increase Lapham, The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described (1855, plate XLI). In a series of plates, Lapham documented Native effigy mounds and earthworks like these Ho Chunk ones. Carver came through this region on his travels. Image courtesy of Special Collections More
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figure 1 Honoré Daumier, “Soulouque, trouvant qu’à Paris, la location des cases est beaucoup trop chère,” Le Charivari , April 9, 1859. Lithograph 29 × 29.5 cm. Robert D. Farber Univ. Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis Univ. Libraries. More
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 922–924.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 American Literature and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities invite submissions for a joint special issue titled “The Infrastructure of Emergency,” coedited by John Levi Barnard, Stephanie Foote, Jessica Hurley...