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With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass, L’Union , and Editorship Studies

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Jim Casey, Sarah H. Salter
American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 245–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9779106
Published: 01 June 2022
... into a single French sentence: “L’Union! . . . l’Union avec des esclaves, l’Union sans esclaves—l’Union quand même! . . . ABE LINCOLN” (“The Union! . . . the Union with the enslaved, the Union without the enslaved—the Union even still / all the same!”). 14 The translation appeared on the front page, right...
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Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World; Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960

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Philip Beidler
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-059
Published: 01 March 2009
...Philip Beidler © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World . By Bonnie Costello. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2008. xvii, 205 pp. $29.95. Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945...
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Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien; Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity

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John Whalen-Bridge
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 854–856.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-854
Published: 01 December 2005
...John Whalen-Bridge 2005 Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien . By Alex Vernon. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xi, 314 pp. $39.95; Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity . By Thomas Strychacz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2003...
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“Greater Still in Death”: Race, Martyrology, and the Reanimation of Juan Placido

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R. J. Boutelle
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 461–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994769
Published: 01 September 2018
... Tannenbaum Still Teach Us about the Law of Slavery? ” (forum). Law and History Review 22 , no. 2 : 339 – 87 . Leavitt Joshua . 1850 . Selections for Reading and Speaking for the Higher Classes in Common Schools . Boston : John P. Jewett . Levecq Christine . 2008 . Slavery...
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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body

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Suzanne Schneider
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587692
Published: 01 June 2012
...Suzanne Schneider Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination . By Scott Darieck . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2010 . x, 317 pp. Cloth , $49.00 ; paper , $22.00 . Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical...
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The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship

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Guadalupe Escobar
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345351
Published: 01 March 2023
... Grande’s The Distance between Us (2012), and Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s Undocumented (2015) as examples of the critical DREAMer memoir, foregrounding suppressed and subversive self-representation. Such self-fashionings are constrained by overachievement while still troubling the myth of meritocracy...
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Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?

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Michele Elam
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 281–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575077
Published: 01 June 2023
... cannot be reduced to a prompt. Some have noted that literary creations generated or augmented by artificial intelligence at best can offer form without meaning; using a GPT creation prompted by Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” as a case study, this essay argues that NLP’s predictive language generation...
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Fragile Belief: Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok and the Scene of American Secularity

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Grant Shreve
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 655–682.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811742
Published: 01 December 2014
... than the Puritan state church—nevertheless excludes Indian religiosity from its Protestant borders. Yet Child still obliquely registers how even a purportedly autonomous domesticity remains caught in processes of mutual fragilization that characterize secularity. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...
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Tract Tales, Literary Aesthetics, and American Fiction

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Kathleen Howard
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 463–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717380
Published: 01 September 2014
... of these traditions allowed for a gap between the practical use of language and theories about its significance. It was in this gap that the tract tales emerged—within a cultural context still suspicious of fiction—as representations of what divine truths looked like when lived in the modern world. The essay...
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Chronicling Contemporary Latinidad

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Monica Hanna
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 361–389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533338
Published: 01 June 2016
... of community imagination, and reception and distribution, the essay explores the ways in which US Latin@ writers are engaging the transnational literary imagination to intervene in historical portrayals, political debates, and the shaping of a Latin@ identity that is still under construction in the United...
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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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Stephanie LeMenager
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 555–582.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-026
Published: 01 September 2009
...Stephanie LeMenager John William De Forest's Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty was written from 1864 to 1867, when Reconstruction still had a chance of changing the face of American reality. It could be called the only U.S. realist novel that reports to us from within this moment...
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Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast

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Michael Lundblad
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 747–773.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-045
Published: 01 December 2009
... helps to explain why the discourse of sexuality shifted at the turn of the century, once heterosexuality was naturalized in the name of reproduction. Questions about human sexuality were soon framed within an evolutionary epistemology that was fundamentally new, but still in transition, at that time...
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How Quarantine Attempts to Universalize the Black Condition

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Kelly L. Bezio
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780911
Published: 01 December 2020
... attention to how an enslaved condition in which one lacked the right to choose to move or hold still is now being extended to a class of workers deemed essential. References Andone Dakin . 2020 . “ Protests Are Popping Up across the US over Stay-At-Home Restrictions .” CNN , April 17...
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“Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature

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Tamlyn Avery
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780863
Published: 01 December 2020
... and complicated mark on African American literature relating to the sublime properties of his musical aesthetic than has previously been recognized. As a point of departure, I apply Michael J. Shapiro’s definition of the racial sublime as a confrontation with the “still vast oppressive structure that imperils...
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Stowe, Byron, and the Art of Scandal

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Susan M. Ryan
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 59–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-063
Published: 01 March 2011
... enhanced Byron's status and sales. The ensuing damage to Stowe's career, on the other hand, has been much exaggerated. The article concludes by exploring the critical and pedagogical tensions that authorship's reputational economies still engender. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Susan M...
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Into the Morass: Chesnutt, Antinormativity, and the Queer Politics of Early Jim Crow Literature

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Timothy Marshall Griffiths
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 495–522.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994781
Published: 01 September 2018
... queer theory. I do this to emphasize an important but still-developing ethic in contemporary queer literary studies: the need to center the study of queer representation and politics on more than homosexuality and especially on blackness. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 LGBTQ...
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“Nudity and other sensitive states”: Counterprivacy in Herman Melville’s Fiction

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Justine S. Murison
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 697–726.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257823
Published: 01 December 2017
... visions of privacy, a proliferation of competing and resistant modes that cannot be reducible to the domestic or the political. I situate Melville’s Typee and Pierre within an emergent nineteenth-century discourse of privacy, still prevalent today, in which one’s private life operates to develop...
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The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing

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Joseph Darda
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917308
Published: 01 December 2019
... of program building followed the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966, which brought Vietnam vets into a changing workshop, where students still learned to write what they know but also, as pre–civil rights racial liberalism turned to post...
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On to the Centennial

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Louis J. Budd
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 653–663.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-653
Published: 01 December 2004
... and documen- tary. After all, how many people still around can claim fewer degrees of separation from AL than I can? How many knew personally all of its editors since its founding? I remind myself of Jay B. Hubbell mention- ing that he once talked with someone who had heard Edgar Allan Poe deliver...
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Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia the Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood Neocybernetics and Narrative

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R. John Williams
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 850–853.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329734
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and the three books above are evidence that the heady discourse of the 1970s and 1980s is still very much with us. Each of these vol- umes is, in some form, a response to philosophical and literary-analytical work that emerged during the “age of theory,” and it may be useful in review- ing them to ask how...
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