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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 420–422.
Published: 01 June 2009
...: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land . By Rinda West. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xii, 264 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.50. Book Reviews
Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship. By Catherine
O’Donnell Kaplan. Chapel Hill: Univ...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the ‘real’” (208, 59), Johnson’s work echoes Susan Sontag’s (though
Illness as Metaphor does not appear on the otherwise comprehensive list of
works cited). Her emphasis on the “irrecoverable story” of nature and on
Cooper’s “expression of grief” and “laments” also suggests links...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 844–846.
Published: 01 December 2010
... this
concern by treating the writing of national history in the late nineteenth cen-
tury as a matter of literary study. Christopher Hill’s work addresses its subject
from the outside, while Gregory Pfitzer tells the inside story. Hill takes a com-
parative approach, as indicated by his subtitle; he...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of writers. However, they also categorize teachers’ continued
choice to “privileg[e] representative extremes over nuanced complications”
as a “pedagogical desire for a unified story of heroic writer figures”—a heavy
indictment of those attempting to make pedagogical choices (2). The col...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 403–405.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580–
1640. By Rebecca Ann Bach. New York: Palgrave. 2000. xiv, 290 pp. $49.95.
The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from ‘‘The New England Primer’’
to ‘‘The Scarlet Letter By Patricia Crain. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 450–454.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 312 pp. $34.95. By Jace Weaver. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xiv, 381 pp.$34.95. 2003 450 American Literature
The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre.By...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 414–415.
Published: 01 June 2001
... short stories,
Palumbo-DeSimone presents the credible hypothesis that if we are to under-
stand what ‘‘happens’’ in these stories, stories that have been dismissed as
seemingly uneventful or trifling, we...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Origins of the American Detective Story . By LeRoy Lad Panek. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2006. viii, 227 pp. Paper, $35.00. Book Reviews
Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans. By Michael J. Colacurcio.
Notre Dame...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 196.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the “Outsider” and Loujon Press . By Jeff Weddle. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2007. xiii, 220 pp. $28.00. Brief Mention
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Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 823–826.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Dawn Keetley Duke University Press 2007 The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America . By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 176 pp. $40.00. The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 405–408.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Sarah Wadsworth Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 . By Weikle-Mills Courtney . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2013 . x , 265 pp. $55.00 . Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 607–609.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and Justice Story . By Mudgett Kathryn . New York : AMS Press . 2013 . xxxiii , 279 pp. $97.50 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews 607
tial, vitalist materialism. Anglo-Americans like William Bartram, Benjamin
Rush...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 873–875.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Nancy McCabe Octavia E. Butler . By Gerry Canavan . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2016 . xvii, 225 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $22.00 ; e-book, $19.80 . How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production . By John K. Young . Iowa City...
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in The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction
> American Literature
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
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
... has been equally paradigmatic. The mental fragmentation occasioned by trauma has been widely analogized to narrative production, such that texts about trauma are almost universally assumed to be fragmented: traumatic stories are those that disrupt causal order, upset time’s apparent progress...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 186–187.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Hurston’s Their Eyes
Were Watching God, and in the forms of ethnic, racial, and national hybridity
engaged by Maxine Hong Kingston and Kate Simon.
Richard S. Lowry, College of William and Mary
Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years. By Karen Lystra.
Berkeley and Los Angeles...
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in Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels
> American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2 The security AI *Mute in Analogue: A Hate Story . Screenshot by the author, 2020
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in Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels
> American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 3 *Hyun-ae cosplaying in Analogue: A Hate Story . Screenshot by the author, 2020
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Betsy Klimasmith Duke University Press 2007 Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature . By Jeffrey Myers. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 188 pp. $39.95. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 220–222.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Erin Gentry Lamb Uses of Literature. By Rita Felski. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2008. vi, 154 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $31.95. Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. By Lisa Zunshine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2008. xi...
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