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...Augusta Rohrbach Augusta Rohrbach 2002 Augusta ‘‘Truth Stronger and Stranger Than Fiction Rohrbach Reexamining William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator In the words of James Russell Lowell, fellow aboli- tionist, William Lloyd Garrison ‘‘knew how types were set...

.... Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace.By 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 191 of 246 Augusta Rohrbach. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xvi, 153 pp. $45.00. In their studies of white Americans who adopted ‘‘black’’ voices, John...

...Lloyd Pratt Pratt’s essay explores how Frederick Douglass responded to the expanding racial segregation of the United States and the inhospitality to “colored” strangers that it represented by occupying and then refiguring the persona of the stranger. Douglass, Pratt notes, also asked his readers...

...Sam B. Girgus Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature . By Jason Richards . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . xi, 244 pp. Cloth, $45.00 ; e-book, $45.00 . Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion...

.... Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. x, 194 pp. $39.95. Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America. By Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. 662 pp. $35.00. Book Reviews New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American...

... and their relation to each other, kinship is predicated on institutionality and custom, whereas contagion is predicated on singularity and accident. By and large, the study of contagion is the study of unintentional transmission between strangers, requiring neither a deliberate nor a sustained encounter to shape...

... these moments of stranger encounter and human becoming through convincing readings of African American reprints of addresses by Andrew Jackson and William Lloyd Garrison alongside collaborative authorship in the 1853 Colored National Convention “Address”; Douglass’s decade-and-a-half pre–Civil War...

...Fritz Fleischmann Catherine A. Brekus. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1998. x,466 pp. Cloth $49.95; paper, $17.95. 2001 Reviews 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 187 of 232 Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845...

... Strangers: The Transformation of Florida. By John T. Foster Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 1999. xix, 158 pp. $24.95. The authors offer a friendly study of ‘‘Yankee strangers’’ (less fondly called ‘‘carpetbaggers and their contribution to the development of modern...

...Rachel Adams Abstract Care is the intimate and necessary labor required to sustain those who are dependent, but it is also about acting in ways that sustain other species and the lives of strangers distant in time and space. The COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the vulnerabilities and gaps...

...). Strangers to ourselves, we other others to avoid becoming others, Morrison argues, skin color being the chief technology thereof. So severe is Morrison’s angle of vision that in her first eight pages she equates the othering practices of her great-grandmother, Millicent MacTeer (who considered the lighter...

... Kevin J. 2011 . “Editing Naturalism.” In The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism , edited by Newlin Keith , 389 – 403 . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Highsmith Patricia . (1950) 2001 . Strangers on a Train . New York : Norton . ———. (1955) 2008...

..., slave-owning, Washington socialite whose family profited from the sale of Cherokee lands. In the ‘‘Stranger People’s’’ Country. By Mary Noailles Murfree. Ed. Marjorie Pryse. Lin- coln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2005. xlvi, 211 pp. Paper, $19.95. This is the first edition of the novel to appear since...

... for Demolition’: Mary McCarthy’s Vietnam Journalism,” 363–87. Ogden, Emily. “Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses,” 419–45. Pratt, Lloyd. “‘I Am a Stranger with Thee’: Frederick Douglass and Recogni- tion after 1845,” 247–72. Rader, Dean. Review: Chasar, Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular...

..., to be loved by strangers? Do you know the talk of those turning eye-ballsWalt Whitman, ‘‘Song of the Open Road’’ (1860) Is it possible to be intimate with someone you haven’t met? To those already wary of Whitman’s hyperbolically grand ambitions for himself...

... of regionalism as ‘‘a work of ethnic imagining’’ (Brodhead, 177). Foote attends to this ethnic imagin- ing directly, characterizing regionalist works by their shifting, exploratory contrasts between ‘‘the stranger...

... it is remembered that the land over which they now wander as strangers, in the midst of an alien race, was so lately their own—the heritage of their fathers—it is impossible to behold them without a feeling of peculiar interest” (RH, 108). Cooper mixes her use of “strangers” here in a way that belies...

... was awarded by the American Literature Section of the MLA to Lloyd Pratt, for his essay “‘I Am a Stranger with Thee Freder- ick Douglass and Recognition after 1845” (85:2, 247–72). An honorable men- tion was awarded to Emily Ogden, for her essay “Edgar Huntly and the Regu- lation of the Senses” (85:3...

... and Reynolds. In Melville’s two auto- biographical narratives of travel in the Pacific, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), he had represented Pacific island men as attractive but out of reach, natives to the places where he was a stranger and strangers to the places where he was a native.3 In The New Zealanders...

... to dedicate her first collection of New York letters to her friend John Hopper, declaring: ‘‘In a city of strangers you have been to me as a brother; most of the scenes men- tioned in these Letters we have visited together’’ (L, 3). Her choice of words in this dedication shows not only Child’s warmth...