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“Truth Stronger and Stranger Than Fiction”: Reexamining William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 727–755.
Published: 01 December 2001
...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...
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The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race; Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 433–435.
Published: 01 June 2003
....
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...
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“I Am a Stranger with Thee”: Frederick Douglass and Recognition After 1845
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 247–272.
Published: 01 June 2013
...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...
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Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 153–155.
Published: 01 March 2020
...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...
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Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature; Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness ; Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 878–879.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... 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...
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Relative Strangers: Contracting Kinship in the Queer Ecology Classroom
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
... 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...
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The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature The Lives of Frederick Douglass
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 428–430.
Published: 01 June 2017
... 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...
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Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 413–414.
Published: 01 June 2001
...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...
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Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 147–148.
Published: 01 March 2002
... 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...
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An Overstory for Our Time
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
...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...
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The Origin of Others Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 600–602.
Published: 01 September 2023
...). 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...
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The Age of Anxiety: Patricia Highsmith, Existential Psychology, and the “Decline” Of American Naturalism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 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...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 419–428.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., 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...
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Index to Volume 85 (March 2013-December 2013)
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 845–862.
Published: 01 December 2013
... 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...
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Intimate Nationality: Anonymity and Attachment in Whitman
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 85–119.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., 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...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 656–658.
Published: 01 September 2003
... 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...
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Land Claims, Natives, and Nativism: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Fealty to Place
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 475–500.
Published: 01 September 2007
... 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...
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Announcements
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 215.
Published: 01 March 2014
... 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...
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Whence Come You, Queequeg?
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 227–257.
Published: 01 June 2005
... 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...
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“The Public Heart”: Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 749–775.
Published: 01 December 2004
... 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...
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