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Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 191.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times . By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. lvii, 147 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. Brief Mention
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 402–404.
Published: 01 June 2013
...–1893 . By Noonan Mark J. . Kent, OH : Kent State Univ. Press . 2010 . xix, 235 pp. $65.00 . Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity . By de Beeck Nathalie op . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2010 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth , $82.50...
View articletitled, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy <span class="search-highlight">Tale</span> of Modernity
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“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 607–609.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Wyn Kelley “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen . By Schell Jennifer . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2013 . xiv , 262 pp. Cloth, $80.00 ; paper, $28.95 . Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville...
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Eugene O'Neill and His Eleven-Play Cycle: “A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed”
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 208–209.
Published: 01 March 2001
...-Play Cycle: ‘‘A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispos-
sessed By Donald C. Gallup. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1998. 306 pp. $40.00.
When he died in 1953, Eugene O’Neill left behind notes, drawings, outlines,
scenarios, manuscripts, and typescripts for a theatrical behemoth: a cycle of
eleven plays...
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Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 417–418.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Elizabeth Barnes By James D. Hartman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 202 pp. $38.50. 2000 Reviews
6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 179 of223 Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature. By James D. Hartman...
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Tract Tales, Literary Aesthetics, and American Fiction
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 463–492.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Kathleen Howard Howard’s essay argues for the significance of antebellum evangelical tract tales both as precedents for later best-selling works such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin and as provocations to consider our critical understandings of literariness. Tract tales belonged to a moment in which...
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Hawthorne’s Distillery: Time and Temperance in “The Birth-Mark” And Other Tales
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 723–753.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Clayton Marsh Abstract Drawing on a wide range of temperance reform literature, this essay examines the temporal dimensions of America’s antebellum crusade against alcohol and their remarkably complex treatment in the tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The inebriates in Hawthorne’s tales...
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Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and written text both imposes limits on, and creates opportunities for, self-expression. On the one hand, mendicant narrators could not stray too far from conventional presentations of disability if they wanted to sell their tales. On the other hand, the very act of direct exchange between the disabled...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Southern and Spanish American Fiction . By Deborah N. Cohn. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt Univ. Press. 1999. x, 236 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95. Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales . By Keith Cartwright. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press. 2004. 270 pp...
View articletitled, “Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic <span class="search-highlight">Tales</span>
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2009
... writings about the limits of reason, particularly his tales of ratiocination—“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (1842–43), and “The Purloined Letter” (1844). Exploring emergent sciences of chance through his polymath investigator Dupin, Poe's use of probability theory...
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Love and Theft: Plagiarism, Blackface, and Nella Larsen’s “Sanctuary”
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 509–540.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Barbara Hochman Abstract When Nella Larsen’s story “Sanctuary” appeared in the Forum in 1930, readers noted its similarity to “Mrs. Adis,” a tale by the popular British writer Sheila Kaye-Smith. Scholars concur that “Sanctuary” turns a story about British class-consciousness into a story of African...
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Inventing Queer: Portals, Hauntings, and Other Fantastic Tricks in the Collected Folklore of Joel Chandler Harris and Charles Chesnutt
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Don James McLaughlin Abstract Through an analysis of Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country (1894) by Joel Chandler Harris and The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales (1899) by Charles Chesnutt, this essay attempts to account for a late nineteenth-century genre termed the queer fantastic...
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“A form of life in which art is not art”: “Life in the Iron Mills” and the Artist as Worker in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
... alongside Rebecca Harding Davis’s tale of tragic artistic labor, “Life in the Iron Mills.” Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 aesthetic regime romantic authorship genius copyright intellectual labor author compensation Jacques Rancière In his extended and alluring discussions...
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Exporting Manhood: Adaptation and the Post-NAFTA Latinx Novel
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 811–839.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Alberto Varon Abstract This essay examines the figure of the vanishing male in a trio of novels—Cristina Rivera Garza’s La muerte me da , Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North , and James Cañon’s Tales from the Town of Widows —whose circa-2007 publication speaks to the fifteen-year legacy...
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The Biology of Intimacy: Lamarckian Evolution and the Sentimental Novel
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Kyla Schuller Abstract This article explores the enabling intimacy between sentimentalism and biopolitics by turning to a less-than-obvious and yet characteristic example of the sentimental mode: the ubiquitous orphan tale of the mid- to late nineteenth century. It argues that individual orphan...
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Authentic-Deconstructionist Games and Tragic Historiography in Assassin’s Creed III
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 133–158.
Published: 01 March 2022
... , this authentic-deconstructionist method is applied to the story of an Indigenous man trying to protect his tribe from white settlers during the American Revolution. However, the game is critically weakened by the historiographic problem of emplotting this tragic tale in the heroic epic of the nation’s founding...
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What the Afterlife of SCUM Can Teach Us about Autotheory
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 677–703.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Anna Ioanes Abstract The emerging genre of autotheory has been tied to a longer lineage of feminist and queer writing. Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto (1967) forms an important context for contemporary autotheoretical practices not only as an influence but also as a cautionary tale. Published...
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“He Fell Just Short of Being News”: Gatsby 's Tabloid Shadows
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 119–149.
Published: 01 March 2012
... the “intermedial” strategies that were designed to mobilize readers to engage news stories and insert themselves in such tales—this essay argues that Fitzgerald's reenvisioning of tabloid culture permeates both his aesthetic technique and Nick Carraway's attempts to provide an account of the scandalous “death car...
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Agnostic Tensions in Hawthorne's Short Stories
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 595–624.
Published: 01 September 2000
...). The insight points
up Hawthorne’s divergence from the more optative (Emerson) and
sentimental (Longfellow) writers he lived among and neatly plumbs
such tales as ‘‘Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent’’ and ‘‘Earth’s Holo...
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Arrested in the Moment of Dying: Science, Fiction, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Univ. Press . Barthes Roland . 1985 . “ Textual Analysis of a Tale of Poe .” In On Signs , edited by Blonsky Marshall , translated by Ward Matthew and Howard Richard , 84 – 97 . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . Bodamer Joachim . 1958 . “ Vorwort...
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