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The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: Alchemical Regeneration in the Works of Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller

John McWilliams
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 143–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-143
Published: 01 March 2002
... for human greed. Clack certainly makes good on his modest opening thesis that Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller all ‘‘drew upon the tropes and metaphors of alchemi- cal philosophy to illustrate their visions of regeneration’’ (1). When alchemy is one of these authors’ explicit subjects (Poe’s ‘‘Van...
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Figure 1 “Meditation 8,” first series, manuscript detail from the Edward Taylor Papers, GEN MSS 1476. Image courtesy of the General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

“Meditation 8,” first series, manuscript detail from the Edward Taylor Pape...

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Published: 01 December 2018
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Figure 2 “Meditation 8,” first series, as printed in “Edward Taylor: A Puritan ‘Sacred Poet,’” edited by Thomas Johnson (New England Quarterly, 1937). Image courtesy of the New England Quarterly

“Meditation 8,” first series, as printed in “Edward Taylor: A Puritan ‘Sacr...

in How to Undo the History of Sexuality: Editing Edward Taylor’s Meditations > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2018
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Figure 4 “Meditation 8,” first series, as printed in The Poems of Edward Taylor, edited by Donald Stanford (Yale University Press, 1960). © 1960, renewed 1988, by Donald E. Stanford. Image courtesy of Donald Stanford Jr.

“Meditation 8,” first series, as printed in The Poems of Edward Taylor , e...

in How to Undo the History of Sexuality: Editing Edward Taylor’s Meditations > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2018
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Figure 2. Jason deCaires Taylor, The Last Supper. Cancún, Mexico. Copyright Jason deCaires Taylor. All rights reserved, DACS/ARS 2017

Jason deCaires Taylor, The Last Supper . Cancún, Mexico. Copyright Jason d...

in The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2017
Figure 2 Jason deCaires Taylor, The Last Supper . Cancún, Mexico. Copyright Jason deCaires Taylor. All rights reserved, DACS/ARS 2017 More
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How to Undo the History of Sexuality: Editing Edward Taylor’s Meditations

Jordan Alexander Stein
American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 753–784.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7208536
Published: 01 December 2018
...Figure 1 “Meditation 8,” first series, manuscript detail from the Edward Taylor Papers, GEN MSS 1476. Image courtesy of the General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University ...
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White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

Chris Taylor
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 528–531.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361321
Published: 01 September 2021
...Chris Taylor [email protected] White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett . By Gregory S. Jay , New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 370 pp. Cloth, $73.00 ; e-book available. Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism...
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The Limbs of Empire: Ahab, Santa Anna, and Moby-Dick

Christopher Taylor
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 29–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-062
Published: 01 March 2011
...Christopher Taylor Taylor reads Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) through the history of the captured prosthetic limb of Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. U.S. travel narratives, soldiers' accounts, and P. T. Barnum's 1847 display of the captured prosthesis in his American Museum...
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Fragile Belief: Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok and the Scene of American Secularity

Grant Shreve
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 655–682.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811742
Published: 01 December 2014
... to multiply indefinitely. The experience of a religious landscape this diverse was unprecedented and had profound effects on how religious belief was experienced. This essay uses Charles Taylor’s explication of “secularity” in A Secular Age (2007) to briefly consider how the experience of religious diversity...
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The Nature of Fear: Edgar Allan Poe and Posthuman Ecology

Matthew A. Taylor
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587377
Published: 01 June 2012
...Matthew A. Taylor Taylor’s essay complicates Simon Estok’s analysis of ecophobia by illustrating, first, that fear of the natural world need not lead to its domination, and second, that ecophilia —ecophobia’s presumptive opposite—represents not a solution to this problem but an extension...
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The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction

John Levi Barnard
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257892
Published: 01 December 2017
...Figure 2 Jason deCaires Taylor, The Last Supper . Cancún, Mexico. Copyright Jason deCaires Taylor. All rights reserved, DACS/ARS 2017 ...
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Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877–2000; Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature

Taylor Hagood
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 425–426.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-015
Published: 01 June 2008
...Taylor Hagood © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877–2000 . By Ajuan Maria Mance. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2007. x, 202 pp. $36.00. Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian...
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Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics; William Faulkner's Legacy: “What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark”

Taylor Hagood
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 618–620.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-027
Published: 01 September 2007
...Taylor Hagood Duke University Press 2007 Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics . By Ted Atkinson. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xi, 271 pp. $39.95. William Faulkner's Legacy: “What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark.” By Margaret...
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The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction

Taylor Evans
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 553–584.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994805
Published: 01 September 2018
...Taylor Evans Abstract The steam man is a trope of early US science fiction, one inaugurated by the first dime novel Edisonade, Edward Ellis’s 1868 story The Steam Man of the Prairies . Focusing on early steam man stories as well as the historical origin of the trope—Zadoc Dederick’s 1868 invention...
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Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism

Taylor Black
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 871–873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917344
Published: 01 December 2019
...Taylor Black Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds . By Leo Braudy . New Haven, CT : Yale Univ. Press . 2016 . xii, 306 pp. Cloth, $30.00 ; paper, $22.00 . Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism...
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Figure 3 “Meditation 8,” first series, as printed in The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor, edited by Thomas Johnson (Spiral Press, 1939). Image courtesy of Princeton University Press

“Meditation 8,” first series, as printed in The Poetical Works of Edward T...

in How to Undo the History of Sexuality: Editing Edward Taylor’s Meditations > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2018
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The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction

Carolin Benack
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 877–879.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917368
Published: 01 December 2019
... Liberalism . By Christopher Taylor . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018 . 320 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $26.95 . The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction . By Alison Shonkwiler . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2017 . 200 pp...
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Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James; Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure; Henry James and the Father Question

Gregory Tomso
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 871–873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-871
Published: 01 December 2003
...Gregory Tomso By Donatella Izzo. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2001. viii, 312 pp.$60.00. By Tessa Hadley. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 205 pp.$55.00. By Andrew Taylor. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. x, 234 pp.$60.00. 2003...
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Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood Universes without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature

Stephanie Clare
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 850–852.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811718
Published: 01 December 2014
.... By Mat- thew A. Taylor. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2013. viii, 269 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Both Lake’s Prophets of the Posthuman and Taylor’s Universes without Us address questions related to the posthuman through the analysis of American...
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If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right The Production of American Religious Freedom

Grant Shreve
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 669–671.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722236
Published: 01 September 2019
... York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 209 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 It has been more than a decade since the publication of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age in 2007. Along with equally pathbreaking works like...
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