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“A Hideous Monster of the Mind”: American Race Theory in the Early Republic; “Miscegenation”: Making Race in America

Augusta Rohrbach
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 613–615.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-027
Published: 01 September 2006
...Augusta Rohrbach Duke University Press 2006 “A Hideous Monster of the Mind”: American Race Theory in the Early Republic . By Bruce Dain. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. x, 321 pp. $29.95. “Miscegenation”: Making Race in America . By Elise Lemire. Philadelphia: Univ...
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Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory; Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions

Celeste Langan
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 655–657.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-045
Published: 01 September 2006
...Celeste Langan Duke University Press 2006 Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory . By Cary Wolfe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xv, 237 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00. Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism...
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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation / The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

David M. Higgins
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 677–679.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664827
Published: 01 September 2012
...David M. Higgins Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation . By Chu Seo-Young . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2010 . 306 pp. $39.95 . The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction . By Csicsery-Ronay Istvan Jr. Middletown, CT...
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American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995; The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism; Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Nancy Glazener
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 656–658.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-656
Published: 01 September 2003
... of transatlantic culture. Matt Cohen, Duke University John David Miles, Duke University American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995. By Phillip...
View articletitled, American Literary Realism, Critical <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span>, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995; The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism; Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature View PDF for article titled, American Literary Realism, Critical <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span>, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995; The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism; Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice; “Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885

Michael Lundblad
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 843–845.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-045
Published: 01 December 2008
...Michael Lundblad © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice . Ed. Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Marshall, Daniel J. Philippon, and Adam W. Sweeting. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. ix, 278 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper...
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Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic; A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America

Paul Grimstad
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-057
Published: 01 March 2009
...Paul Grimstad © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century . By Theo Davis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. vi, 203 pp. $85.00. One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic...
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American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900; Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000; Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space; Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas

Lauren Coats
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 863–866.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-060
Published: 01 December 2009
... Imagination, 1850–2000 . By Eric Bulson. New York: Routledge. 2007. xi, 176 pp. $95.00. Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space . Ed. Susan Kollin. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2007. xix, 267 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95. Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging...
View articletitled, American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900; Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000; Postwestern Cultures: Literature, <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span>, Space; Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas View PDF for article titled, American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900; Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000; Postwestern Cultures: Literature, <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span>, Space; Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas
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Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution the Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States

Michelle Neely
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865247
Published: 01 March 2015
... and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 . By Olwell Victoria . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2011 . 288 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; e-book , $59.95 . Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States . By Cahill Edward...
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The Game Theory of Sex

Arthur Z. Wang
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 103–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697015
Published: 01 March 2022
...Arthur Z. Wang Abstract Calculated sexual games play out across contemporary American popular media, from self-help books and advice columns to dating apps and reality television. This article argues that economic game theory subtends the saturation of popular culture with lay theories of sex...
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Figure 1 From a game theory textbook (Karlin and Peres 2017: 5), an illustration of a match containing an unstable pair. The Gale-Shapley algorithm (Gale and Shapley 1962) guarantees the existence of a stable matching (i.e., one containing no unstable pairs). In this case, an unstable pair is a set of two dancers who would both prefer to dance with each other than with their current partners. Image courtesy of Anna R. Karlin and Yuval Peres

From a game theory textbook (Karlin and Peres 2017 : 5), an illustration o...

in The Game Theory of Sex > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 1 From a game theory textbook (Karlin and Peres 2017 : 5), an illustration of a match containing an unstable pair. The Gale-Shapley algorithm (Gale and Shapley 1962 ) guarantees the existence of a stable matching (i.e., one containing no unstable pairs). In this case, an unstable pair More
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Figure 1 Illustration of Petrus Camper’s theory of facial angles for drawing skulls and heads of monkeys, orangutans, Central Asians, and Angolan Africans. Engraved by Thomas Kirk c. 1794. Printed in The Works of the late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, and statuary . . . illustrated with seventeen plates (London: Sold by J. Hearne, 1821).

Illustration of Petrus Camper’s theory of facial angles for drawing skulls ...

in The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 1 Illustration of Petrus Camper’s theory of facial angles for drawing skulls and heads of monkeys, orangutans, Central Asians, and Angolan Africans. Engraved by Thomas Kirk c. 1794. Printed in The Works of the late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the science of anatomy More
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Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America

Patricia Larson Kalayjian
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 200–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-200-a
Published: 01 March 2000
... States became more multicultural in actuality. Wertheimer’s study pertinently brings the languages of postcolonial and border theory, as well as Lacanian and Andersonian conceptions of national...
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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery; The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After; From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century; A Transnational Poetics

Mark Scroggins
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 443–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-017
Published: 01 June 2010
...: Modernism and After . By Charles Altieri. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. xi, 245 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $39.95. From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century . By Jennifer Ashton. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. x, 201 pp. Cloth, $85.00...
View articletitled, Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery; The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After; From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span> in the Twentieth Century; A Transnational Poetics View PDF for article titled, Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery; The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After; From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and <span class="search-highlight">Theory</span> in the Twentieth Century; A Transnational Poetics
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Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory

Kenneth M. Roemer
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 656–657.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-656
Published: 01 September 2001
... and Thoreau—provocative (from the Latin provocare, to call forth). He explicates the theories of a host of im- portant, obscure, and bizarre philologists and invites fresh readings not only of the transcendentalists but also of Irving, Cooper, Andrews Norton, Horace Bushnell, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville...
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A Genealogy of Queer Theory

Eden Osucha
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 890–891.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-890
Published: 01 December 2001
... succeeded in imbuing them with a confidence and energy often undermined by, for example, Coleridgean dejection. For the most part eschewing any dealings with fashionable cultural theory, Gravil calls his model of literary history ‘‘dialogic a cross-fertilizing relationship whose potential was invented...
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Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism; Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)becoming the Subject

Jennifer Williams
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 430–432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-430
Published: 01 June 2005
.... Philippon. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2004. xv, 373 pp. $39.95. Both of these books answer recent critiques of ecocriticism’s supposed under- theorization. Theory takes a different place, however, in each one: exoskeletal, so to speak, in Andrew McMurry’s Environmental Renaissance, endoskeletal...
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Toward a Native American Critical Theory; Gambling and Survival in Native North America

Scott Andrews
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 204–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-204
Published: 01 March 2005
...Scott Andrews By Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 233 pp.$50.00. By Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2003. xviii, 202 pp.$40.00. 2005 204 American Literature Toward a Native American Critical Theory. By Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln: Univ...
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The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revisioning and Editing for Book and Screen; Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries; Writing Machines; Cognitive Fictions

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 869–872.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-869
Published: 01 December 2005
...Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 2005 The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revisioning and Editing for Book and Screen . By John Bryant. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2002. x, 198 pp. Cloth, $55.50; paper, $20.95; Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries . By Loss Pequeño Glazier. Tuscaloosa...
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Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading; Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts

Martha Nell Smith
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 415–417.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-008
Published: 01 June 2007
...Martha Nell Smith Duke University Press 2007 Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading . By Virginia Jackson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. xvii, 298 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts . By Domhnall...
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Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit in The Soul of Things

Dana Luciano
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 713–736.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811754
Published: 01 December 2014
.... Psychometric geology suspends itself between materialism and vitalism in an effort to develop a theory, at once practical and ethical, of interobjectivity. A certain attunement, at once intellectual and intuitive, to the geological past would, according to the Dentons, lay the foundations for a vitalized...
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