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The Health of the State: Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890–1964 This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 902–904.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Hosam Aboul-Ela The Health of the State: Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890–1964 . By Jonathan Vincent . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . xii, 293 pp. Cloth, $82.00 ; e-book available. This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel...
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Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 409–412.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Lisa Diedrich Let me begin with Perry’s Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation because its critical reanimation challenge is perhaps the most daunting and audacious of the three. The “vexy thing” of the title is apparently patriarchy . It seems emblematic of the problem of reanimating this very...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Brent Ryan Bellamy The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism . By Tim Jelfs . Morgantown : West Virginia Univ. Press . 2018 . xii, 198 pp. Cloth, $99.99 ; paper, $29.99 ; e-book, $29.99 . The Half-Life of Deindustrialization...
View articletitled, The Argument about <span class="search-highlight">Things</span> in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End
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Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700–1900 Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 387–389.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Deanna P. Koretsky Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700–1900 . By Manning Susan . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2013 . xiii , 315 pp. Cloth , $99.00 ; paper , $34.99 ; e-book , $79.00 . Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging...
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The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., $19.95.
One of the wonderful things about good essay collections is the way in which
their introductions richly overview the collection’s field of study. Robert Blair
St. George’s opening essay in Possible Pasts stands as vivid testimony to just
how rewarding introductory material can be. Touching...
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Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit in The Soul of Things
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 713–736.
Published: 01 December 2014
...-century collaboration between the geologist and Spiritualist lecturer and writer William Denton and his wife, the psychometric medium Elizabeth Foote Denton, which produced a three-volume study titled The Soul of Things : Psychometric Researches and Discovery , published between 1863 and 1874...
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and Freedom, 1850–1910 . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Brown Bill . 2001 . “ Thing Theory .” Critical Inquiry 28 , no. 1 : 1 – 21 . Castronovo Russ . 2000 . “ The Antislavery Unconscious: Mesmer, Vodu, and ‘Equality.’ ” Mississippi Quarterly 53 , no. 1 : 41 – 56...
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Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture; Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 871–873.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Jane F. Thrailkill © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture . By Lisa Woolfork. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. xi, 233 pp. $40.00. Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo...
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A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature; Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 622–624.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., they reveal important shifts
in orientalist discourse as well as the relevance of the overarching frame-
work. Among their other achievements, they are valuable contributions to the
ongoing collective critique of orientalism.
Seung Hye Suh, Scripps College
622 American Literature
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Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Susan Fraiman Ed. Bill Brown. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth,$49.50; paper, $25.00. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. 2005 206 American Literature
Things. Ed. Bill Brown. Chicago: Univ...
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Enforcement on a Grand Scale: Fugitive Intelligence and the Literary Tactics of Douglass and Melville
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2013
... and of conflict itself—that is, conflict as an aesthetic device within narrative as well as the thing being narrated, the manifestation of force between actors aboard the slave ship. Because the enforcement of US law and security by 1850 tended toward something supra-territorial if not transnational in scope...
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Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO
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American Literature 11792403.
Published: 07 March 2025
... of how Francis Bacon, himself deeply involved in Virginia plantations by 1620, renders Harriot’s intervention into philosophy, in his famous pronouncement in the New Organon that “knowledge and power . . . really come to the same thing.” Jennifer Rae Speculation and Scienti c Method: Greeson Thomas...
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Lovelorn Columns: A Genre Scorned
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Jean M. Lutes Abstract The newspaper advice column has shaped the American imagination in unacknowledged ways. Using Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) as a lens into a wily, underestimated genre, I juxtapose West’s riff on the newspaper advice column with readings of the real thing. I...
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Lines in the Dirt (c. 1969): Postwar Literalism and the Failure of Technology
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 385–416.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the Aristotelian conception of the artifact. Through the lines in the dirt they feature, the works discussed in this essay bracket off the axes of the subject, the human, and the machine. To that end, they generate “failed artifacts” by isolating the exposures of human-made things to their environments...
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The Talking Book in the Secondary Classroom: Reading as a Promise of Freedom in the Era of Neoliberal Education Reform
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 355–377.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Andrew Donnelly Abstract This article contrasts the reading pedagogy inspired by the “talking book” and the reading pedagogy described by Frederick Douglass. The talking book offers literacy as a thing to be acquired that can be traded for freedom. “Literacy as a gift” inculcates in students a view...
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The Ordering Power of Disorder: Henry Adams and the Return of the Darwinian Era
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 March 2012
... power of disorder” that makes them more similar to the poststructuralism they imagine themselves most strenuously to oppose than they are to the thinkers discussed here. For Adams in particular, the advent of modernity entailed a revelation of chaos at the heart of things that could never be folded back...
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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
..., biblical precepts, and history. Howard follows the development of ideas about literariness in the antebellum evangelical context by first tracing their roots in a Puritan tradition of representing divine things in language and a Scottish aesthetic tradition that deemed such representations useful. Both...
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Strange Beauty: The Politics of Ungenre in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 September 2014
... into “a real thing.” But the sculpture—described as “rough” and “ungainly”—in its atypical expression of the feminine simultaneously disables any easy aesthetic distance that would result in the attribution of beauty normatively defined. Instead, its particular non-normative form of femininity formalizes...
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The Language of the Stones: The Agency of the Inanimate in Literary Naturalism and the New Materialism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2015
... humanity’s attention to the surreptitiously active nature of things. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 naturalism new materialism Theodore Dreiser object-oriented ontology References Alaimo Stacy . 2010 . Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 647–675.
Published: 01 December 2008
... culturally dependent upon Great Britain. In addition, sati itself becomes a dynamic theatrical sign of a variety of local and international concerns connected to Asian Indians, Native Americans, and the place of the United States in global politics and culture. It reflects, among other things, both American...
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