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Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 430–431.
Published: 01 June 2001
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Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West. By Suzanne Clark.
6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 204 of 232 Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 251 pp. $34.95.
In this valuable if somewhat narrowly conceived book, Suzanne Clark...
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Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Maurice Lee Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture . By DeLombard Jeannine Marie . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2007 . xiv, 330 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95 . The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Joanna Brooks This essay challenges the image, popularized by Henry Louis Gates Jr., of eighteenth-century African American poet Phillis Wheatley “on trial” before a jury of eighteen white male judges. Brooks argues that there was no trial and that Wheatley instead made her career by cultivating...
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Interracial Sexual Abuse and Legal Subjectivity in Antebellum Law and Literature
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 65–92.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of a Slave Girl (1865) in conjunction with the 1855 trial of Celia, an executed murderous slave, to compare specific literary and legal interpretations of North Carolina and Missouri slave law against a more general understanding of slaves' legal “double character” to argue that both women, through criminal...
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Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine: The Case of Amelia Norman
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 325–355.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Foster’s The Coquette (1797), informed Norman’s sensational
trial and celebrated acquittal and helped effect political and legal re-
form to reckon with the seduced woman as a moral agent capable
of consenting to sex. The Norman trial played out against the back-
drop of what Mary Ryan has called...
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“Indelicate Exposure”: Sentiment and Law in Fall River: An Authentic Narrative
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 June 2002
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‘‘sad tale’’ also points to the meaning such tensions acquired by assum-
ing the form of a seduction plot. Popular laments for the fate of the
‘‘poor factory maid’’ responded not just to the facts of her death but
also to the subsequent murder trial and acquittal of Avery. The song’s...
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Naturalism's Nation: Toward An American Tragedy
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 March 2000
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the schema of personal ambition, transgression, and punishment that
overtly organizes Dreiser’s novel as generate scenes—ultimately,
Clyde’s trial—that can accommodate both systems of value. This
juxtaposition, I...
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Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 93–122.
Published: 01 March 2005
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a similar rhetorical contest. It urges Lincoln to let stand the death sen-
tences of 303 Dakota captured by the United States and subject to a
grossly unfair military trial in which nearly four hundred trials were
conducted in six weeks, defendants were deprived of counsel, and the
jury was made up...
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“Freedom with a Vengeance”: Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 7–34.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in Antislavery Literature and Law 13
between fugitive and transiting slaves. In the pre-trial hearing, Curtis
also “alleged . . . that a promise has been given to the mother that her
child should be returned to her” and pleaded that keeping Med from
her mother was an act of “inhumanity.”20 He invoked...
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“Victory of LAW”: Melville and Reconstruction
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2003
... a trial: the Union’s project isn’t to defend
the law so much as to advocate a particular interpretation. And for this
6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 10 of 252 reason, it comes as no surprise that Lincoln would eventually repre-
sent...
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Lolita in History
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 629–652.
Published: 01 September 2003
... criminality may be. Indeed, the
furthest extent of what I have called the Holocaust subtext of Lolita
may be the parallel between Humbert’s ‘‘case’’ and ‘‘trial’’ and one of
the most prominent contemporary trials of the era...
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The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism; Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 220–222.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., Steiner develops an account of artistic experi-
ence and social responsibility by using five case studies from the ‘‘battle-
ground of contemporary culture’’ (209): the Mapplethorpe obscenity trial...
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Murder by Madman: Criminal Responsibility, Law, and Judgment in Wieland
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 721–750.
Published: 01 December 2000
... requires that
we take the text’s forensic positioning seriously. Every incident is
presented to us in legal language; every character speaks as if he or
she has been up all night reading trial practice manuals; every page...
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Ezra Pound's Whistler
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 485–516.
Published: 01 September 2002
... guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the
public’s face.16
This statement induced Whistler to launch a libel case against Ruskin.
The trial, heard in 1878, marked a turning point in Whistler’s self-
presentation. In order to set himself against the hegemony of the art
establishment (represented...
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The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 218–220.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., Steiner develops an account of artistic experi-
ence and social responsibility by using five case studies from the ‘‘battle-
ground of contemporary culture’’ (209): the Mapplethorpe obscenity trial...
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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
... be thought of as “‘trials,’ in which the rights and obliga-
tions of man in a democracy are contested by a single, conflicted narrator”
(xxix). Redburn and White-Jacket never fully understand or sympathize with
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In Defiance of the Law: From Ann Hutchinson to Toni Morrison; Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of the Pequod Indians in Hope Leslie, the material and legal ramifica-
tions of slavery in Harriet Jacobs’s small-town North Carolina, and the trial of
Margaret Garner, the model for Sethe in Beloved. This process can be quite...
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Harriet Jacobs among the Militants: Transformations in Abolition’s Public Sphere, 1859–61
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 743–768.
Published: 01 December 2012
... that
applies the methods of critical legal10 studies to place Jacobs’s work in
the context of antebellum criminal trials, Saidiya Hartman argues that
“the textual performance of seduction” in Incidents “reveal[s] the role of
law in sustaining and defining virtue.” The appeal of Jacobs’s work, in
all...
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Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 661–663.
Published: 01 September 2011
... travel narratives
and the Salem witch trials, and followed by consideration of John Marrant’s
Methodist journal, Susanna Rowson’s novels, and the Aaron Burr conspiracy,
Wheatley helps Fichtelberg make the argument that “[t]o record risk . . .
is at once to constitute, to master...
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