... of Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787) that reveals the imprint of the agonistic audience on the repertoire of the period, shedding new light on nineteenth-century genealogies of performance. References Bank Rosemarie K. 1994 . “ Staging Gender: Women Audience Members in the Antebellum American...

... debates. After a brief reading of Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive (1797), the article explores how attention to these historical contestations over fiction’s value might lead to a reconsideration of the grounds on which we defend fiction’s educational value today. I close by considering the more...

...Tyler Nickl Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . By Schuyler David . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 206 pp. $29.95 . Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition . By Sachs Aaron . New...

...Tyler Curtain By Alan Sinfield. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2000. vii, 407 pp.$29.95. 2003 Book Reviews 883 Sánchez’s work—the pinta (prison), the barrio, and the migrant...

...Tyler Shoemaker [email protected] The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies . Edited by Jonathan Roberge and Michael Castelle . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan . 2021 . xv, 289 pp. Cloth, $109.99 ; paper, $79.99 ; e-book, $75.99...

... to the Present . By Dennis Tyler . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2022 . xvi, 317 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $32.00 ; e-book, $32.00 . Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Since Douglas C. Baynton’s often-cited 2001 essay on “Disability and the Justification of Inequality...

...—alongside George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In the following paragraph, also shown here, she notes that “many children came to read and to be told stories about Lincoln” but says nothing further about the African Americans whom she added to the usual birthday events. Anna Cogswell Tyler...

... focuses on reinterpreting Bishop’s politics, Rubenstein uses the work of Barbara Kingsolver, Julia Alvarez, Anne Tyler, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Morrison to reconfigure ‘‘nostalgia and tropes...

... and the Rise of the American Novel, 614–16. Review: Gura, Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel, 614–16. Nickl, Tyler. Review: Knickerbocker, Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language, 839–41. Review: Sachs, Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environ...

... of American Fiction, 1790–1860 . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Tyler Royall . 2002 . The Algerine Captive; or, The Life and Adventures of Updike Underhill , edited by Crain Caleb . New York : Modern Library Classics . First published 1797. Tyler Royall . 2007 . The Contrast...

... editors Jane Gaines (Duke University) and Tyler Curtain (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) invite submissions for a special issue of American Literature that will move outward from these two moments to consider the material-representational technologies that make 216 American Literature...

...’’ Orient by authors such as Royall Tyler, Susanna Rowson, and Washington Irving, Schueller proceeds to examine the Near Eastern Orientalist literature of the nineteenth century, including works by DeForest, Melville, and Poe...

... “skepticism towards liberal expansionism” (70), and Herman Melville’s “nonexceptionalist cosmopolitianism” (95). The second section explores Hispanicism in relation to Cuban annexation through the work of lesser-known writers: New Englander Mary Tyler Peabody Mann and Cuban José Antonio Saco. As the only...

.... Jones ( 2007 , 2018 , 2020), Koritha Mitchell ( 2020 ), Dennis Tyler ( 2022 ), and others have begun rethinking citizenship from the perspectives and practices of those whom the state routinely refuses to recognize or protect. This work across the humanities presages a New Citizenship Studies. Our...

... as a queer theorist, extending this framework to works by Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and more. Building on the role of nature in mythmaking, See’s essays in Part II link the theory of queer nature to queer communities and conceptions of futurity in fiction by John Dos Passos, Parker Tyler...

... ecocritical conversation about the ability of writing to help us locate ourselves in the natural world, and it allows him to reconceive twenti- eth-century modernism as an environmentally usable past. Whether and how other critics engage these ideas to do the same will remain to be seen. Tyler Nickl...

.... (1963) 1964 . The Stone Face . New York : Pocket Books . Stora Benjamin . 2001 . Algeria 1839–2000: A Short History . Translated by Todd Jane Marie . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . Stovall Tyler E. 1996 . Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light...

... to convert to Islam. Royall Tyler, author of the fictional captivity narrative The Algerine Captive (1797), crafts a bathing scene that works dialectically with Douglass’s scene. Tyler’s hero, Updike Underhill, has been invited to leave the fields of slave labor and join the Muslim mullah...

... symbol, and political figure in the post–civil rights era. Considering a range of texts, including Tyler Perry’s films, Sapphire’s Push (1996), Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982), and the performances of Erykah Badu, David identifies five new archetypes—the Young Mother, the Blues Mama...

... focusing on the writings of Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, and Judith Sar- gent Murray, Baker cogently places these canonical figures into conversation with an array of artifacts and texts to describe how eighteenth-century public life was imagined...