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Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s.; The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920

Josephine Lee
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 206–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-084
Published: 01 March 2010
...Josephine Lee © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s. By Amy Koritz. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. x, 200 pp. $40.00. The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920 . By Sabine Haenni...
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Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917

Caroline Levander
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 213–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-090
Published: 01 March 2007
... American Culture . By Karen Sánchez-Eppler. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xxviii, 260 pp. $35.00. Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900 . By Jennifer Mason. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. 240 pp. $55.00...
View articletitled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child&#x27;s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917 View PDF for article titled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child&#x27;s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917
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The New York School of Urban Ecology: The New Yorker , Rachel Carson, and Jane Jacobs

Jamin Creed Rowan
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 583–610.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-025
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jamin Creed Rowan Rowan's essay traces the emergence of a new ecological discourse that began to shape thinking about urban life across disciplines in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, urban institutions such as the New Yorker embraced what historians Michael Barbour, Robert McIntosh...
View articletitled, The New York School of <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Ecology: The New Yorker , Rachel Carson, and Jane Jacobs View PDF for article titled, The New York School of <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Ecology: The New Yorker , Rachel Carson, and Jane Jacobs
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Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860

Kevin R. McNamara
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 616–618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717443
Published: 01 September 2014
...Kevin R. McNamara Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward . By Salvaggio Ruth . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ. Press . 2012 . xiv , 242 pp. Cloth , $39.95 ; e-book , $29.95 . Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban...
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Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture

Kevin R. McNamara
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 198–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541031
Published: 01 March 2012
...Kevin R. McNamara Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture . By Heise Thomas . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 292 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $24.95 . An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics...
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Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions; Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism

Alex Feerst
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 408–409.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-016
Published: 01 June 2006
...Alex Feerst 2006 Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions . By A. Robert Lee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, with University of Edinburgh Press. 2003. x, 307 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Urban Triage...
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Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870–1900 Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature

Monica Miller
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 391–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886199
Published: 01 June 2015
...Monica Miller Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870–1900 . By Hardwig Bill . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2013 . xii , 184 pp. Cloth , $49.50 ; paper , $24.50 ; e-book , $24.50 . Rural Fictions, Urban Realities...
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Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation

Stephanie Foote
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 615–618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-026
Published: 01 September 2007
...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2007 Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value . By Tom Lutz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. vii, 226 pp. Paper, $19.95. At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930...
View articletitled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation View PDF for article titled, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation
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Richard Wright and the Black Metropolis: From the Great Migration to the Urban Planning Novel

Bo McMillan
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 653–680.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780875
Published: 01 December 2020
...Bo McMillan Abstract Early twentieth-century Black literature on the city from the likes of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen pondered questions of what it meant to be Black and urbane and also how to reformulate Black identity from a new position removed from the violent...
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The “Mysteries and Miseries” of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Jennifer Rae Greeson
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 277–309.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-277
Published: 01 June 2001
...Jennifer Rae Greeson Duke University Press 2001 Jennifer Rae The ‘‘Mysteries and Miseries’’ of North Carolina: Greeson New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life...
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Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture

Theresa Delgadillo
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 887–888.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-887
Published: 01 December 2001
..., and the postwar era, and also onto African Americans’ leadership in forging this period’s progressive cross-class, interracial, and international alliances. Mullen grounds his commentary in the political and artistic coali- tions of urban Chicago’s South Side between 1935 and 1946, while Sanders centers his...
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“The Public Heart”: Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York

Heather Roberts
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 749–775.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-749
Published: 01 December 2004
...Heather Roberts Duke University Press 2004 Heather ‘‘The Public Heart Urban Life and the Roberts Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child’s Letters from New York In 1841, the renowned novelist and social reformer Lydia Maria Child elected...
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On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction

Crystal S. Rudds
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 527–549.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084540
Published: 01 September 2022
...Crystal S. Rudds Abstract This essay seeks to expand the genre of black literary urbanism by examining Frank London Brown’s Trumbull Park (1959) and Jasmon Drain’s Stateway’s Garden (2020) as literary bookends of public housing history in the United States. The essay argues that public housing...
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Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890–1940 The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After

Adam Sonstegard
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 209–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335621
Published: 01 March 2019
...Adam Sonstegard Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890–1940 . By Christoph Lindner . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 228 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; paper, $30.95 ; e-book available. The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern...
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Requiem ’s Ruins: Unmaking and Making in Cold War Faulkner

Spencer Morrison
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 303–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079170
Published: 01 June 2013
...Spencer Morrison Morrison’s essay calls for closer scholarly attention to Faulknerian geography in its historical specificity by demonstrating the effects of post-WWII urban crisis on Faulkner’s Cold War writing. To this end, the article reads Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun (1951) as not only...
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Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York

Lisa Hollenbach
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886127
Published: 01 June 2015
...Lisa Hollenbach In the late 1940s and early 1950s, large-scale population shifts, urban-development projects, and new media transformed New York City in ways that were heard as much as seen. In this context, Langston Hughes and sound documentarian Tony Schwartz each experimented with techniques...
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Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Lori Merish
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084498
Published: 01 September 2022
.... The essay demonstrates that the period’s photographic apprehension of the poor haunts literary depictions. Tracing rich, productive exchanges between nineteenth-century visual and literary texts, it argues that the photographic project of bearing witness to urban poverty helped authorize the emergence...
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The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession

Cody C. St. Clair
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084526
Published: 01 September 2022
... and naturalizing summary process. Against this eviction reportage, this essay identifies a disconnected coterie of authors and artists who represented evictions and anti-eviction protests in their works, mapping out an urban geography that attends to the sociospatial and historical politics of forced ejection...
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The Sticky Web of Medical Professionalism: Robert Herrick’s The Web of Life and the Political Economy of Health Care at the Turn of the Century

Phillip Barrish
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717416
Published: 01 September 2014
...Phillip Barrish Robert Herrick’s novel The Web of Life (1900), a self-proclaimed work of literary realism, opens a critical window onto an urban “web” of intersecting practices, institutions, and professional formations at a moment when key dimensions of the US health-care system as we know...
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Naturalist Smellscapes and Environmental Justice

Hsuan L. Hsu
American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 787–814.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711126
Published: 01 December 2016
...Hsuan L. Hsu Abstract This essay considers naturalist and neonaturalist deployments of smell as a means of mapping uneven and potentially toxic atmospheres in the contexts of Progressive Era urbanization and twentieth-century environmental “slow violence.” After showing how the description...
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