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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 489–516.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and the Shaping of the American Nation . New York : Vintage . Mary Garden Variety:
Kuhn Botany and Multiplicity in
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Abolitionism
In the middle of writing her second abolitionist
novel, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 218–220.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Jonathan Levin By Carrie Tirado Bramen. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2000. 380 pp.$45.00. 2003 218 American Literature
The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctive...
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in “The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks
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Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 11 “Advertisement: WomaNews 5th Anniversary! Variety Show!” Originally in WomaNews , November 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Flint. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xv, 376 pp. $39.50. All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression . By Arnold Krupat. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. xv, 229 pp. Paper, $25.00. Book Reviews
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World...
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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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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in a variety of ways. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Barrish Phillip J. 2011 . Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . Basch Norma . 1999 . Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 791–798.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Michael Bérubé Abstract In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this essay examines a variety of visions of apocalypse and civilizational collapse, asking how we can imagine a world without us (as in Alan Weisman’s book of that title), or whether we will merely eke out a post–climate disaster...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 543–570.
Published: 01 December 2021
... abridgments and the interpretive instability such invocations evince. The variety of ways in which Robinson Crusoe abridgments engage with or disavow money suggests that Crusoe’s gold was among the most contested symbols in the antebellum literary marketplace. The books Olds published, by contrast...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 2023
...N. Katherine Hayles Abstract The human aura is now being subverted by a variety of simulacra. OpenAI’s language-generation program GPT-3 illustrates the challenges of interpreting algorithmic-generated texts. This article advocates interpretive strategies that recognize the profound differences...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 91–119.
Published: 01 March 2019
... for money or food, for example, took a variety of forms, and they also took on erotic connotations. This article reads the erotics of begging in little-known literature from the Great Depression, especially Tom Kromer’s Waiting for Nothing (1935), and argues that when a man on the down and out “makes...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 93–125.
Published: 01 March 2009
... capacity of a variety of prephotographic visual technologies, including portraiture, woodcuts, stereotypes, and the camera obscura. Douglass and Jacobs lived in the midst of a photographic revolution. Douglass repeatedly commented on photographic technology and celebrated its democratic potential. But both...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Eldridge's life and misfortunes, Elleanor's Second Book contains only an abbreviated biography of its eponymous African and indigenous heroine. After its biographical opening section, Elleanor's Second Book shifts to several stories about white women representing a variety of class locations...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 439–448.
Published: 01 June 2018
... interdisciplinary scholars working primarily in ethnic studies, black studies, American studies, and women’s and gender studies, among others. With important work coming out of a variety of discourses, one of the most exciting aspects of recent developments in the field is its necessary interdisciplinarity. While...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., 387–89.
Kuhn, Mary Pauline. “Garden Variety: Botany and Multiplicity in Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s Abolitionism,” 489–516.
LaFleur, Greta. Review: Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-
Century America by Peter Coviello; If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and
the Promise...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
Published: 01 June 2011
... by a variety of countercul-
tural movements in this period. Whether in the “getting loose” phi-
losophy of the hippie generation or the consciousness-raising projects
of liberal feminism, the ecstatic physical states of disco culture or the
spiritual communion with nature celebrated by popular ecology...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Tom’s Cabin (1852) with his decision to pass. 2 Martha Jane Nadell ( 2004 ) suggests that the Old Negro was influenced by “a wide variety of nineteenth-century literary and visual images of African Americans” (10–11). 1 On the “New Negro” as a recurrent rhetorical strategy, see Gates 1988...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 423–425.
Published: 01 June 2019
... figure, allowing readers to engage questions of posthumanism and ontology, community and sociality, and even to peer intimately into what might be considered the figure of Thoreau himself—the personality and the eccentricities that have prompted scholarship on a variety of topics. Both books bring us...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 726–729.
Published: 01 December 2021
... are navigated. We welcome essays that examine citizenship through a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches, including but not limited to Indigenous studies; critical race studies; gender, sexuality, and trans studies; Black studies; Latinx studies; ethnic studies; Caribbean studies; queer theory...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 215–218.
Published: 01 March 2022
... are navigated. We welcome essays that examine citizenship through a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches, including but not limited to Indigenous studies; critical race studies; gender, sexuality, and trans studies; Black studies; Latinx studies; ethnic studies; Caribbean studies; queer theory...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 647–650.
Published: 01 September 2018
... their compromised status was expressed in sexual victimhood and in frustrated attempts at resistance and self-rescue. The remaining chapters prioritize a variety of close readings that show the shifting lay understanding of black selfhood, revealing a set of writers who confront the impersonal rhetoric of white...
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