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“Nature's Nation” Revisited: Citizenship and the Sublime in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

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Matthew Cordova Frankel
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 695–726.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-695
Published: 01 December 2001
...Matthew Cordova Frankel Duke University Press 2002 Matthew ‘‘Nature’s Nation’’ Revisited: Citizenship and the Cordova Sublime in Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Frankel State of Virginia Thus, superficial appearances to the contrary, America...
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The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf

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Katherine Sugg
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 203–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-203
Published: 01 March 2003
... of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf. By Lisa Williams. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 194 pp. $59.95. In cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons, the trick is often to justify and elaborate...
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The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape; Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier; Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England; American Geographics: U.S. National Narratives and the Representation of the Non-European World, 1830-1865

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Betsy Klimasmith
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 467–470.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-467
Published: 01 June 2003
...Betsy Klimasmith By Stephen Adams. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. xii, 352 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. By Susan Kollin. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. xviii,224 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. By Kent C. Ryden. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press...
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The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-80-1-198
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 Collections The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624 . Ed. Peter C. Mancall. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. vi, 596 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $27.50. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt...
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Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO

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Jennifer Rae Greeson
American Literature 11792403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792403
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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Globalizing a Southern Classic: An Example from Colonial Virginia

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Jay Watson
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 727–730.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-4-727
Published: 01 December 2006
... against mountaintop removal in Appalachia; commu- nity development efforts in the southern West Virginia coal fields, which is among the most capital-forsaken places in the region; anti- plant closing activism in east Tennessee; and the organizing against Wal-Mart in northern Mississippi and other...
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things

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Christina Zwarg
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 23–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865175
Published: 01 March 2015
... . Zwarg Christina . 2010 . “ Vigorous Currents, Painful Archives: The Production of Affect and History in Poe’s ‘Tale of the Ragged Mountains.’ ” Poe Studies 43 : 7 – 33 . Christina Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Zwarg Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things...
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Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape; The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast

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Virginia Kennedy
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 641–643.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-040
Published: 01 September 2009
...Virginia Kennedy © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape . By Lee Schweninger. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2008. ii, 242 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space...
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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture; Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space

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Virginia Kennedy
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 837–839.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-048
Published: 01 December 2010
...Virginia Kennedy © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture . By Shari M. Huhndorf. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xii, 202 pp. $39.95. Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S...
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Reconstructing Revenge: Race and Justice after the Civil War

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Gregory Laski
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 751–781.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917296
Published: 01 December 2019
... of vengeance in black-authored texts from the period following formal emancipation to the dawn of the twentieth century: the petitions of the freedmen of Edisto Island, South Carolina; the minutes of the 1865 Virginia State Convention of Colored People; the narrative of the ex-slave Samuel Hall...
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PS from page 18 of the November 4, 1858, entry in John Washington’s diary. ...

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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 5 PS from page 18 of the November 4, 1858, entry in John Washington’s diary. John Washington Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, box 1, MSS 1500 More
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Announcements

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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-461
Published: 01 June 2000
... 2000 Announcements 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 223 of223 2000 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize The University of Virginia announces competition for the fifth Walker Cowen Memorial Prize...
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Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project

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Sarah Rivett
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329542
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Anderson Douglas . 2000 . “Subterraneous Virginia.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 , no. 2 : 233 – 49 . Andresen Julie Tetel . 1990 . Linguistics in America, 1769–1924: A Critical History . New York : Routledge . Banner Stuart . 2005 . How the Indians Lost Their Land...
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Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of African American Literature: A History of the African American Literary Presence, 1680-1865

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-201
Published: 01 March 2003
...Stephen Knadler By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp.$34.95. By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. xv,374 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. 2003...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 199–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-199
Published: 01 March 2002
..., July 1899–1901. Ed. Ignas K. Skrup- skelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2001. lvi, 752 pp. $85.00. Approximately 470 letters are included in this volume of correspondence be- tween James and his family, friends, and colleagues. James’s physical...
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Index to Volume 87 (March 2015–December 2015)

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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3454777
Published: 01 December 2015
... Lis- ten to Postwar New York,” 275–302. Huerta, Monica. Review: American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850–1900 by Holly Jackson; Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era by Clare Virginia Eby; Uncoupling American Empire: Cultural...
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The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings

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Lauren F. Klein
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367310
Published: 01 December 2013
... of American Archivists . Bedini Silvio A. 1984 . Thomas Jefferson and His Copying Machines . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . Best Stephen . 2011 . “ Neither Lost nor Found: Slavery and the Visual Archive .” Representations 113 , no. 1 : 150 – 63 . Best Stephen...
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Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making

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Alexander Mazzaferro
American Literature 11845230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11845230
Published: 07 March 2025
...Alexander Mazzaferro Alexander Mazzaferro Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making An intriguing digression punctuates Edward Water- house s account of the 1622 Powhatan Uprising, the attack on the Virginia colony by members of the Powhatan paramount chiefdom...
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Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography

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Kevin Modestino
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533470
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kevin Modestino Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy . By Mark Rebecca . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2014 . xiii, 300 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 . America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National...
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Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism

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Cecilia Tichi
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 828–830.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329662
Published: 01 December 2015
...Cecilia Tichi 828  American Literature Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing. By Sari Edelstein. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2014. xi, 240 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $20.50; e-book, $29.50. Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith...
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