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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 251–285.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Jana L. Argersinger Duke University Press 2002 Jana L. Family Embraces: The Unholy Kiss and
Argersinger Authorial Relations in The Wide, Wide World
In the originally unpublished final chapter of Susan
Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, Ellen and her new husband...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 783–811.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Sharon Kim Duke University Press 2003 Sharon Puritan Realism: The Wide, Wide World
Kim and Robinson Crusoe
6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 95 of 255 Cried over by Jo March and loved by Vincent Van...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 626–628.
Published: 01 September 2004
... succeeds
in tying together a wide variety of texts to prove the residual influence of mon-
archism on American democratic subjectivity.
However, not all of Downes’s chapters are equally convincing. His cursory
consideration of Irving, for example, does nothing to strengthen his argument,
which can...
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in The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 5 Cover of the first Frank Reade story (originally published in 1876), from a reprint in the January 24, 1883, issue of the Wide Awake Library . From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
Published: 01 September 2020
... heroines of domestic plots not only function as tropes of domestic and national belonging, as has been widely recognized, but also of population regulation at the biological level of species. Sentimentalism functions as a mode of evolutionary theory, one that articulated the Lamarckian belief that sensory...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 255–282.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Gerry Canavan Abstract This article takes up science-fictional visions of the future against the “deep time” of the Anthropocene in order to explore the possibilities for utopia that remain in an era that only seems capable of producing necrofuturological dread. The piece surveys a wide range...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 655–683.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to a domestic scene of women’s oppression, feminist internationalists politicized personal life by confronting the entanglement of home, family, and the frontlines of a distant war in Vietnam. Key poems from Rukeyser’s 1968 collection The Speed of Darkness were excerpted widely and embraced as authorizing...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Caper in the Castro , widely celebrated as the first LGBTQ video game, contains clear echoes of the AIDS crisis. Yet, as this article demonstrates, HIV/AIDS remains a powerful presence even in Murder on Main Street , Ralph’s “straight version” of the game. Together, these games offer a microcosm through...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 769–795.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Jennifer Putzi Published in 1860 under the pseudonym “Florence Percy,” “Rock Me to Sleep” quickly became one of the most popular and widely circulated poems of the nineteenth century. It also became the subject of a heated literary controversy, with multiple claimants coming forward to insist...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 797–826.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the key legal and political contexts that gave its narrative shape (and to which Williams addressed his text), including California Governor John Bigler’s anti-coolieism campaign (1852), the California Supreme Court ruling in People v. Hall (1854), and the widely publicized Modoc War (1872–73). It builds...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Monica Hanna Abstract Some of the most compelling and widely consumed US Latin@ literature being produced at the turn of the twenty-first century is literary journalism in the form of the chronicle, a transnational and transhistorical genre that draws on US and Latin American literary traditions...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 455–488.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Alex Beringer It is widely assumed that the American comic strip “begins” in the 1890s with the multipanel sequences appearing in Sunday newspapers. This essay challenges this periodization by looking to an archive of humor magazines from the 1850s and 60s. As early as 1852, artists including Frank...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 159–186.
Published: 01 March 2015
... this chronocanon put forth antiracist and anti-imperialist arguments in an era when racist violence and imperialist tendencies were widely deployed, both by the US government and by many of its citizens. More broadly, I argue that for critics interested in the politics of literature, more attention to mass...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2017
... sought to redistribute institutional power and resources. Although Rich’s poetry and essays have been widely praised for their contributions to feminism, little attention has been paid to the way she changed her life course, moving from Columbia to City College, to participate in one of the most...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Christopher Hanlon Hanlon's essay depicts South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks's 1856 assault on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner as a flashpoint for 1850s controversies over the laying of transatlantic telegraphic cable between the United States and England. Widely treated by both...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 723–753.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Clayton Marsh Abstract Drawing on a wide range of temperance reform literature, this essay examines the temporal dimensions of America’s antebellum crusade against alcohol and their remarkably complex treatment in the tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The inebriates in Hawthorne’s tales...
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Published: 07 March 2024
...Cynthia J. Davis Abstract In this essay, novels by Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton serve to elucidate more widely resonant value-laden distinctions between publicly embodied and quietly internalized responses to pain and pleasure. This fictional archive denigrates the demonstrativeness it associates...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 867–869.
Published: 01 December 2018
... sentimental texts such as Hannah Foster’s The Coquette (1797), Susan Warner’s Wide, Wide World (1850), and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) or some comparative close readings would have pushed the study to another level. Further, it would have challenged some of the book’s assertions...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 417–419.
Published: 01 June 2019
... in the autobiographical. Beginning with a chapter on the complexities of mirroring as depicted in the autobiographical graphic narrative (or “autography,” as Chaney calls it, following Gillian Whitlock), Chaney then analyzes some of the functions of masking in a wide range of comics-style memoirs. Then comes...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 531–533.
Published: 01 September 2021
... this monograph apart is its commitment to looking at work from a remarkably wide range of social and aesthetic strata in order to illustrate the fullness of his approach. Nicholas Brown’s Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism is similarly concerned with the ways art is entangled...
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