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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 850–852.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Renée Bergland 2005 Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America . By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. x, 305 pp. $55.00; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 666–667.
Published: 01 September 2000
... separating C. P. Snow’s ‘‘two cultures however, we have left relatively un- examined the vast body of important writing that constitutes the rich tradi- tion of natural history. Fortunately, a number of accomplished recent studies...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Leonard Tennenhouse © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System . By Michelle Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. 2007. viii, 222 pp. Paper, $30.00. Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Gilmore shuttles between England and the United States, John- son examines the specifically American traditions of nature writing, land- scape painting, and garden design. She proposes that during the first half of the nineteenth century, writers’ “passions for nature” catalyzed a paradoxical...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 844–846.
Published: 01 December 2010
... this concern by treating the writing of national history in the late nineteenth cen- tury as a matter of literary study. Christopher Hill’s work addresses its subject from the outside, while Gregory Pfitzer tells the inside story. Hill takes a com- parative approach, as indicated by his subtitle; he...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 624–626.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., $29.95. Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities . By Susannah B. Mintz. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. x, 251 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Christopher Krentz. Chapel...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 620–622.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Peter Kvidera Duke University Press 2007 Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935 . By Ron Ebest. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2005. xi, 319 pp. Cloth, $58.00; paper, $25.00. Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 434–437.
Published: 01 June 2017
... narrative structures of that era and our own. In each book, technology provides a figure for understanding literary objects and their social contexts. A skeuomorphism emerges: predigital figures such as writing and book shape our ideas about new media, and in turn computer-oriented figures...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 844–847.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Mark Chiang The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American . By Song Min Hyoung . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . 284 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 ; e-book , $23.95 . Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kate Marshall Both Writing at the Limit and Writing with Scissors explore the medial conditions for social and literary communication with refreshing attention to the complex play between media old and new. One can imagine extensions of either study through the other’s focus—the deep history...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 March 2005
... supplies a useful name glossary (which would have beenhelpfulinvolume1aswell). Jason Stacy, Loyola University, Chicago Making Girls into Women: American Women’s Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity. By Kathryn R. Kent. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 355 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 897–899.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of Literature. By Myra Jehlen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2002. 246 pp. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $19.00. The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present. By Geoff Ward. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity Press. 2002. vii, 235 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $14.99. Myra...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 418–421.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Environmental Renaissance, endoskeletal 412 American Literature in Daniel Philippon’s Conserving Words. McMurry goes so far as to say that ‘‘the theory espoused here cannot possibly aim at improving practice al- though he holds out some hope in the final chapter (6). Philippon, writing for general...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 428–429.
Published: 01 June 2005
... here cannot possibly aim at improving practice al- though he holds out some hope in the final chapter (6). Philippon, writing for general readers as well as academics, sets up a working frame in the intro- duction, which becomes nearly invisible in the subsequent analyses. McMurry wants...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $25.00. A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships be- tween Women. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. An infant and mother gaze into each...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 591–619.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Daniel Punday Duke University Press 2005 Daniel John Barth’s Occasional Writing: Punday The Institutional Construction of Postmodernism in The Friday Book Unlike avant-garde writing in its classic formula- tion, postmodern fiction...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 699–728.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Christopher Hager © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Christopher Hunger for the Literal: Writing and Industrial Hager Change in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons The strikingly oblique prose of Elizabeth Stoddard’s 1862 novel, The Morgesons, its...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 862–864.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Scott Saul 2005 Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture . By Preston Whaley Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. 260 pp. $29.95; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry . By T. J. Anderson III...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 869–872.
Published: 01 December 2005
...: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2002. xii, 213 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95; Writing Machines . By N. Katherine Hayles. With designer Anne Burdick. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2002. 144 pp. Paper, $17.95; Cognitive Fictions . By Joseph Tabbi. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxvii, 166 pp...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 182–185.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Carolyn Sorisio From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. By Mary Loeffelholz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing...