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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2010
...John Hellmann © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam . By William V. Spanos. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2008. xx, 321 pp. Cloth, $89.50; paper, $29.95. Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo...
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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 . 844  American Literature order to remake them. In an important sense...
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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 (2016) 88 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kate Marshall Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance . By Garvey Ellen Gruber . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . x, 304 pp. Cloth , $115.00 ; paper, $31.95 ; e-book available. Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New...
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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 (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 (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 (4): 844–846.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Ursula K. Heise © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century . By Neil W. Browne. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xiv, 224 pp. $38.50. Women Writing Nature...
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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 (2023) 95 (3): 597–599.
Published: 01 September 2023
...David Tomkins [email protected] In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen . By Alix Beeston . Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press . 2018 . xvi, 256 pp. Cloth, $78.00 . What Was Literary Impressionism? By Michael Fried . Cambridge, MA...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... challenges to scholars studying life writing from the perspectives of US literary studies, disability studies, and poverty studies. While mendicant narratives’ ambiguous authorship and departures from the truth trouble expectations of authentic and resistant self-representation, these elements offer new...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2000
... in Seventeenth-Century NewEngland Writing . By Jim Egan. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 182 pp. $37.50. Jim Egan has a deceptive sentence nestled in the last paragraph of his book’s...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 438–439.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... Walters offers an excellent analysis of Franklin’s sometimes contradictory writings on religious faith, beginning with his early ‘‘Silence Dogood’’ let- ters and concluding with the often anthologized ‘‘Letter to Ezra Stiles writ...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 March 2000
... NewEngland Writing . By Jim Egan. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 182 pp. $37.50. Jim Egan has a deceptive sentence nestled in the last paragraph of his book’s introduction: ‘‘My project is simply...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 871–872.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Blake, Wordsworth, and Cole- ridge as its true progenitors: just as Locke’s libertarian political writings bore their greatest fruit in Jefferson’s famous manifesto, so the English romantics’ most characteristic notions of liberty and selfhood were fulfilled in the United States and its literature...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 877–879.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Anne Charles © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice . By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias . By Dunja...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Kirsten Silva Gruesz Duke University Press 2006 Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture . By Robert D. Aguirre. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2005. xxix, 198 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 894–897.
Published: 01 December 2006
...; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity . By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxviii, 286 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Powell. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xiii, 260 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community . By Charlotte Hogg. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2006. xiv, 182 pp. Paper, $15.95. Book Reviews Godly Letters: The Literature...