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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 414–416.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Susan Rosenbaum © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem . By Robert M. Dowling. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2007. ix, 200 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $20.00. Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 218–220.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kevin R. McNamara © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 New York Nocturne: The City after Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950 . By William Chapman Sharpe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xix, 402 pp. $35.00. New York and the Literary...
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Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 1 The heading for Beatrice Fairfax’s pioneering column. ( The New York Evening Journal , July 20, 1898.) More
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s. By M. Keith 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 191 of 255 Booker. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. 226 pp. $59.95. This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris. By James Campbell...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., and Gregg Mitman describe as “community” ecology. Later, postwar urbanists such as Jane Jacobs would draw on the authority of community ecology to reckon with the physical and social transformations then being carried out within New York City's urban renewal programs. Offering scientific evidence...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2011
... and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2009. vii, 210 pp. $24.95. Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor. By Adam Tuchinsky. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2010. xv, 312 pp. $59.95. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New...
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figures 5a and 5b “To the people at York, and all those who are acquainted with the character of George Spangler . . . ” 1803. York, Pennsylvania: s.n. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. More
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figures 5a and 5b “To the people at York, and all those who are acquainted with the character of George Spangler . . . ” 1803. York, Pennsylvania: s.n. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. More
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2 Earth-moving operations at the deep cut, near Lockport, New York, during the construction of the Erie Canal, an image included in Colden 1825 . Smithsonian Institute Libraries More
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Barbara Hochman Abstract For marginalized readers in the United States, the public library has often been an icon of integration, assimilation, and self-making. At the New York Public Library (NYPL) of the 1920s, children’s librarians, mostly white and native born, assiduously drilled immigrant...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Adam Sonstegard Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890–1940 . By Christoph Lindner . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 228 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; paper, $30.95 ; e-book available. The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 412–415.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Matthew D. Sutton Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll . By Florence Dore . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2018 . xiii, 178 pp. Cloth, $ 85.00 ; paper, $ 28.00 ; e-book, $ 27.99 . The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Lisa Hollenbach In the late 1940s and early 1950s, large-scale population shifts, urban-development projects, and new media transformed New York City in ways that were heard as much as seen. In this context, Langston Hughes and sound documentarian Tony Schwartz each experimented with techniques...
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figure 1 “Black Valley Railroad” broadside (c. 1860). Made available by the New York Public Library. More
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 873–875.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Ann Keniston Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture . By Keyser Catherine . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2010 . xii, 225 pp. $39.95 . Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright . By Irr Caren . Iowa City...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 273–300.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Sonya Posmentier Reading Claude McKay’s “The Tropics in New York” as a twentieth-century aesthetic equivalent of a slave provision ground, Posmentier argues that the poem asserts cultural autonomy even in the face of the dislocation it describes. In doing so, she suggests that formal lyric poetry...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 915.
Published: 01 December 2012
... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 American Literature  915 Erratum for Sonya Posmentier, “The Provision Ground in New York: Claude McKay and the Form of Memory,” American Literature 84 (June 2012): 273–300. On page 295, the following...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 1–46.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Michael Warner; Natasha Hurley; Luis Iglesias; Sonia Di Loreto; Jeffrey Scraba; Sandra Young Duke University Press 2001 Michael Warner A Soliloquy ‘‘Lately Spoken at the with African Theatre Race and the Natasha Hurley, Public Sphere in New York...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Josephine Lee © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s. By Amy Koritz. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. x, 200 pp. $40.00. The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920 . By Sabine Haenni...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 461–488.
Published: 01 September 2010
... voices of children, slaves, and other marginalized people. Duane recovers and analyzes the records of the New York African Free School in the 1810s and 1820s, an archive that features the work of the first generation of black children to inherit freedom in New York City. She argues that the scripted...