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Conducting Research In The Gray Space: How Writing Associates Negotiate Between Wac And Wid In An Introductory Biology Course, Jill M. Gladstein
Conducting Research In The Gray Space: How Writing Associates Negotiate Between Wac And Wid In An Introductory Biology Course, Jill M. Gladstein
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Review Of "Global Economics: A History Of The Theater Business, The Chamberlain's/King's Men, And Their Plays, 1599-1642" By M. D. Aaron, Nora Johnson
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Anonyma's Authors, Rachel Sagner Buurma
Anonyma's Authors, Rachel Sagner Buurma
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This article examines the publication history of a popular group of loosely related, variously authored anonymous Victorian novels about women of the London "demimonde" (such as Anonyma, or, Fair but Frail, 1864), showing how successive republications worked to create an increasingly coherent set of texts with a single, yet unstable, author function. I argue specifically that these novels' hybrid representations of authorship - which changed dramatically between the 1864, 1869, and 1884 publications of the increasingly standardized "series" - engage with the novels' representational practices, and that an analysis of this engagement has broader implications for our understanding of Victorian …
Sitting In Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, And The Rise Of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920, Peter Schmidt
Sitting In Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, And The Rise Of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920, Peter Schmidt
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Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. "Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourgee, Mark Twain, Frances E. W. Harper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Sutton Griggs, …