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Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty, Clare E. Callahan, Joseph Entin, Irvin Hunt, Kinohi Nishikawa Sep 2022

Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty, Clare E. Callahan, Joseph Entin, Irvin Hunt, Kinohi Nishikawa

English Faculty Publications

Together, the essays in this issue of American Literature stage what is at stake in how literature understands poverty, elucidating not only the problem of poverty but also, and especially, the problem of how we see it. To see poverty differently, they might conclude, is not only a matter of what we see. It is a matter of reflecting on how we see.


American Literatures Prior To 1865, Scott D. Peterson Aug 2022

American Literatures Prior To 1865, Scott D. Peterson

Open Educational Resources Collection

This work was created as part of the University Libraries’ Open Educational Resources Initiative at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

A web version of this text can be found at https://umsystem.pressbooks.pub/alpt1865/.

This anthology of American Literatures Prior to 1865, is organized chronologically into four units, focusing on Colonial Literature, Literature of Native American Perspectives and Discovery, Literature of Nineteenth Century Reform, and Literature of the New Nation. It includes introductions to the many authors included to enhance the reader's contextual understanding of the chosen texts. This anthology is essential reading for any student or scholar of Early American literature.


William Carlos Williams’ “The Young Housewife”: A Postcritical Reading Vis‐À‐Vis Shel Silverstein's 'The Giving Tree', Sue Norton Jun 2022

William Carlos Williams’ “The Young Housewife”: A Postcritical Reading Vis‐À‐Vis Shel Silverstein's 'The Giving Tree', Sue Norton

Books/Book Chapters

Using the framework of Rita Felski in her 2015 book The Limits of Critique, this essay offers a postcritical analysis of William Carlos Williams’ 1915 poem “The Young Housewife.” Its intention is to show how Williams’ poem or any poem can be approached through a variety of critical lenses, but that these may get in the way of more immediate, rewarding ways of reading. Shel Silverstein's well-known 1964 short book The Giving Tree is similar at the level of “plot” to “The Young Housewife.” Taken in tandem, these two texts neatly exemplify the value of postcritical/non-resistant reading.


The Demorest Contest: Prohibition Leader In Conversation With Wctu And Martha Mcmillan, Grace E. Kohler May 2022

The Demorest Contest: Prohibition Leader In Conversation With Wctu And Martha Mcmillan, Grace E. Kohler

Martha McMillan Research Papers

This essay explains the history of the Demorest Contest and connects it to Martha McMillan and her journals. The Demorest Contest was a temperance advocacy event run by William Jennings Demorest and the Women's Christian Temperance Union that encouraged youths to pledge to Prohibition.


135th Street Branch: Librarianship And The Passing Fictions Of Regina Anderson Andrews And Nella Larsen, Caitlin Matheis May 2022

135th Street Branch: Librarianship And The Passing Fictions Of Regina Anderson Andrews And Nella Larsen, Caitlin Matheis

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In this thesis, I examine how two writer-librarians that worked in the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library in the 1920's, Regina Anderson Andrews and Nella Larsen, grappled in their fiction writing with questions of classification, information, and knowledge that encompassed their daily work in the library. I begin by contextualizing the branch within the Harlem Renaissance and Arturo A. Schomburg's call for the preservation of Black history and literature at a time when the field of librarianship was being professionalized by implementing library schools and classification standards. I then provide readings of Andrews's one-act play …


Valiant Consequences, Johnjulius Lodato Apr 2022

Valiant Consequences, Johnjulius Lodato

Student Publications

War and conflict are significant events that hold a reasonable possibility to alter countries and their cultural populations. These transforming effects can come in many forms, ranging from mental trauma to the abandonment or modification of culture and its ideals. In this illustration, perhaps no group has endured the same everlasting detrimental effects as the Native Americans and their underlying consequences stemming from World War 2. These detriments can be seen in the form of erratic drunken or violent behavior and forgotten traditions. On the contrary, these effects may have at one time been diminished and replaced by the gratitude …


Amanda Gorman And Her Way With Poetry, Emma Corbin Apr 2022

Amanda Gorman And Her Way With Poetry, Emma Corbin

Student Writing

Amanda Gorman promotes perseverance and togetherness throughout her poems: “Earthrise,” “The Hill We Climb,” and “The Miracle of Morning” to challenge the narrative of our nation’s history and make the world a better place for the generations to come.


Can I Use The Restroom?, Brenida Thompson Apr 2022

Can I Use The Restroom?, Brenida Thompson

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


The Blue Chip Cafe: Feeding Nostalgia, Julia Croston Apr 2022

The Blue Chip Cafe: Feeding Nostalgia, Julia Croston

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


The Secret Stories Of 116 Central Avenue, Ashley Harman Apr 2022

The Secret Stories Of 116 Central Avenue, Ashley Harman

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


The Castle Of Lincolnville, Joshua Smith Apr 2022

The Castle Of Lincolnville, Joshua Smith

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


The Shoe Shiners', Denai Laster Apr 2022

The Shoe Shiners', Denai Laster

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


83 Bridge St, Saint Augustine, Fl 32084, Erin Kelbaugh Apr 2022

83 Bridge St, Saint Augustine, Fl 32084, Erin Kelbaugh

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


Central Ave., Adam Drawdy Apr 2022

Central Ave., Adam Drawdy

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


164 Palmo, Ashley Cozad Apr 2022

164 Palmo, Ashley Cozad

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


Wallpaper, Andrew Morrison Apr 2022

Wallpaper, Andrew Morrison

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


A Small Story Of A Commercial Building In St. Augustine, Fl, Stephanie Giordano Apr 2022

A Small Story Of A Commercial Building In St. Augustine, Fl, Stephanie Giordano

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


92 Washington Street Writing, Ashlyn Davidson Apr 2022

92 Washington Street Writing, Ashlyn Davidson

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


The Hidden Roles Of Props, Alexandria Kledzik Apr 2022

The Hidden Roles Of Props, Alexandria Kledzik

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


A Breeze Through The Window, Olivia Brown Apr 2022

A Breeze Through The Window, Olivia Brown

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


The Wall That Looks, Bobbi Hudson Apr 2022

The Wall That Looks, Bobbi Hudson

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


Bacon And____Undertakers, Charlie Ewing Apr 2022

Bacon And____Undertakers, Charlie Ewing

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


De Haven Street Irregulars, Sydney Shomer Apr 2022

De Haven Street Irregulars, Sydney Shomer

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


Frank Butler And Central Avenue, Natalie Medina Apr 2022

Frank Butler And Central Avenue, Natalie Medina

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


The Search For Frank Butler, Elizabeth Marion Apr 2022

The Search For Frank Butler, Elizabeth Marion

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


The Land Has Eyes, Mckenna Shea Apr 2022

The Land Has Eyes, Mckenna Shea

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

No abstract provided.


Science And Madness: Echoes Of Freudian Psychoanalysis In The Works Of H.P. Lovecraft And The Weird, Brandon J. Cordova Mar 2022

Science And Madness: Echoes Of Freudian Psychoanalysis In The Works Of H.P. Lovecraft And The Weird, Brandon J. Cordova

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis was to highlight the influence of psychoanalysis on the writing of H.P. Lovecraft through a literary analysis of his critical essays, scientific essays, personal correspondence, and fiction. The subjects of note were Lovecraft’s intense focus on the sciences as an inspiration for his work, his awareness of Freudian psychoanalytic principles, and his application of those principles in his contributions to weird fiction. In doing so, this thesis explored alternative interpretations of some of Lovecraft’s more well-known stories and provided nuance to a bigoted, problematic figure of American literature. This paper highlighted the significant role of …


Incorporating One’S Own Literary Criticism Into The Curriculum: The Teachable Essay Via John Updike’S Short Stories, Sue Norton Feb 2022

Incorporating One’S Own Literary Criticism Into The Curriculum: The Teachable Essay Via John Updike’S Short Stories, Sue Norton

Books/Book Chapters

University students are approaching literary study at a time when social justice occupies centrality in public discourse, a time when racism, sexism, Eurocentrism, and Americentrism are commanding unprecedented levels of interest and analysis both inside the academy and out of it. If students in the literature classroom are encouraged to postpone ideologically driven readings, just initially, they will be better able to observe how fine literature achieves its artistry. They may then become more ardent, attentive readers who can interpret the world and the word with refined criticality.


Two Trans-Atlantic Divorce Novels: In Camilla, Elizabeth Robins Counters Edith Wharton’S The Custom Of The Country, Joanne E. Gates Jan 2022

Two Trans-Atlantic Divorce Novels: In Camilla, Elizabeth Robins Counters Edith Wharton’S The Custom Of The Country, Joanne E. Gates

Presentations, Proceedings & Performances

This paper argues that Elizabeth Robins' reading of The Custom of the Country (recorded in her diary, 25 November 1913) impacted the way Robins drafted her very next novel, Camilla. Unlike Wharton’s Undine, whose careers with men might be characterized by the sequence of her last names (Spragg Moffatt, Marvell, de Chelles, Moffatt), Camilla undertakes one long reflective flashback on her early life with her ex-husband, Leroy Trenholme, as she crosses the Atlantic, east to west, having been proposed to by a deeply caring and comforting Englishman. This reliving of the unraveling of her marriage (especially the scene of …


Anonymity As A Bridge From Actress To Author: The Case Of Elizabeth Robins, Joanne E. Gates Jan 2022

Anonymity As A Bridge From Actress To Author: The Case Of Elizabeth Robins, Joanne E. Gates

Presentations, Proceedings & Performances

Any scholar working on the origins of the feminist journey of the actress turned writer Elizabeth Robins ought to be aware of her two earliest short works of fiction she wrote and published in The New Review under nearly perfect anonymity. This paper will profile these two earlier stories, published in 1894 even before her first novel, George Mandeville's Husband, attracted attention when it appeared under her perhaps thinly disguised pseudonym, C. E. Raimond.

Robins saw the potential and, yes, to her mind, the necessity, of establishing herself as a writer so that she could more securely support herself. …