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Full-Text Articles in American Literature
Lineages Of The Literary Left: Essays In Honor Of Alan M. Wald, Howard Brick, Robbie Lieberman, Paula Rabinowitz
Lineages Of The Literary Left: Essays In Honor Of Alan M. Wald, Howard Brick, Robbie Lieberman, Paula Rabinowitz
Robbie Lieberman
For nearly half a century, Alan M. Wald’s pathbreaking research has demonstrated that attention to the complex lived experiences of writers on the Left provides a new context for viewing major achievements as well as instructive minor ones in United States fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism. His many publications have illuminated the creative lives of figures such as James T. Farrell, Willard Motley, Muriel Rukeyser, Philip Rahv, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Kenneth Fearing, and Arthur Miller. He has delved into a consideration of Sidney Hook and pragmatism, brought attention to debates within tendencies associated with Cannonism and Shachtmanism, and developed …
Conquering A Wilderness: Destruction And Development On The Great Plains In Mari Sandoz's Old Jules, Lisa Lindell
Conquering A Wilderness: Destruction And Development On The Great Plains In Mari Sandoz's Old Jules, Lisa Lindell
Lisa R. Lindell
Jules Ami Sandoz came to America in 1881 at the age of 22. Following a three-year sojourn in northeastern Nebraska, he headed further west, settling in the recently surveyed region northwest of the Nebraska Sandhills. In Old Jules, the biography of her pioneer father, Mari Sandoz presented a character filled with conflicts and contradictions. Pitted against Jules's dynamic vision of community growth was his self-centered and destructive nature. Well aware of the more unsavory qualities exhibited by her father. Sandoz nonetheless maintained that he and others like him were necessary to the development of the West. This recognition did not …
Inviting Us To Come Closer: Philip Levine's Portraits Of Detroit (Forthcoming), Christina Triezenberg
Inviting Us To Come Closer: Philip Levine's Portraits Of Detroit (Forthcoming), Christina Triezenberg
Christina Triezenberg
No abstract provided.
Governor Winthrop's "Little Speech": Another Hearing, Michael Ditmore
Governor Winthrop's "Little Speech": Another Hearing, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Speaking Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian Yothers
Speaking Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
"Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller On The French In Algiers, Christina Zwarg
"Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller On The French In Algiers, Christina Zwarg
Christina L Zwarg Professor
Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller on The French in Algiers In this essay I focus on an obscure New-York Daily Tribune column written by Margaret Fuller and published roughly two weeks before her well-known review of Frederick Douglass. Fuller’s review of Lucy Duff-Gordon’s translation shows not only her range in topic (in this case, a consideration of French colonial practice) but also how she writes through the moment when Walter Benjamin’s famous “aura” was losing ground against modern modes of production. The extended quotations juxtaposed in Fuller’s review have about them a visual or dramatic quality, as if Fuller reaches …
Stalking Glory, H. Rice
My Father's Dogs, H. Rice
Introduction: Melville And Americanness: A Special Issue, Brian Yothers
Introduction: Melville And Americanness: A Special Issue, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Myriad Mirrors: Doppelgangers And Doubling In The Vampire Diaries, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman
Myriad Mirrors: Doppelgangers And Doubling In The Vampire Diaries, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman
Kimberley McMahon-Coleman
Mirroring is of fundamental importance in Gothic literature and filmic texts generally, and is a prevalent trope in the CW network teen drama, The Vampire Diaries. The television series is itself a “doubling” in that it is an adaptation of a series of novels by L.J. Smith, creating a situation wherein the same central characters inhabit the parallel townships of the novels’ Fells Church and television’s Mystic Falls, and thus have histories which are, at times, contradictory. The television version also explicitly explores the concept of the doppelganger, and thus the idea of reflection, even as it manipulates the historical …
Phoebe Snow: Odd, Rare And Sublime, Vincent L. Stephens
Phoebe Snow: Odd, Rare And Sublime, Vincent L. Stephens
Vincent L Stephens
A draft from my work-in-progress essay collection on post-war American popular singing "Sound Love." The essay argues that Phoebe Snow is unique among her generation of singer-songwriters as she is more notable as an interpreter than as a writer. Her synthesis of elements from blues, jazz, pop, gospel and R&B defy category as does her artistry.
Melville And The Trope Of The Starving American Artist In Rome, Erika Schneider
Melville And The Trope Of The Starving American Artist In Rome, Erika Schneider
Erika Schneider
No abstract provided.
Rahna Mckey Carusi Cv, Rahna M. Carusi
Betting On Fiction: Nation, Diaspora, Technology, And Anglophone Literary Networks In Shehan Karunatilaka's The Legend Of Pradeep Mathew, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
"Radiance To The White Wax": The Imagist Contradiction Between Logopoeia And Phanopoeia, John Gery
"Radiance To The White Wax": The Imagist Contradiction Between Logopoeia And Phanopoeia, John Gery
John R O Gery
No abstract provided.
Rev. Of Roberson, Susan L. Antebellum American Women Writers And The Road: American Mobilities. (2010) In Journeys: The International Journal Of Travel And Travel Writing, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Rev. Of Arapoglou, Eleftheria. A Bridge Over The Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown And The Tradition Of “Women’S Orients.” (2011) In Journeys: The International Journal Of Travel And Travel Writing, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Anne Hutchinson, Michael Ditmore
South Asia In The Margins Of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Missionaries, Transcendentalists, And Indian Travelers In America, Brian Yothers
South Asia In The Margins Of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Missionaries, Transcendentalists, And Indian Travelers In America, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This essay discusses the broad presence of representations of South Asia in nineteenth-century American literature, from little-known missionary narratives to canonical work by Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Fuller.
The Seven Spices: Pumpkins, Puritans, And Pathogens In Colonial New England, Michael Sharbaugh
The Seven Spices: Pumpkins, Puritans, And Pathogens In Colonial New England, Michael Sharbaugh
Michael D Sharbaugh
Water sources in the United States' New England region are laden with arsenic. Particularly during North America's colonial period--prior to modern filtration processes--arsenic would make it into the colonists' drinking water. In this article, which evokes the biocultural evolution paradigm, it is argued that colonists offset health risks from the contaminant (arsenic poisoning) by ingesting copious amounts of seven spices--cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, allspice, vanilla, and ginger. The inclusion of these spices in fall and winter recipes that hail from New England would therefore explain why many Americans associate them not only with the region, but with Thanksgiving and Christmas, …
John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Thomas Hooker, William Apess, And Devotional Literature, Michael Ditmore
John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Thomas Hooker, William Apess, And Devotional Literature, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Stylistic Manifestations Of The Wound : Fragmentation In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises And In Our Time And William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury And As I Lay Dying, Dan Heuer
Dan Heuer
Examines the relationship between the theme of fragmentation and how it is manifested stylistically in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises, and in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.
American Missionaries And Gender Politics In South Asia: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Harriet Winlsow's Memoir, Brian Yothers
American Missionaries And Gender Politics In South Asia: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Harriet Winlsow's Memoir, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract published in South Asian Review 29.4 (2008): 68.
Edwards - Thoreau - Dillard: Reading/Writing Nature And The Awakened/Awakening Self, Michael Ditmore
Edwards - Thoreau - Dillard: Reading/Writing Nature And The Awakened/Awakening Self, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Reader Response And The Interpretation Of "Hop-Frog," "How To Write A Blackwood Article," And "The Tell-Tale Heart", Brian Yothers
Reader Response And The Interpretation Of "Hop-Frog," "How To Write A Blackwood Article," And "The Tell-Tale Heart", Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This essay discusses ways in which reader response can enrich the teaching of Poe's short fiction.
'O Supreme Being': Religious Indifference, Theodicy, And Prayer In Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer, Michael Ditmore
'O Supreme Being': Religious Indifference, Theodicy, And Prayer In Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Bliss Lost, Wisdom Gained: Contemplating Emblems And Enigmas In Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations", Michael Ditmore
Bliss Lost, Wisdom Gained: Contemplating Emblems And Enigmas In Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations", Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
William Bradford, Samuel Gorton, Thomas Morton, Roger Williams, John Cotton, Thomas Dudley, John Wilson, And The Bay Psalm Book, Michael Ditmore
William Bradford, Samuel Gorton, Thomas Morton, Roger Williams, John Cotton, Thomas Dudley, John Wilson, And The Bay Psalm Book, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
A Prophetess In Her Own Country: An Exegesis Of Anne Hutchinson's "Immediate Revelation", Michael Ditmore
A Prophetess In Her Own Country: An Exegesis Of Anne Hutchinson's "Immediate Revelation", Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Narratives Of Survival, Linda Niemann