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Governor Winthrop's "Little Speech": Another Hearing, Michael Ditmore Jun 2015

Governor Winthrop's "Little Speech": Another Hearing, Michael Ditmore

Michael Ditmore

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Speaking Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian Yothers Feb 2015

Speaking Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

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"Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller On The French In Algiers, Christina Zwarg Dec 2014

"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 …