Project MUSE®: ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 49 (2003); Vol. 51 (2005); Vol. 53 (2007) through current
issueLatest Articles: ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and CultureTWOProject MUSE®ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture1935-021X0093-8297Latest articles in ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and the Psychology of Physical Pain
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Critics widely agree that The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane depicts warfare as a psychological and sensory ordeal. The novel's third-person narrator renders the painful thoughts and feelings of the protagonist, Henry Fleming, with an attention to detail that, according to Nicholas Gaskill, showcases "the relationship between cognitive processing and immediate sensation."1 Some passages seamlessly deploy free-indirect discourse to blur the boundaries between the semi-omniscient narrative voice and Fleming's subjective impressions of the Civil War. Take, for instance, a line that James Nagel draws our attention to, a description of the young soldier watching "a tiny battery go dashing along the line of the
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On 22 February 1885, San Francisco's Morning Call printed a letter by Northern Paiute author and activist Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins refuting charges made against her by Nevada's Indian Agent William D. C. Gibson. By 1885, Winnemucca was well known by Nevadan and Californian editors, having gained media attention for her advocacy on behalf of the Paiutes, which included her meetings with top US officials, lectures, book, and testimony before the US Congress. She had been the subject, as well, of negative and at times false articles about her personal life. Yet this letter shows the rapport among Winnemucca and several journalists associated with what is now called the sagebrush school:
In an interview with Mr. Dan
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/977504
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's work in the abolitionist movement and the Women's Suffrage movement ushered her into the spotlight, earning her recognition as "the most popular nineteenth-century poet before Dunbar."1 Watkins Harper's public recognition came primarily from subject matter that often incorporated topics of race, gender, and religion. Noted for her eloquent speaking style and activist poetry, Watkins Harper was able to utilize "associative and dissociative ventriloquism" when reciting her first-person poems.2 This technique, as described by Wendy Dasler Johnson, allowed Watkins Harper to project her voice beyond her own physical being to allow the figured I to represent the greater Black experience.
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The American Literature Association returned to Boston, Massachusetts for their 36th annual conference, hosting conversations for a wide array of texts, authors, genres, and eras. In addition to panels, the conference also hosted featured events. The second night of the conference, Julia Alvarez, the featured author, discussed her newest publication, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, her writing process, and the importance of oral tradition while growing up in the Dominican Republic. Orature has greatly impacted Alvarez's writing in The Cemetery of Untold Stories as well as other projects she has been involved with, such as The Scheherazade Project. She ended her talk by discussing Visitations, her upcoming poetry
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/375/image/coversmallYear in Conferences Feature: ALA, May 21–24, 2025 Boston, Massachusetts2025-12-15text/htmlen-USYear in Conferences Feature: ALA, May 21–24, 2025 Boston, Massachusetts2025-12-152025TWOProject MUSE®91222026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-15