Project MUSE®: American Literature - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in American Literature.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 71, no. 3 (1999) - vol. 76 (2004)Latest Articles: American LiteratureTWOProject MUSE®American Literature1527-21170002-9831Latest articles in American Literature. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176803
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (New York: Penguin, 1986), 85. Stowe's earlier description of Shelby's financial situation places his dilemma directly in the context of the unstable speculatory economy I will be discussing here: "He had . . . speculated largely and quite loosely; he had involved himself deeply, and his notes to a large amount had come into the hands of Haley" (51). For useful histories of masculine economic failure in the early republic and the nineteenth century, see Toby Ditz, "Shipwrecked; or, Masculinity Imperiled: Mercantile Representations of Failure and the Gendered Self in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," Journal of American History (June 1994): 51-80; and Scott A. Sandage
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/7/image/coversmallBanking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic2005-01-11text/htmlen-USBanking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic2005-01-112005TWOProject MUSE®563632026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002005-01-11Anniversaries and "Whispering Ambitions": American Literature at 75
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176804
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Noah Webster to John Canfield, 6 January 1783, Letters of Noah Webster, ed. Harry R. Warfel (New York: Library Publications, 1953), 4.
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Robert E. Spiller, "The Verdict of Sydney Smith," American Literature 1 (March 1929): 4.
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Jay B. Hubbell to William P. Few, 8 November 1929, Jay B. Hubbell Papers, Box 6, in Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/7/image/coversmallAnniversaries and "Whispering Ambitions": American Literature at 752005-01-11text/htmlen-USAnniversaries and "Whispering Ambitions": American Literature at 752005-01-112005TWOProject MUSE®107542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002005-01-11Federalist Criticism and the Fate of Genius
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176808
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Because "American Literature" did not appear in print until Works of Fisher Ames was published posthumously in 1809, the actual date of composition is uncertain. It was most likely written between 1801 and 1805, when Ames produced the majority of his most incisive and pessimistic essays; those with similar themes and examples point to the latter end of that period (see "American Literature," Works of Fisher Ames, ed. W. B. Allen, 2 vols. [Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1983], 1:26-27). Further references to "American Literature" are to volume 1 of this edition and will be cited parenthetically as "AL."
Because "American Literature" did not appear in print until Works of Fisher Ames was published
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176812
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See Fernando Reati and Gilberto Gómez Ocampo, "Académicos y gringos malos: la universidad norteamericana y la barbarie cultural en la novela latinoamericana reciente," Revista Iberoamericana 64, nos. 184-85 (July- December 1998): 587-609; and Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, "Pre-sentación," McOndo, ed. Alberto Fuquet and Sergio Gómez (Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori, 1996), 9-18.
See ReatiFernando and Gómez OcampoGilbertoAcadémicos y gringos malos la universidad norteamericana y la barbarie cultural en la novela latinoamericana recienteRevista Iberoamericana64 nos. 1848507121998587–609 and FuguetAlberto and GómezSergioPre-sentaciónMcOndo ed. FuquetAlberto and GómezSergioBarcelonaGrijalbo Mondadori19969–18
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/7/image/coversmallComparative Literary Studies of the Americas2005-01-11text/htmlen-USComparative Literary Studies of the Americas2005-01-112005TWOProject MUSE®213372026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002005-01-11The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: "Sad Fancyings" in Herman Melville's "Bartleby"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176813
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Karen Talaski, "Student Dies Hours after Release," Oakland Press, 27 February 1998, B1+; and Jeannee Kirkaldy, "Year-Long Battle Ends, Student Laid to Rest," Oakland Post, 11 March 1998, 1+. See also Denise Jenkin, "Kevorkian Mourns with Dawson's Family," Oakland Press, 7 March 1998, A9+.
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Milos Cihelka, letter to the editor, Oakland Press, 5 March 1998, A6.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/7/image/coversmallThe Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: "Sad Fancyings" in Herman Melville's "Bartleby"2005-01-11text/htmlen-USThe Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: "Sad Fancyings" in Herman Melville's "Bartleby"2005-01-112005TWOProject MUSE®669942026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002005-01-11Turning from the National to the Multilingual
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176816
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Ed White, "Early American Nations as Imagined Communities," American Quarterly 56 (March 2004): 49. Further references will be cited parenthetically in the text as "EAN."
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. Further references will be cited parenthetically in the text as "EAN."
See, for example, William M. Dugger, ed., Inequality: Radical Institutionalist Views on Race, Gender, Class, and Nation (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1996); and Robert J. Ackermann, Heterogeneities: Race, Gender, Class, Nation, and State (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1996).
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/7/image/coversmallTurning from the National to the Multilingual2005-01-11text/htmlen-USTurning from the National to the Multilingual2005-01-112005TWOProject MUSE®40962026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002005-01-11"Prismatic and Profitable": Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's "The Jolly Corner"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176817
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William James to Henry James, 29 January 1904, William James Papers, bMS Am 1092.9 (2913); quoted by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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Frank Norris, The Octopus: A Story of California, in Novels and Essays, ed. Donald Pizer (New York: Library of America, 1986), 1032, 1035-36.
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See James L. Huston
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/7/image/coversmall"Prismatic and Profitable": Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's "The Jolly Corner"2005-01-11text/htmlen-US"Prismatic and Profitable": Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's "The Jolly Corner"2005-01-112005TWOProject MUSE®420972026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002005-01-11"The Public Heart": Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176819
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Child's move to New York was not entirely voluntary, as the precarious financial situation in which she and David Child found themselves in 1841 had necessitated her acceptance of a paid position. Child had been virtually blacklisted by mainstream publishing houses after her An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833), which had alienated a significant portion of the wide audience she had gained as a writer and editor of children's miscellany journals and domestic advice books. Her sacrifice of readership for principles, together with her husband's disastrous efforts to farm sugar beets as an alternative to the sugar crops grown by slaveholders on Southern plantations, exacerbated the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/7/image/coversmall"The Public Heart": Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York2005-01-11text/htmlen-US"The Public Heart": Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York2005-01-112005TWOProject MUSE®507532026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002005-01-11"A Plea for Color": Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/176820
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Motley's one-man show at the New Gallery in March 1928 established his success as a modernist painter. Although he continued to work as an artist in Chicago for more than fifty years, his portraits and urban scenes of the 1920s evoke some of the most vivid recollections of that period. While he has not received the same degree of attention as Harlem Renaissance painters like Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, or Hale Woodruff, Motley's paintings encapsulate the glamour of the era in the same way that James Van Der Zee's photographs provide a pictorial guide to both the extraordinary and commonplace participants in 1920s Harlem.
The Octoroon Girl appears, for example, on the cover of Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun:
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/7/image/coversmall"A Plea for Color": Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta2005-01-11text/htmlen-US"A Plea for Color": Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta2005-01-112005TWOProject MUSE®579042026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002005-01-11