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The journal of the Modern Language Association's American Literature Division 1, Early American Literature publishes the finest work of scholars examining American literature from its inception through the early national period, about 1830. Founded in 1965, EAL invites work treating Native American traditional expressions, colonial Ibero-American literature from North America, colonial American Francophone writings, Dutch colonial, and German American colonial literature as well as writings in English from British America and the US.
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Volume 50, Number 2, 2015Table of Contents
Articles

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View “Nothing but Fiction”: Modern Chivalry, Fictionality, and the Political Public Sphere in the Early Republic
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View A “Spirit of Mistaken Benevolence”: Civilizing the Savage in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly
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Review Essays

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View “The Unnatural Rebellion of This Country”: The American Revolution, Loyalism, and Enduring Anglo-Atlantic Identities
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Special Section: Recent Work in Early American Visual Culture

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View Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, and: Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi, and: Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain by Catherine Molineux (review)
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View Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World Ed. by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Angela Rosenthal (review)
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View The Materiality of Color: The Production, Circulation, and Application of Dyes and Pigments, 1400–1800 Ed. by Andrea Feeser, Maureen Daly Goggin, and Beth Fowkes Tobin (review)
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View The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigations by Colonial Williamsburg ed. by Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury (review)
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View Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America by Wendy Bellion (review)
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View The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas: The Natural History of the New World/Histoire naturelle des Indes occidentales ed. by François-Marc Gagnon (review)
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Book Reviews

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View Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America by Katy L. Chiles (review)
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View Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures by Kelly Wisecup (review)
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View Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics by Monique Allewaert (review)
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View Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, 3rd edition by John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, and: Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America ed. by Thomas A. Foster (review)
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View Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 by Siân Silyn Roberts (review)
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ISSN | 1534-147X |
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Print ISSN | 0012-8163 |
Launched on MUSE | 2015-06-21 |
Open Access | No |
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