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Pleasure Reading

Pleasure Reading

p. 219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0029
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The Pleasures of Occasional Vitriol

Elizabeth Duquette
pp. 220-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0033
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American Renaissance and Us

Samuel Otter
pp. 228-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0036
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Thing-Poems: On Marta Werner’s and Jen Bervin’s The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems

Branka Arsić
pp. 236-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0039
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Essays

“A Rare and Wonderful Sight”: Secularism and Visual Historiography in Ben-Hur

Phillip Maciak
pp. 249-275
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0021
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National Graffiti: The Textual Lives of Lewis and Clark

Lauren Coats
pp. 277-305
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0024
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The Faculties of Law: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee as Legal Fiction

Peter Jaros
pp. 307-335
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0027
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How to Have Style in an Emergency: Huckleberry Finn and the Ethics of Fictionality

Jamie Parra
pp. 337-361
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0031
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Forum: The Hemispheric French Atlantic

Introduction

Michelle Burnham
pp. 363-367
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0035
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Moral Testimony and Noblesse Oblige in Memoirs of the Atlantic Revolutions

Gordon M. Sayre
pp. 367-376
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0038
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Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal, Translationally

Susan Gillman
pp. 376-384
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0020
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Before Harlem: The Franco-Haitian Grammar of Transnational African American Writing

Marlene L. Daut
pp. 385-392
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0023
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The Language of Politics in the Literary Archive of Black Sovereignty

Karen Salt
pp. 392-399
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0026
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“The French Name Still Haunts Our Land”: Plantation Economies of American Knowledge

Robert Fanuzzi
pp. 399-407
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0030
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Forum: Technologies of the Visible World

Introduction: Imaging Technology

Shirley Samuels
pp. 409-413
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0034
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Holographic Hawthorne

Dan Clinton
pp. 413-421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0037
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Feeling Green: Goethe, Melville, and the Color of Democracy

Jennifer Greiman
pp. 421-428
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0040
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Seeing Twice: William Bradford’s The Arctic Regions in Print and Paint

Wyn Kelley
pp. 429-436
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0022
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The Spell and the Scalpel: Scientific Sight in Early 3D Photography

Cheryl Spinner
pp. 436-445
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0025
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The Long History of the “Selfie”

Marcy J. Dinius
pp. 445-451
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0028
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Contributor Biographies

pp. 453-456
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0032
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