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Through essays, position papers, and commentaries, along with reviews, interviews, and previously unpublished diaries, letters, and stories, American Literary History surveys the contested field of US culture four times a year. No other scholarly publication offers such a wide-ranging and provocative discussion of critical challenges. American Literary History has become the premier forum for a rich and varied criticism shaping the ways we have come to think about America and setting the agenda of American cultural studies.
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Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2023Table of Contents
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View Dickens and Shakespeare and Longfellow, Oh My!: Staging the Fan Canon at the Nineteenth-Century Authors’ Carnivals
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View Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures by Kelly Wisecup (review)
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View Feeling Godly: Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America ed. by Caroline Wigginton and Abram Van Engen (review)
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View The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader ed. by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and Cassander L. Smith (review)
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View The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War by Adam John Waterman (review)
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View A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst by Thomas Hallock (review)
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View Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature by Claudia Stokes (review)
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View Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present by Dennis Tyler (review)
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View Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James by Jane F. Thrailkill (review)
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View “Beyond this Narrow Now,” Or, Delimitations, of W.E.B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)
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View Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict by A. Elisabeth Reichel (review)
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View Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay ed. by Daniel Mark Epstein (review)
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View The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers by Lauren Arrington (review)
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View Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Rachel Trousdale (review)
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That Damned Fence: The Literature of the Japanese American Prison Camps by Heather Hathaway (review)
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View Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)
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View Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement by David Martínez (review)
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View A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back ed. by gloria j. wilson, Joni B. Acuff, and Amelia M. Kraehe (review)
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View Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation by Julius B. Fleming Jr (review)
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View Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker by Ilka Saal (review)
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View Making Liberalism New: American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition by Ian Afflerbach (review)
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View Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband by Michael Naas (review)
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View Archival Fictions: Materiality, Form, and Media History in Contemporary Literature by Paul Benzon (review)
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View Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts by Robert B. Pippin (review)
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View The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions by Paul Giles (review)
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View Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination by Taylor Eggan (review)
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View Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority by James Kyung-jin Lee (review)
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View Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk by Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods (review)
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View Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas by Kirsten Silva Gruesz (review)
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| ISSN | 1468-4365 |
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| Print ISSN | 0896-7148 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2023-07-20 |
| Open Access | No |
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