American Literature
Edited by Owen Robinson and Carol Singley
Edward Hopper, Summertime, 1943 (Delaware Art Museum)
Articles by volume:
Volume 9 (2012)
The Critical Reception of Kurt Vonnegut (pages 1–14)
Peter Freese
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Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage (pages 106–117)
Sarah E. Chinn
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New York Writing as Transatlantic Literature of Anglo-Identity Reformation (pages 118–128)
Michele Gemelos
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Volume 8 (2011)
“I am, personally, the Fall of the West”: Postmodernism and the Critical Reception (and Legacy) of Barry Hannah’s Fiction (pages 677–689)
Mark S. Graybill
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‘We have experienced a tragedy which words cannot properly describe’: Representations of Trauma in Post-9/11 Superhero Comics (pages 487–498)
Philip Smith and Micahel Goodrum
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American Literary Naturalism: Critical Perspectives (pages 499–513)
Donna Campbell
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Ishmael as Evolving Character in Melville’s Redburn, White-Jacket, Mardi, andMoby-Dick (pages 514–525)
Michael Broek
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The Critical Reception of Lewis Nordan (pages 922–934)
Thomas Ærvold Bjerre
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Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and the ‘New Regionalism’ (pages 935–945)
Eric Gardner
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The Art of Theatre in Nineteenth-Century America: George L. Fox, Pantomime and Artaud (pages 753–762)
Theresa Saxon
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Richard Yates’s Fictional Treatment of Women (p 496-507)
Kate Charlton-Jones
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‘To the Indian Names are Subjoined a Mark and Seal’: Tracing the Terrain of Ojibwe Literature (p 370-386)
David Stirrup
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Disability Studies and American Literature (p 387-396)
Taylor Hagood
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Volume 6 (2009)
Literary Criticism’s Road Scholars at the American Century’s Turn (p 1071-1083)
Lars Erik Larson
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Mina Loy’s Modern Long Poem: New York and the Compensations of Poverty (p 968-988)
Deirdre Egan
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Life in the ‘Hood: Postwar Suburban Literature and Films (p 810-823)
Kathryn Knapp
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The American Grotesque (p 824-841)
Mary McAleer Balkun
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Modern Maturity: Middle-Aged Anxiety in Modern American Fiction (p 253-273)
Melanie Dawson
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Digital Scholarship, Economics, and the American Literary Canon (p 274-290)
Kenneth M. Price
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Mapping the Female Self through the Canadian Landscape: Short Stories by Canadian Women Writing in English (p 1-22)
Cathia Jenainati
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Volume 5 (2008)
Visual Images of America in the Sixteenth Century
Elaine Brennan
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Transcendentalism and Religion: The State of Play (p 1010-1024)
K. P. Van Anglen
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The Transnational Epic in America (p 877-893)
Catherine Morley
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Hemispheric American Studies: Preliminary Thoughts on Research and Pedagogical Challenges (p 435-447)
Caroline Levander
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‘Grammar. In a Breath’: Breathing in Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons (p 448-460)
Flore Chevaillier
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Willa Cather’s West: The Question of Intentionality (p 1-10)
Janis P. Stout
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Thomas Pynchon: Realism in an Age of Ontological Uncertainty? (p 11-19)
Cate Watson
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The Colors of Double Exceptionalism – The Founders and African America (p 20-41)
Robert Oscar Lopez
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The Making of American Working-Class Literature (p 42-57)
Janet Zandy
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Volume 4 (2007)
Toni Morrison and Classical Tradition (p 1514-1537)
Tessa Roynon
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American Women Writers and the First World War (p 525-538)
Elizabeth Nolan
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Literature, Social Science, and the Development of American Migration Narratives in the Twentieth Century (p 539-551)
Erin Royston Battat
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Exodus as Travelling Theory: Excavating the Promised Land in the African American Imagination (p 552-560)
Anna Hartnell
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History, Emotion, and the Body: Mourning in Post-9/11 Fiction (p 561-575)
Benjamin Bird
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Literatures of Wonder in Early Modern England and America
Julie Sievers
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The Literary Representation of Women Doctors in the United States, 1860–1920 (p 576-598)
Frederick Wegener
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Views from the Other Side: Transatlantic Literature and Cultural Exchange (p 355-368)
Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
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‘Savage Blonde’: Willa Cather and the Making of an American Musician (p 369-383)
Cristina Ruotolo
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Native/American Digital Storytelling: Situating the Cherokee Oral Tradition within American Literary History (p 1-23)
Timothy B. Powell, William Weems, Freeman Owle
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Writing the West: Critical Approaches to Shane (p 24-47)
Ruth Griffin
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Volume 3 (2006)
Cultures of Terror: Nuclear Criticism During and Since the Cold War (p 1186-1199)
Daniel Cordle
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Class and Antebellum American Literature (p 1200-1217)
Andrew Lawson
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Whittaker Chambers’s Witness and the Dilemma of a Modern Conservatism (p 940-966)
Michael Kimmage
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Going Native: Savage Actors and the Play of Textuality in Melville’s Benito Cereno (p 636-647)
Mahni Ghorashi
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Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance (p 648-657)
Katharine Nicholson Ings
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An Overview of Contemporary Chicano/a Literature (p 658-675)
Eva Fernández de Pinedo
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The More Things Stay the Same: African American Literature and the Politics of Responsibility (p 676-688)
Kalenda Eaton
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‘A New Mimesis’: Approaches to Representation in the Poetry of the New York School (p 244-255)
Alice Wood
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Spoon River Anthology‘s Heterosexual Heartland (p 256-269)
Scott Herring
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Volume 2 (2005)
Mapping the New American South: New Developments in Southern Writing and Criticism (p **-**)
Polina Mackay
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‘To create and cherish a true southern literature’: Genre, Gender and Authorship in William Gilmore Simms’s Answer to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (p **-**)
Saranne Weller
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An Infant Nation: Childhood Studies and Early America (p **-**)
Anna Mae Duane
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Cultural Geography and American Studies (p **-**)
Brian Jarvis
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Reading Toni Morrison Critically (p **-**)
Jennifer Terry
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“Are You Talking to Me?”: Speaker and Audience in Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris (p **-**)
Willard Spiegelman
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“I’ll tell you something”: Reader-Address in Louise Glück’s Ararat Sequence (p **-**)
Jane Hedley
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Louise Glück’s “I” (p **-**)
Nick Halpern
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Erotics, Aesthetics, Politics: Henry James Today
Daniel K. Hannah
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Volume 1 (2004)
“Empire of the Muse”: American Encounters with Wordsworth
Leslie Eckel
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“Of Avians and Indigenes”: Preliminary Notes on the Orientalization of the New World Native and Natured Others (p **-**)
Thomas C. Gannon
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Cross-Cultural and Tribally-Centered Politics: An Overview and a Response to the Current Split in American Indian Literary Studies (p **-**)
Rossitza Ivanova
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Cultivating Peripheral Vision: Ralph Ellison, James Joyce and the Fight of the Century
Kasia Boddy
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The Language of Flowers: James, Hawthorne, Allegory (p **-**)
Jeremy Tambling
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