American Literature

Edited by Stuart Christie, Brian Jarvis and Carol Singley

Volume 10 (2013)

Race, Ethnicity, Postcoloniality, and the New Jewish (Trans)cultural Studies
Jennifer Glaser

“News from another World”: Career and Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy
Nicholas Monk

Surrealism, Beat Literature and the San Francisco Renaissance
Joanna Pawlik

Volume 9 (2012)

Poor Whites in Recent Southern Fiction (pages 631–641)
Sarah Robertson
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The Career and Critical Reception of Paul Auster (pages 642–653)
Stefania Ciocia
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The Global Circulation Project’s Forum on Global Modernisms (pages 589–592)
Laura Doyle and Regenia Gagnier
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Translation and World Literature (pages 593–598)
Supriya Chaudhuri
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How to Feel Global: The Modern, the Global and the World (pages 599–606)
Elleke Boehmer
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On the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms; or the New WWJD (pages 607–610)
Steven Yao
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Peripheralizing Modernity: Global Modernism and Uneven Development. (pages 611–616)
Paul Young
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Multiplied Modernities and Modernisms? (pages 617–622)
Ning Wang
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Modernist Geographies: The Provinces and the World (pages 623–630)
Katie Trumpener
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“Don’t Be Too Careful of Your Silks and Rags”: Domesticity and Race in 19th-Century American Literature (pages 343–356)
Laura Smith
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From One Gulf to Another: Reading Masculinity in American Narratives of the Persian Gulf and Iraq Wars (pages 357–370)
Jenna Pitchford
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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)

‘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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Volume 7 (2010)

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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