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Editors' Note Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Katy Chiles, Cassander Smith
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors' Note Katy Chiles and Cassander Smith We love being the bearers of good news! In this issue, we are thrilled to report that the Early American Literature Book Prize for 2023 has been awarded jointly to Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons:
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Early American Literature Book Prize for 2023 Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Early American Literature Book Prize for 2023 Awarded jointly to: Kirsten Silva Gruesz and Kelly Wisecup Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Kelly Wisecup, Arthur E. Andersen Teaching and Research Professor of English, Northwestern University, have been selected to receive the
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Reconciliation in John Winthrop's History of New England Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Adam N. McKeown
Abstract: The prominence of dissent and the reconciliation of dissent in John Winthrop's History of New England serves as a useful reminder that Massachusetts was not as monolithic as is often thought and that colony's ability to cope with differences of religious opinion was important to the way it represented itself. Instance of reconciliation in the History also have a face-saving effect in that
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John Marrant's Nova Scotia Journal Writes Displaced Communities Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Elizabeth A. Bohls
Abstract: John Marrant was a Methodist missionary in Nova Scotia from 1785 to 1789, serving Black Loyalist refugees settled there by the British Empire after its North American defeat. His journal, published in 1790, records numerous occasions when he preached, as well as helping settlers petition the colonial government for supplies. Scholars have explored Marrant's theology as revealed in the Journal
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Some Linguistic Evidence against Crèvecoeur's Oneida Adoption Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Joseph Pentangelo
Abstract: One of the disputed elements of Crèvecoeur's biography is the question of whether or not he was ever adopted by the Oneida. In this article, I review the evidence in favor of his adoption and trace the history of this claim. I use a linguistically driven approach to argue that this evidence is unsuitable, and I provide previously unused evidence to suggest that, although he may have been
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Archive: "Founded on Facts": Correcting Misattribution of the Novels Monima (1802) and Margaretta (1807) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Thomas N. Baker
Abstract: Using archival and genealogical sources, this study corrects the long-standing misattribution of the American novels Monima; or, The Beggar Girl (1802) and Margaretta; or, The Intricacies of the Heart (1807) to Martha Meredith Read. Their true author, Mary Endress Ralston (1772–1850), is introduced as a bilingual Pennsylvania German Lutheran literary pioneer.
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Framing Mark: Reading the Africanist Presence in Early American Broadsides Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Rebecca M. Rosen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Framing MarkReading the Africanist Presence in Early American Broadsides Rebecca M. Rosen (bio) As formal, occasional documents that attempt to contain acts of racialized legal violence, early American texts produced—and in a sense demanded—by carceral systems and their literary adherents present challenges to modern scholars. Whether
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The Black Atlantic at Thirty: Implications for the Canon and for Publication and Instruction Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 John Saillant
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Black Atlantic at ThirtyImplications for the Canon and for Publication and Instruction John Saillant (bio) Two habits of scholars of early African American literature, as we move into the second quarter of the twenty-first century, have probably outlived their usefulness. One is reliance on the Norton Anthology of African American
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Revisiting Mayas, Revolutionizing Discovery Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Arturo Arias
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Revisiting Mayas, Revolutionizing Discovery Arturo Arias (bio) Calculating Brilliance: An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich'en Itza gerardo aldana University of Arizona Press, 2022 464 pp. Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, vol. 3, part 4: Yaxchilan barbara w. fash, alexandre tokovinine, and ian graham, eds. Harvard
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Challenges, Strategies, and Adaptations in Colonial Mexico Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Veronica Rodriguez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Challenges, Strategies, and Adaptations in Colonial Mexico Veronica Rodriguez (bio) The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico thomas m. cohen, jay t. harrison, and david rex galindo, eds. University of Oklahoma Press, 2021 362 pp. The Stations of the Cross in Colonial Mexico: The "Via crucis en mexicano" by Fray Agustin de Vetancurt, and the
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The Folly of Revolution: Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age by S. Scott Rohrer (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Daniel Diez Couch
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Folly of Revolution: Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age by S. Scott Rohrer Daniel Diez Couch (bio) The Folly of Revolution: Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age s. scott rohrer University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022 248 pp. In many ways,
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Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics by Michael Boyden (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Abby Goode
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics by Michael Boyden Abby Goode (bio) Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics michael boyden Oxford University Press, 2022 214 pp. What might the early American tropics have to do with today's climate crisis? What can we learn from late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
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Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo, and: Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan by Stefan Rinke (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Carlos Macías Prieto
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo, and: Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan by Stefan Rinke Carlos Macías Prieto (bio) Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain david
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Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory ed. by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Leila Mansouri
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory ed. by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg Leila Mansouri (bio) Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory andrew burstein and nancy isenberg, editors Louisiana State University Press, 2022 214 pp. Edited by historians Andrew Burstein
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Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature by Claudia Stokes (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Geoffrey Sanborn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature by Claudia Stokes Geoffrey Sanborn (bio) Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature claudia stokes University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022 272 pp. Powerful cultural concepts sometimes slow the forward motion of one's
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Black Enlightenment by Surya Parekh (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Jordan Alexander Stein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Black Enlightenment by Surya Parekh Jordan Alexander Stein (bio) Black Enlightenment surya parekh Duke University Press, 2023 216 pp. Black Atlantic writing, indelibly shaped by the transatlantic slave trade, articulates powerful demands for freedom. The project of Surya Parekh's suggestive and learned study, Black Enlightenment
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A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire by Adrian Chastain Weimer (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Bryce Traister
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire by Adrian Chastain Weimer Bryce Traister (bio) A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire adrian chastain weimer University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023 366 pp
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The Bravo by James Fenimore Cooper (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Matthew Redmond
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Bravo by James Fenimore Cooper Matthew Redmond (bio) The Bravo james fenimore cooper SUNY Press, 2023 482 pp. When was the last time James Fenimore Cooper had a moment? The answer might be 1992, when Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans gave us Daniel Day-Lewis as a smoldering young version of Cooper's wonderfully crusty
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Notes on Contributors Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors arturo arias is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Emeritus Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced. Author of Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya Narratives, volumes 1 (SUNY P, 2017) and 2 (SUNY P, 2018), Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America
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Editors' Note Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Cassander Smith, Katy Chiles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors' Note Cassander Smith and Katy Chiles We are thrilled to be the new Coeditors of Early American Literature! We feel honored to continue the journal's tradition of publishing outstanding early American scholarship, and we are committed to continue innovating EAL by emphasizing new methodologies, archives, and objects of study and
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Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022 Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Tara Bynum, Ana Schwartz, Michelle Sizemore
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022 Tara Bynum, Ana Schwartz (bio), and Michelle Sizemore Awarded to: Rebecca Rosen Honorable Mention: Camille Owens From the magnificent volume of essays published in volume 57 of Early American Literature, the 2022 Richard Beale Davis Prize is awarded to Rebecca Rosen for "'The Voice of the Innocent Blood
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Feeling Solitary in the Seductive Republic: Narrative Deviance in Elizabeth "Harriot" Wilson and William "Amos" Wilson Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ben Bascom
Abstract: This essay examines two prominent literary narratives and tropes at the turn of the nineteenth century that constellate around the seduction plot and the hermit narrative. These two ostensibly discrete narrative forms have a curious history as they play out in the printed iterations of the Elizabeth Wilson and William Wilson stories, two siblings whose lives were marked by differing forms
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Equiano's African Methodist Appetite: Feasting and Purification Rituals as Community and Resistance Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Carole Lynn Stewart
Abstract: This article draws on food studies, religious history, and research on Equiano's religious orientation to argue that Equiano's Interesting Narrative describes a creolized African and Methodist asceticism in relation to food and ritual practice. His introduction to the Moravian-Methodist love feast before his conversion resonates with his earlier textual recollections of commensality and feasting
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Reading with Powhatan Ancestral Remains in Robert Beverley's The History and Present State of Virginia Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Kimberly Takahata
Abstract: This essay presents Robert Beverley's 1705 The History and Present State of Virginia as a case study of the role Indigenous ancestral remains serve for both colonial attempts at control and as teachers for current anticolonial scholarly approaches. Analyzing his depiction of Powhatan ancestral remains, this piece first argues that Beverley presents Powhatan ancestors as solely bones, that
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The 2023 SEA Common Reading Forum: On Toni Morrison's A Mercy Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Anna Brickhouse, April Langley, Kaitlin Tonti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The 2023 SEA Common Reading ForumOn Toni Morrison's A Mercy Anna Brickhouse (bio), April Langley (bio), and Kaitlin Tonti (bio) a mercy if you don't read this no one will.(one question: can you read?)this story begins in a language Ican't recall but I will tryto build a house of wordsanyway. it is the only way.on the cobblestones of umamemória
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Toni Morrison's A Mercy: A Meditation on Othering Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Dana A. Williams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Toni Morrison's A MercyA Meditation on Othering Dana A. Williams (bio) Toni Morrison has famously noted that her novels always begin with a question. In The Bluest Eye the question is How do we make sense of a young Black girl's longing for blue eyes at a moment when chants of "Black is beautiful" abound? In Paradise she asks, What happens
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Teaching A Mercy Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Riché Richardson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Teaching A Mercy Riché Richardson (bio) Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison was truly royalty to me, and over the years, in my roles as a teacher, scholar and artist, I have treasured every opportunity to reflect on her. In 2005, I first introduced a seminar on her body of novels titled Toni Morrison's Novels on my former campus, the University
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Reading Race and Power in Toni Morrison's A Mercy Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Angelyn Mitchell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reading Race and Power in Toni Morrison's A Mercy Angelyn Mitchell (bio) In her 1997 essay titled "Home," Toni Morrison wrote this sobering sentence: "I have never lived, nor has any of us, in a world in which race did not matter" (3). How it has mattered, of course, across time and across identities has been the subject of much scholarly
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Possibility and A Mercy Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Michelle S. Hite
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Possibility and A Mercy Michelle S. Hite (bio) Toni Morrison's novel A Mercy (2008) appeared in the marketplace within the context of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election. Given this context, interviewers were interested in the novel's preracial context as directly tied to the suggestion of the postracial world order used to shape
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The Din of Pasts Colliding: Latin American Histories Urbane, Archival, and Sacral Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Dana Leibsohn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Din of Pasts CollidingLatin American Histories Urbane, Archival, and Sacral Dana Leibsohn (bio) Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City michael schreffler Yale University Press, 2020 200 pp. The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844 byron hamann Getty Research
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The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Michael Boyden
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston Michael Boyden (bio) The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World katherine johnston Oxford University Press, 2022 264 pp. This meticulously researched book draws on a wealth of archival
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Vincent Carretta
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher Vincent Carretta (bio) The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence david waldstreicher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 480 pp. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley:
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Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative by Zachary McLeod Hutchins (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jeannine Marie Delombard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative by Zachary McLeod Hutchins Jeannine Marie Delombard (bio) Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative zachary mcleod hutchins University of North Carolina Press, 2022 306 pp. Before Equiano's subtitle suggests that this new monograph
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American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 ed. by William Huntting Howell and Greta Lafleur (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Patrick M. Erben
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 ed. by William Huntting Howell and Greta Lafleur Patrick M. Erben (bio) American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 edited by william huntting howell and greta lafleur Cambridge University Press, 2022 366 pp. Reading American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 feels like attending
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Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability by Abby L. Goode (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ian Finseth
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability by Abby L. Goode Ian Finseth (bio) Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability abby l. goode University of North Carolina Press, 2022 276 pp. The animating impulse of this important, well-executed study is a desire to challenge both "the supposed benevolence
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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper ed. by Stephen Carl Arch and Keat Murray (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Theresa Strouth Gaul
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper ed. by Stephen Carl Arch and Keat Murray Theresa Strouth Gaul (bio) Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper edited by stephen carl arch and keat murray Modern Language Association of America, 2022 220 pp. Teaching James Fenimore Cooper's novels in
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The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Aston Gonzalez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse Aston Gonzalez (bio) The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War van gosse University of North Carolina Press, 2021 760 pp. With the publication of The First Reconstruction, scholars
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Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Justine S. Murison (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ray Horton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Justine S. Murison Ray Horton (bio) Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States justine s. murison University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023 266 pp. "Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again," exclaimed a banner
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Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America by Jonathan Todd Hancock (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Scott M. Larson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America by Jonathan Todd Hancock Scott M. Larson (bio) Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America jonathan todd hancock University of North Carolina Press, 2021 186 pp. Beginning in December 1811, a series of powerful earthquakes
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Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry by Jennifer Putzi (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Wendy Raphael Roberts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry by Jennifer Putzi Wendy Raphael Roberts (bio) Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry jennifer putzi University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021 272 pp. Jennifer Putzi's Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's
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On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ana Schwartz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant Ana Schwartz (bio) On the Inconvenience of Other People lauren berlant Duke University Press, 2022 252 pp. Where does history end and personality begin? This isn't exactly Lauren Berlant's question in On the Inconvenience of Other People. But for those of us reading from
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Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture by Michaël Roy (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Bryan Sinche
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture by Michaël Roy Bryan Sinche (bio) Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture michaël roy; translated by susan pickford University of Wisconsin Press, 2022 222 pp. Following in the wake of scholarly leaders like I. Garland Penn, Dorothy Porter, and
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Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885 by Georgia Brady Barnhill (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Amy L. Sopcak-Joseph
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885 by Georgia Brady Barnhill Amy L. Sopcak-Joseph (bio) Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885 georgia brady barnhill University of Massachusetts Press, 2021 332 pp. In his memoir Recollections of a Lifetime (1856), author
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American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Daniel Diez Couch (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ezra Tawil
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Daniel Diez Couch Ezra Tawil (bio) American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic daniel diez couch University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022 282 pp. How is it possible that no one before now has written
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Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War ed. by Lisa Brooks and Kelly Wisecup (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ryan Carr
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War ed. by Lisa Brooks and Kelly Wisecup Ryan Carr (bio) Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War edited by lisa brooks and kelly wisecup Library
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What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer by Ann Myles (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Rebecca M. Rosen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer by Ann Myles Rebecca M. Rosen (bio) What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer ann Myles Final Thursday Press, 2022 60 pp. Most readers of Early American Literature have encountered Mary Barrett Dyer, a follower of Anne Hutchinson, in the records of the Antinomian Controversy of 1636–38
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Biblia Americana, vol. 10: Hebrews–Revelation by Cotton Mather (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Christopher Trigg
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Biblia Americana, vol. 10: Hebrews–Revelation by Cotton Mather Christopher Trigg (bio) Biblia Americana, vol. 10: Hebrews–Revelation cotton mather, edited by jan stievermann Mohr Siebeck, 2023 1102 pp. "I will also ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you;—The Bodies of the Raised, shall they be
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The Broadview Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A: Beginnings to 1820 ed. by Derrick R. Spires et al. (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Abram van Engen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Broadview Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A: Beginnings to 1820 ed. by Derrick R. Spires et al. Abram van Engen (bio) The Broadview Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A: Beginnings to 1820 edited by derrick r. spires, christina roberts, joseph rezek, justine s. murison, laura l. mielke, christopher looby, rodrigo
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Notes on Contributors Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors ben bascom is an assistant professor of English at Ball State University, where he teaches American literature and queer studies. His forthcoming book, Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States (Oxford UP), depicts a queer and messy world of social outcasts and eccentric personalities all striving
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Editor's Note: "Language Problems" (with thanks to Kirsten Silva Gruesz) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Marion Rust
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Note"Language Problems" (with thanks to Kirsten Silva Gruesz) Marion Rust Two months into my editorship of this journal, the review editors and I received a formal letter from Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Caroline Wigginton, and Kelly Wisecup, coeditors of an award-winning symposium titled "Materials and Methods in Native American and
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On Rip Van Winkle Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 David Capps
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Rip Van Winkle David Capps (bio) preface This work is the outcome of a series of transformations that began one night when I happened to be reflecting on a theological topic: what it really means to imagine a God who inhabits the hypothetical eternal heavens and has little relation to the world of becoming, our world. It struck me that
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Notes on Black Ekphrasis Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 James Edward Ford III
Abstract: This essay argues for Phillis Wheatley and Scipio Moorhead as early contributors to the tradition of Black Ekphrasis. This essay frames "To S.M. [Scipio Moorhead], a Young African Painter, on Seeing his Works," as both an instance and a theorization of Black Ekphrasis. Wheatley's commentary leads to a consideration of the painter and poet's bond under the tyranny of slavery. By way of the
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Olaudah Equiano and Freedom of the Scenes: Embodied Performances in Equiano's Interesting Narrative Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Chinaza Amaeze Okoli
Abstract: This article considers Equiano's turn to performance and spectacle in his Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano in relation to the eighteenth-century stage practice known as "freedom of the scenes." Widely regarded as the "prototype" of all subsequent slave narratives, the Narrative is infused with instances of racial mimicry, including whiteface and blackface, as well as self-fashioning
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Stopping by Woods in Mashpee Territory: Belonging in William Apess's Indian Nullification Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Lloyd Alimboyao Sy
Abstract: This essay analyzes how William Apess's Indian Nullification (1835) articulates a form of belonging that emphasizes inclusivity and communality (affiliative belonging) against settler colonialism's insistence that belonging is anchored in possession and property (proprietary belonging). It draws on recent critical appraisals of Indigenous kinship and community that emphasize the commingling
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Introduction: A Key Text for the Early Americas Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Carmen E. Lamas
Abstract: For almost two centuries, the author and the editors of the first historical novel in Spanish published in the Americas, Jicotencal, remained unnamed. On the basis of documentary evidence, this symposium identifies the author as Cayetano Lanuza, and the true editors of the book as the New York firm of Lanuza, Mendía & Co.
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Cayetano Lanuza, Jicotencal's Author Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 María Helena Barrera-Agarwal
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Cayetano Lanuza, Jicotencal's Author María Helena Barrera-Agarwal (bio) keywords Jicotencal, Lanuza, Mendía & Co., Cayetano Lanuza, Joseph Mendía, Frederick Huttner, William Stavely, Pierre-Étienne Du Ponceau, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Folsom, Félix Pascalis-Ouviere, José Luis Casaseca, book printing in Spanish The first historical
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Lanuza, Mendía y Compañía and the Unfinished Work of Spanish-Language Bibliography in the United States Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Kirsten Silva Gruesz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Lanuza, Mendía y Compañía and the Unfinished Work of Spanish-Language Bibliography in the United States Kirsten Silva Gruesz (bio) keywords publishers and publishing, New York City, print culture, format, book history, Spanish-language press, book trade, translation Tracing the anonymously published novel Jicotencal (1826) back to its
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Still Anonymous: Jicotencal and the Authority of Labor Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Rodrigo Lazo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Still AnonymousJicotencal and the Authority of Labor Rodrigo Lazo (bio) keywords author, literary history, Félix Varela, labor, anonymity And if a text should be discovered in a state of anonymity—whether as a consequence of an accident or the author's explicit wish—the game becomes one of rediscovering the author. Michel Foucault, "What
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Religious Freedom and Unfreedom in Early America, or, A Prehistory of Dobbs Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Dawn Coleman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Religious Freedom and Unfreedom in Early America, or, A Prehistory of Dobbs Dawn Coleman (bio) Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism evan haefeli, editor University of Virginia Press, 2020 342 pp. Beyond Belief, beyond Conscience: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion jack n. rakove Oxford University
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The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards ed. by Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann (review) Early American Literature (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Brad Bannon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards ed. by Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann Brad Bannon (bio) The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards douglas a. sweeney and jan stievermann, editors Oxford University Press, 2021 624 pp. Prior to the pioneering work of Perry Miller, and even for some time after, the common estimation