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Melville, Moby-Dick, and Blasphemy Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Jonathan A. Cook
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Melville, Moby-Dick, and Blasphemy Jonathan A. Cook (bio) On October 1, 1856, the New York editor and publisher Evert Duyckinck wrote in his diary of a visit to his Clinton Street (now East 8th Street) residence from a previously estranged literary friend living in the Berkshires, during which visit the two discussed passages from Robert
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Healthy, Wealthy, and White: The Great War and Shell Shock in Nella Larsen's Passing Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Aaron Shaheen
Abstract: This essay sheds new light on the character of Passing’s Brian Redfield, whose restlessness and mood swings bear a striking resemblance to contemporaneous accounts of shell shock among Great War veterans. Brian, himself such a veteran as well as a physician, is so insecure about his wartime past that he looks to Claire Bellew as a model for how to pass successfully, even if the nature of
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"No Exact Analogue": Alternative History and the Boundaries of "Home" in Herland Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Justin Chandler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “No Exact Analogue”: Alternative History and the Boundaries of “Home” in Herland Justin Chandler (bio) In the final moments of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1915 novel Herland, our narrator, Van Jennings, reflects on the peculiarities of his new marriage with his Herlandian comrade Ellador ahead of their return to “the Rest of the World.”
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"'There has to be a first time for everything,' Eleanor told herself": Delayed Adolescence and Parentification in The Haunting of Hill House Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Michael T. Wilson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “‘There has to be a first time for everything,’ Eleanor told herself”: Delayed Adolescence and Parentification in The Haunting of Hill House Michael T. Wilson (bio) In Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House, of the three house guests Dr. Montague summons to take part in his “haunted house” experiment, Eleanor behaves most
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"One and the same": Morrison's Queer Phenomenology in Sula Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Preston Taylor Stone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “One and the same”: Morrison’s Queer Phenomenology in Sula Preston Taylor Stone (bio) Introduction In Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula, the two protagonists are girlfriends whose relationship crosses boundaries, physical and psychic.1 In childhood, we are told, Nel and Sula find “in each other’s eyes the intimacy they [are] looking for
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Wheatley's Writing on the Wall: Concepts of Mercy and Alternate Literary Histories in Toni Morrison's A Mercy Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Éva Tettenborn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Wheatley’s Writing on the Wall: Concepts of Mercy and Alternate Literary Histories in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy Éva Tettenborn (bio) For those familiar with the African American canon, it may be difficult to read Toni Morrison’s novel A Mercy (2009) and not understand it as a form of signifying on African American literary history in general
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Notes on Contributors Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-02-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Justin Chandler is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in American literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. His current research explores the intersections of American pragmatism, the Black radical tradition, and Black speculative fiction. He
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Queer Precursors: Same-Sex Desire in Charles Prentiss's The American Bee Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Helen Hunt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Queer Precursors: Same-Sex Desire in Charles Prentiss’s The American Bee Helen Hunt (bio) In 1797, a recent Harvard graduate named Charles Prentiss published what might be the first collection of American short stories: The American Bee: A Collection of Entertaining Histories, Selected from Different Authors and Calculated for Amusement
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Critical Fictions: Fanny Fern, Critical Satire, and the Gender Inequities of Antebellum Criticism Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Adam Gordon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Critical Fictions: Fanny Fern, Critical Satire, and the Gender Inequities of Antebellum Criticism Adam Gordon (bio) On February 25, 1832, the New-York Mirror published as its feature story an anonymous original piece entitled “The Young Author, or the Effects of Criticism,” which recounts the tale of a young poet whose confrontation with
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Lovecraft and Matters of Weird Realism: Decadence, Architecture, and Alien Materiality Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Hisup Shin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Lovecraft and Matters of Weird Realism: Decadence, Architecture, and Alien Materiality Hisup Shin (bio) Lovecraft and Weird Architecture In linking H. P. Lovecraft with the resurgence of realism in recent years critics often highlight the writer’s capacity to imagine a landscape that shares no physical properties with the world we inhabit
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"We Knew We Were Being Watched": Adultification and Coming of Age in Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Adam Dawson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "We Knew We Were Being Watched": Adultification and Coming of Age in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn Adam Dawson (bio) Grown women bore signs of ruined girlhood – the cold, hard eyes of having been ripened too soon. Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments August, the protagonist of Jacqueline Woodson’s autobiographical
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Everyday Trauma as Open Secret: Narrative Reticence in The Friend Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Christina Fogarasi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Everyday Trauma as Open Secret: Narrative Reticence in The Friend Christina Fogarasi (bio) How can a human being enter into a narrative world and not disrupt the distribution of attention? Alex Woloch, The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel (2003) Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend (2018) tells the
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A Is for African: The "Black Man" and Demonic Ground of The Scarlet Letter Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Seth Cosimini
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Is for African:The "Black Man" and Demonic Ground of The Scarlet Letter Seth Cosimini (bio) Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was published in a time of U.S. crisis in 1850; this essay, a study of the novel, arrives in another moment of crisis in the country, one that has demanded that literary scholars attempt to define a disciplinary
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The Minister's Wooing's Calvinist Sentiment The Secular Versus Secularization Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Leah Marie Becker
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Minister's Wooing's Calvinist Sentiment The Secular Versus Secularization Leah Marie Becker (bio) The secularization thesis is dead. There is no doubt whatever about that. Peter Coviello and Jared Hickman As Peter Coviello and Jared Hickman jocularly point out in their reference to A Christmas Carol, for all the claims that we need
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Dreiser's Financier among the Risk Professionals Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Jeffory A. Clymer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dreiser's Financier among the Risk Professionals Jeffory A. Clymer (bio) In a dramatic scene of stock market panic from Theodore Dreiser's 1912 novel The Financier, protagonist Frank Cowperwood struggles to rescue his crumbling brokerage business not by retrenching or selling stocks but by aggressively taking on more risk. Using borrowed
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Collateral Damage Sexual Abuse in Susan Glaspell's Life and Late Novels Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Veronica Makowsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Collateral Damage Sexual Abuse in Susan Glaspell's Life and Late Novels Veronica Makowsky (bio) "There was one man was bad to me. He said I was to be his little girl, but he was a bad man. … [I]t makes me different—what happened—doesn't it?"1 In the early twentieth century, a sexually abused child like Hertha, the enigmatic center of Susan
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Racial Melancholia, the Divided Self, and the Affect Alien in John Okada's No-No Boy Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Jane Im
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Racial Melancholia, the Divided Self, and the Affect Alien in John Okada's No-No Boy Jane Im (bio) This may sound unbelievable, but I'd never realized, until I read your novel, that a Japanese American could be angry. Mad with rage, or just plain crazy! I thought the Japanese American emotional palette comprised more neutral shades: resignation
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The Melville Effect in Contemporary Fiction An Approach to Post-Postmodernism in the Novel Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Joseph A. Boone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Melville Effect in Contemporary Fiction An Approach to Post-Postmodernism in the Novel Joseph A. Boone (bio) Ever since the rediscovery of Herman Melville in the 1920s, his hybrid aesthetics and convention-defying themes have been potent sources of inspiration for artists working in multiple genres—the visual arts, opera, orchestral
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Notes on Contributors Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Leah Marie Becker is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work considers the intersection of the environmental humanities, ecoconsumerism, and nineteenth-century domestic ideology. Her previous articles have appeared in Edge Effects (2021) and Render:
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A Is for African: The "Black Man" and Demonic Ground of The Scarlet Letter Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Seth Cosimini
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Is for African:The "Black Man" and Demonic Ground of The Scarlet Letter Seth Cosimini (bio) Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was published in a time of U.S. crisis in 1850; this essay, a study of the novel, arrives in another moment of crisis in the country, one that has demanded that literary scholars attempt to define a disciplinary
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The Minister's Wooing's Calvinist Sentiment The Secular Versus Secularization Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Leah Marie Becker
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Minister's Wooing's Calvinist Sentiment The Secular Versus Secularization Leah Marie Becker (bio) The secularization thesis is dead. There is no doubt whatever about that. Peter Coviello and Jared Hickman As Peter Coviello and Jared Hickman jocularly point out in their reference to A Christmas Carol, for all the claims that we need
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Dreiser's Financier among the Risk Professionals Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Jeffory A. Clymer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dreiser's Financier among the Risk Professionals Jeffory A. Clymer (bio) In a dramatic scene of stock market panic from Theodore Dreiser's 1912 novel The Financier, protagonist Frank Cowperwood struggles to rescue his crumbling brokerage business not by retrenching or selling stocks but by aggressively taking on more risk. Using borrowed
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Collateral Damage Sexual Abuse in Susan Glaspell's Life and Late Novels Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Veronica Makowsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Collateral Damage Sexual Abuse in Susan Glaspell's Life and Late Novels Veronica Makowsky (bio) "There was one man was bad to me. He said I was to be his little girl, but he was a bad man. … [I]t makes me different—what happened—doesn't it?"1 In the early twentieth century, a sexually abused child like Hertha, the enigmatic center of Susan
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Racial Melancholia, the Divided Self, and the Affect Alien in John Okada's No-No Boy Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Jane Im
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Racial Melancholia, the Divided Self, and the Affect Alien in John Okada's No-No Boy Jane Im (bio) This may sound unbelievable, but I'd never realized, until I read your novel, that a Japanese American could be angry. Mad with rage, or just plain crazy! I thought the Japanese American emotional palette comprised more neutral shades: resignation
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The Melville Effect in Contemporary Fiction An Approach to Post-Postmodernism in the Novel Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Joseph A. Boone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Melville Effect in Contemporary Fiction An Approach to Post-Postmodernism in the Novel Joseph A. Boone (bio) Ever since the rediscovery of Herman Melville in the 1920s, his hybrid aesthetics and convention-defying themes have been potent sources of inspiration for artists working in multiple genres—the visual arts, opera, orchestral
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Notes on Contributors Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-07-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Leah Marie Becker is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work considers the intersection of the environmental humanities, ecoconsumerism, and nineteenth-century domestic ideology. Her previous articles have appeared in Edge Effects (2021) and Render:
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Charles Chesnutt's "Uncle Julius" Tales Sleepy Subversions of Scientific Racism and the Master Clock Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Hannah Huber
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Charles Chesnutt's "Uncle Julius" Tales Sleepy Subversions of Scientific Racism and the Master Clock Hannah Huber (bio) Charles Elam, in his 1869 study A Physician's Problems, classifies working-class somnambulism as a condition suffered by sleep-deprived laborers who, while asleep at night, repeat the same mechanical actions of their
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The Queer Gift of Black Folk Double Consciousness in W. E. B. Du Bois's Detective Story "The Case" Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Erika Renée Williams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Queer Gift of Black Folk Double Consciousness in W. E. B. Du Bois's Detective Story "The Case" Erika Renée Williams (bio) W. E. B. Du Bois's theory of double consciousness, which he defines as "a problem" in the Euro-American imaginary, has long been understood to denote an alienated black subjectivity and an American body politic
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"She was a natural creature again": Bathing and Racial Degeneracy in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Kristen R. Egan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "She was a natural creature again"Bathing and Racial Degeneracy in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark Kristen R. Egan (bio) By the end of Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark, protagonist Thea Kronberg has become a successful opera singer in New York City. But while she has achieved her dream, she suffers from the hardships
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"Pecola and the Unyielding Earth": Exclusionary Cartographies, Transgenerational Trauma, and Racialized Dispossession in The Bluest Eye Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Christine Battista, Melissa R. Sande
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Pecola and the Unyielding Earth"Exclusionary Cartographies, Transgenerational Trauma, and Racialized Dispossession in The Bluest Eye Christine Battista (bio) and Melissa R. Sande (bio) Toni Morrison's 1970 novel The Bluest Eye opens with the black body and the land as a couplet, aligning the object ontology of barren soil with Pecola's
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Multilingualism and Wordless Faith in Helena María Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Alexandra Lossada
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Multilingualism and Wordless Faith in Helena María Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus Alexandra Lossada (bio) "Censored from My Language" "I am just incensed that I have been censored from my language," the Chicana writer Helena María Viramontes says, referring to how her subjection to the English-only movement as a child had the effect
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Impasse, Time, Infrastructure: Politics of Reinhabitation in Karen Tei Yamashita's Petroapocalyptic Fictions Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Wenjia Chen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Impasse, Time, InfrastructurePolitics of Reinhabitation in Karen Tei Yamashita's Petroapocalyptic Fictions Wenjia Chen (bio) We urge Congress to approve the United-States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement. Having Canada as a trading partner and a party to this agreement is critical for North American energy security and US consumers. Retaining a
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Notes on Contributors Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2022-03-10
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Christine M. Battista's research interests include environmental feminism, American studies, and postcolonial women's literature. She is the coeditor of Critical Theory and the Humanities in the Age of the Alt-Right (Palgrave, 2019) and the coauthor of Feminist Ecologies in Literature of American and Caribbean Expansionism:
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White Trash Anxiety: Class, Race, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Gordon Pym Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Janie Hinds
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: White Trash AnxietyClass, Race, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Gordon Pym Janie Hinds (bio) In a much-quoted 1827 letter to foster father John Allan, Edgar Allan Poe angrily lashed out at the perceived injustices he suffered at Allan’s hands: Edgar was “to be subjected to the whims and caprice, not only of your white family, but the complete
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The African American Ecogothic of E. Levi Brown's "At the Hermitage" Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Matthew Wynn Sivils
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The African American Ecogothic of E. Levi Brown’s “At the Hermitage” Matthew Wynn Sivils (bio) The August 1893 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine contained works by the likes of Richard Harding Davis, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Thomas Nelson Page. It also included a short story by an otherwise unknown author named E. Levi Brown who
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"Adonis all over again": Literary and Botanical Sexuality in Henry Blake Fuller's Bertram Cope's Year Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Chung-Hao Ku
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Adonis all over again”Literary and Botanical Sexuality in Henry Blake Fuller’s Bertram Cope’s Year Chung-Hao Ku (bio) In Henry Blake Fuller’s Bertram Cope’s Year (1919)—a campus novel set in the late 1910s about the eponymous character’s one-year stay in Churchton, a college town evocative of Evanston, Illinois—two senior bachelors talk
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Dust Tracks on the Page: Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Hildegard Hoeller
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dust Tracks on the PageZora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God Hildegard Hoeller (bio) Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his
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Strange Strangers in the Mesh: Maureen F. McHugh's Uncanny Utopia Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Marta Komsta
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Strange Strangers in the Mesh: Maureen F. McHugh’s Uncanny Utopia Marta Komsta (bio) Introduction The focus of traditional spatial studies tended to be anthropocentric, but contemporary research on space and place extends beyond what Yi-Fu Tuan once termed “human environmental experience” into the realm of the nonhuman.1 Accordingly, the
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Charles Chesnutt's "Uncle Julius" Tales Sleepy Subversions of Scientific Racism and the Master Clock Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Hannah Huber
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Impasse, Time, Infrastructure: Politics of Reinhabitation in Karen Tei Yamashita's Petroapocalyptic Fictions Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Wenjia Chen
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The Queer Gift of Black Folk Double Consciousness in W. E. B. Du Bois's Detective Story "The Case" Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Erika Renée Williams
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"Pecola and the Unyielding Earth": Exclusionary Cartographies, Transgenerational Trauma, and Racialized Dispossession in The Bluest Eye Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Christine Battista,Melissa R. Sande
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Multilingualism and Wordless Faith in Helena María Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Alexandra Lossada
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"She was a natural creature again": Bathing and Racial Degeneracy in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Kristen R. Egan
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Strange Strangers in the Mesh: Maureen F. McHugh’s Uncanny Utopia Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Marta Komsta
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The African American Ecogothic of E. Levi Brown’s “At the Hermitage” Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Matthew Wynn Sivils
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White Trash Anxiety: Class, Race, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Gordon Pym Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Janie Hinds
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Dust Tracks on the Page: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Hildegard Hoeller
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“Adonis all over again”: Literary and Botanical Sexuality in Henry Blake Fuller’s Bertram Cope’s Year Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Chung-Hao Ku
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Property Rights and Environmental Thought in New York's Antirent Era Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Carl W. Thompson
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Sugar Apocalypse: Sweetness and Monstrosity in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Maia Gil'Adí
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Allegory, Culture Industry, and William Faulkner's Sanctuary Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Devan Bailey
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The Haitian Revolution and the Limitations of White Feminism: A Comparison of Zelica, the Creole and Leonora Sansay's Secret History Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Talia Argondezzi
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Afterword: Literary Antidotes to the Toxin That Is Ageism Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Kathleen Woodward
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The Slope of the Years: Sister Carrie and Narratives of Aging in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Nathaniel A. Windon
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"One crowded hour of glorious life": Growing Up and Growing Old in The Awkward Age Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Sarah Wadsworth
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The Time to Rise: Imagining Black Maturation in Blake Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Jennifer J. Baker
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Typee and the Making of Adult Innocence Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Natasha Hurley
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"What does come after?": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Speculative Sociology of Aging Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Corinne T. Field