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Introduction: The Proliferation of the Ecogothic Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Matthew Wynn Sivils
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: The Proliferation of the Ecogothic Matthew Wynn Sivils (bio) The ecogothic probes the dark and earthy unknowns of the literary landscape, upending creekside stones and dipping dirty fingernails into feculent pools—ever reaching for some mysterious, quivering thing. As the name implies, this still-nascent critical approach
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The Madness of Mold: Ecogothic in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Joshua Myers
Abstract: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s description of a New England mansion in The House of the Seven Gables (1851) relies on well-established gothic tropes that ghost certain environmental incidents and characters’ reactions to them. In turn, natural encroachment on human structures seems an otherworldly and unlikely phenomenon. This rhetorical move eases tension in stories where buildings symbolize U.S
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New England's Nineteenth-Century Ecogothic Nightmares: Bees and Rivers as Metaphors and Harbingers Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Bridget M. Marshall
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: New England’s Nineteenth-Century Ecogothic Nightmares: Bees and Rivers as Metaphors and Harbingers Bridget M. Marshall1 (bio) In The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), Frances Trollope describes an emerging industrial city in the U.S. as a “battleground” where the “demon of machinery” fought “the peaceful realms of nature” and where
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The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Kevin Corstorphine
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt Kevin Corstorphine (bio) Ambrose Bierce (1842–c.1914), known in his lifetime as an acerbic journalist and author of short stories, can easily be seen as a singular figure. His work is sometimes read for its vivid and brutal portrayal of the Civil War (in
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Pulped and Reduced, Dried Out and Flattened: the Horrors of Aborted Agency in "The Yellow Wallpaper" Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Simon C. Estok
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Pulped and Reduced, Dried Out and Flattened: the Horrors of Aborted Agency in “The Yellow Wallpaper” Simon C. Estok (bio) Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” pushes its readers to see beyond what is visible, both metaphorically and literally, at the same time calling into question what it means to see the unseen and what
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(De)composing Gothicism: Disturbing the (eco-) Gothic in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Amy LeBlanc, Leah Van Dyk
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: (De)composing Gothicism: Disturbing the (eco-) Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle Amy LeBlanc (bio) and Leah Van Dyk (bio) While Shirley Jackson’s novels often use gothic elements (including omens, large and stately houses, a supernatural presence, and horror), We Have Always Lived in the Castle differs from
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"We live below sea level": Layered Ecologies and Regional Gothic in Karen Russell's Swamplandia! Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Patrick Whitmarsh
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “We live below sea level”: Layered Ecologies and Regional Gothic in Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! Patrick Whitmarsh (bio) The swamp is like the true uncanny. It’s neither land nor water. You can’t get your bearings there. —Karen Russell, in conversation with David Naimon1 “This whole swamp is haunted”: Reading the Ecogothic in Swamplandia
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Ecologies of the Undead: George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo and the Limits of the Ecogothic Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Eric Gary Anderson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ecologies of the Undead: George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo and the Limits of the Ecogothic Eric Gary Anderson (bio) Introduction: The Outer Limits “EcoGothic” is, as Elizabeth Parker has written, a “fledgling term.”1 Young as it is, it has already proven remarkably fruitful, in large part because it merges the open-endedness of ecocriticism
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Consuming Monsters: Borderlands Ecogothic Science Fiction in Tears of the Trufflepig Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ana María Mutis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Consuming Monsters: Borderlands Ecogothic Science Fiction in Tears of the Trufflepig Ana María Mutis1 (bio) From its origins in the eighteenth century, gothic literature has deployed horror and the supernatural to manifest anxieties over a wide range of invisible threats, such as technological and scientific progress; past and present
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On Ruination, Slavery, and the American Landscape in Conjure Women Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Madelyn Walsh
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Ruination, Slavery, and the American Landscape in Conjure Women Madelyn Walsh (bio) The rot remains with us, the men are gone. Derek Walcott, “Ruins of a Great House”1 In an ecogothic reading, Afia Atakora’s novel Conjure Women (2020) narrates the relationship between the American landscape as an ecological space and the horrors of
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Empires of Extraction: Silver Field Ecologies and Eugenics in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Colleen Marie Tripp
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Empires of Extraction: Silver Field Ecologies and Eugenics in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic Colleen Marie Tripp (bio) Introduction In her adaptation of the Victorian haunted house, Mexican Canadian author Silvia Moreno-Garcia explores the anthropocenic history of a nation that never felt quite at home in her postcolonial, ecogothic
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Haunted Earth: Genre, Preservation, and Surviving the End of the World in Jeff VanderMeer's Hummingbird Salamander Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Christy Tidwell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Haunted Earth: Genre, Preservation, and Surviving the End of the World in Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander Christy Tidwell (bio) In the twenty-first century, the ecogothic is unavoidable. Environmental hauntings abound. Our daily weather becomes less predictable, and species go extinct at terrifying and unprecedented rates. The
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Afterword: On Exhuming an Early American Ecogothic Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Tom J. Hillard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Afterword: On Exhuming an Early American Ecogothic Tom J. Hillard (bio) “Yet one day the demons of America must be placated, the ghosts must be appeased, the Spirit of Place atoned for. Then the true passionate love for American Soil will appear. As yet, there is too much menace in the landscape.” —D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American
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Introduction: The Proliferation of the Ecogothic Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Matthew Wynn Sivils
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: The Proliferation of the Ecogothic 1 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 1–9 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press Introduction: The Proliferation of the Ecogothic Matthew Wynn Sivils Iowa State University T he ecogothic probes the dark and earthy unknowns of the literary landscape, upending creekside stones and
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The Madness of Mold: Ecogothic in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Joshua Myers
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s description of a New England mansion in The House of the Seven Gables (1851) relies on well-established gothic tropes that ghost certain environmental incidents and characters’ reactions to them. In turn, natural encroachment on human structures seems an otherworldly and unlikely phenomenon. This rhetorical move eases tension in stories where buildings symbolize U.S. success at
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New England's Nineteenth-Century Ecogothic Nightmares: Bees and Rivers as Metaphors and Harbingers Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Bridget M. Marshall
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: New England’s Nineteenth-Century Ecogothic Nightmares 31 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 31–53 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press New England’s Nineteenth-Century Ecogothic Nightmares: Bees and Rivers as Metaphors and Harbingers Bridget M. Marshall1 University of Massachusetts Lowell I n The Domestic Manners of the Americans
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The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Kevin Corstorphine
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Vanishing South 55 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 55–73 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt Kevin Corstorphine University of Hull A mbrose Bierce (1842–c.1914), known in his lifetime as an acerbic journalist and author of short stories
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Pulped and Reduced, Dried Out and Flattened: the Horrors of Aborted Agency in "The Yellow Wallpaper" Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Simon C. Estok
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Pulped and Reduced, Dried Out and Flattened 75 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 75–96 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press Pulped and Reduced, Dried Out and Flattened: the Horrors of Aborted Agency in “The Yellow Wallpaper” Simon C. Estok Sungkyunkwan University C harlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” pushes its
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(De)composing Gothicism: Disturbing the (eco-) Gothic in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Amy LeBlanc, Leah Van Dyk
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: (De)composing Gothicism 121 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 121–142 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press (De)composing Gothicism: Disturbing the (eco-) Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle Amy LeBlanc and Leah Van Dyk University of Calgary W hile Shirley Jackson’s novels often use gothic elements
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"We live below sea level": Layered Ecologies and Regional Gothic in Karen Russell's Swamplandia! Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Patrick Whitmarsh
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “We live below sea level” 143 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 143–164 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press “We live below sea level”: Layered Ecologies and Regional Gothic in Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! Patrick Whitmarsh College of the Holy Cross The swamp is like the true uncanny. It’s neither land nor water. You can’t
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Ecologies of the Undead: George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo and the Limits of the Ecogothic Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Eric Gary Anderson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ecologies of the Undead 165 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 165–188 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press Ecologies of the Undead: George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo and the Limits of the Ecogothic Eric Gary Anderson George Mason University Introduction: The Outer Limits “E coGothic” is, as Elizabeth Parker has written
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Consuming Monsters: Borderlands Ecogothic Science Fiction in Tears of the Trufflepig Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Ana María Mutis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Consuming Monsters 189 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 189–207 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press Consuming Monsters: Borderlands Ecogothic Science Fiction in Tears of the Trufflepig Ana María Mutis1 Trinity University F rom its origins in the eighteenth century, gothic literature has deployed horror and the supernatural
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On Ruination, Slavery, and the American Landscape in Conjure Women Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Madelyn Walsh
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Ruination, Slavery, and the American Landscape in Conjure Women 209 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 209–228 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press On Ruination, Slavery, and the American Landscape in Conjure Women Madelyn Walsh University of Liverpool The rot remains with us, the men are gone. Derek Walcott, “Ruins of a
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Empires of Extraction: Silver Field Ecologies and Eugenics in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Colleen Marie Tripp
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Empires of Extraction 229 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 229–252 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press Empires of Extraction: Silver Field Ecologies and Eugenics in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic Colleen Marie Tripp California State University, Northridge Introduction I n her adaptation of the Victorian haunted house
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Haunted Earth: Genre, Preservation, and Surviving the End of the World in Jeff Vander Meer's Hummingbird Salamander Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Christy Tidwell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Haunted Earth 253 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 253–273 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press Haunted Earth: Genre, Preservation, and Surviving the End of the World in Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander Christy Tidwell South Dakota School of Mines & Technology I n the twenty-first century, the ecogothic is unavoidable
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Afterword: On Exhuming an Early American Ecogothic Studies in American Fiction Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Tom J. Hillard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Afterword: On Exhuming an Early American Ecogothic 275 Studies in American Fiction 50.1–2 (2023): 275–285 © 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press Afterword: On Exhuming an Early American Ecogothic Tom J. Hillard Boise State University “Yet one day the demons of America must be placated, the ghosts must be appeased, the Spirit of Place
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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