American Literary History

Papers
(The TQCC of American Literary History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Habiba Ibrahim, Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life10
Christine Bold, “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits: 1880s-1930s3
Scott Herring, Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life2
Blake Allmendinger, Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West2
Elizabeth S. Anker, On Paradox: The Claims of Theory2
Greta Olson, From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect2
On the Uses and Abuses of Fascism2
Momentous Inclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, eds. Jennifer Bartlett and George Hart2
Dora Zhang, Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel2
Sarah Orne Jewett’s China2
Margaret H. Freeman, Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading2
Criticism’s Contexts2
Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights, ed. Robert J. Patterson2
Frans Weiser, False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)2
Taylor Eggan, Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination2
In Service to Kin and Community: Seeking Indigenous Masculinities that Heal2
Ayad Rahmani, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind1
John Murillo III, Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation1
Christopher Trigg, To Walk the Earth Again: The Politics of Resurrection in Early America1
Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Decolonization and Democracy in Leslie Marmon Silko’sGardens in the Dunes1
Weird Century1
John Cullen Gruesser, A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line1
Keenan Norris, Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings1
Paul H. D. Kaplan, Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era1
Jimmy Packham, Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech, and Death in the American Gothic1
Vivian L. Huang, Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability1
Daniel Y. Kim, Intimacies of Conflict: A Cultural History of the Korean War1
Benjamin Kahan, ed., The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature1
Data Bodies1
Autumn Womack, The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-19301
How (and How Not) to Study Porn1
Race, Homeownership, and Urban Interdependence1
“For the Women Who Came Before”: The Hidden Hands of Literary Recovery Scholars1
Monica Kaup, New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory1
Sara Humphreys, Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds1
Adam John Waterman, The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War1
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes, edited by Christopher C. De Santis1
Maryemma Graham, The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker1
A “Wild and Ambiguous Medium”: Democracy, Interiority, and the Early American Epistolary Novel1
Ormond Seavey, Henry Adams in Washington: Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America's Man of Letters1
Kyle Garton-Gundling, Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present1
Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah-Rose Murray, eds., Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland1
Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens, edited by Barbara Snedecor1
Brian K. Goodman, The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain1
Trust Exercise: The Form of Race in the American Post-Identity Novel1
Sheila Liming, What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books1
The Critical Electorate: On Democracy and Disenchantment1
Min Hyoung Song, Climate Lyricism1
Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Fransziska Anneke trans. Viktorija Bilić, eds. Alison Clark Efford and Viktorija Bilić1
All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, edited by Stephanie Anderson, and Kristen Tapson0
Style Degree Zero: Incommensurable Bonds in Cather and Cameron0
Shirley A. James Hanshaw, Re-Membering and Surviving African American Fiction of the Vietnam War0
Kellen Hoxworth, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance0
“The Million Dead, Too, Summed Up”: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, eds. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill0
Patrick S. Lawrence, Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century0
Lakota Texts: Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth Century, ed. Regina Pustet0
Resettling Refugee History0
Lauren Arrington, The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers0
Alphonso F. Saville IV, The Gospel of John Marrant: Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic0
Douglas Dowland, We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump0
The Asian American Movement in Queer Literary Retrospect0
Jennifer Fleissner, Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem0
Mazen Naous, Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel0
Democracy and the Novel in the US: An Introduction0
Diagnosing America: The Literatures of Mental Health in the US0
Lee Konstantinou, The Last Samurai Reread0
Kevin Quashie, Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being0
Susan Gillman, American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race0
Danièle Pitavy-Souques, The Eye that is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty0
David Weinfeld, An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism0
Joy Sanchez-Taylor, Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color0
Realism’s Gender Wars: Masculinity Effects in Late Realist Fiction and Contemporary Reality TV0
Heidi Siegrist, All Y'all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–20200
J.Laurence Cohen, Excavating Exodus: Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literature0
Suzanne Manizza Roszak, They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature0
Jack Parlett, The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr0
Poetic Song Verse: Blues Based Popular Music and Poetry, edited by Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez0
Stephen Knadler, Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation0
Ashley Lawson, On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett0
Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege, edited by Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien0
Sarah Churchwell, The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells0
The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment. Edited by Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zeiger0
Racial Capitalism and the Border0
Thomas Aiello, The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century0
Cody Marrs, Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War0
Katie McGettigan, The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–18600
Kate Marshall, Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century0
Missing and All Too Present: The Limits of the Unpublished0
Michelle D. Commander, Avidly Reads Passages0
Eric Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable0
Cristina Rodriguez, Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty First Century Transnational Latinx Literature0
Correction to: Character and Conduct0
Sophie Maríñez, Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic0
Tara T. Green. Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson0
Novels of Democratic Exhaustion0
The Fruits of the LOA0
Harlem Renaissance at 100: An ALH forum0
Sandra M. Gustafson, Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840–19000
Kathryn Walkiewicz, Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State0
Race, Region, and the Black Midwest in the Dunbar Decades0
Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, I Cannot Write My Life: Islam and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America0
Maia Gil'Adí, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence0
“Foul Abolition Calumny”: Reframing Racial Violence in William Wells Brown’s Clotel & the Antebellum Press0
Richard Wright in Context, ed. Michael Nowlin0
Etta Madden, Engaging Italy. American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks0
Black Arts, Black Women, Black Politics0
Zachary Tavlin, Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century AmericanLiterature0
Lara Langer Cohen, Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Mary Esteve, Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism0
Julianne Braun, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans0
Maurice S. Lee, Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution0
Michael K. Johnson, Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre0
Contours of Dread0
The Affective Bind0
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, ed. and trans. Miriam Udel0
Betty Joseph, From Empire to Anthropocene: the Novel in Posthistorical Times0
Simon Orpana, Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture0
Seeing Through Attention0
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson, edited by Isiah Lavender, III0
Towards the Cli-Fi Historical Novel; Or, Climate Futures Past in Recent Fiction0
Josh Toth, Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative0
Jess A. Goldberg, Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice0
Eric Cheyfitz, The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law0
Laurie McRae Andrew, The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice0
Robert Yusef Rabiee, Medieval America: Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture0
Hugh Foley, Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire0
Elissa Zellinger, Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America0
Precarity in/as Critical Practice0
Michael Szalay, Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television0
Fictions of Capture: William Faulkner in an Era of Fugitive Energy0
Hayden White, The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, Volume 1, edited by Robert Doran0
Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel0
Intimations of Empire: John Dos Passos Titles the U.S.A. Trilogy0
Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, and Nigel Hatton, Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies0
Turbulent Waters, or the Sublime Object of Subalternity0
Mónica Huerta, Magical Habits0
Genre Fiction without Shame0
Native American Rhetoric, ed. Lawrence W. Gross0
Julia Bloch, Lyric Trade: Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long Poem0
Sandra Gunning, Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic0
Sherryl Vint, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction0
Un/published: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Erasure Poetry0
Margaret Greaves, Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration: From Einstein to the Present0
Richard Rorty, Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism, ed. Eduardo Mendieta0
Laura E. Tanner, The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson0
The Mismeasure of Manabozho: Unsettling the Science of the Mind in Henry R. Schoolcraft’sAlgic Researches0
Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees0
Thinking Bibliographically about Periodical Networks in the “Harlem” Renaissance0
Christen Mucher, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession0
Betsy Erkkila, The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics0
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock ‘n’ Roll, ed. Florence Dore0
Lynn Riggs and the Art of Citizenship0
God is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia Butler, Aparajita Nanda and Shelby L. Crosby, eds.0
Alex Alonso, Paul Muldoon in America: Transatlantic Formations0
Sandra Tomc, Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century0
“Somewhere listening for my name”: Black Queer Kinship and the Poetry of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic0
African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 vol. 3, ed. Benjamin Fagan0
The Transitional Decade0
Whites Aren’t Alright0
Fighting for Real: Truth and American War Memory0
Joseph B. Entin, Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work0
A Plantation Illogic: Narrating Proslavery’s Imagined Futures0
Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor, The Classics in Black and White: Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation0
Elizabeth McHenry, To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
Joan Didion, Didion: The 1960s & 1970s, ed. David Ulin0
Alexis Dianda, The Varieties of Experience: William James After the Linguistic Turn0
Freedom by the Book: Novels and the Future of Liberal Democracy0
Leslie Bow, Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy0
Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora, by Raquel Kennon0
David Anthony, Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature0
Audrey Goodman, A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing0
Bad Faith and the American Indian: Laura Cornelius Kellogg and the Problem of Democratic Inclusion0
Denise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America0
Security, Exile, Population: Colonization from David Walker to the Liberia Herald0
Desire and Asian Diasporic Fiction: Democracy and the Representative Status of Onoto Watanna’sMiss Numè of Japan(1899)0
Abe Frajndlich and Glenn Esterly, Bukowski: The Shooting0
Justin Parks, Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America0
Maxine Lavon Montgomery, The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination0
Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music0
Thomas Heise, The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel0
The New Melville Studies, ed. Cody Marrs0
Lyndsey Stonebridge, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights0
Casey Kayser, Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region and Gender0
Sandhya Shukla, Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place0
Eliot’s Statements0
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
Lindsay Thomas, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/110
The Work of Literature in the Age of the Refugee0
Anita Wohlmann, Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused0
Martin L. Kilson, Black Intellectuals and Black Society0
Allyson C. DeMaagd, Dissensuous Modernism: Women, the Senses, and Technology0
Theodora D. Patrona, Return Narratives. Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature0
Sharon Patricia Holland, an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life0
Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall, Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing0
Kevin Ohi, Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form0
Heather Love, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory0
Jordan Alexander Stein, When Novels Were Books0
Cody Marrs, Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies0
Jo Gill, Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms0
A History of American Puritan Literature, ed. Abram Van Engen and Kristin Bross0
Kenneth M. Price, Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City0
Tamlyn Avery, The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–19600
Bryan Santin, Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945-20080
Modeling Therapy as Discourse in Twentieth-Century American Literature0
The Colored Conventions: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, Gabrielle P. Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Pa????erson, eds.0
What is Poetry Scholarship Today?0
Suk Koo Rhee, The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil War to the Post-Cold War0
On Not Describing Death: Washington Irving, John Kirk Townsend, and Natural History’s Descriptive Agency0
J. J. Butts, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project0
Unpublishing as Form: Hart Crane, Jack Spicer, and the Thresholds of Periodical Publication0
Feng Dong, Desire and Infinity in W.S. Merwin's Poetry0
Isabelle Parkinson, Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation: Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909-19330
Patrick Chura, Michael Gold: The People's Writer0
Sunny Xiang, Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War0
A Report on the Poe Industry0
Jed Rasula, What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Modern Poetry0
Illuminating the Antebellum Literary Marketplace: The Artfulness of Literary Labor in George Foster’s New York by Gas-Light0
From the Streets of Cairo to St. Louis, Louis: Musical Print Culture and the Intermedial Travels of the Danse du Ventre0
Paul Crosthwaite, Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis0
David F. Eisler, Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present0
The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing, eds. Tori Bush and Richard Goodman0
Timothy Yu, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia0
Tom Moylan, Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
Sara Clarke Kaplan, The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood0
Ben Nichols, Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness0
Elizabeth Gregory, Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952-19700
Maria O’Malley, Imaginary Empires: Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature0
Michelle Ann Abate, No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults0
Michael Bérubé, The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species0
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry, edited by George Getschow0
Clarence Major, The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry, foreword by Kia Corthron0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry0
Plural Texts: On Rereadings0
Man Woman Cherry Tree Yellow: Queer Elsewheres, Black Elsewhens, Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Queer Eighteenth-Century Studies0
Commemorative Impulses in the “Heart of America”: Kansas City, the Great War, and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy0
William Merrill Decker, Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler0
Childhood Studies and the Politics of Horror0
Josh Lambert, The Literary Mafia Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature0
Kiara Kharpertian, We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature0
Complete Poetry of James Agee , edited by Michael A. Lofaro and Jesse Graves0
Marcia Noe, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre0
J. Jesse Ramírez, Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century0
David Deutsch, Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture0
Kacy Dowd Tillman, Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution0
Jennifer Greiman, Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form0
Interlocations0
Max Shulman, The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890 – 19400
Ellen Schrecker, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s0
Miriam C. Brown Spiers, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction0
Benedetta Zavatta, Individuality and Beyond. Nietzsche Reads Emerson, translated by Alexander Reynolds0
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