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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Greta Olson, From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect6
Criticism’s Contexts3
“That Grim Sphinx”: Literary Historicism and Tourgée’s Toinette Novels2
Taylor Eggan, Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination2
Momentous Inclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, eds. Jennifer Bartlett and George Hart2
Ormond Seavey, Henry Adams in Washington: Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America's Man of Letters1
Data Bodies1
John Cullen Gruesser, A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line1
Brian K. Goodman, The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain1
On the Uses and Abuses of Fascism1
Lucas A. Dietrich, Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-19201
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes, edited by Christopher C. De Santis1
Trust Exercise: The Form of Race in the American Post-Identity Novel1
Scott Herring, Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life1
Habiba Ibrahim, Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life1
Dora Zhang, Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel1
Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Fransziska Anneke trans. Viktorija Bilić, eds. Alison Clark Efford and Viktorija Bilić1
Weird Century1
John Murillo III, Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation1
A “Wild and Ambiguous Medium”: Democracy, Interiority, and the Early American Epistolary Novel1
Adam John Waterman, The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War1
Margaret H. Freeman, Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading1
Monica Kaup, New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory1
The Critical Electorate: On Democracy and Disenchantment1
Daniel Y. Kim, Intimacies of Conflict: A Cultural History of the Korean War1
Elizabeth S. Anker, On Paradox: The Claims of Theory1
Sheila Liming, What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books1
Christine Bold, “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits: 1880s-1930s1
Blake Allmendinger, Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West1
Sarah Orne Jewett’s China1
Jimmy Packham, Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech, and Death in the American Gothic1
Maryemma Graham, The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker1
Keenan Norris, Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings1
“For the Women Who Came Before”: The Hidden Hands of Literary Recovery Scholars1
In Service to Kin and Community: Seeking Indigenous Masculinities that Heal1
Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Decolonization and Democracy in Leslie Marmon Silko’sGardens in the Dunes1
How (and How Not) to Study Porn1
Sara Humphreys, Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds1
Vivian L. Huang, Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability1
Benjamin Schreier, The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity1
Frans Weiser, False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)1
Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights, ed. Robert J. Patterson1
Paul H. D. Kaplan, Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era1
Twenty-First-Century Jewish Writing and the World0
Patrick Chura, Michael Gold: The People's Writer0
Maurice S. Lee, Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution0
Isabelle Parkinson, Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation: Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909-19330
Native American Rhetoric, ed. Lawrence W. Gross0
Miriam C. Brown Spiers, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction0
“The Million Dead, Too, Summed Up”: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, eds. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill0
Modernism’s Others: Literary Realisms in an Age of Incomplete Emancipation0
Mad/Utopian/Prehistoric: Black Powers of Speculation0
Security, Exile, Population: Colonization from David Walker to the Liberia Herald0
Mapping Decolonial Environmental Imaginaries in Latinx Culture0
Christen Mucher, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession0
The Colored Conventions: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, Gabrielle P. Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Pa????erson, eds.0
Jennifer Greiman, Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form0
Anita Wohlmann, Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused0
Julianne Braun, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans0
The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing, eds. Tori Bush and Richard Goodman0
African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 vol. 3, ed. Benjamin Fagan0
Fictions of Capture: William Faulkner in an Era of Fugitive Energy0
Tom Moylan, Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
Mónica Huerta, Magical Habits0
Cody Marrs, Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War0
Missing and All Too Present: The Limits of the Unpublished0
Ben Nichols, Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness0
Genre Fiction without Shame0
Max Shulman, The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890 – 19400
Lauren Arrington, The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers0
J. Jesse Ramírez, Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century0
Danièle Pitavy-Souques, The Eye that is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty0
Sandra Gunning, Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic0
Jordan Alexander Stein, When Novels Were Books0
Tara T. Green. Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson0
Novels of Democratic Exhaustion0
Sandra M. Gustafson, Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840–19000
Kevin Quashie, Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being0
Lakota Texts: Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth Century, ed. Regina Pustet0
Josh Toth, Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative0
Joan Didion, Didion: The 1960s & 1970s, ed. David Ulin0
Freedom by the Book: Novels and the Future of Liberal Democracy0
Sherryl Vint, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction0
Lara Langer Cohen, Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Childhood Studies and the Politics of Horror0
Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen, eds. Jonathan D. Cohen and June Skinner Sawyers0
Thomas Aiello, The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century0
Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music0
Sarah Blackwood, The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Maxine Lavon Montgomery, The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination0
Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora, by Raquel Kennon0
Democracy and the Novel in the US: An Introduction0
Timothy Yu, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia0
Robert Yusef Rabiee, Medieval America: Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture0
Fighting for Real: Truth and American War Memory0
Desire and Asian Diasporic Fiction: Democracy and the Representative Status of Onoto Watanna’sMiss Numè of Japan(1899)0
The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment. Edited by Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zeiger0
Gavan Lennon, Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction0
Resettling Refugee History0
Greil Marcus, Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment, and the Stubborn Myth of The Great Gatsby0
Josh Lambert, The Literary Mafia Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature0
Etta Madden, Engaging Italy. American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks0
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson, edited by Isiah Lavender, III0
“Somewhere listening for my name”: Black Queer Kinship and the Poetry of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic0
Living after Life0
As the World Turns; or Against Methodology0
Joseph B. Entin, Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work0
David Weinfeld, An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism0
Theodora D. Patrona, Return Narratives. Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature0
Abe Frajndlich and Glenn Esterly, Bukowski: The Shooting0
Modeling Therapy as Discourse in Twentieth-Century American Literature0
Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel0
Literary Theory on Acid0
Black Arts, Black Women, Black Politics0
Patrick Jagoda, Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification0
Stephen Knadler, Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation0
Betsy Erkkila, The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics0
The New Melville Studies, ed. Cody Marrs0
Robert J. Shiller, Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events0
“Have Sure Tried”: Hemingway’s Unfaltering Career0
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
Simon Orpana, Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture0
Ellen Schrecker, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s0
Alex Alonso, Paul Muldoon in America: Transatlantic Formations0
J.Laurence Cohen, Excavating Exodus: Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literature0
Bryan Santin, Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945-20080
Laura E. Tanner, The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson0
Richard Wright in Context, ed. Michael Nowlin0
Criticism on the Border and the Decolonization of Knowledge0
Eliot’s Statements0
Craig Dworkin, Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography0
Michelle D. Commander, Avidly Reads Passages0
Amy Kaplan, Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance0
All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, edited by Stephanie Anderson, and Kristen Tapson0
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
A History of American Puritan Literature, ed. Abram Van Engen and Kristin Bross0
Race, Region, and the Black Midwest in the Dunbar Decades0
Sara Clarke Kaplan, The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood0
Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, and Nigel Hatton, Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies0
Elissa Zellinger, Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America0
God is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia Butler, Aparajita Nanda and Shelby L. Crosby, eds.0
Jay Williams, Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-19070
Stephen Fredman, American Poetry as Transactional Art0
Elizabeth McHenry, To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
Racheal Scarborough King, ed. After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures0
A Plantation Illogic: Narrating Proslavery’s Imagined Futures0
Mary Esteve, Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism0
Casey Kayser, Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region and Gender0
Shirley A. James Hanshaw, Re-Membering and Surviving African American Fiction of the Vietnam War0
The Romance of Consequentiality0
Commemorative Impulses in the “Heart of America”: Kansas City, the Great War, and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy0
Timothy Helwig, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature0
Denise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America0
Kathryn Walkiewicz, Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State0
Intimations of Empire: John Dos Passos Titles the U.S.A. Trilogy0
Sam V. H. Reese, Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, & Loneliness0
On Dissonance and Its Functions in Asian American Criticism0
Institutionalism and the Fate of the Public University0
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader: Writings by an Early American Polymath, eds. Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert0
David F. Eisler, Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present0
The Object of Jewish American Literary History0
Towards the Cli-Fi Historical Novel; Or, Climate Futures Past in Recent Fiction0
Michelle Ann Abate, No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults0
Contours of Dread0
Sunny Xiang, Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War0
The Transitional Decade0
Benjamin Lee, Poetics of Emergence: Affect and History in Postwar Experimental Poetry0
Hugh Foley, Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire0
Daniel Punday, Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory0
Interlocations0
Thomas Heise, The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel0
Cristina Rodriguez, Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty First Century Transnational Latinx Literature0
Jo Gill, Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms0
Susan Gillman, American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race0
The Work of Literature in the Age of the Refugee0
Eric Cheyfitz, The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law0
David Faflik, Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief0
Heather Love, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory0
Kacy Dowd Tillman, Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution0
Realism’s Gender Wars: Masculinity Effects in Late Realist Fiction and Contemporary Reality TV0
Hsuan L. Hsu, The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics0
Patrick S. Lawrence, Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century0
Lindsay Thomas, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/110
Feeling Fallible, Being Wrong0
Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees0
William Merrill Decker, Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler0
Diagnosing America: The Literatures of Mental Health in the US0
Un/published: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Erasure Poetry0
Mazen Naous, Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel0
Betty Joseph, From Empire to Anthropocene: the Novel in Posthistorical Times0
David Anthony, Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature0
Michele Currie Navakas, Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America0
Audrey Goodman, A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing0
Richard Rorty, Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism, ed. Eduardo Mendieta0
Leslie Bow, Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy0
Katie McGettigan, The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–18600
Sarah Churchwell, The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells0
Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall, Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing0
The Mismeasure of Manabozho: Unsettling the Science of the Mind in Henry R. Schoolcraft’sAlgic Researches0
Clarence Major, The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry, foreword by Kia Corthron0
Jed Rasula, What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Modern Poetry0
Correction to: Character and Conduct0
Feng Dong, Desire and Infinity in W.S. Merwin's Poetry0
Allyson C. DeMaagd, Dissensuous Modernism: Women, the Senses, and Technology0
Heather Houser, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data0
Laurie McRae Andrew, The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice0
Poetic Song Verse: Blues Based Popular Music and Poetry, edited by Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez0
Remediations in an Emergency0
Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege, edited by Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien0
Elizabeth Gregory, Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952-19700
Whites Aren’t Alright0
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry, edited by George Getschow0
The Great American Baseball Novel: How Literature Invented the National Pastime0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry0
Gillian Harkins, Virtual Pedophilia: Sex Offender Profiling and U.S. Security Culture0
Bad Faith and the American Indian: Laura Cornelius Kellogg and the Problem of Democratic Inclusion0
Joy Sanchez-Taylor, Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color0
Hayden White, The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, Volume 1, edited by Robert Doran0
Introduction0
J. J. Butts, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project0
What’s Past is Prologue: Democracy in the Age of Originalism0
“Foul Abolition Calumny”: Reframing Racial Violence in William Wells Brown’s Clotel & the Antebellum Press0
The Affective Bind0
Marcia Noe, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre0
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, ed. and trans. Miriam Udel0
Racial Capitalism and the Border0
Maria O’Malley, Imaginary Empires: Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature0
A View from the Heart of Europe0
Illuminating the Antebellum Literary Marketplace: The Artfulness of Literary Labor in George Foster’s New York by Gas-Light0
Claudia Milian, LatinX0
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock ‘n’ Roll, ed. Florence Dore0
Eric Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable0
On Not Describing Death: Washington Irving, John Kirk Townsend, and Natural History’s Descriptive Agency0
American Magazines and the Cultural Production of Blackness0
Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy0
David Deutsch, Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture0
Tamlyn Avery, The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–19600
Benedetta Zavatta, Individuality and Beyond. Nietzsche Reads Emerson, translated by Alexander Reynolds0
Lynn Riggs and the Art of Citizenship0
Seeing Through Attention0
Jennifer Fleissner, Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem0
The Postliberal Aesthetic; or, How Can Literary Criticism Help Unsettle America’s Polarization?0
On Reading Berlant Reading the World0
Josh Doty, The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature0
Kevin Ohi, Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form0
From the Streets of Cairo to St. Louis, Louis: Musical Print Culture and the Intermedial Travels of the Danse du Ventre0
Kenneth M. Price, Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City0
Amy Hildreth Chen, Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market0
Sharon Patricia Holland, an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life0
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