American Literary History

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The Functions of American Literary Criticism in the Present Moment: A Literary Historical Memoir	14
Telling the Untold Story: Jewish Wartime Refuge in Haiti in Louis-Philippe Dalembert’s Avant que les ombres s’effacent	10
A View from the Heart of Europe	6
Criticism’s Contexts	5
Forms of Opposition in American Literary Criticism	3
Why Publishing Now?	3
Jewish American Literature Against the World	2
“Something is Said in the Silences”: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Years at Harper’s	2
Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out, ed. Jeanne Heuving	1
Ilka Saal, Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker	1
Nick Bromell, The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass	1
The Curious Case of Tommy (Woodrow) Wilson	1
Dana Medoro, Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion	1
Scott Donaldson, Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes: Essays, ed. James L. W. West III	1
Emily Bingham, My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song	1
Heather Hathaway, That Damned Fence: The Literature of the Japanese American Prison Camps	1
Exporting Expertise	1
Richard Wright in Context, ed. Michael Nowlin	1
Rachel Trousdale, Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry	1
Paul Ardoin, Not a Big Deal: Narrating to Unsettle	1
Robert Volpicelli, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour	1
Mónica Huerta, Magical Habits	1
Taylor Eggan, Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination	1
Ina C. Seethaler, Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice	1
Native American Rhetoric, ed. Lawrence W. Gross	1

Eric L. Santner, Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory	1
The Multispecies We: Democracy and Pronouns in the Environmental Novel	1
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures, ed. Greg Barnhisel	1
Christa J. Olson, American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States	1
Race, Urban Heat, and the Aesthetics of Thermoception	1
Abram Foley, The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America	1
Jacob Breslow, Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child	1
Habiba Ibrahim, Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life	1
Sarah Churchwell, The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells	1
Producing the Voice of the Veteran	1
Christopher N. Okonkwo, Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison	1
Christine Bold, “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits: 1880s-1930s	1
Sarah M. Quesada, The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature	1
Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel	1
The Long History of Climate Change: 1621–2026	1
Matthew Kirschenbaum, Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage	1
We Are Stardust: In the Nonworld of Criticism Today	1
Jason Stacy, Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town	0
Simon Orpana, Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture	0
Lise Jaillant, Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities	0
Katie McGettigan, The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–1860	0
Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory, eds. Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg	0
Will the US Survive the Frog? Time and History in the Pandemic and Decline	0
Evangelical Time, Separatism, and the “Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole”	0
Literature and Publishing, 1945–2020	0
Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Redwood: A Tale	0
Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropoc Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund ene, eds	0
Christen Mucher, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession	0
Joseph Darda, The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism	0
History in Oblivion	0
American Literary History in Pieces	0
Caterina Bernardini, Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945	0
Joy Harjo, Catching the Light	0
The Novel, theDemos, and Genres of the Human	0
Richard T. Rodríguez, A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk & US Latinidad	0
Laura E. Tanner, The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson	0
James Smethurst, Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South	0
All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, edited by Stephanie Anderson, and Kristen Tapson	0
Kathleen Diffley, The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876	0
Cristina Rodriguez, Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty First Century Transnational Latinx Literature	0
Early American Drama Beyond the Script: The Blockade of Boston and the Ancillary Archive	0
Kiara Kharpertian, We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature	0
The Great American Baseball Novel: How Literature Invented the National Pastime	0
American Poetry and Society	0
The Political, the Personal, and “The Function of American Literary Criticism at the Present Time,” 1983–2021	0
Guy J. Reynolds, Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition	0
Sara Clarke Kaplan, The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood	0
Whalebone, Hoop Skirts, Corsets, Pants Roles: Women and the Melville Effect in Contemporary Art	0
Robert Lowell’s Alphabet Poem: Writing to Children in the Midcentury	0
Paul Crosthwaite, The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction	0

Sharon Rudahl, A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson: Ballad of An American, ed. Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware	0
The Border and the Way We Live Now	0
Commemorative Impulses in the “Heart of America”: Kansas City, the Great War, and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy	0
Joseph B. Entin, Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work	0
Caroline Chamberlin Hellman, Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature	0
Joshua Bennett, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man	0
Resistance and Other Pathologized Products of Madness	0
David Lapoujade, William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism	0
Bigger’s Thing	0
Gavan Lennon, Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction	0
Anne Stiles, Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure’: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siàcle	0
George Boziwick, Emily Dickinson’s Music Book and the Musical Life of an American Poet	0
Matthew Hofer, Omnicompetent Modernists: Poetry Politics, and the Public Sphere	0
Gillian Harkins, Virtual Pedophilia: Sex Offender Profiling and U.S. Security Culture	0
Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, Allegories of the Anthropocene	0
Brigitte Fielder, Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America	0
Henry Ivry, Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis	0
Stephen Hong Sohn, Minor Salvage: The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings	0
“I think of Chaplin”: Poetry and the Tramp in Cold War America	0
John T. Matthews, Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris	0
Lara Langer Cohen, Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States	0
Amy King, Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives	0
Disability Studies in the Wake of Disability Justice	0
Bodymind Pains and Metabolic Conditions	0
Benjamin Lee, Poetics of Emergence: Affect and History in Postwar Experimental Poetry	0
Aaron Sachs, Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times	0
Charles Altieri, Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory: The Importance of Constructivist Values	0
Jo Gill, Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms	0
Unpublishing as Form: Hart Crane, Jack Spicer, and the Thresholds of Periodical Publication	0
Cara Anne Kinnally, Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts: Transnational Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century Greater Mexico	0
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson, edited by Isiah Lavender, III	0
Darieck Scott, Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics	0
Lee Konstantinou, The Last Samurai Reread	0
Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770–1850, edited by Elizabeth Amman and Michael Boyden	0
Alex Alonso, Paul Muldoon in America: Transatlantic Formations	0
Robert Yusef Rabiee, Medieval America: Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture	0
Michael Zeitlin, Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War	0
Tom Moylan, Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation	0
Matt Cohen, The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized	0
Timothy Yu, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia	0
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility	0
Casey Kayser, Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region and Gender	0
Fighting for Real: Truth and American War Memory	0
Maria O’Malley, Imaginary Empires: Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature	0
Eliot’s Statements	0
What Can A Literary Critic Do? Thoughts on a Universal Design for Criticism	0
Heterosexual Histories, ed. Rebecca L. Davis and Michele Mitchell	0
Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America's Wars, eds. Alison L. LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Laura Weinrib	0
Contours of Dread	0
Isabelle Parkinson, Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation: Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909-1933	0
Peter Middleton, Expanding Authorship: Transformations in American Poetry since 1950	0
Ryan M. Brooks, Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era	0
Lauri Ramey, A History of African American Poetry	0
George Uba, Water Thicker Than Blood: A Memoir of a Post-Internment Childhood	0
Francesca Bratton, Visionary Company: Hart Crane and Modernist Periodicals	0
Global Poetry and Provincial Poetics	0
Alex Harvey, Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles	0
Stefanie Schäfer, Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture	0
“Somewhere listening for my name”: Black Queer Kinship and the Poetry of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic	0
Hobo Mimetics	0
Jennifer Fleissner, Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem	0
The Madness of America	0
Juliana Chow, Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History	0
Rethinking Masculinities Studies	0
Racheal Scarborough King, ed. After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures	0
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Fates of the Performative: From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism	0
Greil Marcus, Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment, and the Stubborn Myth of The Great Gatsby	0
“As if!” in Thunder	0
Vidyan Ravinthiran, Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose	0
M. C. Kinniburgh, Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America	0
Alice Kelly, Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death, and the First World War	0
Hayden White, The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, Volume 1, edited by Robert Doran	0
Craig Dworkin, Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography	0
Claire Seiler, Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II	0
“Foul Abolition Calumny”: Reframing Racial Violence in William Wells Brown’s Clotel & the Antebellum Press	0
Michael K. Johnson, Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre	0
David L. Pike, Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades	0
Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America, eds. Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross	0
David Withun, Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois	0
Daniel Punday, Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory	0

The Fruits of the LOA	0
John Beck and Ryan Bishop, Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde	0
Ryan James Kernan, New World Maker: Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes, foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley	0
Jasmine Nicole Cobb, New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair	0
Martin Dines, The Literature of Suburban: Change: Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America	0
Mary K. Holland, The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism	0
Insiders, Outsiders: Toward a New History of Southern Thought, eds. Sarah E. Gardner and Steven M. Stowe	0
David M. Higgins, Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood	0
Crisis in the Profession, or the Failure to Imagine the New	0
Realism’s Gender Wars: Masculinity Effects in Late Realist Fiction and Contemporary Reality TV	0
Judith Roof, Tone: Writing and the Sound of Feeling	0
Yunte Huang, Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics	0
Riché Richardson, Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body	0
Todd Nathan Thompson, A Laughable Empire: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890	0
Modeling Therapy as Discourse in Twentieth-Century American Literature	0
Aaron R. Hanlon, A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism	0
Daniel Spoth, Ruin and Resilience: Southern Literature and the Environment	0
Mark Twain, the Talking Cure, and Literary Form	0
Adrian Johns, The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America	0
Jayme Stayer, Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare	0
Antoine Traisnel, Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition	0
Taking Hell Seriously	0
Octavio R. Gonz´lez, Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel	0
Noelle Morrissette, Anne Spencer between Worlds	0
Post-American Speculations	0
Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment, eds. Scott Herring and Lee Wallace	0
Gordon Fraser, Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America	0
Winston James, Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik	0
C. Dallet Hemphill, Philadelphia Stories: People and Their Places in Early America	0
Correction to: Trust Exercise: The Form of Race in the American Post-Identity Novel	0
Audrey Goodman, A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing	0
David S. Roh, Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions	0
Tom Lynch, Outback & Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary	0
American Magazines and the Cultural Production of Blackness	0
The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing, eds. Tori Bush and Richard Goodman	0
Alexander Menrisky, Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology	0
Then, Now, Later, Always	0
Latinx Modernism and the Spirit of Latinoamericanismo	0
American Hunger vs. America Eats: Richard Wright and the Racial Politics of Lifestyle Writing	0
What’s Going on with Whiteness?	0
Un/published: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Erasure Poetry	0
Michelle D. Commander, Avidly Reads Passages	0
An Unpublished Tale about African American Poetry: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Grievances of the Books” (1897)	0
Maria Sachiko Cecire, Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century	0
Stephanie Peebles Tavera, (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship	0
Kenneth Burke, The War of Words, ed. Anthony Burke, Kyle Jensen, and Jack Selzer	0
I Can’t Breathe, 2020: The Arts and Sciences of Oxygen	0
Rachele Dini, “All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945-2020	0
Erin Suzuki, Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literature	0
The Disordered Ordinary	0
David Weinfeld, An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism	0
Robin Brooks, Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African and African Diasporic Women's Fiction	0
Xine Yao, Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America	0
Josh Lambert, The Literary Mafia Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature	0
Anita Wohlmann, Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused	0
Lydia G. Fash, The Sketch, The Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature	0
Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees	0
John Marsh, The Emotional Life of the Great Depression	0
Freedom by the Book: Novels and the Future of Liberal Democracy	0
Carol Loeb Shloss, Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound	0
Robert P. Kolker, Triumph over Containment: American Film in the 1950s	0
Benedetta Zavatta, Individuality and Beyond. Nietzsche Reads Emerson, translated by Alexander Reynolds	0
Reiner Smolinski and Kenneth P. Minkema, A Cotton Mather Reader	0
Michael Basseler, An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America	0
William L. Andrews, Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865	0
“It’s People in the Swamp”: Du Bois against the Democracy of Things	0
Jay Watson, Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South	0
Chicanx Counterstories: Legal Narrative in Oscar Zeta Acosta’sThe Revolt of the Cockroach People	0
Kevin Ohi, Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form	0
José F. Aranda, Jr., The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature 1848-1948	0
Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege, edited by Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien	0
Beth Blum, The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature	0
Jonna Eagle, War Games	0
Black Arts, Black Women, Black Politics	0
Georgia Brady Barnhill, Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785-1885	0
Novels of Democratic Exhaustion	0
Stephen Fredman, American Poetry as Transactional Art	0
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, Ain't I An Anthropologist: Beyond the Literary Icon	0
African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 vol. 3, ed. Benjamin Fagan	0
Charles Warren Stoddard, For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told	0
Jenna Grace Sciuto, Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth Century Hemispheric American Literature	0
Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None	0
Marcia Noe, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre	0
Reed Gochberg, Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America	0
Steven Powell, Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy	0
Alexis Dianda, The Varieties of Experience: William James After the Linguistic Turn	0
Robert J. Shiller, Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events	0
From the Streets of Cairo to St. Louis, Louis: Musical Print Culture and the Intermedial Travels of the Danse du Ventre	0
States of Mind: Consent and Literary Fiction in the US	0
Stateless Regionalism and Corporate Power: Willa Cather’s Public Relations Novel	0
Sandra Tomc, Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century	0
Jonathan Beecher Field, Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation	0
Denise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America	0
Michael D'Alessandro, Staged Readings: Contesting Culture in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835–75	0
Walt Whitman's New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches & Newspaper Rambles, ed. Stefan Schöberlein	0