Recent Scholarship
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Bernier, Celeste-Marie, “‘Iron Arguments’: Spectacle, Rhetoric, and the Slave Body in New England and British Antislavery Oratory,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 1, 2007), 57–78.
Bubíková, Šárka, “American Literary Types: Unusable Past?” in New Interpretations of Cultural Phenomena, ed. Šárka Bubíková, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, 1–7. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2004. 72 pp. isbn 80-7194-710-5.)
Bubíková, Šárka, “At the Cultural Crossroads: Mixed-Bloods in Native American Fiction,” in Cultural Studies at the Turn of the Millennium, ed. Šárka Bubíková, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, 21–30. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2005. 123 pp. isbn 80-7194-816-0.)
Bubíková, Šárka, “Dogmatikou proti totalite? Život a dílo spisovatelky Ayn Randové” (Dogmatics against totalitarianism? Ayn Rand’s life and work), Tvar (Prague), 6 (2005), 7–8. In Czech.
Bubíková, Šárka, “Mezi poucením a zábavou: Promeny anglicky psané literatury pro deti” (Instruction or entertainment? Historical changes of children’s literature), Dejiny a soucasnost (Prague), 1 (2006), 40–43. In Czech.
Bubíková, Šárka, “Native American Continuity and Change in Louise Erdrich’s Work,” in Continuity and Change in Culture and Literature, ed. Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck, 57–66. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2006. 152 pp. isbn 80-7194-908-6.)
Bubíková, Šárka, “Otázka identity v americké literature” (The issue of identity in American literature), in Problematika identity: Identita a globalizace (The issue of identity: Identity and globalization), ed. Šárka Bubíková, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, 1–11. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2003. 145 pp. isbn 80-7194-590-0.) In Czech.
Bubíková, Šárka, “The Formation and Transformation of American Literary Canon,” in Theory and Practice in English Studies, ed. Pavel Drábek and Jan Chovanec, 25–28. (Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2004. isbn 80-210-3394-0.)
Cracroft, Richard H., “‘The Assault of Laughter’: The Comic Attack on Mormon Polygamy in Popular Literature,” Journal of Mormon History, 34 (Winter 2008), 233–62.
Estes, Todd, “The Voices of Publius and the Strategies of Persuasion in The Federalist,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 523–58.
Franklin, Wayne, “Financing America’s First Literary Boom,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 2, 2007), 351–78.
Freidenraij, Claudia, “Postales de una época: Las relaciones entre historia, cine, y literatura en Viñas de Ira de John Steinbeck” (Pictures of an era: The relationship between history, movies, and literature in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.
Georgi, Karen L., “James Jackson Jarves’s Art Criticism: Aesthetic Classifications and Historiographic Consequences,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Aug. 2008), 215–35.
Grant, David, “‘Our Nation’s Hope Is She’: The Cult of Jessie Fremont in the Republican Campaign Poetry of 1856,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Aug. 2008), 187–213.
Haefeli, Evan, and Owen Stanwood, “Jesuits, Huguenots, and the Apocolypse: The Origins of America’s First French Book,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 1, 2006), 59–120.
Hagood, Taylor, “Taking ‘Money Right Out of an American’s Pockets’: Faulkner’s South and the International Cotton Market,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 2, 2007), 83–95.
Harris, Susan K., “Kipling’s ‘The White Man’s Burden’ and the British Newspaper Context, 1898–1899,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Sept. 2007), 243–63.
Hart, Naomi, “Exercising ‘Those Faculties Most Which They Desire in Their Offspring’: Enlisting Parents in the Crusade against Vice,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 37–55.
Hassel, Holly, “‘Intellectual Loves Rube!’: Class, Gender, and Alcohol in Jean Stafford’s ‘Children Are Bored on Sunday,’” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 815–32.
Jagodzinski, Cecile M., “The University Press in North America: A Brief History,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing (Toronto), 40 (Oct. 2008), 1–20.
Jones, Paul Christian, “‘I Put My Fingers around My Throat and Squeezed It, to Know How It Feels’: Antigallows Sentimentalism and E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand,” Legacy, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 41–61.
Keller, Kate Van Winkle, “Nathaniel Coverly and Son, Printers, 1767–1825,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 1, 2007), 211–52.
Kennedy-Nolle, Sharon, “Captain Nemo’s Questing after American Causes: Jules Verne’s Transatlantic Vision of Reconstruction,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 441–58.
Kim, Youn-Jin, “Chinmiwa Banmisaieseo: Hanguk Eonronreul Tonghae bon Migukui Imijiwa Damron” (Between pro- and anti-America: Images of America and Americanization discourses as revealed in Korean journalism), in Americanization: Haebang yihoo Hangukeseoeui migukwha (The Americanization of South Korean society after 1945), ed. Deok-Ho Kim and Yong-Jin Won, 258–88. (Seoul: Peureunyeoksa, 2008. 463 pp. Paper, Won 20,000, isbn 978-89-91510-67-8.) In Korean.
Metress, Christopher, “Truth Be Told: William Bradford Huie’s Emmett Till Cycle,” Southern Quarterly, 45 (Summer 2008), 48–75.
O’Leary, John, “‘Tribes of the Eagle, the Panther, and Wolf’: Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Verse in the United States and Beyond,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Sept. 2008), 261–74.
Pethers, Matthew, “Talking Books, Selling Selves: Rereading the Politics of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative,” American Studies, 48 (Spring 2007), 101–34.
Ratcliffe, Donald J., “Selling Captain Riley, 1816–1859: How Did His ‘Narrative’ Become So Well Known?,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 1, 2007), 177–210.
Ronner, Amy D., “The Crucible, Harvard’s Secret Court, and Homophobic Witch Hunts,” Brooklyn Law Review, 73 (Fall 2007), 217–98.
Rutkowski, Alice, “Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of Reconstruction,” Legacy, 25 (no. 1, 2008), 83–104.
Ryan, Michael, “‘The Puritans of Today’: The Anti-Whig Argument of The Scarlet Letter,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 201–25.
Sakowicz, Joanna, “Zamach na prezydenta Johna F. Kennedy’ego na lamach prasy polskiej z lat 1963–1964” (The Polish press on President John F. Kenndy’s assassination, 1963–1964), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 217–28. In Polish.
Shields, David, “‘We Declare You Independent Whether You Wish It or Not’: The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 2, 2007), 233–60.
Slauter, Eric, “Written Constitutions and Unenumerated Rights,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 2, 2007), 277–98.
Sloan, De Villo, “The Ruins of Pompey: The Euro-American Invention of Native American Prehistory and the Gothic Mode in Joshua V. H. Clark’s Onondaga,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Aug. 2008), 237–54.
Stevenson, Louise, “The Transatlantic Travels of James Thomson’s ‘The Seasons’ and Its Baggage of Material Culture, 1730–1870,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (part 1, 2006), 121–65.
Stocka, Anna, “Zdobycie ‘Dzikiego Zachodu’ po wojnie secesyjnej w swietle Wedrowca” (The conquest of the ‘Wild West’ after the end of the Civil War from the perspective of the Wedrowiec magazine), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 103–26. In Polish.
Toong, Zi Jun, “Overthrown by the Press: The U.S. Media’s Role in the Fall of Diem,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 56–72.
Torgerson, Douglas, “The Image of the Maltese Falcon: Reconsidering an American Icon,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 199–215.
Wall, David, “Francis Parkman’s Grotesque Body: Disease, Disgust, and Desire in The Oregon Trail,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 27 (no. 1, 2008), 29–42.
Weglarz, Aldona, “Idealista czy pragmatyk? Woodrow Wilson i jego plany urzadzenia powojennego swiata e swietle ‘Czasu’ z 1919 r” (An idealist or a pragmatist? Woodrow Wilson and his plans to rule the postwar world from the perspective of the Czas newspaper, 1919), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 147–63. In Polish.
Babington, Stuart Carroll, “A Plurality of Voices? A Legal and Historical Study of Newspaper Competition in the United States, 1955–2005” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3300839.
Bond, Elson Frank, “Sentiment and Race in the Struggle for American Memory and Identity, 1879–1913” (Fordham University, 2008). Order No. DA3303009.
Boone, Nicholas S., “Truth and Method on Black Mountain: The Hermeneutic Stances of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3301871.
Bowie, Rian Elizabeth, “Is There a Woman in the Text? The Black Press and the Emergence of Organized Black Womanhood, 1827–1900” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298907.
Del Negro, Janice M., “A Trail of Stones and Breadcrumbs: Evaluating Folktales Published for Youth in the 20th Century, 1905–2000” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3301124.
Grunzke, Andrew Lawrence, “Exposing the Man behind the Curtain: Educational Aims and Latent Lessons in L. Frank Baum’s ‘Oz’ Books” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3300742.
Hall, Susan Lillian, “Seduction and Servitude: The Erotics of Women’s Captivity Narratives” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3300182.
Hellman, Caroline, “Sanctum Sanctorum: The Alternative Designs and Domesticities of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3298141.
Johnson, Lynn R., “Traumas of the Middle Passage: The Foundations of Narrative and Political Discourse in 19th-Century African American Literature” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300357.
Keith, Joseph, “Cold War Cosmopolitanisms: Radical Transnationalisms in the Shadow of U.S. Empire, 1945–1955” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299334.
Lucht, Tracy L., “Sylvia Porter: Gender, Ambition, and Personal Finance Journalism, 1935–1975” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297229.
McCallum-Bonar, Colleen, “Black Ashkenaz and the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3302408.
Musgrave, Megan L., “Phenomenal Women: Magical Activism in Postmodern Feminist Fiction” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295468.
Orange, Thomas Martin, “Clark Coolidge in Context: A New American Poetry, 1962–1978” (University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR36728.
Park, Grace Haekyung, “The Exotics of Representation in Twentieth-Century Korean American Literature” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3302582.
Powers, Nicholas, “The Undertow of Reason: Re-defining the Sublime through the Middle Passage” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3296999.
Smith, Sandra W., “Out of Her Separate Sphere: The Action-Adventure Heroine in American Literature, 1790–1900” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3296927.
Tomlinson, Niles, “Animal Crossings: Contagion and Immunologic in Gothic American Literature” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3297072.
Tweedy, Clarence William, III, “Trauma and Self-Narration: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Identity in African American Literature, 1840–1940” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298878.
Wuthrich, Bryan, “Mind Gueerrillas: The Beat Aesthetics of Subversion and Liberation” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2007). Order No. DA3291651.
Yeh, Grace I-chun, “Asian Fighters in U.S. Minority Literature: Iconology, Intimacy, and Other Imagined Communities” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3302527.
Zambrano Uzcategui, Nahirana Teresa, “Images of the Other, Narratives of the Self: Representations of Venezuela in the U.S. Printed Press, 1982–2002” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3291568.
Berloquin, Pierre, Hidden Codes & Grand Designs: Secret Languages from Ancient Times to Modern Day. (New York: Sterling, 2008. 375 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-4027-2833-4.)
Bubíková, Šárka, Literary Childhoods: Growing Up in British and American Literature. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice & Pavel Mervart, 2008. 176 pp. czk 220, isbn 978-80-7395-091-0.)
Bubíková, Šárka, Literatura v Americe, Amerika v literature: Pomeny amerického literárního kánonu (Literature in America, America in literature: Changes of American literary canon). (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice & Pavel Mervart, 2007. 240 pp. czk 200, isbn 978-80-7395-030-9.) In Czech.
Bubíková, Šárka, and Michael M. Kaylor, eds., Predzvesti, predchudci, precedenty: Pokracující vliv 19. století na moderní texty a kontexty (Precursors, predecessors, precedents: The continuing influence of the 19th century on modern texts and contexts). (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2002. 113 pp. isbn 80-7194-462-2.) In Czech and English.
Bubíková, Šárka, and Olga Roebuck, eds., Continuity and Change in Culture and Literature. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2006. 152 pp. isbn 80-7194-908-6.)
Dupont, Christian Y., and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America’s Founding Document. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xviii, 86 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-9799997-0-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Forde, Kathy Roberts, Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker
Goodman, Matthew, The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. (New York: Basic, 2008. x, 350 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-465-00257-3.)
Kline, Mary-Jo, and Susan Holbrook Perdue, A Guide to Documentary Editing. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2726-8. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2727-5.) Third edition with new Web edition.
Levine, Robert S., Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 322 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3226-4. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5903-2.)
McCann, Sean, A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 248 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-13695-0.)
Miller, John E., Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1823-0.)
Schulman, Arthur, comp., Websterisms: A Collection of Words and Definitions Set Forth by the Founding Father of American English. (New York: Free Press, 2008. 291 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-4165-6136-1.)
Sollors, Werner, Ethnic Modernism. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. x, 324 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-674-03091-6.) Originally published in Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 6.
Whitt, Jan, Women in American Journalism: A New History. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xx, 189 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03354-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07556-8.)
Cummings, Amos Jay, A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist’s 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West, ed. Jerald T. Milanich. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-87081-926-1.)
Davis, Cynthia, and Verner D. Mitchell, eds., Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxiv, 300 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8061-3956-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3975-3.)
Jack, Zachary Michael, ed., Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xviii, 261 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4709-9.)
Jackson, William J., ed., The Wisdom of Generosity: A Reader in American Philanthropy. (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 427 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-60258-059-6.)
Mickenberg, Julia L., and Philip Nel, eds., Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xii, 295 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8147-5720-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Tyler, Daniel, ed., Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxxiv, 210 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4534-9.)
Wiche, Glen N., ed., Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861–1888. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-87338-938-9.)
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