Recent Scholarship
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Balliet, Barbara J., “‘Let Them Study as Men and Work as Women’: Georgina Davis, New Women, and Illustrated Papers,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Carabas, Teodora, “‘Tales Calculated to Drive You mad’: The Debunking of Spies, Superheroes, and Cold War Rhetoric in Mad Magazine’s ‘spy vs spy,’” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (Feb. 2007), 4–24.
Cohen, Naomi W., “The Ark: An Early Twentieth-Century Periodical,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 1–35.
Cronin, Mary M., “Dear Swinton,” Journalism History, 32 (Winter 2007), 213–22.
García, Ángel, “La prensa y los conflictos bélicos: la guerra hispanoamericana a través de un diario de provincias” (The press and armed conflicts: The Spanish-American war in a provincial newspaper), Anales de Historia Contemporánea (Murcia) (no. 21, 2005), 427–43. In Spanish.
Garvey, Ellen Gruber, “Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Appropriation: Scrapbooks and Extra-illustration,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Gertzman, Jay A., “The Jack Woodford Press: Bestsellers at the Army Base, the Drug Store, and the Tourist Bookstore, 1946–1959,” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (Feb. 2007), 25–48.
Gray, Paul Bryan, “Francisco P. Ramírez: A Short Biography,” California History, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 20–39. Heavily illustrated.
Hessell, Nikki, “‘Desultory Fragments’ or ‘Printed Works’? Coleridge’s Changing Attitude to Newspaper Journalism,” Papers on Language and Literature, 43 (Winter 2007), 24–44.
Holley, Val, “Leo Haefeli, Utah’s Chameleon Journalist,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 149–63.
Hudson, Berkley, “‘The Mississippi Negro Farmer,’ His Mule, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” Journalism History, 32 (Winter 2007), 201–12.
Hutter, Liz, “‘Ho for Salt River!’ Politics, Loss, and Satire,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Kanellos, Nicolás, “El Clamor Público: Resisting the American Empire,” California History, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 10–19. Heavily illustrated.
Kelly, Catherine E., “Face Value: George Washington and Portrait Prints,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Lawrence, N. R., “Mimeo Fever: Sixties Small Press within a Global Context,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 19, Autumn 2006), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
Lemelin, Bernard, “An Isolationist Newspaper in an Internationalist Era: The Chicago Tribune and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945–1960,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Winter 2006), 234–64.
Madsen, Deborah L., “Chinese American Writers of the Real and the Fake: Authenticity and the Twin Traditions of Life Writing,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 36 (no. 3, 2006), 257–71.
Moss, Richard, “Racial Anxiety on the Comics Page: Harry Hershfield’s ‘Abie the Agent,’ 1914–1940,” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (Feb. 2007), 90–108.
Murphy, Deirdre, “‘Like standing on the edge of the world and looking away into heaven’: Picturing Chinese Labor and Industrial Velocity in the Gilded Age,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Newell, Dianne, and Jenéa Tallentire, “For the Extended Family and the Universe: Judith Merril and Science Fiction Autobiography,” Biography, 30 (Winter 2007), 1–21.
Rainey, Sue, “Picturesque California: How Westerners Portrayed the West in the Age of John Muir,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Reaves, Wendy Wick, “‘Reading’ Portrait Prints: New Ways of Seeing Old Faces,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Richardson, Todd H., “Publishing the Cause of Suffrage: The Woman’s Journal’s Appropriation of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Postbellum America,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 578–608.
Rocksborough-Smith, Ian, “‘Filling the Gap’: Intergenerational Black Radicalism and the Popular Front Ideals of Freedomways Magazine’s Early Years, 1961–1965,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31 (Jan. 2007), 7–42.
Scott, Cord, “Written in Red, White, and Blue: A Comparison of Comic Book Propaganda from World War II and September 11,” Journal of Popular Culture, 40 (April 2007), 325–43.
Underwood, Doug, “Depression, Drink, and Dissipation,” Journalism History, 32 (Winter 2007), 186–200.
Watt, Ronald G., “The Beginning of The Journal of Discourses: A Confrontation between George D. Watt and Willard Richards,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 134–48.
Anderson, Christopher Todd, “Nothing Lowly: The Anti-picturesque in American Nature Poetry” (University of Connecticut, 2006). Order No. DA3221526.
Blake, Matthew Dower, “Woody Sez: Woody Guthrie in the People’s World Newspaper” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3228683.
Boo, Kyung-Sook, “I, Too, Sing America: Individualism and Transnational Constructions of American Identity in Korean American Literature” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221931.
Cho, David S., “Alternative Visions of the Korean American Subject: Narrative, National, and Historical ‘Disidentifications’ in the 20th Century Korean American Novel” (University of Washington, 2006).
Connolly-Lane, Karen, “Politics and the Private Eye: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Hardboiled Tradition” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3225725.
Davis, David A., “World War I, Literary Modernism, and the U.S. South” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219444.
Deines, Timothy J., “Figuring the Political in Nineteenth-Century American Literatures: A Conceptual Inquiry” (Michigan State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216126.
Den Hartog, Jacqueline M., “A ‘Wild and Ambiguous Medium’: Letters and Epistolary Fictions in Early America, 1780–1830” (University of Notre Dame, 2006). Order No. DA3221318.
Flota, Brian Christopher, “Flight to San Francisco: Bay Area Literature and Multiculturalism, 1955–1979” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3217546.
Friedel, Tania, “‘The Story of Americans’: Cosmopolitanism and Racial Discourse in Twentieth-Century African American Letters” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221949.
Gailey, Amanda A., “Editing Whitman and Dickinson: Print and Digital Representations” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006). Order No. DA3221293.
Garza, José, “Social Turbulence as Reflected in Alejandro Morales’ Novelistic Techniques” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3220176.
Green, Adam J., “Images of Americans: The United States in Canadian Newspapers during the 1960s” (University of Ottawa, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR15023.
Griffith, Johnny Ray, “Writing After the Wreck: Post-Modern Ethics and Spirituality in Fictions by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, and Leslie Marmon Silko” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3216950.
Howland, David, “Good Press, Bad Press: A 25-Year Comparison of Arguments and Trends in American News Coverage of Climate Change and the Ozone Hole” (University of New Hampshire, 2006). Order No. DA3217424.
Hoyt, Heather Marie, “An ‘I’ for Intimacy: Rhetorical Appeal in Arab American Women’s Literature” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220303.
Johns, John Adam, “Leviathan and Automaton: Technology and Teleology in American Literature” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3223986.
Kuhlman, Keely Susan, “Transatlantic Travel and Cultural Exchange in the Early Colonial Era: The Hybrid American Female and Her New World Colony” (Washington State University, 2006). Order No. DA3221799.
LaCroix, David D., “Words for the Hour: Temporality and Agency in African American Literature” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222962.
Lees, Cynthia C., “Border Spaces and la survivance: The Evolution of the Franco-American Novel of New England (1875–2004)” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224574.
Luongo, Jennifer R., “Memory, History, and the Journey West in the Twentieth-Century Novel” (Fordham University, 2006). Order No. DA3216919.
Meaney, Shealeen Anne, “‘Skirts must be girded high’: Spaces of Subjectivity and Transgression in Post-Suffrage American Women’s Travel Writing” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221097.
Mehta, Parvinder, “Alter/Native Identities: Negotiations in Immigrant and Transcultural Discourse” (Wayne State University, 2006). Order No. DA3211002.
Mills, Nancy Patton, “Portraits through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies’ Home Journal, 1950–1959” (Duquesne University, 2006). Order No. DA3220866.
Morgan, Lawrence E., “Where Science Writing and Nature Writing Converge: The Writing of John Gierach” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220920.
Nicks, Robin Jean Gray, “Fairy Tales and Necrophilia: A New Cultural Context for Antebellum American Sensationalism” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224594.
Obourn, Megan, “Critical Distances: Liberal Multiculturalism, U.S. Citizenship, and Contemporary American Literature” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221983.
Parmiter, Tara K., “Home Away from Home: The Summer Place in Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century American Women’s Literature” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221987.
Scales, Laura Thiemann, “Speaking in Tongues: Mediumship and American Narrative Voice” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217867.
Schell, Jennifer Hope, “‘Us lone wand’ring whaling-men’: Cross-Cutting Fantasies of Work and Nation in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Whaling Narratives” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3224040.
Sheehy, Michael W., “From Watergate to Lewinsky: Unnamed Sources in the ‘Washington Post,’ 1970–2000” (Ohio University, 2006). Order No. DA3220619.
Shoop, Tiffany Jane, “Madam President: A Content Analysis and Media Effects Approach to Investigating News Media Coverage of Female Presidential Primary Candidates” (University of Tennessee, 2006). Order No. DA3220766.
Sinche, Bryan Charles, “‘The test of salt water’: Literature of the Sea and Social Class in Antebellum America” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219097.
Smith, Sarah Frances, “‘She moves the hands that move the world’: Antebellum Childrearing. Images of Mother and Child in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals for Mothers” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA33225774.
Thomson, Shawn, “Fortress of American Solitude: The Crusoe Topos in Nineteenth-Century America (1846–1885)” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222186.
Vials, Christopher R., “‘We’re the People’: Realism, Mass Culture, and Popular Front Pluralism, 1935–1946” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3216967.
White-Stanley, Debra, “Foreign Bodies: Military Medicine, Modernism, and Melodrama” (University of Arizona, 2006). Order No. DA3218235.
Eddy, Jacalyn, Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children’s Book Publishing, 1919–1939. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. x, 211 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-299-21794-5.)
LaBarre, Delia, ed., The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. lii, 175 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3243-2.)
Lewis, Nghana Tamu, Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women’s Writing, 1920–1945. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xvi, 208 pp. $37.95, isbn 978-58729-529-4.)
Tidwell, John Edgar, and Cheryl R. Ragar, eds., Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx, 351 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1716-5.)
Basso, Matthew, ed., “Another Look at Burke’s Butte: The Great Depression and William Allen Burke’s ‘Greenhorn Miner,’” Montana, 56 (Winter 2006), 18–31, 97–98. Heavily illustrated.
Farrell, James T., A World I Never Made. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. lx, 374 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03173-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07423-3.) Originally published in 1936.
Hoffman, Abraham, ed., “‘Boiler Plate’ Jewish Articles in the Frontier Press,” Western States Jewish History, 39 (Spring 2007), 274–82.
Powers, Paul S., Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street, ed. Laurie Powers. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 274 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8032-5984-3.)
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