Recent Scholarship
Print Culture
Eaton, Joseph, “A New Albion in New America: British Periodicals and Morris Birkbeck’s English Prairie, 1818–1824,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (March 2008), 19–36.
Eaton, Joseph, “From Anglophile to Nationalist: Robert Walsh’s An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (April 2008), 141–71.
Fazio, Daniel, “Censorship in the Korean War: Press—Military Relations, June 1950—January 1951,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 26 (Dec. 2007), 1–19.
Frost, Jennifer, “‘Good Riddance to Bad Company’: Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Gossip, and the Campaign against Charlie Chaplin, 1940–1952,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 26 (Dec. 2007), 74–88.
Glende, Philip M., “Victor Berger’s Dangerous Ideas: Censoring the Mail to Preserve National Security during World War I,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 5–20.
Kim, Youn-Jin, “Miguk imineui imageOa ‘imineui nara’ Miguk: Sisa japju pyoji (1965–1986) reul tonghae bon imineui imageReul jungsimeuiro” (Images of American immigration and America, the ‘nation of immigrants,’ on magazine covers, 1965–1986), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 26 (Nov. 2007), 159–89. In Korean.
Lehman, Forrest K., “‘Seditious Libel’ on Trial, Political Dissent on the Record: An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper as Campaign Literature,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (April 2008), 117–39.
Miller, Howard, “The Charioteer and the Christ: Ben-Hur om America from the Gilded Age to the Culture Wars,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (June 2008), 153–75.
Miller, James, “What Does It Mean to Be an American? The Dialectics of Self-Discovery in Baldwin’s ‘Paris Essays’ (1950–1961),” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (April 2008), 51–66.
Smith, David A., “Owen Wister’s Paladin of the Plains: The Virginian as a Cultural Hero,” South Dakota History, 38 (Spring 2008), 47–77.
Veder, Robin, “Mother-Love for Plant Children: Sentimental Pastoralism and Nineteenth-Century Parlour Gardening,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 26 (Dec. 2007), 20–34.
Allewaert, Monique, “States of War: Race Revolution in the Plantation Zone” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3269501.
Brune, Jeffrey A., “Industrializing American Culture: Heartland Radicals, Midwestern Migration, and the Chicago Renaissance” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3265303.
Cella, Laurie J. C., “A Radical Romance: The Intersection of the Conversion Narrative and the Romance Plot in Proletarian Novels, 1862–1939” (University of Connecticut, 2007). Order No. DA3268124.
Cella, Matthew J. C., “Bad Land Pastoralism: Land Use and the Biocultural Landscape in Great Plains Fiction” (University of Connecticut, 2007). Order No. DA3268125.
Charles, John Christopher, “Talking like White Folks: The Rise of the Post–World War II African American White-Life Novel” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007). Order No. DA3263512.
Cucu, Sorin Radu, “The Underside of Politics: Postmodernism, Political Mythology, and the Cold War” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3261987.
Dalessio, William R., “Are We What We Eat? Food Preparation, Food Consumption, and the Process of Identity Formation in Contemporary American Ethnic Literatures” (University of Connecticut, 2007). Order No. DA3265828.
Donahue, James J., “Rewriting the American Myth: Post-1960s American Historical Frontier Romances” (University of Connecticut, 2007). Order No. DA3265766.
Duneer, Anita Joyce, “The Steamboat and the Petticoat: Revisions of the Maritime Romantic Ideal in America” (University of Connecticut, 2007). Order No. DA3265768.
Durkin, Thomas P., “The Games Men Play: Madness and Masculinity in Post–World War II American Fiction, 1946–1964” (Marquette University, 2007). Order No. DA3263800.
Fajardo, Margaret A., “Comparing War Stories: Literature by Vietnamese Americans, U.S.-Guatemalans, and Filipino Americans” (University of California, San Diego, 2007). Order No. DA3277200.
Farooq, Nihad M., “Sensing Subjects: Ethnographic Modernity from Charles Darwin to Richard Wright” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3264037.
Goodale, Gregory Scott, “America’s Rhetorical Revolution: Defining Citizens in Benjamin Rush’s Philadelphia, 1783–1812” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3269906.
Hedstrom, Matthew Sigurd, “Seeking a Spiritual Center: Mass-Market Books and Liberal Religion in America, 1921–1948” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3266824.
Hosey, Sara E., “Curious Persons: Disability and Representation in American Literature and Culture” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3278872.
Jin, Yaliang, “Asian American Citizenship through Interracial Relationships” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3263100.
Joo, Hee-Jung, “Speculative Nations: Racial Utopia and Dystopia in Twentieth-Century African American and Asian American Literature” (University of Oregon, 2007). Order No. DA3276060.
Kadar, Naomi Prawer, “Far di Kinders vegn: Yiddish Periodicals for American Children, 1917–1950” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3266609.
Kaiser, Pamela K., “Out in the Cold: The Bomb, Science Fiction, and American Identity in the Cold War” (University of Memphis, 2007). Order No. DA3276711.
Kelman, David, “Counterfeit Politics: The Conspiracy Narrative in Twentieth-Century U.S. and Argentine Literature” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264080.
Kennedy, Todd, “Hitting the American Highway: The Ontology of the Hobo-Hero in Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of South Carolina, 2007). Order No. DA3280329.
Knight, Nadine Margaret, “A Lovely Ruin: Sherman’s March in the Literary Imagination” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265006.
Kosiba, Sara A., “A Successful Revolt? The Redefinition of Midwestern Literary Culture in the 1920s and 1930s” (Kent State University, 2007). Order No. DA3264632.
Lancaster, Ashley Craig, “Altruistic Mothers and Sexual Predators: Creating the Poor-White Woman in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature” (University of Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3279424.
Lensing, Dennis Michael, “Utopian Myopia: American Consumerism, the Cold War, and the Popular Fiction of the Long 1950s” (University of New Mexico, 2007). Order No. DA3268846.
Linden, Cindy L., “‘An element of blank’: Reading Silences in Post–World War II American Narratives of Pain” (Syracuse University, 2007). Order No. DA3266300.
Lopez-Crowley, Lynne A., “Representation and Characterization of Mexican American Characters in Newberry Book Medal Winners, 1922–2006” (University of Denver, 2007). Order No. DA3267985.
Mace, Darryl Christopher, “Regional Identities and Racial Messages: The Print Media’s Stories of Emmett Till” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3268169.
McGehee, Margaret Thomas, “On Margaret Mitchell’s Grave: Women Writers Imagining Modern Atlanta” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264084.
Mellen, Roger P., “A Culture of Dissidence: The Emergence of Liberty of the Press in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia” (George Mason University, 2007). Order No. DA3277151.
Meloy, Michael, “Sex Fiends of the Fifties: Intersections of Violence, Sexuality, and Masculinity in the Work of Norman Mailer, William Styron, and Ken Kesey” (University of South Carolina, 2007). Order No. DA3280339.
Mishra, Smeeta, “Islam and Democracy: An Analysis of Representations in the U.S. Prestige Press from 1985–2005” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3263370.
Molin, Peter C., “Middling Fiction: Antebellum Magazine Story Style, Substance, and Sensibility” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3276693.
Morris, Susana M., “Reclaiming Mother’s Body: Narratives of Transformation and Motherhood in African American and African Caribbean Women’s Literature, 1970–2005” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264089.
Padilla, Laura Kathleen, “Land of Enchantment, Land of Mi Chante: Four Arguments in New Mexican Literature” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3263496.
Piggush, Yvette Renée, “Governing Imagination: American Social Romanticism, 1790–1840” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3273059.
Randall, Kelli V., “Depictions of Marriage: Fictions of Race and Gender in the Age of Realism” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264099.
Reddinger, Amy, “Domestic Inversions, Domestic Interventions: Mapping the Postwar Formation of Home, School, and Family” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3275904.
Regalado, Aldo Javier, “Bending Steel with Bare Hands: Modernity and the American Superhero in the Twentieth Century” (University of Miami, 2007). Order No. DA3267721.
Severs, Jeffrey Frank, “Reinventing Totalitarianism in the Postwar American Novel” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265089.
Stratman, Jacob Hadley, “The American Jeremiad in Civil War Literature” (Marquette University, 2006). Order No. DA3263798.
Vaughan, Don Rodney, “The New York Times and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1964” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3268480.
Végsö, Roland, “The Naked Communist: Anti-Communist Popular Fiction, 1945–1963” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3261951.
Houck, Davis W., and Matthew A. Grindy, Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. xvi, 213 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-934110-15-7.)
Inge, M. Thomas, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 9: Literature. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xxii, 511 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3190-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5875-2.)
Weiss, Andrea, In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii, 302 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-226-88672-5.)
Ellis, Edward Robb, A Diary of the Century: Tales from America’s Greatest Diarist. (New York: Union Square, 2008. xxvi, 597 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-4027-5448-7.) Originally published in 1995.
Raskin, Jonah, ed., The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xii, 285 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-520-25545-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-25546-3.)
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