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Reading the Social in American Studies
Reading the Social in American Studies offers a unique exploration of the advantages and benefits in using sociological terms and concepts in American...
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Introductions to the American Campus Novel
The introduction establishes “Exemption” as the fulcrum for the campus novel’s ambivalent politics. The chapter explores unique arguments regarding...
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Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from...
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Introduction: Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction
This introduction provides an overview of both the presence of posthumanism in contemporary Latin(x) American speculative fiction and the recent...
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American Modernity and the Narrative Arcs of Aging
This chapter surveys American modernity’s attention on the charting of age categories within families, where norms suffusing age are used as a means...
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Trans Studies
This entry surveys the emerging field of early modern trans studies, including its current and potential applications in the study of women’s...
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Introduction: American Fiction Abroad
This chapter outlines the purpose and scope of Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts, a collection of essays...
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Conclusion: African American Environmental Knowledge at Yellowstone
Summarizing the main findings of Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature, this chapter offers a brief reflection on Barack...
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Introduction: African American Environmental Knowledge at Niagara
To define the concept of environmental knowledge and illustrate its potential for ecocritical readings of nineteenth-century African American...
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“Ocean People”: Maritime (Im)Mobilities in the Chinese American Imaginary
Understanding the ocean in both metaphorical and material terms, this essay approaches Chinese American texts from the intersection of oceanic,...
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Introduction: Biblical Disputes in American Polity and Poetics
The Bible has been a shared institution throughout American history. It is likewise the backbone of American poetic culture, which provides a...
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David Brower: An American Environmental Publisher
David Brower held an unrelenting passion for promoting environmental protection and publishing books to save it. During his seventeen-year tenure as...
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Storied Road: Ambivalence in the Landscape of American Automobility
This introduction to the larger study of early American road narrative draws on an array of archival material to map and theorize the emergence of...
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Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction
Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fictiondraws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity...
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Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom Teaching and Texts
This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through...
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Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies
This chapter is a systematic and theoretical study on mobilities in American literature, including the research methods and the significance of such...
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As American Women: In America—on Main Street
This chapter deals with the attitudes of the various publications toward women in the broader American framework: not as Jews, but as women, going...
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Constructions of North American Indigeneity in Contemporary Polish Non-fiction
ForPoland almost theParyż, Marek entire twentieth century, literary works about the North American Indigene enjoyed immense popularity in Poland, but...
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American National Parks: Symbolic Landscapes
This chapter examines American national parks as symbolic landscapes to advocate nationalism. By pointing out that national parks in the United...
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Fanny Fern’s Significance in the American Comic Tradition
This chapter argues that Parton offers a unique model for antebellum comic writers. Her Fanny Fern persona dramatizes a woman writing satire without...