Hewitt, Elizabeth (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
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Anna (Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English and American Studies Brickhouse Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English and American Studies University of Virginia)
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B.V. (Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English Olguin Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English University of California Santa Barbara USA)
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Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism
History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literar
Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age argues that late nineteenth-century US fiction grapples with and helps to conceptualize the disagreeable feelings that are both a threat t
In contrast to later imperial pursuits in Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines, the early United States extended its boundaries through less sensational modes of territorialization: land deals, slavery e
Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for
The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often oppositional relationship inAmericanliterary histories of the postbellum period. The core narrative holds that 'realism', the major literary
In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying
An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and