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Editors' Note Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Cassander Smith, Katy Chiles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors' Note Cassander Smith and Katy Chiles We are thrilled to be the new Coeditors of Early American Literature! We feel honored to continue the journal's tradition of publishing outstanding early American scholarship, and we are committed to continue innovating EAL by emphasizing new methodologies, archives, and objects of study and
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Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022 Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Tara Bynum, Ana Schwartz, Michelle Sizemore
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022 Tara Bynum, Ana Schwartz (bio), and Michelle Sizemore Awarded to: Rebecca Rosen Honorable Mention: Camille Owens From the magnificent volume of essays published in volume 57 of Early American Literature, the 2022 Richard Beale Davis Prize is awarded to Rebecca Rosen for "'The Voice of the Innocent Blood
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Feeling Solitary in the Seductive Republic: Narrative Deviance in Elizabeth "Harriot" Wilson and William "Amos" Wilson Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ben Bascom
Abstract: This essay examines two prominent literary narratives and tropes at the turn of the nineteenth century that constellate around the seduction plot and the hermit narrative. These two ostensibly discrete narrative forms have a curious history as they play out in the printed iterations of the Elizabeth Wilson and William Wilson stories, two siblings whose lives were marked by differing forms
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Equiano's African Methodist Appetite: Feasting and Purification Rituals as Community and Resistance Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Carole Lynn Stewart
Abstract: This article draws on food studies, religious history, and research on Equiano's religious orientation to argue that Equiano's Interesting Narrative describes a creolized African and Methodist asceticism in relation to food and ritual practice. His introduction to the Moravian-Methodist love feast before his conversion resonates with his earlier textual recollections of commensality and feasting
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Reading with Powhatan Ancestral Remains in Robert Beverley's The History and Present State of Virginia Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Kimberly Takahata
Abstract: This essay presents Robert Beverley's 1705 The History and Present State of Virginia as a case study of the role Indigenous ancestral remains serve for both colonial attempts at control and as teachers for current anticolonial scholarly approaches. Analyzing his depiction of Powhatan ancestral remains, this piece first argues that Beverley presents Powhatan ancestors as solely bones, that
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The 2023 SEA Common Reading Forum: On Toni Morrison's A Mercy Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Anna Brickhouse, April Langley, Kaitlin Tonti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The 2023 SEA Common Reading ForumOn Toni Morrison's A Mercy Anna Brickhouse (bio), April Langley (bio), and Kaitlin Tonti (bio) a mercy if you don't read this no one will.(one question: can you read?)this story begins in a language Ican't recall but I will tryto build a house of wordsanyway. it is the only way.on the cobblestones of umamemória
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Toni Morrison's A Mercy: A Meditation on Othering Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Dana A. Williams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Toni Morrison's A MercyA Meditation on Othering Dana A. Williams (bio) Toni Morrison has famously noted that her novels always begin with a question. In The Bluest Eye the question is How do we make sense of a young Black girl's longing for blue eyes at a moment when chants of "Black is beautiful" abound? In Paradise she asks, What happens
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Teaching A Mercy Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Riché Richardson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Teaching A Mercy Riché Richardson (bio) Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison was truly royalty to me, and over the years, in my roles as a teacher, scholar and artist, I have treasured every opportunity to reflect on her. In 2005, I first introduced a seminar on her body of novels titled Toni Morrison's Novels on my former campus, the University
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Reading Race and Power in Toni Morrison's A Mercy Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Angelyn Mitchell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reading Race and Power in Toni Morrison's A Mercy Angelyn Mitchell (bio) In her 1997 essay titled "Home," Toni Morrison wrote this sobering sentence: "I have never lived, nor has any of us, in a world in which race did not matter" (3). How it has mattered, of course, across time and across identities has been the subject of much scholarly
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Possibility and A Mercy Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Michelle S. Hite
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Possibility and A Mercy Michelle S. Hite (bio) Toni Morrison's novel A Mercy (2008) appeared in the marketplace within the context of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election. Given this context, interviewers were interested in the novel's preracial context as directly tied to the suggestion of the postracial world order used to shape
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The Din of Pasts Colliding: Latin American Histories Urbane, Archival, and Sacral Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Dana Leibsohn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Din of Pasts CollidingLatin American Histories Urbane, Archival, and Sacral Dana Leibsohn (bio) Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City michael schreffler Yale University Press, 2020 200 pp. The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844 byron hamann Getty Research
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The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Michael Boyden
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston Michael Boyden (bio) The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World katherine johnston Oxford University Press, 2022 264 pp. This meticulously researched book draws on a wealth of archival
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Vincent Carretta
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher Vincent Carretta (bio) The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence david waldstreicher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 480 pp. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley:
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Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative by Zachary McLeod Hutchins (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jeannine Marie Delombard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative by Zachary McLeod Hutchins Jeannine Marie Delombard (bio) Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative zachary mcleod hutchins University of North Carolina Press, 2022 306 pp. Before Equiano's subtitle suggests that this new monograph
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American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 ed. by William Huntting Howell and Greta Lafleur (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Patrick M. Erben
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 ed. by William Huntting Howell and Greta Lafleur Patrick M. Erben (bio) American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 edited by william huntting howell and greta lafleur Cambridge University Press, 2022 366 pp. Reading American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 feels like attending
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Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability by Abby L. Goode (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ian Finseth
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability by Abby L. Goode Ian Finseth (bio) Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability abby l. goode University of North Carolina Press, 2022 276 pp. The animating impulse of this important, well-executed study is a desire to challenge both "the supposed benevolence
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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper ed. by Stephen Carl Arch and Keat Murray (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Theresa Strouth Gaul
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper ed. by Stephen Carl Arch and Keat Murray Theresa Strouth Gaul (bio) Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper edited by stephen carl arch and keat murray Modern Language Association of America, 2022 220 pp. Teaching James Fenimore Cooper's novels in
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The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Aston Gonzalez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse Aston Gonzalez (bio) The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War van gosse University of North Carolina Press, 2021 760 pp. With the publication of The First Reconstruction, scholars
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Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Justine S. Murison (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ray Horton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Justine S. Murison Ray Horton (bio) Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States justine s. murison University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023 266 pp. "Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again," exclaimed a banner
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Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America by Jonathan Todd Hancock (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Scott M. Larson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America by Jonathan Todd Hancock Scott M. Larson (bio) Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America jonathan todd hancock University of North Carolina Press, 2021 186 pp. Beginning in December 1811, a series of powerful earthquakes
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Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry by Jennifer Putzi (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Wendy Raphael Roberts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry by Jennifer Putzi Wendy Raphael Roberts (bio) Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry jennifer putzi University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021 272 pp. Jennifer Putzi's Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's
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On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ana Schwartz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant Ana Schwartz (bio) On the Inconvenience of Other People lauren berlant Duke University Press, 2022 252 pp. Where does history end and personality begin? This isn't exactly Lauren Berlant's question in On the Inconvenience of Other People. But for those of us reading from
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Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture by Michaël Roy (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Bryan Sinche
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture by Michaël Roy Bryan Sinche (bio) Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture michaël roy; translated by susan pickford University of Wisconsin Press, 2022 222 pp. Following in the wake of scholarly leaders like I. Garland Penn, Dorothy Porter, and
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Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885 by Georgia Brady Barnhill (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Amy L. Sopcak-Joseph
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885 by Georgia Brady Barnhill Amy L. Sopcak-Joseph (bio) Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885 georgia brady barnhill University of Massachusetts Press, 2021 332 pp. In his memoir Recollections of a Lifetime (1856), author
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American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Daniel Diez Couch (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ezra Tawil
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Daniel Diez Couch Ezra Tawil (bio) American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic daniel diez couch University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022 282 pp. How is it possible that no one before now has written
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Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War ed. by Lisa Brooks and Kelly Wisecup (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ryan Carr
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War ed. by Lisa Brooks and Kelly Wisecup Ryan Carr (bio) Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War edited by lisa brooks and kelly wisecup Library
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What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer by Ann Myles (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Rebecca M. Rosen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer by Ann Myles Rebecca M. Rosen (bio) What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer ann Myles Final Thursday Press, 2022 60 pp. Most readers of Early American Literature have encountered Mary Barrett Dyer, a follower of Anne Hutchinson, in the records of the Antinomian Controversy of 1636–38
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Biblia Americana, vol. 10: Hebrews–Revelation by Cotton Mather (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Christopher Trigg
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Biblia Americana, vol. 10: Hebrews–Revelation by Cotton Mather Christopher Trigg (bio) Biblia Americana, vol. 10: Hebrews–Revelation cotton mather, edited by jan stievermann Mohr Siebeck, 2023 1102 pp. "I will also ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you;—The Bodies of the Raised, shall they be
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The Broadview Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A: Beginnings to 1820 ed. by Derrick R. Spires et al. (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Abram van Engen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Broadview Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A: Beginnings to 1820 ed. by Derrick R. Spires et al. Abram van Engen (bio) The Broadview Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A: Beginnings to 1820 edited by derrick r. spires, christina roberts, joseph rezek, justine s. murison, laura l. mielke, christopher looby, rodrigo
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Notes on Contributors Early American Literature Pub Date : 2024-02-12
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors ben bascom is an assistant professor of English at Ball State University, where he teaches American literature and queer studies. His forthcoming book, Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States (Oxford UP), depicts a queer and messy world of social outcasts and eccentric personalities all striving
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Editor's Note: "Language Problems" (with thanks to Kirsten Silva Gruesz) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Marion Rust
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Note"Language Problems" (with thanks to Kirsten Silva Gruesz) Marion Rust Two months into my editorship of this journal, the review editors and I received a formal letter from Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Caroline Wigginton, and Kelly Wisecup, coeditors of an award-winning symposium titled "Materials and Methods in Native American and
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On Rip Van Winkle Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 David Capps
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Rip Van Winkle David Capps (bio) preface This work is the outcome of a series of transformations that began one night when I happened to be reflecting on a theological topic: what it really means to imagine a God who inhabits the hypothetical eternal heavens and has little relation to the world of becoming, our world. It struck me that
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Notes on Black Ekphrasis Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 James Edward Ford III
Abstract: This essay argues for Phillis Wheatley and Scipio Moorhead as early contributors to the tradition of Black Ekphrasis. This essay frames "To S.M. [Scipio Moorhead], a Young African Painter, on Seeing his Works," as both an instance and a theorization of Black Ekphrasis. Wheatley's commentary leads to a consideration of the painter and poet's bond under the tyranny of slavery. By way of the
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Olaudah Equiano and Freedom of the Scenes: Embodied Performances in Equiano's Interesting Narrative Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Chinaza Amaeze Okoli
Abstract: This article considers Equiano's turn to performance and spectacle in his Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano in relation to the eighteenth-century stage practice known as "freedom of the scenes." Widely regarded as the "prototype" of all subsequent slave narratives, the Narrative is infused with instances of racial mimicry, including whiteface and blackface, as well as self-fashioning
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Stopping by Woods in Mashpee Territory: Belonging in William Apess's Indian Nullification Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Lloyd Alimboyao Sy
Abstract: This essay analyzes how William Apess's Indian Nullification (1835) articulates a form of belonging that emphasizes inclusivity and communality (affiliative belonging) against settler colonialism's insistence that belonging is anchored in possession and property (proprietary belonging). It draws on recent critical appraisals of Indigenous kinship and community that emphasize the commingling
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Introduction: A Key Text for the Early Americas Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Carmen E. Lamas
Abstract: For almost two centuries, the author and the editors of the first historical novel in Spanish published in the Americas, Jicotencal, remained unnamed. On the basis of documentary evidence, this symposium identifies the author as Cayetano Lanuza, and the true editors of the book as the New York firm of Lanuza, Mendía & Co.
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Cayetano Lanuza, Jicotencal's Author Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 María Helena Barrera-Agarwal
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Cayetano Lanuza, Jicotencal's Author María Helena Barrera-Agarwal (bio) keywords Jicotencal, Lanuza, Mendía & Co., Cayetano Lanuza, Joseph Mendía, Frederick Huttner, William Stavely, Pierre-Étienne Du Ponceau, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Folsom, Félix Pascalis-Ouviere, José Luis Casaseca, book printing in Spanish The first historical
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Lanuza, Mendía y Compañía and the Unfinished Work of Spanish-Language Bibliography in the United States Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Kirsten Silva Gruesz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Lanuza, Mendía y Compañía and the Unfinished Work of Spanish-Language Bibliography in the United States Kirsten Silva Gruesz (bio) keywords publishers and publishing, New York City, print culture, format, book history, Spanish-language press, book trade, translation Tracing the anonymously published novel Jicotencal (1826) back to its
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Still Anonymous: Jicotencal and the Authority of Labor Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Rodrigo Lazo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Still AnonymousJicotencal and the Authority of Labor Rodrigo Lazo (bio) keywords author, literary history, Félix Varela, labor, anonymity And if a text should be discovered in a state of anonymity—whether as a consequence of an accident or the author's explicit wish—the game becomes one of rediscovering the author. Michel Foucault, "What
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Religious Freedom and Unfreedom in Early America, or, A Prehistory of Dobbs Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Dawn Coleman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Religious Freedom and Unfreedom in Early America, or, A Prehistory of Dobbs Dawn Coleman (bio) Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism evan haefeli, editor University of Virginia Press, 2020 342 pp. Beyond Belief, beyond Conscience: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion jack n. rakove Oxford University
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The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards ed. by Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Brad Bannon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards ed. by Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann Brad Bannon (bio) The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards douglas a. sweeney and jan stievermann, editors Oxford University Press, 2021 624 pp. Prior to the pioneering work of Perry Miller, and even for some time after, the common estimation
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The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature ed. by Bryce Traister (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Ralph Baueer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature ed. by Bryce Traister Ralph Baueer (bio) The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature bryce traister, editor Cambridge University Press, 2021 300 pp. This edited collection is intended to provide a succinct introduction to early American literature, its major themes
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Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas by Kirsten Silva Gruesz (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Kristina Bross
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas by Kirsten Silva Gruesz Kristina Bross (bio) Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas kirsten silva gruesz Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022 326 pp. I've been
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Philadelphia Stories: People and Their Places in Early America by C. Dallett Hemphill (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Robynne Rogers Healey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Philadelphia Stories: People and Their Places in Early America by C. Dallett Hemphill Robynne Rogers Healey (bio) Philadelphia Stories: People and Their Places in Early America c. dallett hemphill, edited by rodney hessinger and daniel k. richter University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021 350 pp. Through a series of twelve short
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Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures by Caroline Wigginton (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Frank Kelderman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures by Caroline Wigginton Frank Kelderman (bio) Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures caroline wigginton University of North Carolina Press, 2022 306 pp. How we tell the stories of Indigenous material objects, both functional and decorative
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The Textual Effects of David Walker's Appeal: Print-Based Activism against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829–1851 by Marcy J. Dinius (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Sofia Meadows-Muriel, Britt Rusert
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Textual Effects of David Walker's Appeal: Print-Based Activism against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829–1851 by Marcy J. Dinius Sofia Meadows-Muriel (bio) and Britt Rusert (bio) The Textual Effects of David Walker's Appeal: Print-Based Activism against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829–1851 marcy j. dinius
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The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism by Leigh Eric Schmidt (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 David Mislin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism by Leigh Eric Schmidt David Mislin (bio) The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism leigh eric schmidt Princeton University Press, 2021 272 pp. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many Americans embraced
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Feeling Godly: Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America ed. by Caroline Wigginton and Abram van Engen (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Catherine O'Donnell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Feeling Godly: Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America ed. by Caroline Wigginton and Abram van Engen Catherine O'Donnell (bio) Feeling Godly: Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America caroline wigginton and abram van engen, editors University of Massachusetts Press, 2021 248
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Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women behind the Founding Father by Nancy Rubin Stuart (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Ormond Seavey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women behind the Founding Father by Nancy Rubin Stuart Ormond Seavey (bio) Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women behind the Founding Father nancy rubin stuart Beacon Press, 2022 202 pp. With his origins both in Boston and in Philadelphia, Benjamin
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Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite by Rodrigo Lazo (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Matthew E. Suazo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite by Rodrigo Lazo Matthew E. Suazo (bio) Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite rodrigo lazo University of Virginia Press, 2020 304 pp. The Philadelphia imprints of Mathew Carey and his sons provide familiar points
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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 by Scott McDermott (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Mark Valeri
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 by Scott McDermott Mark Valeri (bio) The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 scott mcdermott Anthem Press, 2022 178 pp. Historian
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Who's Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race ed. by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Mary Mcalpin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Who's Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race ed. by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran Mary Mcalpin (bio) Who's Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race henry louis gates jr. and andrew s. curran, editors Harvard University Press, 2022 320
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Julia and the Illuminated Baron ed. by Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood Richard S. Pressman (review) Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Gretchen Murphy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Julia and the Illuminated Baron ed. by Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood Richard S. Pressman Gretchen Murphy (bio) Julia and the Illuminated Baron sally sayward barrell keating wood richard s. pressman, editor Early American Reprints, 2021 278 pp. Early American Reprints, the not-for-profit publisher founded by Richard S
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Notes on Contributors Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-20
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors brad bannon is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural Will in American Literature (Routledge, 2019), and coeditor with John Vanderheide of Cormac McCarthy's Violent Destinies: The
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EAL Book Prize for 2022 Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Wendy Raphael Roberts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: EAL Book Prize for 2022 Awarded to: Wendy Raphael Roberts Wendy Raphael Roberts, Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, has been selected to receive the 2022 Early American Literature Book Prize. Roberts's Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism was published by Oxford University Press in
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Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2021 Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Jeffrey Glover, Michelle Sizemore, Ana Schwartz, Stacey Dearing
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2021 Awarded to: Stacey Dearing The prize committee of the Modern Language Association Forum on Early American Literature is pleased to name Stacey Dearing's "Remembering Dorothy May Bradford's Death and Reframing 'Depression' in Colonial New England" as the winner of the 2021 Richard Beale Davis Prize for
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Editor's Note Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Marion Rust
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Note Marion Rust It's prize season at EAL and we have lots to report! The Early American Literature Book Prize for 2022 has been awarded to Wendy Raphael Roberts, Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, for Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism, published by Oxford University Press
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Erratum Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-09
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Erratum Wendy R. Robrets would like to correct two sentences from "'On the Death of Love Rotch,' a New Poem Attributed to Phillis Wheatley (Peters)"' (vol. 58, no. 1, 2022, pp. 155–84). The print version reads: The Library Company of Philadelphia manuscript held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the Rush Family Papers attributes
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Olaudah Equiano's Enchantments Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Bryan C. Williams
Abstract: Of late, much scholarship on Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative has focused either on the meaning of Equiano's Christianity in postcolonial terms or the debate over Equiano's actual place of birth. To be sure, these discussions have been illuminating in many ways, but this essay seeks to change direction in Equiana by calling attention to the enchantments that infuse Equiano's life story—the
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Charity Bryant and the Queer Affordances of the Early American Acrostic Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Jennifer Putzi
Abstract: This article investigates early American women's acrostic poetry, especially as it was written and exchanged in same-sex friendships and romantic relationships. It begins with a discussion of male poets' deployment of the print acrostic in the service of courtship, considering how such poems expose women to the public eye. Women's manuscript acrostics, on the other hand, refuse the isolation