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Fashioning masculine anxieties: Clothes and style in The Bonfire of the Vanities 塑造男性焦虑:《虚荣的篝火》中的服装与风格

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00054_1

A. Viswamohan

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Editorial 编辑

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00051_2

C. Lloyd, J. Wills

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Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights, Samantha Pinto (2020) 《臭名昭著的身体:早期黑人女性名人和权利的来世》，萨曼莎·平托(2020)

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00048_5

Rebecca J. Fraser

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Carman Barnes’ vision of the esoteric school ‘of living’ for young Americans: The influence of Peter Ouspensky’s esoteric teaching on American cultural landscape in the second part of the twentieth century 卡尔曼·巴恩斯对美国年轻人“生活”的神秘学派的看法:彼得·邬斯宾斯基的神秘教学对二十世纪下半叶美国文化景观的影响

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00046_1

Antoinette Cannon

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Hungry, hungry hikers: Fitness, cooking, and gender in American hiking, 1890s–1920s 饥饿的徒步旅行者：美国徒步旅行中的健身、烹饪和性别，19世纪90年代至20世纪20年代

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00047_1

Nicholas Blower

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Introduction 介绍

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00043_2

Nicholas Blower

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Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear, Victoria McCollum (ed.) (2019) 《让美国再次仇恨：特朗普时代的恐怖与恐惧政治》，Victoria McCollum（编辑）（2019）

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00050_5

Harriet Stilley

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Building husky men: Strenuous masculinity in post-depression America 塑造哈士奇男人：后萧条时期美国的男性气概

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00044_1

Conor Heffernan

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American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970, David Wyatt (ed.) (2018) 转型中的美国文学，1960-1970，大卫·怀亚特(编)(2018)

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00049_5

Oliver Haslam

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Fit to be president: William Howard Taft, sports and athleticism 适合当总统:威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱，体育和运动精神

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00045_1

A. Burns

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