{"title":"What Was Boston Marriage? Sarah Orne Jewett and Biography","authors":"Melissa J. Homestead","doi":"10.1353/JNC.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JNC.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay reviews five years of scholarship on Sara Orne Jewett (c. 2014–19), with a focus on work foregrounding regionalism and on Queer readings. How does biography inform (or not inform) readings of Jewett's fiction? I conclude that new biographical work on Jewett and particularly her Boston marriage with Annie Adams Fields is needed. A dual biography of the two women has the potential both to deepen historical understanding of same-sex eroticism between women in the nineteenth-century United States and the nature of Boston marriage and to give impetus to new readings of Jewett's fiction.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"111 1","pages":"129 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79190133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Queer Tale of Two Endings: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and \"His Heart's Desire\"","authors":"J. Lutes","doi":"10.1353/JNC.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JNC.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Combining archival research with childhood and Queer studies, this essay analyzes multiple versions of \"His Heart's Desire,\" an extraordinary but little-known short story by Alice Dunbar-Nelson about a racially unmarked boy who wants a blonde, blue-eyed doll. While the story was originally meant to be part of a never-finished story collection, it has seen print separately in two different versions, one published during Dunbar-Nelson's lifetime and one posthumously. In this essay, I argue that the story's two published versions, when read together, make a devastating case for the damage wrought by global imperialism and its fetishizing of white femininity. My comparative textual study also indicates Dunbar-Nelson may have engaged in savvy self-censorship that ultimately contributed to her relative obscurity in the current day, even among scholars of African American studies and Queer studies.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"9 1","pages":"207 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83080680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. D'amore, Jessie Morgan-Owens, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Janet Neary, Scott Hancock, Delisa Hawkes, Simon Stern, Zachary Tavlin, Liana Kathleen Glew, Kelsey Squire, Scott Peeples, Shari Goldberg, Melissa J. Homestead, G. Hutner, J. Stein, Lindsey Grubbs, John Brooks, J. Lutes, Rachel Kolb
{"title":"Calls for Regular Features","authors":"M. D'amore, Jessie Morgan-Owens, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Janet Neary, Scott Hancock, Delisa Hawkes, Simon Stern, Zachary Tavlin, Liana Kathleen Glew, Kelsey Squire, Scott Peeples, Shari Goldberg, Melissa J. Homestead, G. Hutner, J. Stein, Lindsey Grubbs, John Brooks, J. Lutes, Rachel Kolb","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2020.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2020.0007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Pleasure Reading</p>","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"124 1","pages":"104 - 105 - 111 - 112 - 12 - 120 - 121 - 128 - 129 - 13 - 136 - 137 - 144 - 145 - 154 - 155 - 183 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89167315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rappaccini's Son","authors":"J. Stein","doi":"10.1353/JNC.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JNC.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay considers the biographical speculations about Nathaniel Hawthorne's history of sexual abuse as an exemplary instance of insufficient archival evidence. It contemplates the implications of such insufficient evidence for the practices of truth telling in nineteenth-century Americanist historiography and literary criticism more generally. It argues for the possibility of accuracy without precision as an ethical alternative to dismissing insufficient evidence, and in elaborating this idea the essay identifies some of the urgency for taking up these questions at the present.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"26 1","pages":"145 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89944179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nathaniel Hawthorne's Civil War","authors":"G. Hutner","doi":"10.1353/JNC.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JNC.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:How should literary historians measure a writer's understanding of war as it is witnessed and what effect that might have on literary reputation. The occasion for posing this question is Nathaniel Hawthorne's \"Chiefly about War Matters,\" his essay about a tour of Washington, DC, and environs during the second spring of the Civil War. The essay examines Hawthorne's understanding of the central conflict of his time and how, 160 years later, his article in the Atlantic magazine reveals some of his worst limitations as a cultural observer. Should we submit contemporary writers to similar tests? And when did the practice begin? To what end?","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"14 1","pages":"137 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84459496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memoirs of Madness","authors":"Liana Glew","doi":"10.1353/JNC.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JNC.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the mid-nineteenth century, reformers worked to transform the public's image of psychiatric institutions from the rattling chains of Bedlam to sunny gardens and sprawling hospitals. Many patients and ex-patients in the United States claimed that, to uphold this new image, administrators upkept one sparkling ward for visitors to see and kept poor, intellectually disabled, or behaviorally nonnormative patients hidden and neglected in abysmal back wards. Patient-writers challenged the image of the Potemkin asylum in memoirs that doubled as exposés with a twofold purpose: (1) to show readers the hidden parts of asylum life (including the interiority of people experiencing madness) and (2) to advocate for reform or abolition. This essay looks to one lesser-known patient-memoirist, Isaac Hunt, to ask, How do these writers acknowledge readers' desires for a sensational spectacle without replicating the objectifying dynamics of the Bedlam tour? What roles do disability, madness, stigma, and suspicion play in this encounter? Finally, how does one narrate an experience of madness? While memoirs like Hunt's have historically been framed as \"psychotic\" or \"impaired,\" this essay argues that patient-memoirists often used literary experimentation to capture the ways that they experienced fluctuations in their sense of time, place, and self while in the asylum.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"23 1","pages":"104 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79469780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Good Is a Moment?","authors":"S. Hancock","doi":"10.1353/JNC.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JNC.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Focusing on momentary experiences of individual's past lives, while posing unique challenges, also present new opportunities to connect the past to the present. When accomplished via rigorous research, privileging the moment enables scholars to draw people into thinking about these lives critically and empathetically. We can critique and seek to understand, for instance, both the Confederate soldier who fought for a government seeking to maintain slavery, and the Black civilian who leaped at the opportunity to shoot at that soldier.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"9 1","pages":"61 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81924152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invisible Illness","authors":"Shari Goldberg","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay engages Henry James's claim that The Wings of the Dove represents the consciousness of a sick young woman. Criticism has tended to interpret Milly Theale's consciousness as unrelated to her physiology and her physiology as unrelated to her sickness. I approach the text as both a Jamesian scholar and a person familiar with ordinary illness to register her as ordinarily, concretely ill. In addition to illustrating how Milly's thought patterns are rendered distinct from those of her healthy friends, I reflect on the tensions presented by relying on experience to generate textual analysis. These tensions include the risk of treating literary characters as real people, the threat of sentimentalism, and the suggestion of disability as psychologically rather than socially situated.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"152 1","pages":"121 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77587400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding Frank","authors":"Jessie Morgan-Owens","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In \"Finding Frank,\" the author considers what to do with a remnant of evidence left behind from her research for a larger project in the history of slavery. The remnant concerns Frank, a black man lost to the domestic slave trade in 1835, and Morgan-Owens argues that the conventions of micronarrative, which tie the worth of a story to its scalability, led to his omission in her manuscript. What does it mean to have a story worth telling, and how much of a story does it take to merit a biographical account? Writing as a white historian, she navigates the archival impulse to write about Frank after the fact and the persistent patterns of white supremacy found in projects of historical retelling.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"1 1","pages":"31 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89650616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Fathom His Very Roots: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance and \"Evidence\" of His Literary Racial Passing","authors":"Delisa Hawkes","doi":"10.1353/JNC.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JNC.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the latter part of the long nineteenth century, actor and author Sylvester Clark \"Chief Buffalo Child\" Long Lance completely discarded his African American ancestry to assert a composite Native American identity. He did so in hopes of escaping anti-Black violence. His writings suggest that he believed that performing the racialized stereotype of the \"noble savage\" would better position him to achieve inclusion in US society, which was otherwise denied to him in his legal \"colored\" (read: Black) racial identity. His complex and problematic approach to his ancestry and racial identity invites scholars to critically consider how some authors simultaneously challenged yet adhered to social expectations regarding racial identification when reflecting on their personal lives and asserting their racial identities in literature. Long Lance's life and writings invite scholars to question what counts as \"evidence\" to prove so-called racial passing when authors or their characters reflect on certain aspects of their ancestry and racial identity. In this essay, I examine the complexities of racial passing in nineteenth and twentieth century literatures with attention to Long Lance's unique perspective of his racial identity and shows how he used literary and legal racial passing to challenge racial binarism.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"5 1","pages":"69 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81286391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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