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Slave Narratives, Black Disenfranchisement, and the Electoral Limits of Black Freedom 奴隶叙事，黑人被剥夺公民权，以及黑人自由的选举限制

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-12-07 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0019

Leila Mansouri

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The Sweet Truth of Slavery 奴隶制的甜蜜真相

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-12-07 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0014

M. Vernon

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Who’s Afraid of Historicizing? How Protestant Anti-historicism Became Literary Self-Defense 谁害怕被历史化?新教反历史主义如何成为文学自卫

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-12-07 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0017

Ashley C. Barnes

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On Our Cover 我们的封面

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-12-07 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0010

Christina Michelon, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, M. Walsh, Thomas Koenigs, Édouard Marsoin, Matthew Vernon, Sarah J. Sillin, Vanessa Ovalle Perez, Ashley C. Barnes, Christopher Malone, Leila Mansouri, Laura E. Free, Jennie A. Kassanoff

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The “Mysterious Depths” of Slave Interiority: Fiction and Intersubjective Knowledge in The Heroic Slave 奴隶内在的“神秘深度”:《英雄奴隶》中的虚构与主体间知识

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-12-07 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0012

Thomas Koenigs

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The Speaker, Photographed: Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poems of Cabin and Field 演讲者，摄影:保罗·劳伦斯·邓巴的小屋和田野诗歌

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-04-08 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0000

C. Gelmi

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Vegetative Politics from Crèvecoeur to Hawthorne 从克里维特科尔到霍桑的植物人政治

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-04-08 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0009

Erin E. Forbes

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Inherited Obligations: Conquest, Californio Promises, and Native American Land in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona 继承的义务:征服，加利福尼亚的承诺，和印第安人的土地在海伦·亨特·杰克逊的《雷蒙娜》

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-04-08 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0003

P. A. Ramírez

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"A Million—a Billion Thoughts": A Letter on "Absent-Minded Historicism" “百万-十亿思想”:一封关于“健忘的历史决定论”的信

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-04-08 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0008

R. Castronovo

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What Is the White American? Race, Emigration, and Nation in Melville's Redburn 什么是美国白人?梅尔维尔《红本》中的种族、移民和民族

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J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Pub Date : 2020-04-08 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2020.0001

R. Levine

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