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“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling "活在每一根纤维中"：肖邦和沃顿论痛苦、快乐和私人情感

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11218879

Cynthia J. Davis

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Pain after 2020, An Introduction 2020 年后的疼痛，导言

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11218858

Sari Altschuler, Thomas Constantinesco

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Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart 被奴役心灵的分类学

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11218865

Shari Goldberg

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“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital "一张痛苦的脸内战医院中的痛苦与肖像画

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11218872

Jess Libow

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Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred 哎哟疼痛、听觉和转介

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11218900

Catherine Belling

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Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital 令人震惊的疗法：在拉尔夫-埃里森的《工厂医院》中叙述种族主义对心理生物学的伤害

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11218886

Cera Smith

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National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times 民族创伤与性别伤害：在最糟糕的时代重塑堕胎之痛

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11218893

Alex O’Connell

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“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies "超越铁路和拘禁"？日裔美国人战时监禁文学与亚裔美国人文学研究的基础

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11092084

Rei Magosaki

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Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler 数据驱动的童年：弗朗西斯-拉弗莱什和弗朗西斯-罗尔特-维勒的男孩文学中的殖民定居主义和计算能力

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11092071

Laura Soderberg

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Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History 迈向土地抵抗文学：土地在美国文学、法律和历史中的作用

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11092045

Kyle Keeler

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