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Nonprofit Poetry: Lewis MacAdams and the Art of Environmental Bureaucracy 非营利诗歌：刘易斯-麦克亚当斯与环境官僚艺术
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae070
Nick Earhart
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Consuming Consumption 消费
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae077
Nicky Marsh
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Losing the West, Finding Western Worlds 失去西方，寻找西方世界
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae075
Audrey Goodman
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Evangelical Time, Separatism, and the “Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole” 福音派时间、分离主义和 "内森-科尔的精神旅行"
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae078
Rachel Trocchio
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What’s Past is Prologue: Democracy in the Age of Originalism 前事不忘，后事之师：原创主义时代的民主
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae071
Geoffrey R Kirsch
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The Power of Caricature, Caricatures of Power 漫画的力量，权力的漫画
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae073
Ian Haywood
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Progressive Originalism and the New Canon Wars 进步原创主义与新法典之争
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae074
Almas Khan
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The Fruits of the LOA LOA 的成果
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae076
John N Duvall
{"title":"The Fruits of the LOA","authors":"John N Duvall","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajae076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajae076","url":null,"abstract":"The marketing claims of the Library of America (LOA) reveal that this institution functions within the tradition of such middlebrow publishing ventures as The Harvard Classics and the Modern Library. All such ventures assure consumers that cultural cache can be theirs through brand loyalty. LOA’s brand identity, however, is fraught with contradictions. While claiming to continue the legacy of highbrow literary critic Edmund Wilson, LOA increasingly publishes volumes devoted to pulp genres that would have been anathema to Wilson. While English departments have been questioning notions of the canon throughout LOA’s history, the publisher, founded in 1980, insists that its books define the canon of US literature. The professoriate, however, has largely ignored LOA’s claims regarding great literature because the publisher also claims to uphold the standards of great scholarship. These brand contradictions serve as a context for assessing a recent addition to LOA’s core collection, William Faulkner: Stories, edited by Theresa M. Towner. I contrast Towner’s editorial methods with those of Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk, who edited LOA’s five volumes of Faulkner’s novels between 1985 and 2003, in order to address what we mean when we say a text is authoritative and corrected.","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Aaron Sachs, Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times 亚伦-萨克斯（Aaron Sachs），《从深渊往上走》：赫尔曼-梅尔维尔、刘易斯-芒福德和黑暗时代的再发现
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae023
Cody Marrs
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Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology, edited by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner 海地革命小说：选集》，Marlene L. Daut、Grégory Pierrot 和 Marion C. Rohrleitner 编辑
IF 0.4 2区 文学
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae020
Philip Kaisary
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