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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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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

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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae071

Geoffrey R Kirsch

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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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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

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Data Bodies 数据机构

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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajad234

Rebecca B Clark

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Missing and All Too Present: The Limits of the Unpublished 缺失与存在：未发表作品的局限性

IF 0.4 2区文学

AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajad228

Adam Rounce

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