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Jada Ach, Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925 Jada Ach，《沙、水、盐》：美国西部文学中的元素管理，1880-1925 年

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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae024

Nicolas S. Witschi

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Un/published: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Erasure Poetry 未出版：当代抹杀诗歌中的存在与缺失

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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae039

Heike Schaefer

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Jolene Hubbs, Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature 乔琳娜-哈布斯：阶级、白人和南方文学

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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae014

Peter Schmidt

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Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée, edited by Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert Levine 重新想象共和国：阿尔比恩-W-图尔盖文学作品中的种族、公民身份和民族》，桑德拉-M-古斯塔夫森和罗伯特-莱文编辑

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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae004

Tomos Hughes

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Trusts, Trust, and Trust: Hernan Diaz’s Liberal Pedagogy 信任、信任、再信任：埃尔南-迪亚兹的自由教育学

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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae033

Adam Kelly

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Commemorative Impulses in the “Heart of America”: Kansas City, the Great War, and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy 美国心脏 "的纪念冲动：堪萨斯城、大战和西奥多-德莱塞的《美国悲剧

IF 0.4 2区文学

AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae037

Trevor Dodman, Corey Campion

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Denise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America 丹尼斯-吉甘特，《疯狂的书》：美国藏书家的故事

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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajae017

Cynthia Johnston

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Etta Madden, Engaging Italy. American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks Etta Madden, Engaging Italy.美国妇女的乌托邦愿景与跨国网络