With its filigreed, formidable representations of tears and suffering, sentimentalism has
remained a divisive genre and category of analysis. On Sympathetic Grounds offers a new …

In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry
demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of …

The advent of boys' popular culture is signaled by 1870s entertainment periodicals.
Following in the cur rent of Oliver Optic's more expensive series books, boys' cheap peri …

The Illiberal Imagination offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how—and to what
end—US novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic …

Thompson's essay intervenes in conversations about mid-nineteenth-century authorship
and print culture by distinguishing between the economy of paper and the economy of print …

This article aims to study the implications of bilingualism on literary celebrity with respect to
having two sets of audiences that fall into two distinct categories in terms of linguistic …

This article investigates the friendship of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Franklin Pierce over the
period 1852–1868. By revealing an intimate, later-life friendship between the two men, it …

ABSTRACT “The American Tradition of the Literary Interview 1840–1956: A Cultural History”
is the first study to document the development of the literary interview in the United States. A …

This chapter traces the emergence of American Romanticism within the broader political,
social, and intellectual transformations characterizing the antebellum period; it reads the rise …

DAVID DOWLING HAS RECENTLY ARGUED that Whitman's construction of the 1855
Leaves of Grass was a conscious process of commodification. In dowling's view, the poet …