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American Literature – Before 1900

• 2013

• 32. Early American Sex

• 52. Issued from Boston: The National Impact of a Local Print Culture on Slavery-Related Politics

• 82. Melville and Protest

• 92. New Approaches to the Latino Nineteenth Century

• 115. Early American Temporalities

• 120. Rethinking Recovery: American Women's Writing

• 157. Irishness and Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century "Irish" American Literature

• 174. Poe and Mystery

• 192. Purges, Plagues, and Body Snatchers: Religion and Medicine in Colonial and Early National America

• 225. Rethinking Dickinson's Lyrics

• 241. Accessing Romanticism through Atlantic Slavery: Period, Archive, Memory, Scholarship

• 265. Material Medicine: Health, Power, and the Value of Pain in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• 272. The Object(s) of Early American Literary Studies: New and Improved?

• 329. Recovering Thoreau's Topography

• 339. Sovereignty and the Archive

• 377. Henry James, Mark Twain, and Globalization

• 380. Dating New Historicism

• 423. A Critical Past?

• 431. Fault Lines in American Literary History

• 463. Antebellum Secularisms

• 474. Thoughts for American Transcendentalism on War and Death

• 500. Undergrounds and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture

• 543. Poe, Hawthorne, and the Conventions of Antebellum Fiction

• 546. Taste, Touch, Hear: Race, Science, and the Senses in the Nineteenth Century

• 580. Different Gods: The Religious Contexts of Emily Dickinson

• 589. Fuller and Antebellum Urban Writing

• 629. Nature, Culture, and Gender in Hawthorne's Work

• 635. Melville Occupies Wall Street

• 663. Urban Slavery: North, South, and Global South

• 720. Henry James and New Media

• 729. Race, Science, and Representation in Early America

• 752. Uncovering Mark Twain's Identities

• 777. Beyond Nature: The Not-Just-Animate World in the Transatlantic Nineteenth Century

• 2012

• 10. Rag, Letter, Post: Material Communications Networks in Colonial and Early National America

• 22. American Poetry in the 1890s: Culture, Convention, Canons

• 51. The American Transcendentalists as Continental Philosophers

• 53. Death and/of the Author: Posthumous Publication

• 71. How to Read the New-York Saturday Press

• 103. Traveling Melville

• 110. What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Sensationalism?

• 125. What's Still Missing? What Now? What Next? Digital Archives in American Literature

• 136. Modeling Girlhood: Reassessing Martha Finley's Elsie Dinsmore Series

• 198. Native Space: Indigenous North American Geographies before 1800

• 208. Hawthorne and Myth

• 244. Dickinson's Fictions of Voice

• 290. Mark Twain and the "Other"

• 339. Evolution without Progress: Late-Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

• 372. New Approaches to Civil War Poetry: Dickinson, Whitman, Melville

• 374. New Approaches to the Law and Literature of the Nineteenth-Century United States

• 413. Word, Image, Media in Early America

• 436. Economies of Waste in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century US Literary Culture

• 446. Encounters with Race in the Age of American Transcendentalism

• 468. Networks, Maps, and Words: Digital-Humanities Approaches to the Archive of American Slavery

• 498. Modes of Transport: Media, Genre, and Nineteenth-Century United States Poetry

• 513. Principles of Exclusion: The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Archive

• 542. Exaltadas: Women and Transcendentalism

• 560. Black Poetry, Reading (Re)Publics, and the Performative in Nineteenth-Century America

• 588. Nineteenth-Century American Sentiment, Radical or Otherwise

• 599. Poe and Hawthorne: Shades of the Gothic

• 631. Henry James and/as Cultural Capital

• 669. Sentimentalism's Unread Stories of Slavery

• 683. Poe as a Critic, Critical Poe

• 693. Mark Twain: Editing and Editions

• 727. Unpredictable Sympathies

• 740. The National Debt and Logics of American Realism

• 2011

• 16. Dickinson's Afterlife

• 78. More Lives to Live: Thoreau's Life/Texts

• 89. Sentiment and Lament: Responses to Death in Poetry of the American Civil War

• 97. Hawthorne and Empire

• 134. Margaret Fuller: Writing the Self, Society, and Nation

• 165. New Directions in Early American Studies

• 171. Mark Twain and the Political Climate

• 220. What's American about Nineteenth-Century Modernism?

• 240. Melville and the Syntax of Class

• 260. Narrating United States Security: State Violence and the Literary Imagination

• 271. Dickinson Forming History

• 299. Critical Commandments

• 318. Poe and Genre Experimentation

• 341. Reading as Critical Practice in American Literary Studies

• 377. Picturing Literature: Visualizing Nineteenth-Century Texts

• 415. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on American Literature to 1800

• 444. Modes of Truth in the Early Modern Atlantic World

• 475. Literature and Economic Crisis

• 517. Billy in the Darbies . . . and on Page, Stage, and Screen: Adaptations of Herman Melville's Billy Budd

• 518. Aesthetic Narration in Nineteenth-Century America

• 571. Thoreau's Later Manuscripts

• 600. The Global American South in the Nineteenth Century

• 616. Reading, Race, and Representation in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

• 641. Henry James in Theory: Media, Politics, Sexuality

• 643. American Sustainability

• 719. Mark Twain and the Problematic Self

• 769. The Aesthetics of Time in American Literary Realism

• 790. Stowe and Critical Memory

• 2009

• 14. Protomodernisms

• 18. New Approaches to Sexuality and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• 43. Poe at Home

• 66. Rebecca Harding Davis and the Interdisciplinarity of Ninteenth-Century United States Literature

• 70. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "Beast" at Twenty-Five

• 95. Finance, Investment, Risk

• 119. Herman Melville: A Writer and His Books

• 164. Depressions

• 200. Fuller: Intertextuality and Influence

• 231. Preracial?

• 282. Book History Matters

• 308. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on American Literature to 1800

• 333. The Archives of African American Literature

• 382. Translations and Early American Literature

• 384. Is the United States a Creole Nation?

• 414. Romantic Conversations

• 435. Labor and Genre in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

• 498. Hawthorne and Creative Nonfiction

• 502. Emily Dickinson, Poet of Crisis

• 570. Time after History

• 579. Mark Twain in the New Millennium

• 609. Captive in the City of Brotherly Love: The Literary Legacies of Pennsylvania's Prisons

• 635. Religious Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: A Comparative Approach

• 638. George Lippard and Philadelphia: Riot, Religion, Revolution

• 648. Mysteries of the City

• 675. Poe on the Move

• 684. Emily Dickinson, Poet of Pleasure

• 715. The Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Sophia Hawthorne

• 722. Teaching, Reading, Being "Civil Disobedience"

• 743. The State of Fuller Studies

• 760. Bad Investments

• 765. Mark Twain's Nineteenth-Century Context

• 2008

• 8. Envisioning Poe

• 18. Jamesian Cities

• 44. Putting America behind Us: Facing the Atlantic in Thoreau's Cape Cod

• 55. Emily Dickinson Moving toward Modernity

• 56. Hawthorne as Storyteller

• 98. Ephemera and the Offline Archive

• 146. Editorial Interpretations of Early American Women's Letters

• 175. Emily Dickinson as World Poet

• 231. Margaret Fuller and Class

• 235. James and Scale

• 265. Town and Gown in Early American Studies

• 318. Provocations: New Paradigms for the Study of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• 344. Sublime Perception: Landscapes and Soundscapes in Poe

• 415. Hawthorne and Emerson

• 457. Transcendental Economies of Circulation

• 505. Mark Twain: Fresh Perspectives on a Cultural Icon

• 547. Nineteenth-Century African American Poetry: Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Beyond

• 589. Pacific Imaginations

• 628. Melville and His Critics

• 662. Science, Technology, and Literature in Early America and the Atlantic

• 717. Privacy and Disorder in the Nineteenth-Century United States: A Roundtable on Consequences

• 740. Theorizing Early American Literature

• 767. Genres and Genetics

• 2007

• 4. Poe and Translation

• 10. Global Thoreau

• 61. Critical Pedagogy, Service Learning, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• 98. Reconstructing Whitman: The Rhetoric of Recovery

• 142. The (United States) South in Hemispheric and Transatlantic Contexts, 1800+50

• 184. Global Chicago

• 193. The Matter of Things in Early American Writing

• 223. What's a Feminist to Do with Melville?

• 263. Worthwhile but Not Marketable: Problems in Publishing Early American Women Writers

• 324. Brave New World: Digital Scholarship and the Future of Early American Studies

• 353. Cash Bar and Dinner Arranged by the Melville Society

• 362. "When the Perfect Two Embrace": The Poetry of Fuller and Emerson

• 406. Henry James and the Things of Modernism

• 457. Disciplinary Networks, Hemispheric Studies, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• 492. Emily Dickinson and the History of Ideas

• 506. Hawthorne: Where Are We Now?

• 511. Materializing the Mind: Literature and Psychology at the Turn of the Century

• 551. Poe and Ideology

• 597. Margaret Fuller and the Politics of Everyday Life

• 616. Mark Twain and the Blues

• 636. Interactions: Old Documents, Present Interests, Early American Studies

• 655. Benjamin Franklin's New Scientific Horizons

• 678. "Bartleby," Resistance, and the City of Immaterial Labor

• 687. General Business Meeting of the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature

• 689. Look Awry! The Post-Confederate South and Civil War Cultural Memory

• 730. Class and Antebellum American Literature

• 736. Reading Minds

• 749. Late Hawthorne

• 756. International Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic and Global Circulations

• 762. James's The Tempest Essay

• 782. Dickinson and Specialized Vocabularies: Law, Physics, and Architecture

• 783. Mark Twain and the American City

• 2006

• 22. Thinking Animals

• 50. The Aesthetics of Jonathan Edwards

• 75. Who Was the First African American Woman Novelist?

• 90. American Bestiaries

• 98. Margaret Fuller and Revolution

• 115. American Sex

• 147. Thinking through Genres

• 187. Melville in the Popular Imagination

• 228. Hawthorne as Theorist: Intelligent Designs and the Romance

• 264. New Approaches to Religion

• 307. Cash Bar, Business Meeting, and Dinner Arranged by the Melville Society

• 315. Early African America

• 344. From Moral Suasion to Sharps Rifles: Transcendental Terrorists?

• 352. Dickinson's Manuscript Publications

• 412. Writing across the Borders: Literature, Internationalism, and the American Civil War

• 442. Sacred Cultures

• 484. Henry James and the Other Women

• 500. Virtual Twain

• 568. Music and Poe's "Poesy"

• 583. Specula: Astronomy and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

• 607. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Politics of Intimacy

• 642. New Approaches to Early American Interiority

• 682. What Are Children For?

• 692. Poe and Drama

• 709. Rhythm and Sound in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

• 725. Henry James and the Late Adeline Tintner

• 727. Transcendentalism in a Time of War

• 757. Margaret Fuller's Geographies

• 762. Mark Twain, Nature, and Transcendence

• 767. Transatlantic Hawthorne: Influences and Interventions

• 2005

• 16. American Neoclassicism

• 48. Benjamin Franklin, Redivivus

• 79. Reperiodizing the American Nineteenth Century

• 119. Thinking Sound: Aural Cultures in America

• 161. Women Editing, Women Being Edited: Gender and Nineteenth-Century United States Periodicals

• 198. Rethinking Lydia Huntley Sigourney: 1990+2005

• 209. Poe in Place

• 217. Early American Caribbeana

• 256. Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the State

• 285. Loving James, Hating James

• 308. Dinner, Cash Bar, Business Meeting, and Gam Arranged by the Melville Society

• 333. Inside Empire: Multilingualism, Literary Style, and Migrant Perspectives in the Gilded Age

• 345. Revisiting Huck: Idol and Target

• 361. Spiritual Sympathy and Sacred Sites: Religion and the Imagination in Melville's Clarel

• 367. New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry

• 382. Transcendentalism and Manifest Destiny

• 394. Marginal and Seminal Hawthorne

• 397. Historical Readers, Audience Engagement, and the Reception of Nineteenth-Century American Women Novelists

• 433. Margaret Fuller and Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing

• 446. Religion and Modernity

• 470. Electronic Media in Nineteenth-Century American Studies

• 483. Performativity in Eighteenth-Century Theater: Historical Instrumentality or Theoretical Intervention?

• 522. Melville: The Aesthetic Turn

• 583. Dickinson's Writing about the Natural World

• 614. Literature of Reconstruction: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights

• 616. Secularity in Seventeenth-Century Print

• 652. Underworlds and American Modernisms

• 700. Marking Time: Temporality in American Writing

• 714. Margaret Fuller and the Nation: Composition, Conversation, Translation

• 722. Eureka Once Again

• 723. Canny James

• 754. Political Hawthorne

• 767. Writing Thoreau's Life: Circulating Myth and Memory

• 769. Mark Twain: Resisting and Representing America

• 780. Unknown Treasures of the Evergreens: The Dickinson Family at Home

• 2004

• 12. American Antipathy

• 29. Benjamin Franklin and the Character of a Nation

• 59. The Postsentimental Culture of Nineteenth-Century America

• 87. Reading "Lewis and Clark"

• 130. Philadelphian Infections: Charles Brockden Brown, Disease, and the Distempered Imagination

• 167. Melville's Dialogic Muse

• 168. Performance and Politics

• 214. Animal Voices: Nature and Narration in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• 230. The Critical Archive: What Nineteenth-Century Americanists Should Be Reading but Aren't

• 252. Hawthorne: Other Histories

• 262. The Profession of Writing, of Reading, and of Being Mark Twain

• 293. Cash Bar Arranged by the Mark Twain Circle of America

• 317. The Emersons' Parlor and Mrs. Thoreau's Dinner Table: Transcendental Conversations I

• 345. Revolution

• 395. Rethinking the Image

• 419. Margaret Fuller and the Discourses of Liberty

• 451. Phillis Wheatley and Identification

• 498. Federalism and Antifederalism

• 514. The Master Builders

• 529. Sites of Early Quaker Identity: Places, Histories, Texts

• 543. Dickinson and the Emersonian Tradition

• 569. Dinner and Business Meeting Arranged by the Melville Society

• 580. Poe and Solitude

• 589. Drama, Politics, and the Antebellum Philadelphia Theater

• 617. Literature and Democratic Thought in the Antebellum United States

• 636. Outside the Convention Hall: Philadelphia Performances and the Constitution of the Early Republican Subject

• 643. South of the American Renaissance: Nineteenth-Century United States Literary Studies in International Contexts

• 663. Technology and American Literature at the Turn of the Century

• 681. Philadelphia Circulations

• 686. Poe and the Ratiocinative Intellect

• 692. The Future of Fuller Studies

• 712. Dickinson and Biography

• 739. The Emersons' Parlor and Mrs. Thoreau's Dinner Table: Transcendental Conversations II

• 755. Hawthorne: "After" Historicism

• 772. Henry James, Future Tense

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