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Benjamin Fagan deposited Reclaiming Revolution: William Wells Brown’s Irreducible Haitian Heroes in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article focuses on William Wells Brown’s 1854 history of the Haitian Revolution.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Reclaiming Revolution: William Wells Brown’s Irreducible Haitian Heroes in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article focuses on William Wells Brown’s 1854 history of the Haitian Revolution.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited “Feebler than the Original”: Translation and Early Black Transnationalism in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article reads the printing and commentary on Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” in Frederick Douglass’ Paper as an act and theorization of translation.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited “Feebler than the Original”: Translation and Early Black Transnationalism in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article reads the printing and commentary on Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” in Frederick Douglass’ Paper as an act and theorization of translation.
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Ross Tangedal deposited Excuse the Preface: Hemingway’s Introductions for Other Writers in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoOver the course of his career Ernest Hemingway wrote introductions for a number of writers. These pieces have been largely forgotten, but study and analysis of Hemingway’s introductions offers additional insight into the well-known author. The process of creating and marketing these pieces allowed Hemingway to manipulate and refine his public p…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited Refusing the Serious: Authorial Resistance in Ring Lardner’s Prefaces for Scribner’s in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThough already famous, wealthy, and squarely established as a popular chronicler of the early
twentieth century, humorist Ring Lardner’s foray into a serious literary career with Charles Scribner’s
Sons Publishing Company is best characterized as an act of authorial resistance. Rather than evolve into
the “serious” author the firm had hoped f…[Read more] -
Ross Tangedal deposited Refusing the Serious: Authorial Resistance in Ring Lardner’s Prefaces for Scribner’s in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThough already famous, wealthy, and squarely established as a popular chronicler of the early
twentieth century, humorist Ring Lardner’s foray into a serious literary career with Charles Scribner’s
Sons Publishing Company is best characterized as an act of authorial resistance. Rather than evolve into
the “serious” author the firm had hoped f…[Read more] -
Benjamin Fagan deposited The North Star and the Atlantic 1848 in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article explores the coverage of the 1848 uprisings in Europe by the North Star, a black newspaper edited by Frederick Douglass.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited The North Star and the Atlantic 1848 in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article explores the coverage of the 1848 uprisings in Europe by the North Star, a black newspaper edited by Frederick Douglass.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Chronicling White America in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis forum contribution focuses on the racial politics of digitization.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Chronicling White America in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis forum contribution focuses on the racial politics of digitization.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Harriet Jacobs’s Rogue Reading in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis forum contribution reads Harriet Jacobs’s use of print as a model for contemporary scholarship.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Harriet Jacobs’s Rogue Reading in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis forum contribution reads Harriet Jacobs’s use of print as a model for contemporary scholarship.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited “Americans As They Really Are”: The Colored American and the Illustration of National Identity in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article explores the illustrations that appeared in the Colored American (1837-1841), a black newspaper published in New York City.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited “Americans As They Really Are”: The Colored American and the Illustration of National Identity in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article explores the illustrations that appeared in the Colored American (1837-1841), a black newspaper published in New York City.
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAre you busy at present? I would be greatly obliged if you offer scholarly feedbacks on my research-proposal, and answer the questions of my last correspondence as soon as possible.
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Print Culture in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThoreau’s relation to print culture was complicated and at times contradictory, but from his writing life to his family business, he was shaped by it. Scholars note that he was both successful and a failure as a professional author. He published books and articles made possible by technological changes in papermaking and printing to his west on t…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI have sent my research proposal to the e-mail address you gave me in your last correspondence.Please, inform me whether you have got it, and I would be greatly obliged if you offer your valuable feedbacks on it.
Now, let’s turn to our ongoing discussion. So far as my knowledge is concerned, confessional poets (for example, Sylvia Plath) are…[Read more] -
John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI would love to see your proposal. My email address is <streamas@wsu.edu>, and you may just send it that way if you’d prefer. We’ve avoided the word “confessional,” and I think that’s wise. I don’t think Gluck is a conventionally confessional poet, yet she’s less “historical” and public than, say, the Lowell of the 1960s. Because several new books…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI did not respond to your answer quickly because I thought you were busy with the study of An Eye For An Eye. You are, definitely, right in assuming that the subject position of the speaker in October makes him/her incapable of making any political comments. But it also enables him/her to contemplate on post-traumatic self and human life in its…[Read more]
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