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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Resource on William T,. Stead human rights / Labor advocate (UK- Chicago 1893) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoA figure who should be back in our minds these days, British journalist/reformer William T. Stead came to cover the 1893 Chicago world’s fair and wrote If Christ came to Chicago about the “philistines” running the corrupt exploitation of the poor in the town. Some pillars of Chicago society pages and front pews in posh churches paid the tax on…[Read more]
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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 think the proposal is impressive, though I am concerned about the scale of the period covered. Is it possible to speak of “early” and “late” reactions to an event that happened less than sixteen years ago? I see that the anthology was published in 2002, the year following 9/11. I had a poem in the Poets Against War website in 2003, and looking…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoReview Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoReview Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture
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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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 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
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Benjamin Fagan deposited The North Star and the Atlantic 1848 in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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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