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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Nathaniel Hawthorne Society CFPs for ALA 2018 in San Francisco in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago1) Bullying, Slut-Shaming, and Stalking: Hawthorne’s Fictional Anticipations of Twenty-first Century Psychopathologies
We invite proposals for papers investigating Hawthorne’s depictions of pathologies that have become endemic this century. A focus on pedagogical applications is particularly welcome. Abstracts of 250 words to Ivonne García at g…[Read more]
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Marlene Daut posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, fellow 19th-century Americanists! This is Marlene Daut, and I am on the ballot for the 19th-Century American Executive Committee this MLA. So, I thought I’d take just a few moments to tell you a little bit about my interests.
After being at the Claremont Graduate University for 7 years, I’ve recently moved to the University of Virginia…[Read more]
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Prentiss Clark created the doc Emerson Society Awards announcement 2018 in the group
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Rags Make Paper, Paper Makes Money: Material Texts and Metaphors of Capital in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoBecause nineteenth-century paper was made from rags, the materiality of paper money became a likely ground from which to debate the nature of value in modern capitalism. On one hand, if paper money was backed by nothing but itself, then it was worth little more than itself: a gathering of lowly rags. On the other hand, the process of turning…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Susan Tane Travel Grants for joint PS/NHS Conference in Kyoto in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSusan Tane Travel Grants, Flight, and Hotel Information for Poe Scholars Traveling to Kyoto:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J.…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Kyoto Conference – Deadline: August 1, 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Conference
Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel—Kyoto, Japan
The Poe Studies Association, The Poe Society of Japan, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society of Japan invite paper and session proposals for a joint conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan on June 21-24, 2018. Our banquet speaker w…[Read more] -
Ivonne Garcia started the topic Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Kyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, etc. in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoKyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, Flight, Hotel, and Contact Information:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J. Colacurcio and…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams
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Timothy Robbins started the topic Seeking Contributors to The Open Anthology of Early American Literature in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<p dir=”ltr”>Dear C-19 friends and colleagues,</p>
<p dir=”ltr”>We are currently seeking writers, editors, and contributors of all kinds to The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook under development with the Rebus Community. Rebus is a non-profit organization that works with faculty,…[Read more] -
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, 8 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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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 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, 8 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 Early 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 Early 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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Benjamin Fagan deposited The North Star and the Atlantic 1848 in the group
LLC Early American on Humanities 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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