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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Psychology,Psychoanalysis, and Literature group, you may be interested in the following call for papers.
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
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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Kathryn J. McKnight posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoSpring 2017: Piloted “Life, Literature, and the Power of Reading” as an equivalent to “Introduction to Hispanic Literature” in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. The course was very well received by the students.
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Katja Herges deposited Syllabus Medicine and the Humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoIntroductory course in the medical humanities with focus on English literature. Taught as a general education course. Topics include anatomy, madness, plagues and contagions and death and caregiving.
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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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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 : Call for Essays (of potential interest to scholars of American modernism and 20th-century studies)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New…[Read more] -
David Squires deposited Outlawry: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis essay demonstrates how Lynch Law suspended normative criminal law and undermined constitutional amendments made after the US Civil War. Focusing on the period between Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, the essay argues that “outlawry” provides the necessary juridical concept for understanding how a tradition of popular sovereignty wor…[Read more]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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