Executive Committee:
Meredith L. McGill, Jan. 2016 (2015–Jan. 2016 Ch.)
Ivy Wilson, Jan. 2017 (2015–Jan. 2016 Sec.)
Dana Luciano, Jan. 2018
Rodrigo Lazo, Jan. 2019
Hsuan L. Hsu, Jan. 2020
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Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association
July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois
Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. T…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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C. Beth Burch started the topic Syllabi Content for American Literature Survey Courses in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dear Colleagues,
I am a Professor of Judaic Studies at SUNY Binghamton. For a research project I am doing on the canon that is taught—or the teaching canon, as I’m calling it—I would like to know what works you are teaching or listing on your syllabi for American literature survey courses for any period. I would appreciate receiving de-i…[Read more]
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Timothy Robbins deposited A “Reconstructed Sociology”: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 months ago
Situates the composition of Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas—from manuscript notes, source material, and pilot essays to its publication as an 84-page pamphlet—within the intellectual tendencies of the Reconstruction-era American social science movement to reveal Whitman’s text as an important case study in the nascent discipline. In his pro…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
I look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Review of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Marissa K. López deposited The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
This article compares the historiographic methods of two 19th century, California historians.. Mariano Vallejo, former Mexican military commander of Alta California, wrote his Recuerdos at the request of San Francisco-based, Anglo-American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. In his own memoir, Literary Industries (1915), Bancroft describes his…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 months, 1 week ago
Charles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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James S. Finley deposited “Justice in the Land”: Ecological Protest in Henry David Thoreau’s Antislavery Essays in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
This essay surveys Thoreau’s antislavery writings from across his career and demonstrates the ecological concerns central to Thoreau’s abolitionist commitment.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Blake and the Black Newspaper in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 11 months ago
A contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited “The Sense of That Crush I feel at Certain Times, Even Now”: Jacob Stroyer and the Defense of Fort Sumter in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year ago
In the summer of 1864, fourteen-year-old Jacob Stroyer was sent to work in Fort Sumter. He did not go willingly. Stroyer was a slave owned by the wealthy Mrs. Matthew R. Singleton and was sent from the large Kensington plantation outside Columbia, SC to labor for the Confederate cause. The Confederate Corps of Engineers called upon slave owners to…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited John Boyle O’Reilly and Moondyne (1878) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Arrested for treason against the British Crown and deported to the penal colonies of Australia, the Irish revolutionary John Boyle O’Reilly managed to escape to the United States and within a few years became one of Boston’s most prominent political and literary figures, one of the best known Irish immigrants in the United States and one of the…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Transatlantic Influences in Periodical Editing: From Francis Jeffrey’s Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year ago
This article explores editorial practice in the British and North American periodicals between c.1800 and c.1850. The article uses a Transatlantic studies approach.
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Re-collecting Jim. Discovering a name and a slave narrative’s continuing truth in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
In a follow-up installment in 1839 to the anonymously authored Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave, the narrator testifies that a Charleston slave speculator known as “Major Ross” had sold his brother. The narrator notes that Ross lives in “a nice little white house, on the right hand side of King street as you go in from the country…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited “Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism.” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This chapter explores how a culture of transatlantic environmental journalism emerged during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century. How did interest in science, travel and exploration during those years shape the ways in which North American and British magazines represented the natural environment? To what extent did articles in…[Read more]
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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 1 year, 1 month ago
This 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 1 year, 2 months ago
1) 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 1 year, 3 months ago
Hello, 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
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
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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 1 year, 5 months ago
A review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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