MLA Commons | LLC 19th-Century American | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 19th-Century American. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5227434fde7c687dc1b9926128c005a0 Eric Aronoff started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (April 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-april-1/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:43:27 -0500 EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 1 2026 

Call for Survey Participants and Contributors

Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition

Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 0163dd257b312c6442067668ed2ac7ec Eric Aronoff started the topic Contribute to New edition of MLA Approaches to Teaching Moby-Dick (Feb. 1) in the forum LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/contribute-to-new-edition-of-mla-approaches-to-teaching-moby-dick-feb-1/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:43 -0500 Call for Survey Participants and Contributors
Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick, second edition
Eds. Eric Aronoff and Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University

As with other, similar books published by the MLA, the volume will contain a discussion of the most important and useful strategies and materials available to teachers of Moby-Di…[Read more]

]]> 0 796971bce75bc3c605a66641c8db8c6d Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902703/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:01:49 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34927ce4e55de52f921986d63b92140 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902283/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:01:50 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 583238d4880008c95636f50a3bf552ad Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26425 - Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26425-italian-american-llc-guaranteed-session-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:15:12 -0500 #26425 – Italian American LLC Guaranteed Session Call for Papers

Title: Italoamericanos: The Italian Diasporic Experience in the Americas

New Orleans has for centuries been a port of call and interstitial space beckoning people to its banks, whether through choice, coercion, or bondage.

For the Italian diaspora, New Orleans has been one…[Read more]

]]> 0 e903db105c16658b452a2750b9efd075 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/26426-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-session-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:10:53 -0500 #26426-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC Session

Title: Italian Creole: Accents and Intersections

This panel takes the rich history of Italian Americans in New Orleans as a starting point for exploring the politics and power of ethnic visibility in New Orleans. Italians and Italian Americans were foundational to the early infrastructure…[Read more]

]]> 0 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1303c0fe22af3c669c7e10c4eaba03bd Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847387/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:07:53 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd08663d6959cf5867ce013ceaabbb38 Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847382/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:47:11 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6093b5e031e8f90dcabe14c7bb090e5 John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1827262/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:25:57 -0500 Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa1e1132e56d744d3ff918b31cb1dc5 John Gruesser deposited Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826933/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:00:41 -0500 As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f2287b0af5d9892c2ad99a437fe6412 Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817820/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:25:37 -0400 This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5e781eefb9e10ed46983b9b67d785b6 Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021  in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-american-writers-in-paris-then-and-now-proposals-by-september-30-2021-3/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:52:17 -0400 CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now. 

The book aims to focus on writers of all genres (poet…[Read more]

]]> 0 58da7d47db076c20c48cf8c6043d36bc Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746403/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:59:29 -0400 Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

]]> 0 a50f9167d644ebedff39d0f04a58eeca Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746397/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f6fd9b5fa185ebef9091f80530c1bd4 Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727469/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 03:50:52 -0500 In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]

]]> 0 961e084fd03e1378af49cd00d90a4c50 Gerard Holmes deposited "‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1724417/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:33:10 -0500 Birds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]

]]> 0 16303c0d58d24b17b31de91153010e53 Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1718010/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 03:48:48 -0500 This GIF chronicles the movements of a a formerly enslaved man in New England until the publication of his first memoir in 1825. William Grimes was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and insecurity. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e1d918ba52532cf10b1f8a28e3693d2 Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited "Wild Nights": Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1717810/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 02:27:40 -0500 Emily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]

]]> 0 d51716f26d28d839feb5f98e827758f0 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685483/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:49:23 -0400 From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]

]]> 0 f692abf6d5cbf71b00a957ac0e8f4222 Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676322/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:25:24 -0500 Introduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).

If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.

Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

]]> 0 1365ce92e3c8ea6fbc58c5b28e44eabd James S. Finley started the topic 2020 Thoreau Society Fellowships in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/2020-thoreau-society-fellowships/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:57:51 -0500 2020 Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship

The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fifth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family. The fellowship honors the life and legacy of Marjorie Brook Harding, who worked diligently to bring together the Thoreau Society, the Walden Woods Project, and SUNY…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3b3f30c27930b50cc610cb5248b30da Prentiss Clark uploaded the file: Emerson Society call for applications for awards to LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666140/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:57:14 -0400 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2020) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2020). Submit…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf939fc623e69c5547533fa0962aa666 Prentiss Clark uploaded the file: Emerson Society call for applications for awards to LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666139/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:55:34 -0400 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
*Graduate Student Paper Award*
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2020) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2020). Submit…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1fa5a4c0e0592478292de2c3a58b3fc James S. Finley deposited Pilgrimages and Working Forests: Envisioning the Commons in "The Maine Woods" in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660928/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:25:26 -0400 This chapter examines the tendency of readers of Thoreau’s 1864 book “The Maine Woods” to read the landscape through which Thoreau travels as pristine wilderness. I argue, by contrast, that Thoreau presented a social landscape, a “working-forest” avant-la-lettre.

]]> 0 29f18c3225fe6645ec60035ba48f6206 Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659811/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 03:49:20 -0400 “Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more]

]]> 0 aed9dad99f096e35db65efc911eac0c8 Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659052/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:40:13 -0400 This article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc5bcf70db0aec7ccaee834ca2199145 Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659047/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:25:21 -0400 This article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f1bf4e6b734eaf082c3561b5b695233 Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett's Natural History of Sexuality in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658841/ Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:25:21 -0400 In this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]

]]> 0 eba2ff1e90bf70ac4071d05b501bd44f Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657656/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:33:13 -0400 This class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]

]]> 0 b351cb9bc3c557b0b1321383975f9e64 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2019 Graduate Seminar Syllabus: Literature of the American Civil Wars in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657653/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:25:21 -0400 The plural, wars, of this course’s title signals two competing traditions in Civil War memory and periodization:

* the Civil War as a distinct and defining event, from 1861 to 1865, that splits American history (and most English departments’ surveys of American literature) into two distinct halves; and

* the Civil War as an ongoing fea…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf47848f6e07a09f872917c556baa072 Juliane Braun deposited On the Verge of Fame: The Free People of Color and the French Theatre of Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641356/ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 04:08:31 -0400 This essay recovers, describes, and analyzes the theatrical tradition emerging from New Orleans’s free people of color during the antebellum period. I will start out by tracing the presence of free people of color in the francophone theatres of New Orleans, teasing out their impact on the early formations of a francophone theatrical culture in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9ee28af66dd6ac455c5eab361ee98c7 Juliane Braun deposited The Drama of History in Francophone New Orleans in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641353/ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 04:01:17 -0400 On January 1, 1824, the English-speaking population of New Orleans celebrated the grand opening of the American Theatre, lauding
the advent of “Bards our own” and the rise of “our Drama” in the Crescent City (qtd. in Smither 41). For the city’s francophone residents, this event marked a new stage in the ongoing battle for cultural survival.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a6851053ee6664e08f4585fb91d9d09 Juliane Braun deposited Introduction to Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641345/ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 03:51:18 -0400 Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created, shaped, and sustained French theatre culture in New Orleans from its inception in 1792 until the beginning of the Civil War. In doing so, it draws upon the neglected archive of francophone drama native to Louisiana, as well as a range of…[Read more]

]]> 0 25ea9f525c9a7e27e970f426d9a06ae6 Pritika Pradhan deposited At the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics (proposed Special Session panel for MLA 2020 Convention in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637063/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 03:48:44 -0400 This panel examines the paradoxical centrality of marginal elements in nineteenth-century aesthetics, to trace how they revitalize the conceptual and cultural impact of form. Abstracts forthcoming shortly.

]]> 0 054093e109de6e86181eef0d3a1e05f2 Prentiss Clark started the topic Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Awards Announcement (CFP) in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/ralph-waldo-emerson-society-awards-announcement-cfp/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:31:24 -0500 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces three awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.

*Research Grant* Provides up to $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference given to junior scholars and graduate students. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation, and a 1-2-page project proposal, including a description of…[Read more]

]]> 0 988f017c8d0076bcf6fbfe677bf3096c Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-gothic-terror-gothic-horror-lewis-university-july-30-august-2-2019-4/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 21:16:23 -0500 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]

]]> 0 0ccab720f30a1747332dc0a557188932 Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622740/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 03:48:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d0f565a4cf5224af1c35dddbc0ea9e0f C. Beth Burch started the topic Syllabi Content for American Literature Survey Courses in the discussion LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-american/forum/topic/syllabi-content-for-american-literature-survey-courses/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:48:52 -0400 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]

]]> 0 bbb1ff95846434b206fbdfade76bdfad Timothy Robbins deposited A "Reconstructed Sociology": Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621204/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 03:48:49 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e465e766669bba0b324469c42ddc7eb2 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615102/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:58:54 -0400 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]

]]> 0 a4f65ad4254152b85cda3a379266a935 Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610299/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:54:59 -0400 Review of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).

]]> 0 5313133d06d229985b5039a79bf445a9 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610068/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 04:12:25 -0400 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]

]]> 0 c8e224580d25f02c01282506fd325903 Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608362/ Tue, 15 May 2018 03:56:19 -0400 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]

]]> 0 0942ac4a7eaae90299c3eda989b44b10 James S. Finley deposited "Justice in the Land": Ecological Protest in Henry David Thoreau's Antislavery Essays in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607458/ Tue, 01 May 2018 04:12:32 -0400 This essay surveys Thoreau’s antislavery writings from across his career and demonstrates the ecological concerns central to Thoreau’s abolitionist commitment.

]]> 0 8e13f0501949ad5a7d01bdf7692146f2 Benjamin Fagan deposited Blake and the Black Newspaper in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1603966/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 03:48:44 -0400 A contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.

]]> 0 d9fb4dee42cd20332b8054be8a7ae8e2 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599764/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 03:48:44 -0500 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]

]]> 0 cc622099a742b3123c3ca559444cd1b8 Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited John Boyle O'Reilly and Moondyne (1878) in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599604/ Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:53:39 -0500 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]

]]> 0 d973f69fde7d506e8b1e1708dfaf83b2 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598855/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 04:04:17 -0500 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.

]]> 0 9aa77c27769af44cb968c2ecf618400c Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Re-collecting Jim. Discovering a name and a slave narrative's continuing truth in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597191/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:48:44 -0500 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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