American Literary History

Papers
(The TQCC of American Literary History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Habiba Ibrahim, Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life4
Christine Bold, “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits: 1880s-1930s4
Frans Weiser, False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)3
Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights, ed. Robert J. Patterson3
Dora Zhang, Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel3
Momentous Inclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, eds. Jennifer Bartlett and George Hart3
Blake Allmendinger, Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West3
Elizabeth S. Anker, On Paradox: The Claims of Theory2
In Service to Kin and Community: Seeking Indigenous Masculinities that Heal2
Vivian L. Huang, Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability2
Margaret H. Freeman, Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading2
Taylor Eggan, Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination2
Adam John Waterman, The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War2
Min Hyoung Song, Climate Lyricism2
Scott Herring, Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life2
Greta Olson, From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect2
Sarah Orne Jewett’s China2
On the Uses and Abuses of Fascism2
Data Bodies1
Autumn Womack, The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-19301
Ayad Rahmani, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind1
Maryemma Graham, The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker1
Daniel Y. Kim, Intimacies of Conflict: A Cultural History of the Korean War1
John Cullen Gruesser, A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line1
Monica Kaup, New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory1
The Critical Electorate: On Democracy and Disenchantment1
Race, Homeownership, and Urban Interdependence1
Andrés Espinoza Agurto, Salsa Consciente: Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio1
James H. Creechan, Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds: The Transformations of Mexico's Narco Cartels1
Richard A. Setterstein Jr., Glen H. Elder Jr., and Lisa D. Pierce, Living on the Edge: An American Generation's Journey through the 20th Century1
John Murillo III, Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation1
Kyle Garton-Gundling, Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present1
Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens, edited by Barbara Snedecor1
Benjamin Kahan, ed., The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature1
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes, edited by Christopher C. De Santis1
“For the Women Who Came Before”: The Hidden Hands of Literary Recovery Scholars1
Paul H. D. Kaplan, Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era1
Sara Humphreys, Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds1
Trust Exercise: The Form of Race in the American Post-Identity Novel1
Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah-Rose Murray, eds., Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland1
Sarah Posman, Vital Stein: Gertrude Stein, Modernism and Life1
Zora Neale Hurston’s Scrapbook1
Theophile Maher, Cannel Coal Oil Days1
Christopher Trigg, To Walk the Earth Again: The Politics of Resurrection in Early America1
Feeling Science: Humboldt, Darwin, Poe1
Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Decolonization and Democracy in Leslie Marmon Silko’sGardens in the Dunes1
Brian K. Goodman, The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain1
Keenan Norris, Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings1
Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Fransziska Anneke trans. Viktorija Bilić, eds. Alison Clark Efford and Viktorija Bilić1
Jimmy Packham, Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech, and Death in the American Gothic1
How (and How Not) to Study Porn1
Weird Century1
Dennis Tyler, Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present1
A “Wild and Ambiguous Medium”: Democracy, Interiority, and the Early American Epistolary Novel1
Gerald Sorin, Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer”0
Kathryn Walkiewicz, Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State0
Isabelle Parkinson, Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation: Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909-19330
The Mismeasure of Manabozho: Unsettling the Science of the Mind in Henry R. Schoolcraft’sAlgic Researches0
The Anthropocene and the Apocalypse0
Susan Gillman, American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race0
Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora, by Raquel Kennon0
From the Streets of Cairo to St. Louis, Louis: Musical Print Culture and the Intermedial Travels of the Danse du Ventre0
Sandra M. Gustafson, Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840–19000
Security, Exile, Population: Colonization from David Walker to the Liberia Herald0
Man Woman Cherry Tree Yellow: Queer Elsewheres, Black Elsewhens, Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Queer Eighteenth-Century Studies0
Philip Gould, War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War0
Thomas Heise, The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel0
Tom Moylan, Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
A History of American Puritan Literature, ed. Abram Van Engen and Kristin Bross0
Paul Crosthwaite, Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis0
The Asian American Movement in Queer Literary Retrospect0
Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, I Cannot Write My Life: Islam and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America0
Danica Savonick, Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College0
Michael Bérubé, The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species0
Betty Joseph, From Empire to Anthropocene: the Novel in Posthistorical Times0
Sara Clarke Kaplan, The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood0
Jennifer Greiman, Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form0
Audrey Goodman, A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing0
Eliot’s Statements0
Commemorative Impulses in the “Heart of America”: Kansas City, the Great War, and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy0
Laurie McRae Andrew, The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice0
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry, edited by George Getschow0
Zachary Tavlin, Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century AmericanLiterature0
Whites Aren’t Alright0
Marcia Noe, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre0
Ashley Lawson, On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett0
J. Jesse Ramírez, Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century0
Mónica Huerta, Magical Habits0
Jed Rasula, What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Modern Poetry0
Allyson C. DeMaagd, Dissensuous Modernism: Women, the Senses, and Technology0
Diagnosing America: The Literatures of Mental Health in the US0
Leslie Bow, Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy0
Margaret Greaves, Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration: From Einstein to the Present0
Then, Now, Later, Always0
A Report on the Poe Industry0
Maxine Lavon Montgomery, The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination0
Jess A. Goldberg, Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice0
Max Shulman, The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890 – 19400
Jonathan Senchyne, The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature0
“The Million Dead, Too, Summed Up”: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, eds. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill0
Danièle Pitavy-Souques, The Eye that is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty0
All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, edited by Stephanie Anderson, and Kristen Tapson0
Seeing Through Attention0
Sandhya Shukla, Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place0
Korey Garibaldi, Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America0
Michael Szalay, Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television0
Poetic Song Verse: Blues Based Popular Music and Poetry, edited by Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez0
Lakota Texts: Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth Century, ed. Regina Pustet0
Lee Konstantinou, The Last Samurai Reread0
Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music0
Lida Maxwell, Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love0
The Transitional Decade0
Josh Lambert, The Literary Mafia Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature0
Elizabeth Gregory, Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952-19700
Suk Koo Rhee, The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil War to the Post-Cold War0
Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel0
Novels of Democratic Exhaustion0
Sophie Maríñez, Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic0
Realism’s Gender Wars: Masculinity Effects in Late Realist Fiction and Contemporary Reality TV0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry0
Missing and All Too Present: The Limits of the Unpublished0
Eric Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable0
Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770–1850, edited by Elizabeth Amman and Michael Boyden0
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, ed. and trans. Miriam Udel0
Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege, edited by Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien0
David Anthony, Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature0
Genre Fiction without Shame0
The Work of Literature in the Age of the Refugee0
Resettling Refugee History0
Etta Madden, Engaging Italy. American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks0
Katie McGettigan, The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–18600
Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall, Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing0
Richard Wright in Context, ed. Michael Nowlin0
Maia Gil'Adí, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence0
David Weinfeld, An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism0
Ellen Schrecker, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s0
Cristina Rodriguez, Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty First Century Transnational Latinx Literature0
Illuminating the Antebellum Literary Marketplace: The Artfulness of Literary Labor in George Foster’s New York by Gas-Light0
Kate Marshall, Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century0
Bad Faith and the American Indian: Laura Cornelius Kellogg and the Problem of Democratic Inclusion0
Unpublishing as Form: Hart Crane, Jack Spicer, and the Thresholds of Periodical Publication0
Kelly Ross, Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Culture0
Harlem Renaissance at 100: An ALH forum0
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
Correction to: Character and Conduct0
Alexis Dianda, The Varieties of Experience: William James After the Linguistic Turn0
The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing, eds. Tori Bush and Richard Goodman0
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock ‘n’ Roll, ed. Florence Dore0
“Foul Abolition Calumny”: Reframing Racial Violence in William Wells Brown’s Clotel & the Antebellum Press0
Kellen Hoxworth, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance0
Feng Dong, Desire and Infinity in W.S. Merwin's Poetry0
Thinking Bibliographically about Periodical Networks in the “Harlem” Renaissance0
Maria O’Malley, Imaginary Empires: Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature0
Precarity in/as Critical Practice0
Editors’ Introduction: Lost Causes and Counter-Monuments0
The Colored Conventions: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, Gabrielle P. Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Pa????erson, eds.0
Bodymind Pains and Metabolic Conditions0
Lauren Arrington, The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers0
Lara Langer Cohen, Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, and Nigel Hatton, Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies0
Jack Parlett, The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr0
Simon Orpana, Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture0
Intimations of Empire: John Dos Passos Titles the U.S.A. Trilogy0
Hayden White, The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, Volume 1, edited by Robert Doran0
Joy Sanchez-Taylor, Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color0
The Affective Bind0
Iterative Objects: Hauntings of Identity in Poetic Form0
Eric Cheyfitz, The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law0
Julia Bloch, Lyric Trade: Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long Poem0
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson, edited by Isiah Lavender, III0
The Great American Baseball Novel: How Literature Invented the National Pastime0
Style Degree Zero: Incommensurable Bonds in Cather and Cameron0
Lisa Hollenbach, Poetry FM: American Poetry and Radio Counterculture0
Jo Gill, Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms0
Racial Capitalism and the Border0
Jennifer Fleissner, Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem0
Hugh Foley, Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire0
What’s Past is Prologue: Democracy in the Age of Originalism0
Ben Nichols, Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness0
Turbulent Waters, or the Sublime Object of Subalternity0
Tara T. Green. Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson0
Suzanne Manizza Roszak, They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature0
Sandra Tomc, Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century0
Steven Powell, Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy0
Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor, The Classics in Black and White: Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation0
Un/published: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Erasure Poetry0
Josh Toth, Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative0
Fighting for Real: Truth and American War Memory0
Kenneth M. Price, Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City0
Evangelical Time, Separatism, and the “Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole”0
David F. Eisler, Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present0
Christen Mucher, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession0
Sharon Patricia Holland, an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life0
What is Poetry Scholarship Today?0
The Fruits of the LOA0
Native American Rhetoric, ed. Lawrence W. Gross0
David Deutsch, Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture0
“Somewhere listening for my name”: Black Queer Kinship and the Poetry of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic0
Cody Marrs, Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War0
J.Laurence Cohen, Excavating Exodus: Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literature0
Complete Poetry of James Agee , edited by Michael A. Lofaro and Jesse Graves0
Sandra Gunning, Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic0
Gregory M. Pfitzer, “From Boys to Men”: The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series0
Joseph B. Entin, Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work0
Miriam C. Brown Spiers, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction0
African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 vol. 3, ed. Benjamin Fagan0
Justin Parks, Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America0
Alex Alonso, Paul Muldoon in America: Transatlantic Formations0
Childhood Studies and the Politics of Horror0
Freedom by the Book: Novels and the Future of Liberal Democracy0
When Libertarians Give the Sieg Heil : Neoliberalism and its Monsters0
A Plantation Illogic: Narrating Proslavery’s Imagined Futures0
Sherryl Vint, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction0
Michelle D. Commander, Avidly Reads Passages0
Denise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America0
Alphonso F. Saville IV, The Gospel of John Marrant: Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic0
Richard Rorty, Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism, ed. Eduardo Mendieta0
Sarah Churchwell, The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells0
Correction to: review of Michaël Roy, Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement0
J. J. Butts, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project0
Cody Marrs, Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies0
On Not Describing Death: Washington Irving, John Kirk Townsend, and Natural History’s Descriptive Agency0
Heidi Siegrist, All Y'all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980–20200
Resisting Puritans0
Democracy and the Novel in the US: An Introduction0
Interlocations0
Bryan Santin, Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945-20080
Heather Love, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory0
Lindsay Thomas, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/110
Tamlyn Avery, The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–19600
Casey Kayser, Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region and Gender0
Patrick S. Lawrence, Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century0
Towards the Cli-Fi Historical Novel; Or, Climate Futures Past in Recent Fiction0
Matthew S. Henry, Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition0
An Unpublished Tale about African American Poetry: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Grievances of the Books” (1897)0
The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment. Edited by Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zeiger0
Anita Wohlmann, Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused0
And Where that Language Does Not Yet Exist0
Martin L. Kilson, Black Intellectuals and Black Society0
Cynthia J. Davis, Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism0
Douglas Dowland, We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump0
God is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia Butler, Aparajita Nanda and Shelby L. Crosby, eds.0
Contours of Dread0
Lynn Riggs and the Art of Citizenship0
Plural Texts: On Rereadings0
Desire and Asian Diasporic Fiction: Democracy and the Representative Status of Onoto Watanna’sMiss Numè of Japan(1899)0
Modeling Therapy as Discourse in Twentieth-Century American Literature0
Elizabeth McHenry, To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
Laura E. Tanner, The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson0
Timothy Yu, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia0
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