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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Habiba Ibrahim, Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life13
Christine Bold, “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits: 1880s-1930s5
Benjamin Schreier, The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity2
Momentous Inclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, eds. Jennifer Bartlett and George Hart2
Dora Zhang, Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel2
Scott Herring, Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life2
Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights, ed. Robert J. Patterson2
Frans Weiser, False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)2
“That Grim Sphinx”: Literary Historicism and Tourgée’s Toinette Novels2
Blake Allmendinger, Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West2
Elizabeth S. Anker, On Paradox: The Claims of Theory2
Greta Olson, From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect1
Vivian L. Huang, Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability1
Trust Exercise: The Form of Race in the American Post-Identity Novel1
Keenan Norris, Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings1
Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens, edited by Barbara Snedecor1
Christopher Trigg, To Walk the Earth Again: The Politics of Resurrection in Early America1
Sheila Liming, What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books1
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes, edited by Christopher C. De Santis1
Paul H. D. Kaplan, Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era1
John Cullen Gruesser, A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line1
Sara Humphreys, Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds1
Criticism’s Contexts1
In Service to Kin and Community: Seeking Indigenous Masculinities that Heal1
Taylor Eggan, Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination1
Lucas A. Dietrich, Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-19201
Ormond Seavey, Henry Adams in Washington: Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America's Man of Letters1
Autumn Womack, The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-19301
Weird Century1
Benjamin Kahan, ed., The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature1
Adam John Waterman, The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War1
Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Decolonization and Democracy in Leslie Marmon Silko’sGardens in the Dunes1
Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Fransziska Anneke trans. Viktorija Bilić, eds. Alison Clark Efford and Viktorija Bilić1
“For the Women Who Came Before”: The Hidden Hands of Literary Recovery Scholars1
Jimmy Packham, Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech, and Death in the American Gothic1
Sarah Orne Jewett’s China1
Margaret H. Freeman, Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading1
Monica Kaup, New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory1
Kyle Garton-Gundling, Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present1
Commentary1
Elsewhere Catastrophe1
Race, Homeownership, and Urban Interdependence1
Daniel Y. Kim, Intimacies of Conflict: A Cultural History of the Korean War1
How (and How Not) to Study Porn1
Brian K. Goodman, The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain1
The Critical Electorate: On Democracy and Disenchantment1
Ayad Rahmani, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind1
Min Hyoung Song, Climate Lyricism1
On the Uses and Abuses of Fascism1
Miriam C. Brown Spiers, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction0
Joan Didion, Didion: The 1960s & 1970s, ed. David Ulin0
Jennifer Greiman, Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form0
Freedom by the Book: Novels and the Future of Liberal Democracy0
Remediations in an Emergency0
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry0
Shirley A. James Hanshaw, Re-Membering and Surviving African American Fiction of the Vietnam War0
A History of American Puritan Literature, ed. Abram Van Engen and Kristin Bross0
Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World, edited by Alice Kaplan, translated by Ryan Bloom0
The Work of Literature in the Age of the Refugee0
Denise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America0
Towards the Cli-Fi Historical Novel; Or, Climate Futures Past in Recent Fiction0
Elissa Zellinger, Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America0
Introduction0
Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, and Nigel Hatton, Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies0
Cristina Rodriguez, Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty First Century Transnational Latinx Literature0
The Asian American Movement in Queer Literary Retrospect0
Maxine Lavon Montgomery, The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination0
Lynn Riggs and the Art of Citizenship0
A Report on the Poe Industry0
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader: Writings by an Early American Polymath, eds. Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert0
Sarah Blackwood, The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Simon Orpana, Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture0
Kevin Quashie, Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being0
Casey Kayser, Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region and Gender0
Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel0
Danièle Pitavy-Souques, The Eye that is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty0
Eric Cheyfitz, The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law0
Genre Fiction without Shame0
The Colored Conventions: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, Gabrielle P. Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Pa????erson, eds.0
Anita Wohlmann, Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused0
Native American Rhetoric, ed. Lawrence W. Gross0
Democracy and the Novel in the US: An Introduction0
Sherryl Vint, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction0
Gavan Lennon, Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction0
What is Poetry Scholarship Today?0
Richard Rorty, Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism, ed. Eduardo Mendieta0
Kevin Ohi, Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form0
On Not Describing Death: Washington Irving, John Kirk Townsend, and Natural History’s Descriptive Agency0
Racial Capitalism and the Border0
Thinking Bibliographically about Periodical Networks in the “Harlem” Renaissance0
Modeling Therapy as Discourse in Twentieth-Century American Literature0
Sara Clarke Kaplan, The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood0
Hayden White, The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, Volume 1, edited by Robert Doran0
Elizabeth Gregory, Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952-19700
Lyndsey Stonebridge, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights0
A Plantation Illogic: Narrating Proslavery’s Imagined Futures0
Laura E. Tanner, The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson0
Poetic Song Verse: Blues Based Popular Music and Poetry, edited by Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez0
Eric Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable0
Isabelle Parkinson, Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation: Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909-19330
Leslie Bow, Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy0
The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment. Edited by Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zeiger0
Bad Faith and the American Indian: Laura Cornelius Kellogg and the Problem of Democratic Inclusion0
Greil Marcus, Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment, and the Stubborn Myth of The Great Gatsby0
From the Streets of Cairo to St. Louis, Louis: Musical Print Culture and the Intermedial Travels of the Danse du Ventre0
Julianne Braun, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans0
Missing and All Too Present: The Limits of the Unpublished0
Abe Frajndlich and Glenn Esterly, Bukowski: The Shooting0
Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall, Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing0
Tom Moylan, Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
Patrick Chura, Michael Gold: The People's Writer0
Eliot’s Statements0
The Postliberal Aesthetic; or, How Can Literary Criticism Help Unsettle America’s Polarization?0
The New Melville Studies, ed. Cody Marrs0
Maria O’Malley, Imaginary Empires: Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature0
Literary Theory on Acid0
Michael Bérubé, The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species0
Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music0
Betty Joseph, From Empire to Anthropocene: the Novel in Posthistorical Times0
Jed Rasula, What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Modern Poetry0
As the World Turns; or Against Methodology0
Commemorative Impulses in the “Heart of America”: Kansas City, the Great War, and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy0
Max Shulman, The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890 – 19400
Allyson C. DeMaagd, Dissensuous Modernism: Women, the Senses, and Technology0
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, ed. and trans. Miriam Udel0
Precarity in/as Critical Practice0
Lee Konstantinou, The Last Samurai Reread0
Patrick S. Lawrence, Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century0
Marcia Noe, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre0
Resettling Refugee History0
Jordan Alexander Stein, When Novels Were Books0
Etta Madden, Engaging Italy. American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks0
Bryan Santin, Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945-20080
Josh Lambert, The Literary Mafia Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature0
Fictions of Capture: William Faulkner in an Era of Fugitive Energy0
Stephen Fredman, American Poetry as Transactional Art0
“Have Sure Tried”: Hemingway’s Unfaltering Career0
Intimations of Empire: John Dos Passos Titles the U.S.A. Trilogy0
Josh Doty, The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature0
Lindsay Thomas, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/110
Sarah Churchwell, The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells0
All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, edited by Stephanie Anderson, and Kristen Tapson0
Jack Parlett, The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr0
Josh Toth, Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative0
Sharon Patricia Holland, an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life0
Paul Crosthwaite, Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis0
Security, Exile, Population: Colonization from David Walker to the Liberia Herald0
Lakota Texts: Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth Century, ed. Regina Pustet0
Heather Houser, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data0
Race, Region, and the Black Midwest in the Dunbar Decades0
Feng Dong, Desire and Infinity in W.S. Merwin's Poetry0
Jo Gill, Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms0
African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 vol. 3, ed. Benjamin Fagan0
Betsy Erkkila, The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics0
Jennifer Fleissner, Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem0
Kenneth M. Price, Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City0
Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen, eds. Jonathan D. Cohen and June Skinner Sawyers0
Black Arts, Black Women, Black Politics0
On Dissonance and Its Functions in Asian American Criticism0
Suk Koo Rhee, The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil War to the Post-Cold War0
Tara T. Green. Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson0
Sandra Tomc, Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century0
Realism’s Gender Wars: Masculinity Effects in Late Realist Fiction and Contemporary Reality TV0
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry, edited by George Getschow0
Clarence Major, The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry, foreword by Kia Corthron0
David Anthony, Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature0
Fighting for Real: Truth and American War Memory0
Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege, edited by Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien0
Claudia Milian, LatinX0
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock ‘n’ Roll, ed. Florence Dore0
Illuminating the Antebellum Literary Marketplace: The Artfulness of Literary Labor in George Foster’s New York by Gas-Light0
Daniel Punday, Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory0
Katie McGettigan, The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–18600
Kate Marshall, Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century0
Thomas Heise, The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel0
The Transitional Decade0
Kacy Dowd Tillman, Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution0
Alexis Dianda, The Varieties of Experience: William James After the Linguistic Turn0
Kiara Kharpertian, We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature0
Heather Love, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory0
Kathryn Walkiewicz, Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State0
Criticism on the Border and the Decolonization of Knowledge0
Novels of Democratic Exhaustion0
Justin Parks, Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America0
Harlem Renaissance at 100: An ALH forum0
J. Jesse Ramírez, Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century0
J. J. Butts, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project0
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
And Where that Language Does Not Yet Exist0
Seeing Through Attention0
“Foul Abolition Calumny”: Reframing Racial Violence in William Wells Brown’s Clotel & the Antebellum Press0
The Affective Bind0
Lauren Arrington, The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers0
Childhood Studies and the Politics of Horror0
Diagnosing America: The Literatures of Mental Health in the US0
Benjamin Lee, Poetics of Emergence: Affect and History in Postwar Experimental Poetry0
Laurie McRae Andrew, The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice0
Lara Langer Cohen, Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Hugh Foley, Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire0
Craig Dworkin, Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography0
Desire and Asian Diasporic Fiction: Democracy and the Representative Status of Onoto Watanna’sMiss Numè of Japan(1899)0
Timothy Helwig, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature0
Benedetta Zavatta, Individuality and Beyond. Nietzsche Reads Emerson, translated by Alexander Reynolds0
Cody Marrs, Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War0
Contours of Dread0
Martin L. Kilson, Black Intellectuals and Black Society0
Tamlyn Avery, The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–19600
Joy Sanchez-Taylor, Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color0
“The Million Dead, Too, Summed Up”: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, eds. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill0
William Merrill Decker, Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler0
Mónica Huerta, Magical Habits0
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson, edited by Isiah Lavender, III0
Mazen Naous, Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel0
Julia Bloch, Lyric Trade: Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long Poem0
Michael Szalay, Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television0
Richard Wright in Context, ed. Michael Nowlin0
J.Laurence Cohen, Excavating Exodus: Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literature0
Robert Yusef Rabiee, Medieval America: Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture0
Hsuan L. Hsu, The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics0
The Mismeasure of Manabozho: Unsettling the Science of the Mind in Henry R. Schoolcraft’sAlgic Researches0
Cody Marrs, Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies0
“Somewhere listening for my name”: Black Queer Kinship and the Poetry of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic0
Amy Kaplan, Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance0
Joseph B. Entin, Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work0
Susan Gillman, American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race0
God is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia Butler, Aparajita Nanda and Shelby L. Crosby, eds.0
Amy Hildreth Chen, Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market0
Correction to: Character and Conduct0
Suzanne Manizza Roszak, They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature0
Elizabeth McHenry, To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
Timothy Yu, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia0
Un/published: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Erasure Poetry0
Sandra M. Gustafson, Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840–19000
Sunny Xiang, Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War0
Robert J. Shiller, Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events0
Michelle Ann Abate, No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults0
Christen Mucher, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession0
David Deutsch, Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture0
David F. Eisler, Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present0
Theodora D. Patrona, Return Narratives. Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature0
The Fruits of the LOA0
Turbulent Waters, or the Sublime Object of Subalternity0
A View from the Heart of Europe0
Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora, by Raquel Kennon0
Ben Nichols, Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness0
Maurice S. Lee, Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution0
Whites Aren’t Alright0
Zachary Tavlin, Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century AmericanLiterature0
Interlocations0
Mary Esteve, Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism0
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