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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Literature’s Vexed Democratization9
Literary Agency7
Commodifying Mexico: OnAmerican Dirtand the Cultural Politics of a Manufactured Bestseller7
Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle6
Driven by the Market: African American Literature after Urban Fiction6
Literature and Publishing, 1945–20205
“Something is Said in the Silences”: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Years at Harper’s5
Stephen King, Incorporated: Genre Fiction and the Problem of Authorship5
Infrastructural-Innovation Realism in an Age of Collapse3
Science Fictionality and Post-65 Asian American Literature3
Early Black Worldmaking: Body, Compass, and Text3
Reckoning with Indigenous Solidarity2
Mapping Decolonial Environmental Imaginaries in Latinx Culture2
Cultural Studies Revisited: Determinate Conditions and the Depressive Position2
Latinx Modernism and the Spirit of Latinoamericanismo1
Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy1
Abolition’s Afterlives1
Institutionalism and the Fate of the Public University1
Modernism’s Others: Literary Realisms in an Age of Incomplete Emancipation1
Living after Life1
Market Segmentation and Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Humor1
Back to Black: African American Literary Criticism in the Present Moment1
Conglomerate but not Homogenized1
Feeling Fallible, Being Wrong1
Patrick Jagoda, Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification1
The Children of Other Lands and the Strategic Dissonance of Migrant Marginality1
Diagnosing Desire: Mental Health and Modern American Literature, 1890–19551
States of Mind: Consent and Literary Fiction in the US1
The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment. Edited by Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zeiger1
How (and How Not) to Study Porn1
Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature before Emancipation1
Margaret J. M. Sweat, Ethel’s Love-Life and Other Writings, ed. Christopher Looby0
Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk0
Feng Dong, Desire and Infinity in W.S. Merwin's Poetry0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age0
Insect Knowledges, Power, and the Literary0
Joo Ok Kim, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War0
Heidi R. Bean, Acts of Poetry: American Poets' Theater and the Politics of Performance0
Sara Humphreys, Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds0
The Natopolitan Youth0
Miriam Thaggert, Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad0
Matt Sandler, The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery0
Abram Foley, The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America0
Kevin Quashie, Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being0
Palmer Rampell, Genres of Privacy in Postwar America0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Producing the Voice of the Veteran0
Benjamin Schreier, The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity0
Robert Volpicelli, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour0
Polypharma Fiction0
Julius B. Fleming Jr., Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation0
Diagnostic Logic and Forensic Reading: The Case ofWieland0
Scott Donaldson, Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes: Essays, ed. James L. W. West III0
Matthew Rubery, Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences0
Maurice S. Lee, Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution0
Forms of Opposition in American Literary Criticism0
Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora, by Raquel Kennon0
Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Decolonization and Democracy in Leslie Marmon Silko’sGardens in the Dunes0
Todd Carmody, Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare0
The Critical Electorate: On Democracy and Disenchantment0
Christine Bold, “Vaudeville Indians” on Global Circuits: 1880s-1930s0
Washed Ashore at High Tide: Music in Contemporary Science Fiction0
The New Melville Studies, ed. Cody Marrs0
Telling the Untold Story: Jewish Wartime Refuge in Haiti in Louis-Philippe Dalembert’s Avant que les ombres s’effacent0
Gabriele Schwab, Radioactive Ghosts0
Critical Darlings, Critical Dogs: Joseph O’Neill and What Contemporary Criticism Doesn’t Want0
Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr., In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy0
Tom Lutz, The Kindness of Strangers0
Sarah M. Quesada, The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature0
Voting in the Reconstruction Novel: Black Suffrage, Election-Day Violence, and the Regulation of the Vote0
Whitney Trettien, Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork0
Rebecca Kosick, Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-20100
Trust Exercise: The Form of Race in the American Post-Identity Novel0
Madness, and What Passes for Civilization: The Way We Diagnose Now0
Exporting Expertise0
Megan Goodwin, Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions0
Travis Linnemann, The Horror of Police0
Tara Fickle, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities0
Serialization, Solipsism, and Swarming: American Politics and the Graphic Novel in the 1970s0
The Multispecies We: Democracy and Pronouns in the Environmental Novel0
Sarah Churchwell, The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells0
Christine Hong, A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific0
Fictions of Capture: William Faulkner in an Era of Fugitive Energy0
Sean D. Moore, Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-18140
Thomas Heise, The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel0
Michael D. Snediker, Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment0
On the Uses and Abuses of Fascism0
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures, ed. Greg Barnhisel0
SEEING MAD: Essays on Mad Magazine's Humor and Legacy, eds. Judith Yaross Lee and John Bird0
Character and Conduct0
Sarah Blackwood, The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, Metamodernism: The Future of Theory0
Windy Counsell Petrie, Templates for Authorship: American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s0
Gregory Jones-Katz, Deconstruction: An American Institution0
Race, Urban Heat, and the Aesthetics of Thermoception0
The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar, eds. Cynthia C. Murillo and Jennifer M. Nader0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Fransziska Anneke trans. Viktorija Bilić, eds. Alison Clark Efford and Viktorija Bilić0
Reading the Ghosts of African Diaspora Literature0
Ben Glaser, Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics0
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, ed. and trans. Miriam Udel0
Jane F. Thrailkill, Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James0
Mark Anthony Neal, Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive0
Why Publishing Now?0
Kenneth M. Price, Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City0
Mónica Huerta, Magical Habits0
Crossing Forms0
Sheila Liming, What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books0
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora0
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes, edited by Christopher C. De Santis0
Ed Yellin and Jean Fagin Yellin, In Contempt: Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC0
Kinship, Migration, and the Chinese American Immigrant Family Narrative0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Mary Esteve, Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism0
Ellen Schrecker, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Shanon Fitzpatrick, True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media0
Hsuan L. Hsu, The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics0
Jacob Breslow, Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child0
The Short Stories of John Joseph Mathews, an Osage Writer, by John Joseph Mathews. Ed. Susan Kalter0
Abram C. Van Engen, City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism0
The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader, ed. Zachary McLeod Hutchins and Cassander L. Smith0
Democratic Aesthetics, Aesthetic Democracy0
The Curious Case of Tommy (Woodrow) Wilson0
Juan Meneses, Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent0
Habiba Ibrahim, Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life0
Sherryl Vint, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction0
Unpublished Saints: Making Mexican Martyrs in American Archives0
Asian American Cultural Critique at the End of US Empire0
Dana Medoro, Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion0
Towards the Cli-Fi Historical Novel; Or, Climate Futures Past in Recent Fiction0
Ormond Seavey, Henry Adams in Washington: Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America's Man of Letters0
A View from the Heart of Europe0
Ben Child, The Whole Machinery: The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-19460
The Postliberal Aesthetic; or, How Can Literary Criticism Help Unsettle America’s Polarization?0
Brian C. Wilson, The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson0
Narrative Disorders: Surveillance, Truth, and Democracy in Malka Older’s Centenal Cycle0
Christa J. Olson, American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States0
“Have Sure Tried”: Hemingway’s Unfaltering Career0
Peter Kalliney, The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature0
The Functions of American Literary Criticism in the Present Moment: A Literary Historical Memoir0
Donna K. Hollenberg, Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.0
Who’s Silenced? Who’s Not?0
Elizabeth S. Anker, On Paradox: The Claims of Theory0
Daniel Y. Kim, Intimacies of Conflict: A Cultural History of the Korean War0
Nick Bromell, The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass0
“That Grim Sphinx”: Literary Historicism and Tourgée’s Toinette Novels0
Robert Begiebing, Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations0
Josh Doty, The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature0
“For the Women Who Came Before”: The Hidden Hands of Literary Recovery Scholars0
Taylor Eggan, Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination0
Resettling Refugee History0
John Cullen Gruesser, A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line0
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader: Writings by an Early American Polymath, eds. Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert0
David Deutsch, Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture0
Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel0
Ilka Saal, Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker0
Mazen Naous, Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel0
“The Mound of His Back”: The Profession of Literature and the Fear of the Mob0
Kenyon Gradert, Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination0
Geneva M. Gano, The Little Art Colony and US Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos0
William Sites, Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City0
Dora Zhang, Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel0
The Long History of Climate Change: 1621–20260
Thomas Koenigs, Founded in Fiction: The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States0
Shawn Michelle Smith, Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography0
Thomas Genova, Imperial Educación: Race and Republican Motherhood in the Nineteenth-Century Americas0
On the Legibility of Immigration Today0
Ashley Reed, Heaven’s Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America0
Matthew Kirschenbaum, Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage0
Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music0
13 Ways of Looking at Reproductive Lives0
Lauren R. O'Connor, Robin and the Making of American Adolescence0
The Second Book Project: A Second Introduction0
Frans Weiser, False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)0
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930, eds. Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed0
Robert B. Pippin, Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts0
Childhood Studies and the Politics of Horror0
Criticism’s Contexts0
Ed Pavlić, Outward: Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes0
We Are Stardust: In the Nonworld of Criticism Today0
Diagnosing America: The Literatures of Mental Health in the US0
Julianne Braun, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans0
Leslie Bow, Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy0
Automation Anxiety0
Gene Andrew Jarrett, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird0
Nicholas Brown, Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism0
Paul Ardoin, Not a Big Deal: Narrating to Unsettle0
Richard Ovenden, Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge0
Adam John Waterman, The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War0
Remediations in an Emergency0
Susan Gillman, American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race0
Heather Houser, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data0
Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out, ed. Jeanne Heuving0
William James. Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James, edited by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Jimmy Packham, Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech, and Death in the American Gothic0
Postsecular Style0
Ina C. Seethaler, Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice0
Reading Experimental Writing, ed. Georgina Colby0
Jewish American Literature Against the World0
Diagnosis, Literature, and Legitimation0
Scott Herring, Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Native American Rhetoric, ed. Lawrence W. Gross0
In Service to Kin and Community: Seeking Indigenous Masculinities that Heal0
Shirley A. James Hanshaw, Re-Membering and Surviving African American Fiction of the Vietnam War0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Joy Sanchez-Taylor, Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Jennifer De Leon, White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing0
Alex Kitnick, Distant Early Warning:. Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Grade0
Eric L. Santner, Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory0
David Mura, The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and our American Narratives0
Bryan Santin, Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945-20080
The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism, ed. Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson0
Corrigendum: Literary Agency0
Critical Enough0
Emily Bingham, My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song0
Exile, Privilege, Responsibility: A Palestinian Perspective0
Kevin McNamara, The City in American Literature and Culture0
Timothy Helwig, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Jeffrey M. Makala, Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth Century US Print Culture0
Christopher N. Okonkwo, Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison0
Visions of Refuge: The Central American Exodus and the Floating Ladder0
Desire and Asian Diasporic Fiction: Democracy and the Representative Status of Onoto Watanna’sMiss Numè of Japan(1899)0
Claudia Milian, LatinX0
Heather Love, Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory0
Post-54: Reconstructing Civil War Memory in American Literature afterBrown0
Heather Hathaway, That Damned Fence: The Literature of the Japanese American Prison Camps0
Calista McRae, Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America0
The Plot Against Democracy0
Lucas A. Dietrich, Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-19200
Paul H. D. Kaplan, Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era0
Scott Peeples, The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City0
Blake Allmendinger, Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West0
Richard Wright in Context, ed. Michael Nowlin0
Monica Kaup, New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory0
Introduction0
Julia Nitz, Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights, ed. Robert J. Patterson0
Rachel Trousdale, Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry0
Histories of the Unsayable: Reinhart Koselleck’s Aesthetic Anthropology0
“Suspect-Proof”? Paranoia, Suspicious Reading, and the Racial Passing Narrative0
Lydia Moland, Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Momentous Inclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, eds. Jennifer Bartlett and George Hart0
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