Early American Literature
Edited by Marion Rust, University of Kentucky
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Latest Issue: Volume 55, Number 1
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Founded in 1965, Early American Literature is the journal of the Division on American Literature to 1830 of the Modern Language Association. It is the only journal that focuses on the scholarship and criticism of American literature through the early national period. It typically includes six essays, an essay review or forum, and several book reviews. For more information, visit Early American Literature‘s website.
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Marion Rust is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She received her undergraduate degree in comparative literature from Harvard and her PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford. She has published two books about Susanna Rowson and numerous articles and essays on topics ranging from gender and the personal voice in early Americanist scholarship (American Literature and Legacy), to concepts of intellectual property in the early republic (Studies in American Fiction), to empire studies (Women of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire) and mass psychogenic illness (Common-Place).
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Editor
Marion Rust, University of Kentucky
marion.rust@uky.edu
Co-Editor for Reviews
Katy Chiles, University of Tennessee
kchiles1@utk.edu
Advisory Editor
Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
gustafson.6@nd.edu
Editorial Associate
Christi Stanforth
Editorial Assistant
Chinwe Morah, University of Kentucky
chinwe.morah@uky.edu
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Erin Fitzpatrick
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Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University
Matt Cohen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Kathleen Donegan, University of California at Berkeley
Paul Downes, University of Toronto
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California Santa Cruz
Gene Andrew Jarrett, New York University
Meredith Neuman, Clark University
Christopher Phillips, Lafayette College
Sarah Rivett, Princeton University
Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon
Cassander L. Smith, University of Alabama
Laura Stevens, University of Tulsa
Scott Manning Stevens, Syracuse University
Edward Watts, Michigan State University
Edward White, Tulane University
Table of Contents
Volume 55, Number 1
Editor’s Note
Inventions
Reenacting an Early American Life: Fiction as History
John Demos
Articles
The Sachem and the Minister: Questions, Answers, and Genre Formation in the New England Missionary Project
Marie Balsley Taylor
The Racial Politics of Resurrection in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Christopher Trigg
Imposture and Subversion: Charles Brockden Brown’s Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
John Wenke
The Limits of Recovery: The Failure of James Gates Percival
John Hay
“To Perpetuate Her Name”: Appropriation and Autobiography in Margaretta Matilda Odell’s Memoir of Phillis Wheatley
Carra Glatt
Pictograph as Epitaph: Reading Algonquian Pictography in the Removal Period
Sarah Klotz
Archives
The Lost Translation of Wieland by Luis Monfort (Spain, 1818)
José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas
Book Reviews
Joshua David Bellin, Yael Ben-Zvi, Hester Blum, David J. Carlson, Thomas Hallock, Thomas Koenigs, John G. Mccurdy, Johann N. Neem, Michael Schuldiner, Reiner Smolinski, Ted Steinberg, Douglas L. Winiarski, Shannon K. Withycomb
Resources for Early American Studies
Ann Beebe
Notes on Contributors
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