Early American Literature
Edited by Marion Rust, University of Kentucky
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Latest Issue: Volume 56, Number 2
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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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Open Access Article
Scholars specializing in early American literature have a duty to the public to raise awareness of how past events and beliefs impact our current lives–especially in the midst of a global pandemic and nationwide protests against systemic racism. This is why EAL has decided to provide Christopher Trigg’s essay, “The Racial Politics of Resurrection in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”, open-access on their website. You can read the full article at the following link:
“The Racial Politics of Resurrection in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” by Christopher Trigg
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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
Alex Gergely, University of Kentucky
alex.gergely@uky.edu
Chinwe Morah, University of Kentucky
chinwe.morah@uky.edu
Digital Media Assistant
Aileen Tierney
Editorial Board
Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University
Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
Sarah Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY
Kathleen Donegan, University of California, Berkeley
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California Santa Cruz
Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University
Sarah Rivett, Princeton University
Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon
Cassander L. Smith, University of Alabama
Derrick Spires, Cornell University
Laura Stevens, University of Tulsa
Scott Manning Stevens, Syracuse University
Edward Watts, Michigan State University
Edward White, Tulane University
Table of Contents
Volume 56, Number 2
Early American Literature Book Prize for 2020
Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2019
Editor’s Note
Marion Rust
Invention
The Raven and the Bobolink: An American Fable
Chi-Ming Yang and Sarah Rivett
Provocation
Phillis Wheatley on the Streets of Revolutionary Boston and in the Atlantic World
Betsy Erkkila
Articles
Proteus and the Moles: Settler Colonial Relations in Thomas Morton’s May Day Poem
Robert Hudson Vincent
Becoming More Than an Englishman: Igbo Cosmologies, Nonhuman Animals, and Olaudah Equiano’s Refusal of Anthropocentrism
Kyle Keeler
Blackness in the “Grey Area”: Representations of Virtuous Labor in Venture Smith’s Narrative
Rio Bergh
Coagulating Consciousness: Neural Historicism and the Onto-Possibilities of Edgar Huntly
Matthew Rebhorn
Literary Nationalism and the Renunciation of the British Gothic Tradition in the Novels of John Neal
Ellen Bulford Welch
On the Skin: Mary Prince and the Narration of Black Feeling in the Early Nineteenth Century
Samantha Pinto
Archives
Conscientious Criticism and the Panther Captivity Narrative
Alex Gergely
Review Essays
New Methodologies in the Study of Natural History
Elizabeth Polcha
Book Reviews
CAROLYN ARENA, JACOB BERMAN, ALEX W. BLACK, CHRISTOPHER BLAKLEY, ANNA MAE DUANE, HEATHER M. FINCH, EVAN HAEFELI, JUSTIN A. JOYCE, ROBERT E. MAY, JOHANN N. NEEM, ANDREW NEWMAN, MARK RIFKIN, JORDAN WINGATE, JONATHAN M. YEAGER
Resources for Early American Studies
TARA A. BYNUM, APRIL LANGLEY
Notes on Contributors
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