Early American Literature
Edited by Marion Rust, University of Kentucky

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Latest Issue: Volume 58, Number 1
Size: 6" x 9", approx. 328 pages
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: Print 0012-8163; Digital 1534-147X
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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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Book Prize
Lindsay DiCuirci, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has been selected to receive the 2020 Early American Literature Book Prize, which is awarded in even calendar years to a first monograph published in the prior two years, and in odd years to a second or subsequent book. DiCuirci’s Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019.
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
Assistant Editor
Alex Gergely
alex.gergely@uky.edu
Digital Media Editor
Abigail Eplin
aeep224@uky.edu
Editorial Assistant for Reviews
Henry Kirby
Editorial Board
Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University
Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
Sarah Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY
Patrick Erben, University of West Georgia
Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University
Zach Hutchins, Colorado State University
Greta LaFleur, Yale University
Rodrigo Lazo, University of California, Irvine
Cedrick May, University of Texas at Arlington
Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University
Joseph Rezek, Boston University
Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon
Derrick Spires, Cornell University
Rhondda Thomas, Clemson University
Karen Weyler, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi
Table of Contents
Volume 58, Number 1
Editor’s Note
Marion Rust
Inventions
Ishki, Mother, upon Leaving the Choctaw Homelands, 1831”
“Noble Savage Sees a Therapist”
LeAnne HoWe
Articles
Vergil in the “Wracke” and the “Comming to Virginia”: The Indictment and Rebirth of
Jamestown in William Strachey’s A True Reportory
Teresa Yates Scott
“The True Temper of It”: Combustibility and Emblematic Representation in Richard Ligon’s
True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
Andrea Knutson
Environmental Aesthetics and Environmental Justice in Jonathan Edwards’s Personal
Narrative and John Woolman’s Journal
Jay David Miller
The “Awful Disclosures” of the West Indies: Nativist Genealogies
and Catholic Blackness in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History
Anamaria Seglie Clawson
“Is a Nation to Be Sold like the Skin of a Beaver!”: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie
and the Dilemma of Countersovereignty
Andy Lindquist
Archives
“On the Death of Love Rotch,” a New Poem Attributed to Phillis Wheatley (Peters):
And a Second Speculative Attribution
Wendy Raphael Roberts
Review Essays
The Place of Maps in Early American History
Nathan Braccio
Science, Medicine, and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Kathleen Kole de Peralta
Revolutionary Identities
Sean Michael Gallagher
Through the Lens of Slavery: A Look at Early America
Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Book Reviews
Jill Doerfler, Eve Eure, Elizabeth Fenton, Glenn Hendler, Whitney Martinko, Maria O’Malley, Joseph Rezek, Xiomara Santamarina, Jessica Stair, Teresa Toulouse, Travis A. Weisse
Resources for Early American Studies
Tamara Harvey
Conference Reviews
Christopher Allan Black, Mara Curechian, Alonzo Smith, Kaitlin Tonti
Notes on Contributors
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