Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0354
Bryan M. Santin
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0184
Jodie Childers
Although the Icelandic author Halldór Laxness frequently highlighted his debt to American literature and spent several formative years in the United States during the 1920s, few Americanists have investigated his literary and political relationship with the United States. This essay delineates Laxness’s American years through archival sources by mapping his first failed venture to Ellis Island in 1922 through boat records and by tracking his second trip, from 1927 to 1929, through letters, newspapers, and other documents, including a film pitch written in English. Laxness’s biographical experiences in the United States during the 1920s shed light on immigration policy and illuminate some of the struggles that novelists in Hollywood faced while attempting to navigate a cinematic marketplace. His unsuccessful film pitch became the basis for Salka Valka, an epic novel influenced by American writers, most notably, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, and Sinclair Lewis.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0142
C. Diller
This article contextualizes selected entries from Frederick William Beecher’s unpublished 1855 journal that records his time first on vacation in Boston during winter break and then back at Williams College during the winter term. The journal is significant for literary and cultural historians and biographers, as it gives an inside glimpse into the daily life of the Beecher family and the cultural and political ferment taking place in Boston in the mid-1850s. Second, unlike other mid-century accounts of college life that were made for publication, the journal offers an unvarnished day-by-day record of the intersection of curricular and extracurricular life that illustrates the surprising autonomy of student life in a prominent liberal arts college in the years just before the Civil War. And finally, as Beecher’s journal increasingly became an intimate forum for spiritual doubt, reflection, and conversion, it provides evidence of a hitherto-undocumented religious revival at Williams in the spring of 1855.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0390
Kristi Branham
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0212
Elizabeth Schmermund
This article examines the rise of war blogging following the September 11 terrorist attacks and argues for greater preservation of these early blogs, particularly those about the Iraq War (2003–11). The rise in so-called milblogs, or blogs written by (typically male) American service members, at first satisfied the American public’s quest for authenticity and transparency in the Global War on Terror. They offer a supposedly uncensored view of a divisive war for a questioning American public and have been largely ignored by scholars. However, these blogs should be preserved, not merely as snapshots of historical moments within the war, but as war narratives that elucidate the experiences of service members and form an important archive for understanding the reach and reception of social media during this time. Thus, while these blogs function within the realm of history, their narratives and reception deserve critical analysis.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0234
M. Farland
This annotated bibliography uncovers a forgotten body of immigrant farm fiction published from 1900 to 1950 and examines the cultural work of these novels in responding to xenophobic, nativist conceptions of immigrants as unfit for farming. Agricultural fitness discourse warned of the perceived threat to US-born writers posed by immigration, calling immigrants “unfit” to farm and viewing white, northern Europeans as the most capable and productive farmers. Employing racialized topes, characters, and plots, some farm fiction writers echoed the xenophobic idea that immigrants lagged behind US-born farmers, whereas others depicted immigrants at the vanguard of modern capitalist agriculture—defined in terms of mechanization, scientific agriculture, and agribusiness—with US-born farmers seen falling behind. These farm fictions reveal that the wider conflict around US immigration was rooted in the rural as much as the urban cultural imaginary. They engaged with the era’s public and legislative debates surrounding immigration restrictions and the decline of the family farm.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0369
J. Ryan
{"title":"Melville’s Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America","authors":"J. Ryan","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48342533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0379
Sherry Johnson
{"title":"The Geographies of African American Short Fiction","authors":"Sherry Johnson","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48579810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0398
Joseph R. Weil
{"title":"Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind","authors":"Joseph R. Weil","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41432922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0364
Barry J. Faulk
{"title":"Sound Recording Technology and American Literature: From the Phonograph to the Remix","authors":"Barry J. Faulk","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41732715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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