We use quantitative methods to analyze a collection of 21,367 scholarly articles in literary
studies from 1889–2013. Our approach reveals aspects of our disciplinary history that have …

How does one understand present experience as part of a larger historical totality? As she
represents the contested ground of the Channel coast during the Revolutionary and …

THIS ARTICLE SUGGESTS THAT THE SELF-CONSCIOUSLY POLEMICAL TENOR of
recent conversations about critical method has hindered efforts to change or diversify our …

The dominant grammar of visuality often circulated through dominant and white supremacist
visual tropes—such as the “welfare queen”—produce shortcut readings of Black …

The engraved tombstone of Eliza Wharton offers readers of The Coquette a brief moral for
her tale of gaiety and seduction. Reproduced in the last letter of Hannah Webster Foster's …

All archives have silences, which may come to resonate, even if they may never speak. What
is unsaid or unsayable may be understood and appreciated even if never enunciated and …

Denmark), edited by Karl Madsen (who served as director of the country's National Gallery
from 1911 to 1925), Danish art historian Francis Beckett celebrates his compatriots' special …

This article draws on Carlo Ginzburg's conjectural paradigm to propose a re-evaluation of
the dialectic between models of “surface” and “depth” reading in Balzac's Une ténébreuse …

Utilizing Donna Haraway's trope of the scanning electron microscope, this article shows
how, by magnifying bodily porosity, multiplicity, and vulnerability, William Burroughs's Naked …

Published at the midpoint of the so-called Long Depression of 1873–79, Whitman's preface
to Two Rivulets (1876) registers the poet's growing anxiety over American economic …