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American Literary History

Publishes original research on US literature. The journal provides a forum for the various, often competing voices of contemporary literary inquiry, and welcomes articles on historical and theoretical problems as well as writers and works.
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Nicoletta Asciuto, Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry Free

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Christina Walter
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1127–1130, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf095
Published: 13 February 2026
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Danica Savonick, Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College Free

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Courtney Thorsson
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1154–1157, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf102
Published: 13 February 2026
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Sarah RudeWalker, Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement Free

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Amy Fish
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1180–1183, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf109
Published: 13 February 2026
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Jordan Alexander Stein, Fantasies of Nina Simone Free

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Gayle Wald
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1184–1186, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf110
Published: 13 February 2026
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Douglas Dowland, We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump Free

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Johannes Voelz
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1202–1205, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf115
Published: 13 February 2026
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Maia Gil'Adí, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence Free

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Samuel Ginsburg
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1206–1208, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf116
Published: 13 February 2026
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Caroline Hovanec, Notes on Vermin Free

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Ryan Hediger
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1215–1218, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf119
Published: 13 February 2026
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Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music, edited by Ryan Hibbett Free

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Sean Latham
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1219–1221, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf120
Published: 13 February 2026
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Lyric Histories Get access

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Emily Ruth Rutter
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1073–1083, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf125
Published: 13 February 2026
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Style Degree Zero: Incommensurable Bonds in Cather and Cameron Get access

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Mark Noble
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1084–1094, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf127
Published: 13 February 2026
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Frances E. W. Harper’s “Death of Zombi”: A Palmares for North Americans Get access

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Wyn Kelley
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 989–1007, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf157
Published: 13 February 2026
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Describing Desire: Ekphrasis and Queer Sexuality in Fitz-Greene Halleck’s “Red Jacket” Open Access

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Chip Badley
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 935–960, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf158
Published: 13 February 2026
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Michaél Roy, Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement Free

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Derek Pacheco
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1112–1114, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf091
Published: 13 February 2026
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Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah-Rose Murray, eds., Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland Free

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Pia Wiegmink
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1115–1118, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf092
Published: 13 February 2026
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Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor, The Classics in Black and White: Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation Free

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J Laurence Cohen
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1135–1138, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf097
Published: 13 February 2026
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Sandhya Shukla, Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place Free

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Emily Lutenski
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1146–1149, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf100
Published: 13 February 2026
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Gregory M. Pfitzer, “From Boys to Men”: The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series Free

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Kenneth Kidd
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1158–1160, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf103
Published: 13 February 2026
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The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac, edited by Steven Belletto Free

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Kyle Garton-Gundling
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1161–1164, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf104
Published: 13 February 2026
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Michael Kalisch, The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965 Free

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Michael J. Collins
American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2025, Pages 1165–1168, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf105
Published: 13 February 2026