Studies in American Fiction

11/01/2016

New Bedford Whaling Museum

In New England? Check out the New Bedford Whaling Museum! It is a great resource for historically-minded scholars and an amazing experience. Plus, you can still sign up to be a reader!

The Moby-Dick Marathon is Jan 6-8 this year! Experience the 21st annual reading of America’s most iconic novel, Moby-Dick. Come for the opening line, “Call me Ishmael,” and stay for 25 hours of action-packed adventure! Do you want to be a reader? Slots are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Signup begins in ONE WEEK at 12:01 a.m. on Tues. Nov 8 (that’s right….election day) A signup form will be live on the website at that time, OR email [email protected], or call 508-717-6851. NEW! 50 additional reading slots this year. Go to http://bit.ly/2f1Yyg1 for signup and details.

03/02/2016

Have you read the 200 'best American novels'?

Happy Read Across America Day! How many of these 200 have you read? How many have you taught?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/have-you-read-the-200-best-american-novels/

Over the summer, The American Scholar published two lists of the 100 best American novels from 1770-1985. We've combined the lists and we're asking: which ones have you read? What is missing and what should be included after 1985?

03/02/2016

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, a McMaster University journal

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, a McMaster University journal

Canadian Society for 18C Studies, Oct. 2016: Panel proposals due 1 March 2016 & Paper proposals 1 April 2016 https://t.co/xAnapYw6oI

02/24/2016

Interested in certain Irish modernists as well as American fiction? Check out Joyce Studies Annual's page! They are celebrating 10 years at Fordham University, plus the 1916 Centenary.

02/24/2016

Studies in American Fiction

02/01/2016

Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20

New York Times on Infinite Jest turning 20.

http://goo.gl/rQceZi

Two decades after it was published, Wallace’s novel still feels transcendentally, electrically alive.

01/30/2016

Do you have an essay or project involving American Literature? Let us know and we will help spread the word!

01/22/2016

Project MUSE - “A False Phantom”: The Coastscape in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pilot

We hope all of our East Coast readers are ready for the coming Nor'easter. Why not settle in for some sea fiction and look at the coast?
http://goo.gl/2GCHw0

James Fenimore Cooper’s first sea novel, The Pilot (1824) begins not at sea but along the northeastern coast of Britain during the American Revolution. A group of field workers are gathered chatting along some coastal cliffs when they spot a schooner round a point very close to the shore. This was c…

01/19/2016

The Bells | Academy of American Poets

Happy Birthday to Edgar Allan Poe! Did you know that the Bells in his eponymous poem are rumored to be the Fordham University church bells? https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/bells

The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. For over three generations, the Academy has connected millions of people to great poetry through programs such as National Poetry Mont…

12/20/2015

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, a McMaster University journal

Taking some time between semesters to work on a journal submission? Check out these tips from Cambridge University Press! And thanks to Eighteenth-Century Fiction, a McMaster University journal for the link!

Getting published in academic journals: some very helpful tips https://t.co/FPGSYENYHZ #academicwriting

11/30/2015

Project MUSE - The Archaeology of the Colonial—Un-earthing Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

We hope all of our US-based followers had a good Thanksgiving break! If you are looking for some post-seasonal post-colonial reading check out Dr. Michael Wutz (Weber State University) article on Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth! http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/studies_in_american_fiction/v042/42.2.wutz.html

We need to stop assuming a one-to-one correspondence between the geographic origins of a text and its evolving radius of literary action. We need to stop thinking of national literatures as the linguistic equivalents of territorial maps.

11/20/2015

Project MUSE - The Even Stranger Career of Jim Crow: Sin, Sex, and Segregation in Lillian...

Our Fall 2015 issue features a poignant and salient essay by Dr. Erik Bachman (UC Santa Cruz). Covering issues like segregation, obscenity laws, and power of labels, the essay is a powerful examination of Lillian Smith 'Strange Fruit' from a legal and historical perspective.
https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/studies_in_american_fiction/v042/42.2.bachman.html

Over the last twenty-five years, the life’s work of the writer and civil rights activist Lillian Smith has proven to be a generative object of study for scholars of twentieth-century Southern literature and culture, particularly as these fields relate to ideology, liberalism, racial conversion narra…

11/20/2015

Project MUSE - Studies in American Fiction

Volume 42.2 is officially out and on Project MUSE! Thank you to all of our readers and contributors! The Fall 2015 issue features essays ranging from eco-critical to economic and more. Follow the link to check out the Table of Contents! https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_american_fiction/toc/saf.42.2.html

10/28/2015

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